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Austin shouldn't even be considered here -- too full of people who don't even want to live in Texas. It's not even southern culturally, maybe south central/western.
When I think of Austin I get a more west coast vibe. It also has so few black people, not typical of the south. Houston, which I've been to many times, is different though.
Austin is the capital of Texas. Dont know how that makes it more "West Coast" culturally than Southern where accents are found everywhere just like they are found in Atlanta which is way more international than Austin
Interesting that Charlotte has remained more stagnant than Atlanta, while the center of gravity is shifting to Raleigh-Durham. It is starting to become Silicon Valley East!
The world "stagnant" doesn't even belong in the same sentence with Atlanta and Charlotte. Charlotte and the Triangle are both full speed ahead in so many ways, and it's not one booming at the expense of the other at all. Charlotte has even upped its tech game substantially while the Triangle has continued building on its economic foundation of tech with Google and Oracle.
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Back around when I moved to Texas in 2005, Charlotte would have been high on the list, but I feel like it’s just not really sustained its momentum; and Nashville has really stolen a lot of thunder lately.
Uhhhhhh....not even. Nashville has been doing its thing lately but it has absolutely NOT been at Charlotte's expense whatsoever. I'm not even sure how you arrived at that conclusion.
Y'all are on one when it comes to Charlotte. Just like the Triangle and Nashville, it hasn't missed a beat.
The world "stagnant" doesn't even belong in the same sentence with Atlanta and Charlotte. Charlotte and the Triangle are both full speed ahead in so many ways, and it's not one booming at the expense of the other at all. Charlotte has even upped its tech game substantially while the Triangle has continued building on its economic foundation of tech with Google and Oracle.
Uhhhhhh....not even. Nashville has been doing its thing lately but it has absolutely NOT been at Charlotte's expense whatsoever. I'm not even sure how you arrived at that conclusion.
Y'all are on one when it comes to Charlotte. Just like the Triangle and Nashville, it hasn't missed a beat.
I guess it was the Austin of the early 2000s, it was hella hyped. I haven’t heard much about it since. Driving through, I encountered the traffic of a growing city, but didn’t feel anything that new about it. Caveat: I was a truck driver, so I wasn’t really seeing that much of the city. So, I kind of presumed it had resumed perhaps a more “normal” growth rate.
I guess it was the Austin of the early 2000s, it was hella hyped. I haven’t heard much about it since.
That's because the new kids on the block now, like Nashville, are getting the type of press Charlotte used to get, but that doesn't mean that Charlotte has slowed down whatsoever because it hasn't. Expanded rail transit, a new MLS franchise, more corporate headquarters relocations and expansions, climbing the ranks in tech, CLT regularly ranks among the busiest in the country (in the top 10 in most recent years), hosting more and more high-profile events, etc.--like I said, it hasn't missed a beat.
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Driving through, I encountered the traffic of a growing city, but didn’t feel anything that new about it. Caveat: I was a truck driver, so I wasn’t really seeing that much of the city. So, I kind of presumed it had resumed perhaps a more “normal” growth rate.
Not at all...it's still growing like gangbusters. When was the last time you drove through, and when was the last time before that? Charlotte's road network has undergone and is undergoing considerable expansion and widening, particularly I-77, I-485, and US 74, and that's just in the city itself.
Interestingly enough, had this question been asked a century ago, Birmingham would have likely been the most common answer along with Atlanta.
No city suffered more from the CRM.
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