Miami vs.Charlotte (people, cons, moving, raise)

[eek]

right because north fl and south fl are alike.

and please leave politics out of this.

[BlackOut]

Originally Posted by crider

I agree. If you read closly I was saying that twenty years ago Charlotte was trying to measure up to Tier 2 cities the same way it is now being measured against tier one cities

Miami is not a tier 1 city. That title belongs to NYC and to a lesser extent LA and maybe Chicago. IMO, Miami is a bottom tier 2 or a higher tier 3 city and Charlotte is a tier 5 city.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by BlackOut

Miami is not a tier 1 city. That title belongs to NYC and to a lesser extent LA and maybe Chicago. IMO, Miami is a bottom tier 2 or a higher tier 3 city and Charlotte is a tier 5 city.

I think that person might have been speaking regionally. In the South, Miami is a tier 1 city (along with Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas) and Charlotte tier 2 (along with Nashville, Tampa, Orlando, Austin, etc.).

[st. louie louie]

We've had the discussion before. Just because a city is located in an area with a bunch of Mayberry's, it doesn't become a tier one city. I agree with blackout.

[Melchior6]

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

Of course it does. Contrary to popular thought, much of it is to be had outside of Uptown.

Well, I've been there twice..downtown on a saturday and the place was dead

[crider]

Originally Posted by BlackOut

Miami is not a tier 1 city. That title belongs to NYC and to a lesser extent LA and maybe Chicago. IMO, Miami is a bottom tier 2 or a higher tier 3 city and Charlotte is a tier 5 city.

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I agree with you about NYC being in a class by itself in the USA. The rest I accept as your opinion and everyone has one.

[BlackOut]

Originally Posted by crider

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I agree with you about NYC being in a class by itself in the USA. The rest I accept as your opinion and everyone has one.

It's not that difficult to rank cities/metros into tiers. There is plenty of legitimate criteria out there for one to use (i.e. metro size, GMP, major universities, media, number of Fortune 500 companies, etc...).

[Melchior6]

Originally Posted by Carolina Blue

LOL, did you just say "swinging venues"? How old are you?

There really isn't much of a better word than "swinging". Of course combined with "venues" does make for some tawdry connotations...

Still, as I said, Miami vs Charlotte is a bad comaprison.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by Melchior6

Well, I've been there twice..downtown on a saturday and the place was dead

I don't know how long ago this was, but that does NOT describe a typical Saturday night Uptown at all (unless you were in the government district or something). If it were during a holiday weekend I could possibly see it, but on a normal Saturday night, Uptown is jumping.

[prwfromnc]

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

I don't know how long ago this way, but that does NOT describe a typical Saturday night Uptown at all (unless you were in the government district or something). If it were during a holiday weekend I could possibly see it, but on a normal Saturday night, Uptown is jumping.

I agree! If you go along Tryon, Trade and College Streets on a Saturday night, it is always crowded. I go there often and uptown is always jumping on a Friday or Saturday night. Now maybe on a Saturday afternoon, there's not much going on, mainly to the lack of real retail, even then I still see a good amount of foot traffic on Saturdays, but it is a totally different story at night.