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Saturday, April 19, 2008
What do you really think about Living Here?
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I am for a Harrahs casino here in near the dowtown; A Casino would help with reperations for the African Americans as it did for the Indians. This would create excitement here and bring in 3 billion dollars in revenue to hotels and food and such. Charlotte was a better place ten years ago ,because of the downturn in great jobs coming here it is declining. Charlotte needs a boost a revival of its purpose , so to speak. Maybe they could reconstruct the much like Charleston Old Historic village they raced to tear down. What idiots.
Charlotte needs to have UNIONS now much like AFSCME for the POLICE and SCHOOL Teachers; The City and County Government needs to be full time and not part - time like it is at present. This isnt 'Mayberry RFD' anymore we need full time thinking now or else we perrish.I would like to see North Carolina split into the Eastern Carolina and Western Carolina into two seperate States. Western Carolina then could lobby the Feds with our own needs. If anyone has traveled this State from Oakracoke to Murphy , as I have , you will see N.C. is almost the size of California. Do this for a vacation, its a wonderful trip.
Instead of Portland, we should strive to be Vegas?
And if we had the same quality of thinking from GovCo full-time that we get from them part-time, this place WOULD beat out Detroit on the Misery Index.
Please.
Downturn in jobs? That is because the economy of this country sucks! Charlotte is still experiencing steady job growth, people are still moving here, and there are a bunch of projects downtown, that once complete between now and 2 years from now, will change the face of downtown and make it even more exciting. I don't know where all this doomsday crap is coming from, but Charlotte is much better than it was 15 years ago (especially downtown) and it will keep getting better.
The Living Here magazine was much better 8-10 years ago when it was honest and straightforward about the city warts and all. In the past five years though, it's become nothing but a rah-rah piece just like a chamber or realtor brochure. Go back to telling it like it is.
As for the city, it is indeed much better now than the hick town it was 15-20 years ago. Anyon who loves the way it used to be so muchshould move to Richmond or Birmingham.
I think south Charotte has too many Harris Teeters.
I always though that cedar point would put a roller coaster from Pineville all the way to downtown; Wouldnt that be to ride to work everyday? Stay light on the breakfast though.
I like Charlotte ,but there are to many support jobs that were optimistic when they got here and eventually go down hill. Two huge banks and to many support business trying to sell Bank employees a sandwich. Charlotte needs to expand the downtown to attract 1 million more people for a good tax base.
Sundays article about Uptown and not downtown was because they wanted a positive sounding Uptown ; I heard about what George Washington left was a pair of his wooden teeth. The story I heard was he was an excellent dancer and women would line up for him so they may dance with his excellence.
He left Charlotte early because of the impending war against Cornwallis and the British; Amy tell them about the battle of Charlotte with General Cornwallis.
if you want UNIONS move back up north, you yankee!
seriously? Unions? That's an asinine idea.
we are all americans shut up with yankee crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“reperations for the African Americans”
-Are you serious, and you didn’t even spell it correctly… Can we all just move past that, we can all work hard and get good jobs if we work at it…
Ok now back to answering about how I feel about living here. I like it, I don’t love it but I like it. My wife hates it which makes it hard at times. She loves the Midwest and misses the honest folks and less crime. Yeah Charlotte is not good when it comes to crime; we need to work on that and the schools. Might be time to split up CMS as it doesn’t seem to be giving kids the education they need. The teachers are good but something isn’t right!
UpTown is better then it was even five years ago. I remember a time when after work there was nothing going on down there it was a ghost town. I think some of the clubs and bars charging covers for what they offer is a joke. This isn’t NYC but some of the bars think it is.
The free parking has pretty much gone away which is what drew us UpTown more.
I love having the Panthers but the wine and cheese crowd at games stinks. You can’t even use body paint or bring signs to the games, how are we ever going to build a true fan base that way? People leave at half time or the 3rd quarter if we are down and I don’t just mean a few people it is usually a fourth of the stadium. PSL’s and the way in which other tickets are sold give them to the people that half of the time don’t even show up for the games…
We need more culture here like Charleston but as someone else said they were stupid and tore it all down.
-T
A unionization of NC's workforce would complete the transformation of my beloved Tar Heel State into the same god-forsaken hellholes that many of you Yankees left in the northeast and midwest.
Newsflash: Companies, especially European and Asian companies, are willing to invest capital in NC (rather than OH, MI, NJ, etc) because we don't have unions!
"we are all americans shut up with yankee crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
LOL. It is true that we're all Americans but you'll always be Yankees to us. You might as well face the fact that a strong contingent of native Southerners don't want you here and will never accept you as one of their own. Such is life.
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