Think Twice!
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7/1/2008
I came here from Long Island NY and bought a beautiful large new home in cash..I felt great..at least for a while..now I am ready to sell the house and move back to NY...heres why..
1. Charlotte has no culture or personality to speak of.
2. Crime is off the charts
3. It is too hot in the summer
4. Jobs are scarce..and the great industries here are drying up...merging banks etc.
5. Scarcity of regional beauty and nature.
6. Too far to ocean
7. Roads are bad, no traffic lights, bad traffic
8. No workable reasons why some housing is going up here and some is not
9. Confederates are alive and well
10. Lousy paying jobs..and right to work state..really means fire at will.
11. Charlotte is the first city to want to know how many times you fart before they hire you for a job..yet they cant keep enough cops and DAs to put the criminals away.
12. Too much unneccessary building at this point...no one is filling the retail space..and the landlords are charging too much for retail rent..therefore alot of businesses are going out...not good for the neighborhoods...poor urban planning.
13. Too many transients..everyone thinks its the promised land..alot of poor and lousy neighborhoods.
14. Bad schools
I cant wait to go back to NY...even my tenants who have come from much less high profile cities are not happy here...dont let the low housing prices entice you here without alot of research, job transfers..dont buy too quickly!
Bp | Beverly Hills, CA