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Catalyst Apt. next to Panther Stadium.... REALLY you would'nt think living in an upscale condo
would have such problems! but then I'm a country girl, 4 acres in the middle of TN and moved to the middle of the city. The noise bounces off the buildings. Thanks for listening to my rant. I didn't have my coffee that day.
I find that the pockets of natives that still take pride in their culture live in pockets of South Charlotte, ie. Myers Park, Dilworth, and many outlying communities, ie. the Pennincula at Cornelius where I live.
I worked in Huntersville. Almost everyone I talked to was transplanted from the north. Mostly from upstate NY. Nothing against the funny way they talk but I loved it when a southern would come in.
College towns always have better entertainment and better restaurants IMO. This is probably one of the things I DON'T like about Charlotte. I wish the University Area actually felt like a university. Too many chain restaurants IMO and no sidewalks...
I am old and way beyond hanging out in college bars, but when drive through that area I also think there is no college atmosphere around there. It seems like a boring area to be a college area. I could be wrong, I didn't go there.
Athens, Georgia has a great area that feels like good college town. I didn't go there either just stayed the night there once. Charlotte needs an area like that.
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Reason: Another thought
I am old and way beyond hanging out in college bars, but when drive through that area I also think there is no college atmosphere around there. It seems like a boring area to be a college area. I could be wrong, I didn't go there.
Athens, Georgia has a great area that feels like good college town. I didn't go there either just stayed the night there once. Charlotte needs an area like that.
Charlotte (or most midsize cities) could never be a college town like Chapel Hill or Athens. However, Charlotte missed out on an urban school environment by not keeping the school downtown. It was originally located near uptown then moved to it's current location in the 60's (land).
Even being located in the burbs they could've created an urban schools atmosphere like Towson State on the outskirts of Baltimore. UNC Charlotte was primarily a commuter school and just now building a strong on-campus student population.
Maybe areas around the new LRT will be able to drum up some urban density area or street that will have a flavor of collegiate eateries, etc.
These posts are old.Please someone comment on living in Charlotte as of 2015? I would like to move back home to the south,living in NJ right now.
Have you read any of the dozens of existing posts about Charlotte? Are there still some specific questions you have after doing so? As an fyi, you'll probably get much better responses if you ask something specific and start a new thread, rather than tack something very general on the end of a years old thread.
Yeah, we've been complaining about how darn South Carolinians drive for years!
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Build Up the College Atmosphere
