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you can't compare atlanta and charlotte. you just can't.
charlotte has an identity crisis as it is. charlotte needs to focus on charlotte (not that they aren't) and let the ppl who create these titles and articles live in their lil fantasy world.
charlotte has the potential to be a greater charlotte that is deserving of the press it gets. the only way to do that is to not be the next ____ but to be a better charlotte.
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you can't compare atlanta and charlotte. you just can't.
charlotte has an identity crisis as it is. charlotte needs to focus on charlotte (not that they aren't) and let the ppl who create these titles and articles live in their lil fantasy world.
charlotte has the potential to be a greater charlotte that is deserving of the press it gets. the only way to do that is to not be the next ____ but to be a better charlotte.
Miami is pretty much the capital of Latin America though. It is where all of the entertainment and companies come out of. Bacardi, Telemundo, MTV: Latin American Headquarters...just to name a few.
Stumbled on this article stating that perhaps Atlanta's boom cycle is plateauing. Atlanta's freeways overwhelmed by traffic in which Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and Nashville are not. Transit projects are under funded, construction has come to a hault, and perhaps Atlanta's biggest problem is its water supply. Lake Lanier could hardly sustain an adequate water supply for any more growth. Could these roadblocks perhaps catapult Charlotte to # 1 in the southeast in the future?
I don't see Atlanta or Charlotte booming anytime soon in th near future, they both have boatloads of unsold houses that have to be bought before any more get built and they both have high unemployment rates and no jobs mean no growth but Atlanta will probaly come out better because it's economy is more diverse.
Ahh VERY good point. Miami was never considered "the capital of the South" rather "the capital of Latin America". So I could see Charlotte rivaling ATL now.
There are many things Charlotte would need to improve on in order to compete with Atlanta. This article shows somewhat of a bias.
So it makes sense that Charlotte is competing with Atlanta now. Charlotta has outgrown all of it's peers in the south (Memphis, New Orleans, Nashville, Knoxville, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Louisville) so it can only look to Atlanta.
Charlotte may be outgrowing some of these cities listed but it's not outgrowing Raleigh. Charlotte has always been larger than Raleigh but Raleigh has been growing faster for quite some time. Charlotte may be looking toward Atlanta but they better take a look behind them too. There's a much greater chance that greater Raleigh/Triangle will catch/pass Charlotte than there is for Charlotte to catch or pass Atlanta.
Miami, Houston, and Dallas weren't ever really the south. Houston and Dallas are Southwest, a different region. Miami, never was considered southern unless talking about geography.
Houston and Dallas not ever really the south? I can almost see you saying that about Miami since every one wants to separate it based on one dumb southern stereotype or another that no one wants to speak of( apparently a city can't be southern unless it is small, un-diverse, full of racist and hicks and southern dialect), but how the he.ll is Houston and Dallas no apart of the south?
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Houston and Dallas not ever really the south? I can almost see you saying that about Miami since every one wants to separate for based on one dumb southern stereotype or another that no one wants to speak of, but how the he.ll is Houston and Dallas no apart of the south?
It is, but culturally it's more South Central than South East.
It is, but culturally it's more South Central than South East.
And you know you can't deny that.
Explain southern culture to me please. I grew up on the gulfcoast and Houston is very similar with respect to it's size to other cities along that area, all of which most considers "southern" whatever that really means.
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