Which Huntersville houses actually justify copper
Huntersville is newer than almost anywhere else in Mecklenburg County, 31.9% of its housing has gone up since 2010 and the median is 2004, with the centre of mass sitting between 2000 and 2015. On a large share of these houses the original gutter is barely a decade old and there is nothing wrong with it at all. Sitting inside that is a small but real pre-1940 layer around the old mill town centre, where the housing predates the subdivisions by sixty years and the gutter question is entirely different.
Copper earns its place on some of that and not on the rest, and we would rather say which before quoting four to five times the aluminium rate. It belongs on genuine period property, where an aluminium K-style run across original eaves detailing is a visible compromise on a building that deserves better, and on architect-specified work where the metal is a deliberate part of the elevation. On modern subdivision housing it performs no better in any way that matters, because an under-drained copper gutter overflows exactly like an under-drained aluminium one. If the appeal is the look, painted aluminium half-round at $16 to $26 a foot gets most of the way there for roughly a third of the money.
Where copper is right, the specification decides everything. Copper is a noble metal and aluminium is not, so a copper gutter on aluminium hangers makes the hanger the actively corroding half of a galvanic cell, wet, every time it rains, for years. The gutter stays immaculate and the bracket wastes away, and in fifteen years the run comes off a house whose owner was expecting a lifetime. Copper or bronze hangers, copper or stainless fasteners, copper downspouts and straps, and soldered joints rather than sealant.
One check specific to the property rather than the town: copper runoff corrodes bare aluminium and galvanised steel below it, so anything downstream on the elevation (flashings, a porch roof, an existing downspout) gets looked at before we hang a foot of it.

What Huntersville itself changes
What drops on these roofs
Split cleanly along the same line as the housing. The post-2000 developments are open, with young planted trees that have not yet reached the roofline, and their gutters fill slowly. The old town centre has full mature canopy directly over the roofs, and those handful of streets generate more gutter cleaning work per house than the rest of the town combined. Several of the newer developments were also cut into existing woodland at their edges, so a lot backing onto trees behaves like an old street even though the house is new.
Getting to the gutters
The modern housing is textbook: wide drives, level ground, predictable elevations. What Huntersville does have more of than most towns is three-storey and steeply pitched architecture in the newer developments, where the top run genuinely cannot be reached safely from a ladder, and those we quote individually rather than applying a standard surcharge. The old centre has the narrow lots and awkward porch roofs typical of pre-war building.