Which Weddington houses actually justify copper
Weddington is the highest-income town on this list by a wide margin (median household income of $190,766 and 95.1% owner-occupancy), with 43.8% of its housing built between 1980 and 1999 and only 176 of its 4,583 homes dating from 2020 or later. What that combination produces is a town of large, long-held houses on wooded lots whose owners are not making a repair-or-replace decision on price. Here the gutter is a visible architectural line across the front of a substantial house, and it gets specified accordingly.
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 Weddington itself changes
What drops on these roofs
Genuinely wooded, and the most heavily treed town in Union County. Weddington developed into existing woodland rather than clearing it, and the large lots kept much of the mature hardwood standing, so most houses here sit under significant canopy with the eaves well inside it. It is the town in this service area where guards most reliably justify themselves and where the twice-yearly schedule is genuinely twice yearly rather than a sales pattern.
Getting to the gutters
Large houses on large lots, with long private drives and mature planting that sometimes gets between the trailer and the elevation. Most are two full storeys with substantial pitched roofs above, so the access surcharge applies to a good share of the run, and the wooded lots occasionally mean a ladder position has to be created rather than found. Nothing here is difficult; a fair amount of it is time-consuming.