Which Troutman houses actually justify copper
Troutman sits on the I-77 corridor between Statesville and Mooresville and has an older village centre with a rapidly expanding ring of new subdivision around it. The two are close enough together that a single afternoon can take in both, and they need entirely different conversations: century-old woodwork and unknown repair history in the centre, and first-cycle aluminium on sound new fascia a mile out. Troutman is the clearest small-scale illustration in the service area of why the postal town tells you almost nothing about the job.
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 Troutman itself changes
What drops on these roofs
The village centre has mature planting typical of an established small town, with real canopy over the older streets. The new subdivision ring was built on former farmland and its trees have barely started, so debris load there is minimal for now and will rise steadily over the next fifteen years as the planting matures, the same trajectory Matthews has already completed.
Getting to the gutters
The new development is straightforward two-storey work on level ground with proper drives. The older centre has tighter lots and a number of properties with porch roofs and additions that put a run above a roof rather than above ground. Neither half is difficult; establishing which half an address is in before quoting matters more here than the specifics of either.