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Originally Posted by ATLMidcity
Atlanta and Charlotte are like night and day, with the only similarities being they are both regional cities within the burgeoning Southeastern U.S.
I lived in Charlotte for 14 years and currently live in Atlanta going on 24 years.
Charlotte has a bright future, but it's no Atlanta.
Heavy rail vs light rail
134 sq miles vs 297 sq miles
Land-locked Atlanta vs Annexation-happy Charlotte
Downtown Atlanta vs shiny Uptown Charlotte
Urban Midtown Atlanta vs suburban midtown Charlotte
Semi-urban Buckhead vs small suburban South Park
Hip-hop and R&B music culture vs Country old south music
The Black Mecca vs an exclusionary White dominant culture
A trend-setter vs a follower
I would go on, but I don't wanna start a fight.
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Ignoring the rest, but it's illegal for cities to annex land in North Carolina now. This is to say that while Atlanta is surrounded by weensy little counties, each with a dozen or more municipalities which all hate Atlanta and each other, Charlotte is surrounded by larger counties with a dozen or more municipalities that all hate each other and Charlotte,
and it's also home to vast tracts of suburbs that are part of the city of Charlotte, but still hate each other, hate Charlotte, and resent being part of it.
The dynamic is not all that different. It also bears pointing out that if you lived in Charlotte 24 years ago... Well, how different was Atlanta 24 years ago? How much does that translate into the way things are now?