murksiderock
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Both Charlotte and Raleigh are overwhelmingly suburban style cities. Charlotte is a bigger city, so it has a bigger, more lively downtown......and it also has more cookie cutter suburban areas...
But both are also dope for what they are. They aren't DC, they aren't Chicago, etc. A mistake many newcomers make, are coming here from where they are from, and comparing them to where they came from instead of appreciating them for who they are. For their respective weight classes nationally, I'd say they are elite cities within their classes. Neither are elite American cities yet, they arent big or developed enough, but they are growing in a positive trajectory...
I made the mistake of moving here and lamenting how it wasn't like _____, but when I started enjoying the things that made them unique, I began enjoying em. I fukk with em both. They really aren't that much different, Charlotte is basically a bigger Raleigh with more people from South Carolina there
...So it has a more southern vibe to it, whereas Raleigh has more of a bougie nature. Raleigh whites are more high brow, liberal intellects, Charlotte whites are more Nascar rednecky, and I dont think either are better or worse, white people are white people. But the collective persona of the whites in both places are different...
Charlotte is more international and culturally diverse, closer to what you'd see in established major cities than Raleigh is; Raleigh at this point has a few pockets of that cultural mash but it's not as widespread yet...
People in Raleigh have a much better fashion sense. Hip hop in both is mid but both have good local music scenes. Charlotte is a little more dangerous in its hoods but someone who has experienced the hoods of Detroit or Atlanta would note how comfortable the hoods are in Charlotte. And most of Charlotte really isn't dangerous anyway...
Raleigh is even safer, so apply the same dynamic I just ascribed to Charlotte, and double it for Raleigh. These are safe cities fir black people, both with large, established black communities, black middle class, and wealthy blacks. More of an education and hustler's element in Raleigh, more of a blue collar element in Charlotte...
But physically the cities look almost identical in build and development, and both are mainly popping downtown with a handful of areas of activity around outer parts of each city...
I loved living in Charlotte, I've really loved living here in Raleigh more though...
Bro it’s bad now. People are insane on these highways. You can have them Raleigh bruhs
