Give Me the Low Down on Charlotte, NC

[4Corners]

Charlotte and the surrounding areas are great for raising a family. My biggest issue with the transplants down here now is they get here then bitch about everything and rip on the south. So yah, don't do that.

 

I don't recall inviting any of them down here. By all means they can move back to where ever they came from. 

 

I've always said, help a yankee drive point their car north. 

[4Corners]

Local music scene is definitely struggling. 

 

We have one of those? 

 

I don't get the infatuation with Simplified. I live up in the LKN area and they have like a cult following. I think they suck. 

[Johnny Rockets]

Yeah there is a gold rush museum of some sort but it isn't in Charlotte. Can't recall where.

 

Reed's Gold Mine in Midland.....it's actually a cool place to visit and to hear the history behind it. Free also.

 

It's actually the first documented gold find in the US and that was one big fuggin rock.

[RoaringRiot]

We have one of those? 

 

I don't get the infatuation with Simplified. I live up in the LKN area and they have like a cult following. I think they suck. 

 

No...we really don't, actually. 

 

They definitely don't suck. But they're pretty much all we have for "good" local music so you see them everywhere and people definitely do follow them around. 

[4Corners]

No...we really don't, actually. 

 

They definitely don't suck. But they're pretty much all we have for "good" local music so you see them everywhere and people definitely do follow them around. 

 

I'm not a big concert guy but a lot of the local "talent" is just annoying and makes it hard to talk to your friends and other people at bars. Simplified is no exception. I wouldn't be caught dead at the Rudder when they are there. 

[RoaringRiot]

I'm not a big concert guy but a lot of the local "talent" is just annoying and makes it hard to talk to your friends and other people at bars. Simplified is no exception. I wouldn't be caught dead at the Rudder when they are there. 

 

Fair enough....

[Happy Panther]

Reed's Gold Mine in Midland.....it's actually a cool place to visit and to hear the history behind it. Free also.

 

It's actually the first documented gold find in the US and that was one big fuggin rock.

That's the one. Haven't been but should.

[Happy Panther]

I'm not a big concert guy but a lot of the local "talent" is just annoying and makes it hard to talk to your friends and other people at bars. Simplified is no exception. I wouldn't be caught dead at the Rudder when they are there. 

Speaking of the rudder I had the absolute worst meal there. Great location but really cheap food.

[Happy Panther]

You may have a point on the music scene. But you can pop in the double door anytime for something good.

 

Also we have bad strip clubs

[4Corners]

Speaking of the rudder I had the absolute worst meal there. Great location but really cheap food.

 

not the first time I've heard this. Their food is really bad. I don't understand how their patio tables are always filled up, but it prob has a lot to do with just people coming in off the lake being shitfaced and at that point they'd prob shove a turd in their mouths as long as they had some ranch. We were up there 2 weeks ago and I mean...they have security guards there now and there were a bunch of harleys parked out in the front. Not really my scene any more.

[Anybodyhome]

Not sure what relevance has to do with anything and why you would try to help us with it. But Charlotte is no more irrelevant than most of its peer cities.

 

The question for you is what makes Charlotte culture so bad. So far the only item you have is lack of a historic district which is debatable but I'll give you credit for the sake of discussion. There must be more than that. So let's hear it.

 

Again, from the first page of the thread and the same thing I posted in yet another thread of the same topic, this is why I do not care for Charlotte:

 

Highest sales taxes in the state, highest property taxes in the state.

Infrastructure is atrocious. Interstate system has been struggling to catch up for 20 years. Traffic is horrible.

Uptown/downtown is rather sterile and generic- nothing to really make you remember, "Charlotte!"

Usual mix of upscale restaurants and art galleries trying to make in-roads.

 

There's just no real draw to the city.

 

[TNPanther]

Like I said in the other Charlotte thread, the real reason why there is a perceived "lack of culture" here is because the city is pretty much a baby compared to others. It seems like half the people here are brand new to the area, and most of the development in Uptown and other key neighborhoods really only came to be about ten years ago. So there is really nothing, other than banking in the business world, to "define" the city like SF is defined by its counterculture, Nashville by its music, Asheville by its location in the mountains/eclectic population, New Orleans by its French heritage and history, Boston by its history/sports/Irish heritage, and NYC by its diversity and general craziness. It's pretty much a bunch of pretty, new development with a beautiful skyline and lots of business. So yes, I could agree that the city has little to no personality. But neither does pretty much any major city in the South other than NOLA and Miami. Maybe in the next ten to twenty years the city will start to form its own image.

[Happy Panther]

Again, from the first page of the thread and the same thing I posted in yet another thread of the same topic, this is why I do not care for Charlotte:

 

Highest sales taxes in the state, highest property taxes in the state.

Infrastructure is atrocious. Interstate system has been struggling to catch up for 20 years. Traffic is horrible.

Uptown/downtown is rather sterile and generic- nothing to really make you remember, "Charlotte!"

Usual mix of upscale restaurants and art galleries trying to make in-roads.

 

There's just no real draw to the city.

 

Yeah you keep regurgitating the same tripe. We get that you are not pro Queen city. My coffee cup gets that by now. So don't come back. Problem solved.

 

But the question was about culture and what Charlotte is lacking compared to peer cities. Taxes and traffic are not culture. "Sterile" and "usual mix" are vague terms. You are the one claiming Charlotte has terrible culture.

 

So what do other similar cities have that Charlotte does not from a cultural standpoint? 

 

It's OK to say you don't know.

[Anybodyhome]

Yeah you keep regurgitating the same tripe. We get that you are not pro Queen city. My coffee cup gets that by now. So don't come back. Problem solved.

 

But the question was about culture and what Charlotte is lacking compared to peer cities. Taxes and traffic are not culture. "Sterile" and "usual mix" are vague terms. You are the one claiming Charlotte has terrible culture.

 

So what do other similar cities have that Charlotte does not from a cultural standpoint? 

 

It's OK to say you don't know.

 

Speak to similar cities. I've been around the world a few times and have visited cities everywhere.

 

No need to be jealous and defensive, there's just nothing special about Charlotte- live with it or not, I don't care. Not sure why you need a detailed breakdown like the pawn shop on 3rd and Main that doesn't belong or whatever the fug.

 

It's a fugging conversation, not a long range travel and tourism plan.

 

Oh, and I only show up for the occasional football game so rest assured I won't be intruding on your beloved city too much. Jeezus, don't take it so personal.