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Originally Posted by Crawford
This is bizarre.
What city on earth would be more similar to Atlanta, and to Charlotte? Tashkent? Chongqing? Lima? What's the difference between living in a McMansion in Alpharetta and one in Dilworth and taking your SUV to the Chik-fil-A, Dillards and Harris Teeter?
I mean, both are SE Sunbelt sprawl boomers popular with transplants and full of new economy workers. Similar demographics, weather, architecture, politics, lifestyles.
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Please explain how the demographics are similar? Atlanta is considered the world over to be a "black" city, while Charlotte is barely mentioned on Black Twitter.
And the politics??? Really. City council and county commission boards are largely majority white in Charlotte's surrounding counties. Charlotte/Mecklenburg just recently became majority democratic boards. Atlanta's surrounding counties, cities, school boards, fire departments, police departments, etc. have had major black and brown representation for decades.
Where is the diversity in Charlotte? Uptown Charlotte might as well be downtown Boston or Indianapolis - lilly white by design if you wanna be truthful.
Does Charlotte have any large subdivisions that are predominantly black where the entire neighborhood consists of $400,000 homes? Atlanta has too many to count.
The suburbs also have large subdivisions where Asians (Indians and Chinese ppl) live in expensive neighborhoods, exclusively. I don't think the same can be said of Charlotte.
Atlanta ebbs and flow every day, and if you spend any time in the city during the week you can fill the hustle and bustle of the city.
Charlotte only feels different when a large event (i.e. sporting event) is in town. Otherwise, it's the same old 9-5 city.
Even the locals in Atlanta can't keep up with what is going on in the city on a daily basis.