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Warden did a great job in covering all the bases, but this I wanted to address:
I have heard this time, and time, and time, again...
What specifically is your complaint?
No complaints, just observations. Here's the problem, while I could certainly answer your question to do so might offend of inflame which would NOT be my intention. In the interest of good manners and keeping this dialogue productive I would prefer to let my statements earlier stand for themselves.
No complaints, just observations. Here's the problem, while I could certainly answer your question to do so might offend of inflame which would NOT be my intention. In the interest of good manners and keeping this dialogue productive I would prefer to let my statements earlier stand for themselves.
Well said.
I understood what you meant in your previous post.
Location: Some got six month some got one solid. But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
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I received this private comment today:
***Just want you to know you are dead on in your opinions and I'm sorry you are getting raked over the coals for it. Thanks for understanding how hard it is for us southerners to see our way of life changing by the influx of so many from NJ/NY***
Not sure who wrote it, because they clearly wanted to remain anonymous, but I feel that I have brought up an important, relevant, legitimate argument, and messages like the one above further validate it.
I can honestly say that when I move back up to New Jersey, I'm moving back for the Jersey flair that I'm missing (as well as everything else). I wouldn't want it turned upside down by an influx of people from the south. There's nothing against the southerners in that statement, it just means that I would've preferred things to be left the way that they are. It's just that the southerners are losing that much more to the influx. That's where I sympathize with them as much as I do and I can kind of understand their bitterness or resentment towards people from the north. We clearly have our way of life, they have theirs. Theirs is rapidly eroding.
I wish whomever left that comment would show him or herself. I'm sticking up for you on that one.
Not sure who wrote it, because they clearly wanted to remain anonymous, but I feel that I have brought up an important, relevant, legitimate argument, and messages like the one above further validate it.
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You know when my husband and I argue we rarely hear or care about the other person's viewpoint. It's all about winning the argument. This thread is like that. Everyone wants to feel validated for his or her viewpoint and NOTHING IS RESOLVED BEYOND THE FACT THAT YOU FEEL VALIDATED.
The change in Charlotte was bound to happen once the large financial institutions decided to make Charlotte home. Who do you think courted all those companies to come down here? Your city government! Tax incentives, lease deals, you name it. Your city sold your Southern Charm down the drain. How could they not expect northerners not to come when many of these companies had northern bases. The Politicians greed in making Charlotte the new mecca backfired. Poor planning for schools, roads, etc. They knew. It's apparent that the people who voted for them didn't.
This is not a problem with attitude, but rather POOR PLANNING. If the city had taken the time to set in place the proper infrastructure before courting the "big boys" to come to quaint little Charlotte, so many people wouldn't feel as if their toes were being stepped on.
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Hopefully no one is getting to worked up over this- it isn't a new topic and has appeared in many different forms and argued as passionately since the existence of this forum.
Location: Some got six month some got one solid. But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
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Originally Posted by warden
You know when my husband and I argue we rarely hear or care about the other person's viewpoint. It's all about winning the argument. This thread is like that. Everyone wants to feel validated for his or her viewpoint and NOTHING IS RESOLVED BEYOND THE FACT THAT YOU FEEL VALIDATED.
The change in Charlotte was bound to happen once the large financial institutions decided to make Charlotte home. Who do you think courted all those companies to come down here? Your city government! Tax incentives, lease deals, you name it. Your city sold your Southern Charm down the drain. How could they not expect northerners not to come when many of these companies had northern bases. The Politicians greed in making Charlotte the new mecca backfired. Poor planning for schools, roads, etc. They knew. It's apparent that the people who voted for them didn't.
This is not a problem with attitude, but rather POOR PLANNING. If the city had taken the time to set in place the proper infrastructure before courting the "big boys" to come to quaint little Charlotte, so many people wouldn't feel as if their toes were being stepped on.
And with all that the dream of the cheaper, quaint southern lifestyle goes right down that same drain.
Over the past few months 29 past Pitts School Road has already lost one grassy median (and gaining an additional traffic light) to one of those middle left turn lanes like you see a little further south. Why? Yet ANOTHER strip mall currently under construction. Like there isn't enough here to begin with. It's almost like bringing route 9 in New Jersey down here. How many cookie cutter home constructions do people see on Roberta Road. New constructions going up in Harrisburg...zoned business along 49....that one complex off of Pitts School where nearly every house looks the same and close together....
Aoyas may have been pretty blunt in the way he/she (I think she but I could be wrong) has been putting things but the poster is absolutely right. I'd leave the opinions of actually living down here, both positive and negative (fortunately we see BOTH and not just the happy go lucky ones), to those of us who have already lived here as opposed to those who have only visited once or twice. What happens to this mass of people in ten or so years will be verrry telling.
You know, keep stuffing a bag full of groceries and that bag eventually breaks....
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