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Feedback from anyone who has lived in the area for less than 3 months, or has never lived here is not applicable. I am preferably seeking feedback from individuals who have lived here over 5 years, and outlived the honeymoon phase. Moreover, I believe this discussion is applicable for only those individuals who moved to the area having 1) a family in the local school systems and 2) came here for a "professional" job.
What is your general opinion on the area? This can include a small summary of your overall sentiment about any number of things such as traffic, people, government, and life style. I am not trying to lure anyone into negative or positive sentiment, but what I am interested in would be an understanding of your experience.
I will start with mine. I have found that the people who actually grew up here to be the nicest people. However, I find that, if deep friendship were a 5 out of a scale of 1-5, they keep you around a 2 or 3.
I have found that you can find a beautiful back road to build a house, and 5 years later it will be surrounded by cookie cutter houses.
There is certainly good parts of town, and bad parts of town I will not go anywhere near, like the Walmart up the road.
I find that people are too preoccupied with themselves. Neighbors are usually not very friend. The same people allow their dogs to bark, and/or crap on your lawn, EVEN when you have actually called them out on it. I have even heard of lawsuits over this stuff.
I sometimes wonder if like me they moved here to escape something from home, yet to only carry that baggage here?
Lastly, I do not see an awful amount of HS kids. I do get the impression people get out of this area before the kids are damaged too much by the underfunded school systems. I for one would never pay for a charter school, when the education in other parts of the country, within public schools, are just as good.
Honestly, what is keeping folks here? I do not find working in banking to be all that appealing, no matter what they might pay. There is more to life than money.
Feel free to call this a rant, trolling, etc. I am also not interested in the folks who have been on this site for over 8 years, and like to comment negatively to everyone. If there is no constructive feedback, move on please.
Regards,
Vt ah
I relocated (7 years ago) to getaway from winter, high taxes and to move to a more Constitution respecting state. Unfortunately, Charlotte is where the work is and I am in Union County.
I love the state, but hate this area. Too crowded, WAY too much traffic, no quick access to wilderness areas and places to ride a bicycle (safely) for more than a few miles, way more expensive than I expected, especially on blue collar wages.
I could go on and on. It must be because I grew up in mountains and this city life is wearing my mind and soul down. Hopefully, I can relocate to the mountains in the future and be in an environment I feel comfortable with and to be closer to rural living.
Last edited by Monarkman; 07-25-2021 at 04:08 PM..
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It really is kind of ironic. Lots of people move to an area, probably into stick-frame houses built on former forest land or farms, then those same people scream "NO MORE GROWTH!!!!"
The fact of the matter is Charlotte is a growing hub for employment. The jobs keep coming. If you stop building housing, you basically have the next SF on your hands with out-of-control housing prices. It's the law of supply and demand. You have jobs - you need housing growth to keep up with it. Now, the question is where do you direct that growth - I would argue the vast majority of it should be directed at existing town centers and the City of Charlotte which all at least give people the ability to walk, bike, or take public transit places and put less stress on roadways. But we'll see what happens.
It really is kind of ironic. Lots of people move to an area, probably into stick-frame houses built on former forest land or farms, then those same people scream "NO MORE GROWTH!!!!"
The fact of the matter is Charlotte is a growing hub for employment. The jobs keep coming. If you stop building housing, you basically have the next SF on your hands with out-of-control housing prices. It's the law of supply and demand. You have jobs - you need housing growth to keep up with it. Now, the question is, where do you direct that growth - I would argue the vast majority of it should be directed at existing town centers and the City of Charlotte which all at least give people the ability to walk, bike, or take public transit places and put less stress on roadways. But we'll see what happens.
I am one such person only because our schools can't handle the growth, and neither can our roads. If they approved schools and roads like they do housing developments, people would find one less thing to complain about..well, most of us anyway.
I am one such person only because our schools can't handle the growth, and neither can our roads. If they approved schools and roads like they do housing developments, people would find one less thing to complain about..well, most of us anyway.
Interesting... so do you think your own house should have been approved? where are you supposed to live?!
Interesting... so do you think your own house should have been approved? where are you supposed to live?!
When we moved in 15 years ago, it wasn't an issue. Our neighborhood schools are so overcrowded that we have been through 4/5 realignments in the 9 years my kids have been in school. They just did a middle school realignment but will probably have to do another in 2 years - when the new MS is built. There are over 3K homes slated to be built in our area, and our roads/schools can't handle it. The high school will also be realigned again in 2-3 years, and they did that 2 years ago when the newest HS was built. If more thought was put into the planning, I could be on board. Growth can be good when done correctly.
"I have no problem as long as transplants assimilate" and "they insist to bring the bad with them" (or similar commentary) is classic double speak. We are in this climate where so many people either want to go back to the unattainable "way things were" or they want to accelerate us into some unattainable "progressive nirvana".
Here's a news flash... it wasn't great just because that was the way it was and accelerating us into the future (example... teaching critical race theory to elementary kids) isn't great either.
When someone asks "what's wrong with people from around here (Charlotte)?", like much of the country, it's clear that they have not caught on to the fact that there is a happy medium to be found in life. Not everything has to go back to the way it was (it can be improved) and not everything can be fixed in an immediate action (but, that doesn't mean we do nothing to try and get better). When more realize this, I believe less will find themselves asking "what is wrong with others".
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