Sankofa Alwayz
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Were you ever able to touchdown to CLT this year breh?
Rate This City: Day 17 - Charlotte
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Were you ever able to touchdown to CLT this year breh?
Thanks for asking, breh.
No, unfortunately COVID through all my 2020 plans into a flux.
I still coming though once everything is sorted out. The move is still priority number one for my family the change of scenery will benefit us all.
I know I belong in that city...
staticshock
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where do y’all live now?
Detroit.
staticshock
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murksiderock
Superstar
I know the feeling g, I do too. Except I've already lived there before, go semi-often (not since July though), and I already know people there...
But for at least the foreseeable future, I'm stuck in Raleigh. Isnt the worst thing, my daughters are here first and foremost, and its close enough I can see Clt ever so often. But I do feel like I belong there too!
Man, breh when I visited it just felt like home. The family and I stayed for a week, by the week’s end I was getting around the city with no navigation. I met so many hospitable people while I was there, people giving the wife and I props on us as a family unit. I traveled through some perspective neighborhoods and was satisfied with everything I saw.
While I was down there I kept thinking about the stories my grandfather would tell me about growing up in the south and feeling this sense of a positive series in my family. Where my grandfather came up north for a better opportunity and me going back south for the same.
Bigblackted4
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Going for New Years
Sankofa Alwayz
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Pre-Covid, what was the typical summer vibes like in CLT?
Does CLT has its own sales tax or is it the standard North Carolina sales tax of 4.75%?
What’s everybody’s favorite neighborhoods/areas of the city?
How are the parks and recreational activities?
How dynamic and vibrant are the Black entrepreneurial, music, and arts scenes?
How efficient are city services such as waste disposal, public transit, infrastructure repair, roadwork, etc.?
What’s rush hour traffic like compared to DC or ATL?
Compared to most of the cities here on the East Coast and over on the West Coast, it seems relatively affordable. Looking at these rental prices and house prices on these real estate apps got me like
In stating that observation, what would y’all say is a good enough salary range to live comfortable in Charlotte?
Random, but is the soil in most of the residential parts of the city healthy enough to grow one’s own vegetation/garden?
How often do y’all get tornadoes during the warmer seasons, if any at all?
What’s the overall character of the city? Or rather, how does the city carries itself? Big masquerading as small or vice-versa? Urban? Suburban?
Does CLT has its own sales tax or is it the standard North Carolina sales tax of 4.75%?
What’s everybody’s favorite neighborhoods/areas of the city?
How are the parks and recreational activities?
How dynamic and vibrant are the Black entrepreneurial, music, and arts scenes?
How efficient are city services such as waste disposal, public transit, infrastructure repair, roadwork, etc.?
What’s rush hour traffic like compared to DC or ATL?
Compared to most of the cities here on the East Coast and over on the West Coast, it seems relatively affordable. Looking at these rental prices and house prices on these real estate apps got me like
In stating that observation, what would y’all say is a good enough salary range to live comfortable in Charlotte? Random, but is the soil in most of the residential parts of the city healthy enough to grow one’s own vegetation/garden?
How often do y’all get tornadoes during the warmer seasons, if any at all?
What’s the overall character of the city? Or rather, how does the city carries itself? Big masquerading as small or vice-versa? Urban? Suburban?
murksiderock
Superstar
Pre-Covid, what was the typical summer vibes like in CLT?
Does CLT has its own sales tax or is it the standard North Carolina sales tax of 4.75%?
What’s everybody’s favorite neighborhoods/areas of the city?
How are the parks and recreational activities?
How dynamic and vibrant are the Black entrepreneurial, music, and arts scenes?
How efficient are city services such as waste disposal, public transit, infrastructure repair, roadwork, etc.?
What’s rush hour traffic like compared to DC or ATL?
Compared to most of the cities here on the East Coast and over on the West Coast, it seems relatively affordable. Looking at these rental prices and house prices on these real estate apps got me like
Random, but is the soil in most of the residential parts of the city healthy enough to grow one’s own vegetation/garden?
How often do y’all get tornadoes during the warmer seasons, if any at all?
What’s the overall character of the city? Or rather, how does the city carries itself? Big masquerading as small or vice-versa? Urban? Suburban?
Charlotte has wild shyt to do in the summer. Speed Street is a festival that basically kicks off summer and there's a ton of festivals after thar, the MiLB team is popular and popping, summer is Carowinds season, mad concerts and events, summer is live than a muhfukka. shyt I hung out for two days in July this year and the city was still active...
I've had people from VA and CA ask me pretty often what Clt is like, and again, it depends on your frame of reference. If you're from DC or SF or one of the biggest cities in the nation, it can feel small and you'll run out of stuff to do because it aint a 24/7 city. If you view it in the context of its actual size, its at the top of its weight class. I'll say it like this:
When describing Clt to my East Coast associates, I liken it to Pittsburgh or Baltimore. Bmore has the built in amenity of being in a better geographic location between DC and Philly, all the transit infrastructure of the East Coast, but if you just go metro Bmore to metro Clt without including the DC side or other shyt, they are comparable, feel about the same size. Different vibes obviously but similar in size and expectations for what you get at that size, similar scale of shopping and dining, all that. Clt just isn't coastal so it has a different geography and isn't as close to larger cities...
Personally I'm not the biggest fan of Bmore, but at the very least its an interesting city. Clt is too....Pgh feels slightly smaller than both but punches way above its weight as a city. I've heard the criticisms on here of Pgh, which are not all invalid but I have to view it in the context of the people this board attracts. Pgh is popping popping, very comparable to Clt. Again clearly not culturally but moreso in scale of size and shyt to do...
When I'm talking to my associates from the West Coast, I tell them Clt is like Sacramento with more black people. People from Cali shyt on Sac because California functionally is basically a nation-state with many big cities, geographies, and lifestyles, but if Sac was almost anywhere else in the US it would be talked about more. It isnt a small city is comparable in size to the cities im naming, and overall fits in with the scale of amenities. It does and has alot of the same things Clt has, just with the Latino and Black populations reversed, so realistically that impacts the cultures of both cities---->Clt city is 35% black/15% Latino, Clt metro is 23% black/11% Latino; Sac city is 11% black/31% Latino and metro Sac is 7% black/22% Latino...
Clt is what Sac would appear like if it was the biggest city in its state instead of in a state with many big cities, and is basically the Latino and Black populations in reverse. Its easy for me to see it that way as alot of other things line up well...
Compared almost anywhere else, Clt shyts on them. Clt is a Top 20 US city, period. Its a major city, particularly when not holding it to the expectation of the very biggest cities, but it certainly isn't small. I love the whole city but South Charlotte is my side. More of an urban feel than the rest of Clt, more integrated and diverse--->there's an equal amount of whites, us, and Latinos on the Southside, South Clt is the original light rail route, Southpark and Carolina Place are on the South, Carowinds and Ayrsley are deep South Charlotte, South End is basically Center City and South Charlotte, tons of cool spots and neighborhoods. Other sides of town are cool too but South Charlotte is the most interesting side if town to me overall...
Black culture is abundant and proficient and all over the place, the creative and entrepreneurial spirit is everywhere. Recreational options are abundant except Clt isnt coastal so water activity is about man-made lakes. Traffic can be an annoyance but isn't on the scale of DC, Atlanta or those level of cities. Public services are efficient and they will eventually continue expanding light rail...
Are you thinking of moving down? If you haven't been before, do yourself a favor an visit in spring or summer. Clt's an outstanding city...
DatNkkaCutty
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Pittsburgh is trash, and noticeably segregated to an outta-towner...not to mention that city is letdown small. "shyt to do...." for who a cac???
Stopped reading...
murksiderock
Superstar
Pittsburgh is trash, and noticeably segregated to an outta-towner...not to mention that city is letdown small. "shyt to do...." for who a cac???
Stopped reading...
Small compared to where, where are you coming from?
Plenty of shyt to do if you aren't a stiff...
Sankofa Alwayz
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@murksiderock Solid information breh 
And moving down there is definitely something I’m considering in the future. It’s interesting that I’m more curious about Charlotte than I am ATL despite my age. Prolly because CLT in comparison comes off as more chill, lowkey, and stable. Plus since it’s a lot of DMV natives who have transplanted to Charlotte, I would most likely feel very much at home down there.
And moving down there is definitely something I’m considering in the future. It’s interesting that I’m more curious about Charlotte than I am ATL despite my age. Prolly because CLT in comparison comes off as more chill, lowkey, and stable. Plus since it’s a lot of DMV natives who have transplanted to Charlotte, I would most likely feel very much at home down there.
@murksiderock Solid information breh
CLT in comparison comes off as more chill, lowkey, and stable.
This statement is so true, this is what I love the most about Charlotte