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re: Holy Crap - Charlotte, NC is kicking some butt

Posted on 11/6/25 at 6:21 pm to
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
153560 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 6:21 pm to
quote:

Downtown Charlotte’s skyline is starting to get massive
the sign a city is getting too fricking big
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
10457 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 6:22 pm to
The white part on top of dog shite is still dog shite
Posted by Zappas Stache
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Member since Apr 2009
42191 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 6:26 pm to
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Found this video of Austin, TX between 2001 and 2025. Pretty wild how much it's changed


And east Austin that uses to be single story shite buildings and little bungalows is nothing but 20 story condo towers now. It's insane.
Posted by Buck Magnum
Springdale
Member since Dec 2003
11820 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 7:40 pm to
We had to spend two hours waiting for our luggage coming back from Mexico because of an electric storm and they wouldn't let us out because we had to go through customs. But Bojangles was worth it.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
51495 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 8:26 pm to
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especially a city like Charlotte that is vastly superior to anything that’s ever been, is currently, or ever will be in the state of Louisiana lol.

Pfff, you’ve clearly never been to Ferriday.
Posted by Lexis Dad
Member since Apr 2025
4326 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 9:41 pm to
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Charlotte feels like walking into a city of junior bankers who would all rather be in NYC or Atlanta. It’s basically a smaller Atlanta with a whole lot less of the good Atlanta stuff.

This is a true statement.
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
28886 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 9:48 pm to
And it’s all gentrified. I think the cons of gentrification outweigh the pros.

Fine, you have turned some urban blight into nice little homes (or loft apartments depending on your taste), there’s an influx of coffee shapes and Asian fusion cafés, and of course an overpriced locally sourced grocery store next to a small gym with a few treadmills and cycles.

They don’t care that they uprooted some poor black lady that just wanted to die in peace in the place she has lived for 50 years, or that some blue collar Mexican family has to move to some shitty inner suburb ring. All this is does is reassign the working class, make them end up paying more, and then the soccer moms are pissed there are “illegals” in the bedroom community.
Posted by Mung
Ba’on Rooj
Member since Aug 2007
9124 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 6:57 am to
The other day I landed at B12 and had to get to E24 in 10 minutes. Fatty jogging thru the airport. Made it as they were boarding to BR.
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
35708 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 7:07 am to
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They don’t care that they uprooted some poor black lady that just wanted to die in peace in the place she has lived for 50 years, or that some blue collar Mexican family has to move to some shitty inner suburb ring. All this is does is reassign the working class, make them end up paying more, and then the soccer moms are pissed there are “illegals” in the bedroom community.


Ah, the old, “if you’re a black or brown person you should somehow be protected from the changing dynamics of a city.”
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
28886 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 9:57 am to
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if you’re a black or brown person you should somehow be protected from the changing dynamics of a city.”


I’m not saying there should be some legal protection. I’m just saying there isn’t really an improvement with gentrification most times. We aren’t talking about ripping up neighborhoods for necessary infrastructure. This is about building fancy apartments and the like so people can live in the trendy place.

That’s fine…until the displaced folks need a place to live and relocate to Section 8 and voucher accepted apartments on the nicer sides of town.
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