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Now obviously I say “best in the world” rather tongue and cheek as I haven’t lived everywhere, but overall I think there is legit reasoning for seeing it as being “just right” for several reasons.
As a native I’ve thought about reasons I like the area I was born into for a long time…here is what I’ve come up with.
- not too far from the beach…I love going to the beach but I don’t think I’d want to live there.
- not too far from the mountains…I love occasionally taking the relative short drive for a mountain vacation
- not too expensive
- winters aren’t that bad…I hate cold weather and don’t see how those living any further north do it.
- good amount of sports teams (Hornets/Panthers/MLS/Knights)
- plenty of small towns around for that more traditional southern experience
- geographically right in the middle for those that like to travel more extensively (ATL/FL/Northeast)
- most of the big city stuff without being too big
Not sure if any perfect places exist but NC/Charlotte seems to ‘just right’ if you ask me.
Will take any kind of humidity over anything any colder than NC. I wish NC had FL weather but then I hear people complaining about FL weather for some reason.
The region is wonderful, but you'd better have money to live a decent lifestyle in the city proper. Most of the city has been heading in the wrong direction for about 20 years. More suburbs are becoming ghetto, clearcutting has degraded the natural tree canopy, homelessness has risen, and most of the public schools are subpar. The local government has been taken over by incompetent ghetto politicians and bureaucrats, and again, this was not the case until about 20 years ago.
The region is wonderful, but you'd better have money to live a decent lifestyle in the city proper. Most of the city has been heading in the wrong direction for about 20 years. More suburbs are becoming ghetto, clearcutting has degraded the natural tree canopy, homelessness has risen, and most of the public schools are subpar. The local government has been taken over by incompetent ghetto politicians and bureaucrats, and again, this was not the case until about 20 years ago.
That's all fine and good info but I don't get what those links have to do in support of your earlier post that included the phrasing of "...catch up to Atlanta" and I seem to not be the only one here who doesn't understand what you meant by that line in your first post.
According to economists and developers, Charlotte and all along 85 to Atlanta are supposed to catch up with Atlanta.
I first bought in the Lake Norman area in 1993 and we are still getting bad elements out of the area and cleaning up derelict properties.
A moment ago I asked you what you were referring to in your first sentence.
And I have just taken a second look at the content of the 3 links you supplied in a 2nd post made in response to a question posed to you from another member.
It seems that the link contents all point to a rephrasing of your sentence in this way:
"According to economists and developers, Charlotte and all along 85 to Atlanta are supposed to CONNECT up with Atlanta."
Does that work out ok for you?
It seem to me that that is exactly what is going to happen along the I-85 corridor over time.
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