Charlotte....hmmm
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12/4/2012
I've been in Charlotte for 2 years due to a company relocation. Best summarization I can come up with is that is not a 'bad' place, but certainly isn't the greatest either. Based upon personal experiences I guess. You can find things going on if you look. wouldn't categorize it as 'boring'. Certainly depends on who or what you are. The challenge for me has been the general populace of Charlotte, as so many others have pointed out in one form or another. So one conclusion to draw is that Charlotte is what it is, a young growing city that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up yet. It can't decide if it wants to be another fast paced southern city like Atlanta, or model itself more closely to a more established older city like one on the northeast I95 corridor. It hasn't matured. And as a result, the inhabitants haven't matured yet either. People are a product of their environment. This is why you will run into so many wanna-be's, cliques, snoots, what have you, individually they have yet to find their place in this town, which can make them annoying. Too much to prove. Chip on the shoulder. It seems that so many folks here, whether they are a native of the area or not, immediately think they have to jump on some kind of bandwagon to be accepted somewhere. It's the epitome of Every Man for Himself, Charlotte style.
Until that day comes, fair warning. Never take people here at face value. They are very shifty.
John | Charlotte, NC