Long time no see, sold my series coiler a couple of years ago and built a FZJ80 as a better family rig.
We are considering getting out of NY and moving to the Charlotte area next year. Looking for input on what kind of pros and cons that might involve beyond the obvious cheaper real estate and taxes. Wife works in the mortgage business, I run a financial planning practice from a home office and bartend at a craft beer place twice a week. Have a 5 year old boy now as well.
Charlotte has quite a few nice places to eat, and some fancy buildings in the city proper. So far as cities go, it's not too bad. It's a pretty cool place for "modern" people, with many of the neat new things you'll find in more civilized states. There are people tubes hanging between buildings, for crying out loud; in
NC! It's like some Jetsons shit.
They have a new NASCAR museum, and it doesn't suck. I'm not a huge fan of the series, and I found the place very entertaining. There's all manner of things to do, and the exhibits are great. I imagine kids would love it.
Crime is
nothing like it is in the East. It kind of feels like something is missing in that regard, actually. Now that I really think about it, the whole place always feels more empty than it looks to me. It's a fancy area, but it feels strange. Maybe it's too clean; too orderly. I don't know.
They've clearly worked up some way to keep people like me out, and hidden it very, very well. Either that, or it's right out in the open, and just too big to see. Either way, something's underneath it all that I'm not supposed to be liking.
Bah. Who the fuck would want to live next to me, anyway. It's probably a good thing.
I have four problems with Charlotte, as opposed to other cities I've been to.
1: It's not easy to find smokes and, when you finally do, you can't fucking smoke them.
2: Parking sucks.
3: It's a bit on the snobby side of hipster.
4: There's some old man walking around there that blows his nose in his beard.
I like NC, but I prefer the Eastern side, where things are a bit less tame. We've got more mud, more pickups, more donks, bigger wheels, more gangs, more crime (quantity over quality, unfortunately), and certainly more beaches. It's too bad the West got all the mountains.
Cheers,
Kennith
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