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mm_mary73 · 10-30-2006, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JerseyMC

Of course many things have changed since but IMO the most important factor now is how much other places have changed as well.
Take Charlotte for instance. Ten years ago, Charlotte was a much smaller town in many ways. For someone moving from the NYC area was perhaps a radical change.

That is not the case any more. And although it will never be NYC itself, it's getting pretty darn close. You even have Dean and Deluca!!!!
Uptown Charlotte has evolved as well during such period and has sprung a huge business activity, and added cultural and artistic events to its repertoire.

Excuse me - I about choked on my coffee - what part of Charlotte is "...getting pretty darn close..." to being NYC?

I haven't lived in Manhattan in years, but I've been back plenty of times and I am at a loss to know where in Uptown Charlotte you're talking about.....

dandevder · 10-30-2006, 05:28 PM

10 years ago I could not imagine leaving CT. Now I cannot imagine going back! Not only did I grow up in those 10 years, but I learned there was a whole different world out there just waiting to be explored.

Weis02 · 10-30-2006, 06:32 PM

As we age, have children, etc our priorities and focus changes as does our taste and is one reason I believe many people leave from A to B, what was has changed now over the past 10+ years is technology. 10 yrs ago, if you wanted to move to another place, you didn't have the interent to open it up to you and do the research as we do today. I also believe today's America has become a very transient society...yrs ago as one poster mentioned, people lives in an area for generations and neighbors grew up and raised their families together and due to the advent in technology ....

On a side note to the poster re charlotte coming close to NYC because there is a dean and deluca, you can put any store in the state of carolina and it will never be NYC imo, there is no other place that you can compare... NYC is more then shopping, the lights on broadway, times square and the empire state feeling. NYC is also a feeling- no matter how many stores that are in NYC you put in NC or anywhere, does make it NYC, you can take the store out of the city, but can't take the city out of the store...

NYnowNC · 10-30-2006, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by JerseyMC

Of course many things have changed since but IMO the most important factor now is how much other places have changed as well.
Take Charlotte for instance. Ten years ago, Charlotte was a much smaller town in many ways. For someone moving from the NYC area was perhaps a radical change.

That is not the case any more. And although it will never be NYC itself, it's getting pretty darn close. You even have Dean and Deluca!!!!
Uptown Charlotte has evolved as well during such period and has sprung a huge business activity, and added cultural and artistic events to its repertoire.

Other cities are very livable compared to 10 or 20 years ago. By having certain stores and restuarants in my neighborhood, I feel more comfortable.

Ten years ago I was ready to experience other places. I didn't think I was quite ready to actually leave NYC. As I would go back to NYC on school breaks, I compared NYC to my new surroundings. I watched my friends and family struggle living in NY. I didn't want that to be my life, especially not with what I have already witnessed outside of NYC (better cost of living).

As a child I have watched NYC neighborhoods transform from okay to bad. For example, I remember stores not having those metal gates. Then somewhere in the 80's things changed.

Manhattan is fine, but the other borroughs were not taken care of at the same pace. I don't like the fact that you are either rich or poor in NY. If you are middle class, depending how long you have been a part of middle class, things could go downhill pretty quickly.

I do not want to spend my hard earned money on a house (investing in a neighborhood) all to be disappointed. NC may not be NY, but I can tolerate it. With Vonage, I speak to my friends and family everyday.

Quite frankly, I feel like I have been pushed out of NY.

JerseyMC · 10-30-2006, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mm_mary73

Excuse me - I about choked on my coffee - what part of Charlotte is "...getting pretty darn close..." to being NYC?

I haven't lived in Manhattan in years, but I've been back plenty of times and I am at a loss to know where in Uptown Charlotte you're talking about.....

Alright, alright, of course I was exagerating. I also wrote Charlotte will never be like NYC. The point I was trying to make was at least from ppl from NYC at least now Charlotte is more paletable than 10 years ago. Ten yrs ago, Uptown Charlotte looked nothing like today. Very few ppl used to live Uptown, no condos, very few restaurants, bars, etc.

Again I'm not saying Charlotte is NYC but it's pretty evident that it's a city with enomous growth potential as long as it nests big financial corporations, etc.

StereoGuy316 · 10-31-2006, 05:59 AM

I used to live on Long Island for 25 years. My mother is still there. I moved to Florida in 95 to get away from the mass crowds and traffic although Florida is about the same. I too have thought about a calmer way of life with a slower pace. So I purchased a vacation home in the NC mountains. Now I have the best of both worlds. I have my high paying job in S. Fla. and my retreat in NC. I go back to L.I. every year to visit my mom and every year I'm happier about my decision to leave. I don't care if I made a million dollars working in NY. There is no way I would commute 5 hours a day for five days a week. I'm trying to work so that I can have a life and enjoy myself and not live to work.

Miker2069 · 10-31-2006, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by NYJoe

For those looking to move to NC for "a better life", I would like to know if you would have ever thought to do this 15, 20, or 25 years ago. I really think this reflects on how hard it has become to maintain a quality lifestyle in many big city areas. I never would have considered leaving the NY area 20 years ago, but so much has changed that I don't have the same feeling living here that I used to. Any thoughts??

Well attempting to answer that question is difficult in that the priorities I had were different 15 years ago than what I have now, and will be different in another 15 years from now. You touched on a very good point, "change" though.

Roger Davis · 10-31-2006, 07:04 AM

The first time I visited NC, Charlotte to be exact was 1966 and boy was it country. Miles and miles of open space between cities. My son and family have relocated to Greensboro NC because my son got a dream job working for one of the most famous names in Nascar. I have visited a few times in the last year and wow, has NC ever changed from 1966. Shopping centers along almost every interstate exit and lots of people.Still less crowded than NJ but it has the feeling of NJ of the sixties. Developments cropping up all over the place and sometimes crowded roadways. I get the feeling that in 10-20 years the suburbs of NC will be very similar to the Northeast.
I am planning to retire soon in NC so I won't have to worry about commuting and I can do just what I do here in NJ, I don't use the roads till the commuters are gone.
Best things I see about NC are shorter winters, much less snow and the most important thing, property taxes about one 10th of NJ.

RD

LULU123 · 10-31-2006, 07:04 AM

Let's be honest... one major reason for the change in many neighborhoods is the immigration situation of the past 15 or 20 years. Whether you will admit it or not, a long time Italian/German/Jewish/Irish/Wasp area that is now Asian/Indian/Hispanic etc., will no longer feel like HOME to any long time residents. Sometimes change is good, but I've seen to many nice neighborhoods transformed into run down blights in a matter of a few years. Sometimes the truth hurts, but there it is.

mm_mary73 · 10-31-2006, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Roger Davis

The first time I visited NC, Charlotte to be exact was 1966 and boy was it country. Miles and miles of open space between cities. My son and family have relocated to Greensboro NC because my son got a dream job working for one of the most famous names in Nascar. I have visited a few times in the last year and wow, has NC ever changed from 1966. Shopping centers along almost every interstate exit and lots of people.Still less crowded than NJ but it has the feeling of NJ of the sixties. Developments cropping up all over the place and sometimes crowded roadways. I get the feeling that in 10-20 years the suburbs of NC will be very similar to the Northeast.
I am planning to retire soon in NC so I won't have to worry about commuting and I can do just what I do here in NJ, I don't use the roads till the commuters are gone.
Best things I see about NC are shorter winters, much less snow and the most important thing, property taxes about one 10th of NJ.

RD

No, it will be worse, because here, planning for the future doesn't happen. Just wait until someone realizes that they shouldn't have allowed the demolition of all the landmarks in downtown Charlotte, just to add another over-priced high rise or, better yet, a parking lot. The powers that be were told that Charlotte would grow and that there needed to be some sort of long range plan in place to control that growth, both residential AND transportation. No one listened or believed.....