Charlotte

Segregated a. f.

Nope. CLT has an average amount of racial segregation

piedmont pit

Little Atlanta

The Queen City

City is as boring a fuck.

My friend says he moved because he had had sex with all the gay guys within a year

They roll up the sidewalks around 6pm. Big pass. They also have torn down many historic structures and it feels like a suburban shopping mall downtown. I was super disappointed when I stayed here recently.

Lovely

A huge banking center. I am sure many of them are hiding assets there for rich folk and drug cartels.

I don’t know her?

Hush... Hush!

Truly beautiful city. Dated a guy from there.

NASCAR hotbed. What gay doesn't love NASCAR?

Many in charlotte do

Racist MAGAcidal Confederate fuckwad state. Fuck all y'all.

Michael Jordan grew up and attended college in North Carolina. I guess no one told him blacks can't succeed in his state.

"Look at this one Black sports multi-millionaire, and not at the KKK, mass racism, lynchings and violence, and 1000s of impoverished poor people in our shithole state." - R16 de-snide-ified

Your victimization is heartbreaking.

R17 = How DARE you inject reality into my racist agenda!!

You’re going to have to sell me on this one.

It looks like denver but without the weed.

Or views.

Lovely history:

Oopsy!

Lovely residents welcome you!

Sweeeeeeeeet Carolina! bum bum bum...

Fun for the whole family:

"Diverse" views thrive:

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Edumication:

To protect and serve:

Welcome to the neighborhood:

Staff reorganizing:

Nothing to see here:

Get out the vote!

Like pigs in shit!

It's those racist WHITE folks fault, I tell ya!!

It's those racist WHITE folks fault, I tell ya!!

It's those racist WHITE folks fault, I tell ya!!

North Carolina home of our beloved Roller-Nazi, Madison Cawthorn and his delightful cock-sucking cousin Stephen Smith 😏

I would ask the asshole who spammed this thread in the middle of the night to tell us where they live so we in NC might have an example upon which to model ourselves.

That is, if this troll can pull themselves away from the Dick Delaware thread.

^ Don't worry about it, they always pick on Wisconsin where I'm from too. I just assume they're posting from a trailer park somewhere in Arkansas 😏

I love Charlotte, especially NoDA

Too much traffic..I’m done with that

My favorite parasocial relationship just moved there.

Poor southern large city. Poor for most I mean.

Raleigh for the win. Charlotte is too big and lacks the charm of the inner Beltline of Raleigh. However, I hate the south and bailed 10 years ago, after living there for 25 years, so your mileage may vary.

Raleigh is full and sanitized

Charlotte has more flava and culture

@r47, I hear you, I lived in Atlanta for 25 years. I was over it

Charlotte is not ATL

^ They're pretty similar, even have some of the same bank buildings. Business took me to Charlotte many times over the years. The people and culture are very similar to Atlanta. That's not a dig, it's just an observation

This is a farce. There is some pr drive going on that is seriously pushing this city but the campaign is always accompanied by wild and untrue claims about the city. It’s bizarre. The reach of it all.

As with so many Datalounge threads, this one is filled with opinions from people who

A) Have never been to the city in question

B) Were there, but 30 years ago

I know right. Why do DLers think there last visit to a place in 1991 is irrelevant to a discussion about now?

Oddly R4, Charlotte is nothing like Atlanta.

If anything, it more closely resembles Austin or maybe even parts of LA

Very neighborhoody, lots of independent restaurants and coffee shops, a surprising number of ethnic neighborhoods (Mexican, Vietnamese) and everything is fairly close to each other--about a 15 minute drive

Lots of transplants from the Northeast, too

That's the city itself.

Downtown is indeed pretty boring and a roll-up-the-sidewalks-at-night kind of place, but it's also mostly offices, not apartments.

The suburbs are an endless hellscape of McMansions and state college graduates in middle management jobs

But the city itself is surprisingly livable and verging on hip, which is why so many people are moving there.

I was just there and let me tell you it is nothing like the pr. There was such a failure to live up to the hype that I have since confronted a couple people who praised it to no end and after the fact it became clear that one of them had not actually even been to charlotte but went to another city in South Carolina.

The people hyping the city are the ones that have never been or have some sort of agenda. It’s not even a remarkable city in any way it’s plain and dull.

It’s a city that is basic. It has what you need but it’s not a destination in any way whatsoever. There is nothing there to write home about and all the streets are dirty and filled with months of not years of litter. It has the most litter of any of the cities I’ve ever visited.

I had INCREDIBLE head from a married guy (who took a call from his wife in the middle of sucking my cock!) on a biz trip there in 2016 or so … blue collar NASCAR type. Outside of that, I cant recall anything remarkable about the city.

“But the city itself is surprisingly livable and verging on hip, which is why so many people are moving there.”

This is the heart of what’s driving me crazy. People are saying it’s “hip” are wrong but it’s just being repeated so now it’s a meme.

It’s so insane and crazy and now it’s snowballing.

For the last time, nobody can seriously claim this city has anything that any other dull mid level city has. There is nothing unique.

Well, I'm certainly not about to argue with The Greater Charlotte Chamber of Commerce 😉

“Very neighborhoody, lots of independent restaurants and coffee shops, a surprising number of ethnic neighborhoods (Mexican, Vietnamese) and everything is fairly close to each other--about a 15 minute drive”

This is a complete and utter misrepresentation of reality and exactly the type of pr copy that is spreading like wildfire.

It is totally false.

They are actually describing Asheville, 2 hours away and 10 degrees cooler (heat and hipness)

R57 says he has been to Charlotte, yet thinks the city is in South Carolina. 🤔

Charlotte is a great place to live, not so much to visit

Driving the news: The American Growth Project by the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, a business policy think tank, found that the top 10 fastest-growing cities in the U.S. are moving the "center of gravity" for economic activity away from the East Coast, Kenan executive director Gregory Brown tells Axios.

The San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, Seattle, Raleigh and Durham, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, New Orleans, and Orlando make up the top rankings.

The hottest cities

Four North Carolina cities ranked in the overall top 30 Best Places to Buy a House: Cary in sixth place with 72.74 points, Durham in 12th place with 71.15 points, Raleigh at 24th with 68.76 points, and Charlotte at 25th with 68.26 points.

For large cities with a population of over 300,000, Raleigh and Charlotte moved up to the number six and seven spots, respectively. Cary ranked third for mid-sized cities with populations between 150,000 and 300,000 residents, while Durham ranked sixth in the same category, Greensboro ranked 53rd, Winston-Salem ranked 71st, and Fayetteville ranked 84th.

Wealthy millennials flood into North Carolina — but Texas takes the cake

It's an airline hub, especially for American Airlines, so that facilitates leaving Charlotte for getaways elsewhere.

R67: I’ve lived in Cary, Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro. Cary is a soulless, wasteland of upscale daycares, generic strip malls, and endless subdivisions. It’s horrible. I’d rather live in a sketchy neighborhood in Durham than go back to Cary. Raleigh wins, as long as you can afford to live inside the Beltline. Greensboro is just boring.

Not everyone requires swing from the rafters 25/7 nightlife or elite opera to enjoy a place

NO, just a little KKK rally's entertainment enough for Charlotte-ians:

The KKK is everywhere ya know

Keep shillin', Charlotte-ian, aka charlatan. Your PR shilling isn't winning over anyone here.

[quote] Four North Carolina cities ranked in the overall top 30 Best Places to Buy a House:

As long as you're white.

I thought everyone was fleeing SF! Yet it's number one, what about the homeless and drugs? You never anything good about SF.

I live in Charlotte. It's fine. I liked it better before all the ugly ass upstate NYers moved here. You also can't walk 50 feet uptown or visit a convenience store without some slobbering black person aggressively begging money from you.

[quote] Lots of transplants from the Northeast, too

It says a lot about a city, and its native residents, when the best thing a shill can say is, "Yankees are moving here!"

Way too far south of the Mason/Dixon line to be anything more than a republican breeding ground. Anyhow, it's economy is solely based on banking which is being done remotely now, so nobody has to live there.

Like a lot of boosterish 2nd or 3rd tier cities (e.g., Columbus OH, Indianapolis, Tampa, most of the other, larger cities in NC), it just fails to live up---miles and miles of strip malls, dead suburban areas to the East, a not very impressive mall to the South. More forgettable, than notable and the boosterism just makes it seem more pathetic. It's like Atlanta in the sense that it's sunbelt sprawlburg filled with chain retail and traffic congestion, as well as a dead downtown. The airport is nice--like most smaller hub airports its easy to maneuver, although the path to car rental return seems endless.

NC mostly seems like a compromise--4 seasons although one is too hot and humid and one is gray and depressing (but no snow). No giant metro areas, but not much culture, either. Not expensive but not really cheap. Forgettable beaches, but a nice drive in the mountains. More varied than Indiana, perhaps, but nothing to get excited about.

[quote]I thought everyone was fleeing SF! Yet it's number one, what about the homeless and drugs? You never anything good about SF.

It's not SF -- it's the entire Bay Area. San Francisco isn't even the largest city in the Bay Area (San Jose is.)

So where are my royalties?

So many New Yorkers in CLT

Charlotte, soon to be known as the Duchess of Edinburgh, NC.

Someone is curiously really pissed off that we all don't agree with their dismal assessment of Charlotte.

It's one poster too.

Odd, even for Datalounge

Interesting

More than one. I suspect there's no more than 2 fans.

The Ignore button does not lie R87

[quote] Someone is curiously really pissed off that we all don't agree with their dismal assessment of Charlotte.

Someone is curiously really pissed off that we all don't agree with their naive and falsely sunny assessment of Charlotte. Someone is also desperate to discount the serious problems of this racist-filled mediocre city.

[quote] It's one poster too. Odd, even for Datalounge

Not odd. You're new here, shill.

[quote] The Ignore button does not lie

But shilly OP does.

YOU WILL HATE CHARLOTTE!!

YOU WILL!!

YOU WILL!!

YOU WILL!!!

The Queen City

None of the people from Charlotte I know are racist so idk what y’all saying.

I agree that Asheville is a better city, but Charlotte is not that bad at all. However, it’s not /hip/. Respectable, but not hip.

Asheville is tiny

R93 Quality over quantity. 😉

I bet Charlotte doesn't have tuberculosis circulating in the sewage like NYC.

I bet Charlotte doesn't have tuberculosis circulating in the sewage like NYC.

Great city. All that belly aching about racism is fake news. It's not perfect but no place is. I'd rather raise my kids in Charlotte than NYC, Boston, Philly, SF, LA, Miami, Detroit, New Orleans, Phoenix or ANYWHERE in FL, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, New Jersey, Maryland or Texas.

People are flocking there for a reason

[quote] All that belly aching about racism is fake news.

So, according to this spawning frau, every video linked in this thread is a complete lie, fabricated, nothing ever happened, no crimes were committed.

Frankly, MAGA moron frau (obviously white), it's astounding that you were able to type so many other city names] with your Klan claws.

[quote]People are flocking there for a reason

And that reason is jobs. No one would choose to go there for any other reason.

Charlotte's LGB scene is abysmal. Not a lot of attractive people either.

There was no LGB scene at all when I went in Oct.. It doesn’t exist.

NC mostly seems like a compromise--4 seasons although one is too hot and humid and one is gray and depressing (but no snow). No giant metro areas, but not much culture, either. Not expensive but not really cheap. Forgettable beaches, but a nice drive in the mountains. More varied than Indiana, perhaps, but nothing to get excited about

Not true about the beaches. I love Wilmington and its beaches.

Why go to Charlotte for a job r100 which is likely in the financial industry? These jobs are now done remotely from anwhere. Why live in a city in a red state when I don't have to and still be employed?

I thought most of the country was banning NC because of weird evasive trans bathroom laws to the point that the Outer Banks show was even filming in SC instead and the film and TV in the state had been all but shut down? Was there some legislation change I missed?

R105, that bill, HB1, was repealed in 2017.

R106 I didn’t hear anything about that…I guess they didn’t do a welcome back to NC film and TV campaign.

R107, where were you!? It was big news way back then. Stay alert 🚨

Is Outer Banks filming there now?

Datalounge is set in 1987, R108, so that bill will not be repealed for 30 years.

Hence the confusion.

[quote] Stay alert 🚨

About North Carolina news? Bwa-ha-ha-ha. Oh, my sides.

It was National news

But, according to MAGAt Spawning Claw Frau R97, it's 'fake news.'

So, they repealed that law BUT STILL elected Madison?

The traffic in Charlotte is horrible.

My partner’s gay nephew just fled Charlotte for Dallas. He seems much happier. That’s all I got. We live in NC but rarely visit Charlotte. The big draw is NASCAR and the Billy Graham museum. Yawn.

[quote] We live in NC

So sorry for you.

Relax R99, you ninny. I used "fake news" to get your dander up and it worked. It's still better than most cities that size. Of course those posted videos are real. And of course, it has plenty of work to do as a city. All cities do. Feel free to name a comparable size city with similar cost of living and job opportunities. I'd love to know.

[quote] I used "fake news" to get your dander up and it worked.

No dander upped, Klan Claw Frau. You just showed your MAGAcidal idiocy and now you're backtracking, just like your ilk always does.

I'm also not interested in jumping through hoops by providing statistics on other better cities, which you've stated that you won't visit, and assuredly the people there are very thankful.

[quote] plenty of work to do

Get started, smug frau.

Well R119, I’m not a frau, nor did I call your links fake news, but I still think you’re a duplicitous little cunt. You not only attack a place and the people who live there, you do so without having the balls to say where you live. It is criminal that you won’t let us all know where we can find a safe haven, devoid of racism, homophobia, and conservative Christianity that you enjoy yet won’t share with all the rest of us.

“Jane, you duplicitous little CUNT!”

[quote] without having the balls to say where you live.

Typical attempted deflection. This isn't a horse-race, ninny. You'd love to have some place else to trash, and shift focus away from the topic at hand. It's about Charlotte, and the ass-kissing volunteer shills like OP who deny its problems, those of North Carolina, and the Southern states in general: the highest percentage of Trump voters, the highest percentage of GOP government, and the highest percentage of poverty.

Breezy flatulent compliments about the skyline or jobs are laughable. As for anti-gay politics, NC's as bad as Florida (see link) or worse.

"North Carolina Senate Revives Attacks on LGBTQ+ North Carolinians, This Time By Passing “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” Bill Even More Egregious Than Florida’s "

She knows who the real queen bitch in the family is.

Charlotte from atop the Blue Ridge Parkway

'Blade Runner 2049'

hate to disappoint however the blue ridge parkway is hundreds of miles away from Charlotte

Wrong. It is about 120 miles away from Charlotte

You see a beautiful city. I see a tick haven!

I see copious water