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Does playing in North Carolina suck as a professional athlete?

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Brooklyn 3.0 Grand Master

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Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Not everyone is looking for an NYC. One person's bland is what another might be looking for. I don't want to be in Charlotte but I'd take Charlotte all day everyday over an NYC.

I never said NYC was better though. Not sure why you took it there. I mean, I personally think it is, but in this thread all I said was Charlotte is bland, and that young players would probably want to play somewhere else. Hell ... after 12 years in Brooklyn I'm at Rockaway Beach in Queens now.

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58 minutes ago, Cullenator said:

You should try Denver.  Easily the whitest, blandest place Ive ever spent a significant amount of time.

 

I cant wait to get back NC.

Denver is honestly an awful city. 15 years ago it at least had cleanliness going for it. It was probably the cleanest large city I'd ever seen. Then it turned into just a poo hole full of people trying really hard to be the stereotypical "Colorado bro". I only made it 14 years in CO because I was in Evergreen but then it slowly turned into Cherry Creek of the foothills and it was like... yeah it's just time to cash in and GTFO of here.

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2 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

I never said NYC was better though. Not sure why you took it there. I mean, I personally think it is, but in this thread all I said was Charlotte is bland, and that young players would probably want to play somewhere else. Hell ... after 12 years in Brooklyn I'm at Rockaway Beach in Queens now.

If you ask me all cities are bland. The concrete jungle does nothing for me.

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4 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I have to go up to NYC for a meeting on the 8th. I'm so excited about going that I'm flying in and out the same day. Been working on this for two years now so very excited for the meeting but that's all NYC offers for me. Looking forward to getting my piece of that pie though. If this goes well it'll be a seven figure deal for my business.

NYC is a great place to visit once or twice.  After that, I got no interested in ever going back.  I keep having to but I dislike it.  Manhattan, at least. 

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2 hours ago, CRA said:

NYC is a great place to visit once or twice.  After that, I got no interested in ever going back.  I keep having to but I dislike it.  Manhattan, at least. 

Yeah, most people equate NYC with Manhattan ... aka "the City". It's pure hell. You couldn't pay me to live there. The boroughs are less compact-crowded, can be quite beautiful, friendly, have just as good cuisine, are more diverse, and have just as much to do as Manhattan. Well, Brooklyn does. Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens are like the suburbs in a way.

Where I live now is so surreal. I'm across the street from the ocean, a skate park, and everyone and everything is laid back. It feels just like a beach town ... and well, it is one.

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3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Denver is honestly an awful city. 15 years ago it at least had cleanliness going for it. It was probably the cleanest large city I'd ever seen. Then it turned into just a poo hole full of people trying really hard to be the stereotypical "Colorado bro". I only made it 14 years in CO because I was in Evergreen but then it slowly turned into Cherry Creek of the foothills and it was like... yeah it's just time to cash in and GTFO of here.

Between Cherry Creek and the LoDa/Ballpark area it's a pretty overdone mixed-use mid-rise cluster.

Down near Wash Park and the SF Arts District were cool but was always surprised at how much I disliked the city.  It's just adjacent to a ton of great areas, not a great area in itself.   

 

 

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3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

If you ask me all cities are bland. The concrete jungle does nothing for me.

Since this is in the lounge now...

The infrastructure in this country is one of the most regrettable things about it all.  Not that we are the only place on earth, Aussieland, Canada, plenty others can be just as bad in parts.

For being only a few hundred years old, it's ridiculous what we've managed to do such a huge swath of the planet.

Superhighways, stroads (a planning term), dilapidated shopping centers, strip malls, it's just ugly as hell.  

This could be anywhere and is everywhere--

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It's depressing to me.  

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14 hours ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

Yeah, most people equate NYC with Manhattan ... aka "the City". It's pure hell. You couldn't pay me to live there. The boroughs are less compact-crowded, can be quite beautiful, friendly, have just as good cuisine, are more diverse, and have just as much to do as Manhattan. Well, Brooklyn does. Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens are like the suburbs in a way.

Where I live now is so surreal. I'm across the street from the ocean, a skate park, and everyone and everything is laid back. It feels just like a beach town ... and well, it is one.

I think that is largely fair.  I think most people do view NYC as largely Manhattan.  And it sucks outside of like your first time or two seeing it.  I would assume New Yorkers largely view NYC much broader than outsiders do. 

Outside of taking my kids up for a visit, which I sadly plan to do eventually, I hope to never go back to Manhattan. 

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On 10/24/2023 at 9:10 AM, CRA said:

young rich single athletes are still going to prefer the ones in Miami, Atlanta, NY, LA, etc.....because it's about more than that for them.  Whose going to be in those Charlotte clubs? Answer is nobody.  Whose going to me in the Miami ones? Other high profile people. 

but none of that is why our team sucks.  Guys play for checks ultimately.  And the majority of the league isn't a high profile super star single 22 year old.   And those guys get drafted. 

Not all young single athletes like that type of thing. The ones that do like the wilder life probably get noticed more, but there are likely just as many that prefer other things like hunting, fishing, hiking, or hanging out in quiet places.  

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On 10/24/2023 at 3:46 PM, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

I never said NYC was better though. Not sure why you took it there. I mean, I personally think it is, but in this thread all I said was Charlotte is bland, and that young players would probably want to play somewhere else. Hell ... after 12 years in Brooklyn I'm at Rockaway Beach in Queens now.

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