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Hmm. I'm not so sure about this. I like to call it as I see it.
Charlotte has NO clout in the parts of Mecklenburg county that are not Charlotte. It has no clout in the South Carolina part of the Metro. It has no clout in Union, Cabarrus, Iredell, Catawba, Lincoln, and Gaston counties. These places attract development and transplants by telling them, we are better than CLT.
The current Charlotte city council has demonstrated time and time again that it is unwilling and unable to work with anyone beyond the I-485 perimeter and there is a large portion of that outer area, Ballantyne, that is actually looking to secede from Charlotte. These people highly resent the taxation with little representation where most of the money is spent on sports franchises and social programs for the highly irresponsible in the East & West.
I can't say that Raleigh is any better since I don't live there. I suspect that it isn't but it will take a brave soul from there to admit it.
Maybe a better way to phrase it is a bigger pocket book (not just from the population bt major economic engines like the airport & Ballantyne etc) to carry out its iniatives with. It seems to me like Raleigh would have to coordinate with more governments, towns & counties to accomplish some goals that in Charlotte it's just within one city in one county.
Our light rail, for example, is only in Charlotte. I would imagine a triangle light rail would go through mutiple cities and maybe creep into 2 counties. That seems a little harder to accomplish than it is just being all in city limits. If our light rail were to cross mutiple towns and to another county, I'd have a hard time imagining it would have been built yet because of our lack of relations with the other towns and counties in the region.
Like I wonder the effects if Cary was part of Raleigh. How (if) the resources would have been distributed, would it have gave Raleigh a better ability to carry out its initiatives or if it would have all turned out the same.
These people highly resent the taxation with little representation where most of the money is spent on sports franchises and social programs for the highly irresponsible in the East & West.
Are these the words of Ballantyne residents or your own, particularly the part about "social programs for the highly irresponsible in the East & West"? And what kinds of social programs are funded and carried out by the city anyway?
Are these the words of Ballantyne residents or your own, particularly the part about "social programs for the highly irresponsible in the East & West"? And what kinds of social programs are funded and carried out by the city anyway?
That statement struck a nerve with me as well. Especially, generally speaking that is, the population makeup of the East and West. It just sounds interesting to say the least.
I was just about to place this as well. Raleigh grew faster but Charlotte added more. I can't say as a whole if it added more than the Triangle but I can figure it out later. These two areas really are carrying the state. Especially when all jobs that have been added to the state are in these two regions. No where else, and I'm not exaggerating, added jobs. In one case this is amazing how powerful these two areas are and it's sad that there could be a tale of two states within one. And I should add I am talking about net jobs created since the Great Recession.
So the new MSA GDP figures are out. I do want to point out that this is not exactly an apples to apples comparison of Charlotte to the Triangle but just the metro economies that make up each area. The micros for each are not accounted for.
Charlotte $139,022 billion
Raleigh-Durham $109,123
Just to put things into perspective and to further explain why the Triad is not mentioned in this comparison.
Greensboro $38,032
Winston $27,056
Basically as you can see Raleigh itself has a larger economic impact that Winston and Greensboro. Raleigh is at $66,878 and Durham having 200k less than Greensboro has about $4 billion more. The total Triad area is $70,261 including the Burlington metro.
Back to the Triangle and Charlotte. It is not clear who is the bigger engine in NC since a good portion of the Charlotte MSA is in SC. I also want to add that Charlotte is closing the gap on St Louis and could pass it up in the next few years.
Ok. With great pain! I must admit Nice commercial. The QC's looking good in this one.
Wait UMM MR ATOWWN are we hearing you correctly. I you giving praise to Charlotte Lol.
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Nice commercial. The QC's looking good in this one. 
