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Originally Posted by epicene101
Why should Raleigh use any city in NC as a benchmark? When it's growth is still incredible? Let Charlotte continually try...Raleigh would never lol .
Just to be clear to you, the only poster in this thread who has dumped on a NC city is you, Ace. You have consistently dumped on Charlotte & posters who normally post on the Charlotte board.
If you think that no one in city government in Raleigh has looked at any other city & said they did ______ well but _________________ was a an epic fail, you are deluding yourself.
I feel Raleigh is more similar to the triad as we have Durham and chapel hill and many other mid sized cities just as the triad . But the similarities end there for me. Charlotte and Raleigh are also pretty different to me. Raleigh has always felt more suburban and spread out and Charlotte a lot more urban and gritty. Also the way the cities are growing is different. Charlotte is beginning to densify more than sprawl and Raleigh is too but not nearly as much as charlotte, The future of population growth in the triangle will be wake forest/rolesville and Knightdale area in wake county and some of that will trickle over to here in Zebulon and Wendell and also Durham looks like it will boom on a similar scale as Raleigh. Raleigh charlotte and the triad are not all that similar and that's what attracts people to this state.
Thats why its often called the Great State of Mecklenburg.
And I have long thought Charlotte should change its name to Mecklenburg. I don't mean to sound sexist, but when I think of major cities, I think of strong-sounding names: Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Washington, New York. Mecklenburg has that same strong sound. There are some exceptions like Miami and Honolulu, which have exotic-sounding names. But a woman's name for a big, brash, growing city on the rise just seems odd to my ear. A name change could happen in phases, the way John Cougar changed his professional name back to his real name, going from John Cougar to John Cougar Mellencamp, then finally John Mellencamp. So Charlotte >> Charlotte-Mecklenburg >> Mecklenburg.
Okay ladies, you can bash me now for this comment.
And I have long thought Charlotte should change its name to Mecklenburg. I don't mean to sound sexist, but when I think of major cities, I think of strong-sounding names: Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Washington, New York. Mecklenburg has that same strong sound. There are some exceptions like Miami and Honolulu, which have exotic-sounding names. But a woman's name for a big, brash, growing city on the rise just seems odd to my ear. A name change could happen in phases, the way John Cougar changed his professional name back to his real name, going from John Cougar to John Cougar Mellencamp, then finally John Mellencamp. So Charlotte >> Charlotte-Mecklenburg >> Mecklenburg.
Okay ladies, you can bash me now for this comment.
Aside from the fact that Atlanta is a feminine name also, this is pretty silly.
The Triangle is much more like the Triad than Charlotte.
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