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I tend to think they are equally NC's first cities...Raleigh being the capital closes any size gap between it and Charlotte. I'm not biased in the least - I love both cities.
Agreed to some extent. Raleigh's just lithe more 1st's in what people really want in a city
Don't believe the hype (and the Charlatan posters on other threads ), you're quoting opinions and I'm quoting facts and studies with links to support, nice try If you go down the line is what people really want in an urban "real" city and support it with factual links and studies, not hype, fluff, conjecture and opinion, Raleigh/Triangle beats Charlotte/Metrolina every time
And now your on my ignore list. I suggest everyone do the same, as this is an obvious troll.
Good I noticed Raleih's polls numbers have come up and Charlotte's have stayed the same since the truth stared seeing the light of day We need less hype and more facts here to bring things in balance
CLT: The gateway out of boring, character and culture free Metrolina lol !!!
Oh, and their sports teams (only thing they're really known for other than banks, stock cars and churches) are losers
What does this have to do about your airport post.
As far as this post, you don't know what you are talking about. you are full of Bull S***
Stock car racing is over a billion dollar industry in North Carolina.
In Charlotte, N.C., Lowe's Motor Speedway generates more than $276 million in a tri-county area, according to a 1999 study conducted by a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Off-site spending associated with the speedway totaled more than $88 million, with 91 percent of attendees for its three major races traveling more than 75 miles, according to the study.
I see you have no likes for Churches.
If its not in Raleigh it no good to you.
I tend to think they are equally NC's first cities...Raleigh being the capital closes any size gap between it and Charlotte. I'm not biased in the least - I love both cities.
lol, would you say the same thing for Albany and NYC? What about Olympia and Seattle?
lol, would you say the same thing for Albany and NYC? What about Olympia and Seattle?
Nope, because those cities are light years apart in size, importance, and almost any other metric you might use to compare them. Raleigh and Charlotte are very close together in nearly every way...more like Nashville and Memphis in TN or Columbus and Cleveland in OH.
I agree...Charlotte is a bit larger but Raleigh is the state capital. Both have so many great qualities that balance each other out that it's hard to pick one that is dominant over the other. I wish the two that keep trying to one-up each other could see this. When you have two pretty great cities in one state of similar size and growth rate but as different as Raleigh and Charlotte, neither is significantly better than the other.
That's one of the great things about our state as compared to states like GA, IL, NY, MA, CO, and other states that are totally dominated by one great city.
I understand what you are saying. I think if we are talking purely about "which one is and feels like the bigger city", Charlotte is going to win that contest. By the nature of being larger, it's going to be able to offer additional amenities that Raleigh doesn't have yet.
But larger doesn't always mean better. Raleigh offers quirks and cultural oddities (like most larger cities) that Charlotte may be able to mimic, but not actually have organically. I've always felt like Raleigh was the "brainier" of the two and I enjoy going to Raleigh for it's more eclectic feel and superior music scene. I also find Raleigh to have a more prominent "creative" industry than Charlotte.
Culturally and geographically Charlotte seems to have more in common with SC. I wonder if they would have even gotten one pro sports team were it not for SC having no pro sports teams and no collegiate powerhouses? Seems Charlotte always needs an assist I wonder if a good hard shove from behind would get it across the border?
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I agree...Charlotte is a bit larger but Raleigh is the state capital. Both have so many great qualities that balance each other out that it's hard to pick one that is dominant over the other. I wish the two that keep trying to one-up each other could see this. When you have two pretty great cities in one state of similar size and growth rate but as different as Raleigh and Charlotte, neither is significantly better than the other.
