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groove1 · 10-02-2007, 09:10 AM

The latest remixes from the NYC clubs is a rdiculous statement. More accurate is that Charlotte (and almost any other decent size US city) is lae at getting the remixes from places like NYC and LA.

lovesMountains · 10-02-2007, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by nyxmike

I would like to know why the fact of having dance clubs is such a big issue?

By the way, yes I am from NY, but I moved to Charlotte when I was 6. I grew up here. One thing I would love to know, why do so many people think Southerners are born with halo's around their heads? Sorry, but I am going to express how I feel and not put on some fake smile. Not my fault you can't grow some kahunas and can't handle it...

I see nothing wrong with diversity - there are dance clubs (oh NO! Forbidden! Especially if they play "NY dance music" whatever that is!), bagel stores, and deli's but there are also plenty of BBQ restaurants and 700 churches here still! It is changing but at the same time it is still retaining what it always had in the first place. People move here and think this is a small, charming southern town but it isn't. It is a city (a fast-growing city at that which means it is always changing) and a city is a mix of different people. If you want Old South, I wouldn't recommend moving here.

But what about if you were ALREADY here, and then all this started happening to your beloved city? What about for folks who liked Charlotte better about 250,000 people ago?

Your statement of "GET OVER IT. If you want Old South move to Alabama." shows your total insensitivity to the people here who feel very overun by all this unbridled growth. Attitudes like that don't help the situation - respect for what natives and fellow southerners are going thru would do a lot more for bringing this city together.

vindaloo · 10-02-2007, 09:25 AM

I am moving up to Cornelius from here in Florida. Upon visiting my new neighborhood, I was speaking to one of my future neighbors from NYC. He immediately started that it is O.K. in Charlotte if his wife can get used to the food and other subtle cuts. What the heck was he talking about? Does one have to listen to insults from northerners every time one enters a conversation with them. Seems like people need to worry about "Old North" than they do "Old South"? What food does a newcomer have to get used to in the Charlotte area? On my visits, I found the food choices to be great. I am partial to Indian and Thai food. I found great restaurants of both types there. This old guy must just be nuts?

TomnNC · 10-02-2007, 09:27 AM

Well, it could be a case of a disgruntled northerner that needs an attitude adjustment from us "lowly" southerners..

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Originally Posted by vindaloo

I am moving up to Cornelius from here in Florida. Upon visiting my new neighborhood, I was speaking to one of my future neighbors from NYC. He immediately started that it is O.K. in Charlotte if his wife can get used to the food and other subtle cuts. What the heck was he talking about? Does one have to listen to insults from northerners every time one enters a conversation with them. Seems like people need to worry about "Old North" than they do "Old South"? What food does a newcomer have to get used to in the Charlotte area? On my visits, I found the food choices to be great. I am partial to Indian and Thai food. I found great restaurants of both types there. This old guy must just be nuts?

lovesMountains · 10-02-2007, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by vindaloo

I am moving up to Cornelius from here in Florida. Upon visiting my new neighborhood, I was speaking to one of my future neighbors from NYC. He immediately started that it is O.K. in Charlotte if his wife can get used to the food and other subtle cuts. What the heck was he talking about? Does one have to listen to insults from northerners every time one enters a conversation with them. Seems like people need to worry about "Old North" than they do "Old South"? What food does a newcomer have to get used to in the Charlotte area? On my visits, I found the food choices to be great. I am partial to Indian and Thai food. I found great restaurants of both types there. This old guy must just be nuts?

Thank you very much for making my point

Transplants who are too thick-headed or self-involved to realize how insulting their attitudes are to the locals and natives make it tough for all newcomers sometimes.

Charlottean · 10-02-2007, 09:29 AM

Correction...there are 1000 churches

within 1/4 mile of my house

dmmls · 10-02-2007, 09:38 AM

I think just because Charlotte has "dance clubs" that play "remixes" and there's a booming condo community in Charlotte --doesn't make it "bad".

Charlotte is not now and has never been the "deep south"-- period.

Doesn't change the fact that it's a great place to live, that's why we have so many northerns AND southerners flocking here.

If you moved here because of "the values"-- good chance is that you are not a southerner to begin with. IMO I don't think that condos/dance clubs change Charlotte's values and/or traditions. I think that --probably-- most people DO NOT live in Uptown Charlotte where all of this is occuring anyway... most live in the 'burbs. So if this is going on in Uptown, how is this changing us, out in the burbs?

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Originally Posted by lyn2shoes

Article quote "Our New South City is a place where you can dance to the latest remixes from the New York clubs but you can't find Johnny Cash on the radio"

You old South residents better never let it get to the point the reporter says it is. I personally moved here because you held alot of good values and traditions that I wanted my family to have
___
I was at a farmers market stand and and old gal asked me "how do you like it down here"

I told her I'd love it even more if folks would quit calling me yankee..

She said "Well, where are ya from?"

"Virginia" I said...

And she said "Well, you ain't no yankee, you're what we like to call a Northern Rebel."

Yes, yes I am.

nyxmike · 10-02-2007, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by lovesMountains

But what about if you were ALREADY here, and then all this started happening to your beloved city? What about for folks who liked Charlotte better about 250,000 people ago?

Your statement of "GET OVER IT. If you want Old South move to Alabama." shows your total insensitivity to the people here who feel very overun by all this unbridled growth. Attitudes like that don't help the situation - respect for what natives and fellow southerners are going thru would do a lot more for bringing this city together.

First of all, the person I replied "get over it" to is not a native but a transplant. Change and growth happens everywhere. Some people, like me, will see the positives while people like you will see the negatives. Ask people who lived on Long Island 80 years ago when it was all farms how they feel about it now? When my grandparents grew up in Queens that was considered the "suburbs" and Long Island was the boonies! (By the way, my family came to this country from Italy in the early 1900's so we have nothing to do with the Civil War. If you came in a boat from Europe you ended up in NYC). It happened up North and out West, and it is going to happen here. This country is growing all over, particularly the South and we all have to learn to adjust and move on (instead of dwelling on the past and blaming people who moved here for "ruining" your beloved city).

And nobody answered my question... why do so many people think Southerners are born with halo's around their heads? We are all human beings...

nyxmike · 10-02-2007, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dmmls

I think just because Charlotte has "dance clubs" that play "remixes" and there's a booming condo community in Charlotte --doesn't make it "bad".

Charlotte is not now and has never been the "deep south"-- period.

Doesn't change the fact that it's a great place to live, that's why we have so many northerns AND southerners flocking here.

If you moved here because of "the values"-- good chance is that you are not a southerner to begin with. IMO I don't think that condos/dance clubs change Charlotte's values and/or traditions. I think that --probably-- most people DO NOT live in Uptown Charlotte where all of this is occuring anyway... most live in the 'burbs. So if this is going on in Uptown, how is this changing us, out in the burbs?

THANK YOU!

stmaarten · 10-02-2007, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nyxmike

I would like to know why the fact of having dance clubs is such a big issue?

By the way, yes I am from NY, but I moved to Charlotte when I was 6. I grew up here. One thing I would love to know, why do so many people think Southerners are born with halo's around their heads? Sorry, but I am going to express how I feel and not put on some fake smile. Not my fault you can't grow some kahunas and can't handle it...

I see nothing wrong with diversity - there are dance clubs (oh NO! Forbidden! Especially if they play "NY dance music" whatever that is!), bagel stores, and deli's but there are also plenty of BBQ restaurants and 700 churches here still! It is changing but at the same time it is still retaining what it always had in the first place. People move here and think this is a small, charming southern town but it isn't. It is a city (a fast-growing city at that which means it is always changing) and a city is a mix of different people. If you want Old South, I wouldn't recommend moving here.

It's the delivery, NOT the opinion. Statements like: "If you want Old South move to Alabama", "not my fault you can't handle it", etc., coming from a former New Yorker, makes me cringe! Show some respect! I'm from the Northeast and would never dream of being so rude!

There are better ways to get your opinion across, IMO.