sjarrell Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 Fortunately, unlike Connecticut, I imagine every place is air-conditioned. Guy You imagine correctly, sir. It's a matter of how fast you can get to your car around here. And how close you can park at your destination... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 Edit: Summers are excruciatingly hot. Are they really that bad compared to say, NYC? Guy Even with New York being a "heat island", the five hundred miles lattitude makes a huge difference. and while you may enjoy a more mild winter, be prepared when it does snow or you get snow showers or even slightly slippery conditions. Southerners don't have a freaking clue how to drive in it. Including the transplants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 And the cities are not equipted with the trucks to take care of the roads either. Double whammy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 I lived in Charlotte for 1 year, I then took a demotion from work to be transferred to a different city...that's how bad I wanted OUT of there. Absolutely no soul, no atmosphere, no class...bad traffic, overzealous cops, sky-high taxes, Nascar fans... If you do end up moving there, I would suggest crossing the state line into SC, it's not any nicer but it is cheaper to live there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 Edit: Summers are excruciatingly hot. Are they really that bad compared to say, NYC? Guy Well, there are trees and stuff to help keep it cool in NC. But we get long stretches where the heat index exceeds 105 F, and we still have summer (less brutal but still summer) in October. Brace yourself. I feel no sympathy for either of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 (edited) Make sure you check out the James K. Polk State Historic Site., and the Mint Museum of Art. Edited February 25, 2007 by Brownian Motion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjarrell Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 (edited) I feel no sympathy for either of you. Edit: I once spent a summer in Houston. I have felt your pain. Edited February 25, 2007 by sjarrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjarrell Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I lived in Charlotte for 1 year, I then took a demotion from work to be transferred to a different city...that's how bad I wanted OUT of there. Absolutely no soul, no atmosphere, no class...bad traffic, overzealous cops, sky-high taxes, Nascar fans... If you do end up moving there, I would suggest crossing the state line into SC, it's not any nicer but it is cheaper to live there. Auto insurance is really cheap in NC. Might offset the taxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 The hometown of Ross McElwee. (Although he's been living for years in Cambridge, MA, which might tell you something...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I feel no sympathy for either of you. Edit: I once spent a summer in Houston. I have felt your pain. Houston is quite a bit worse (IMO) than the DFW area. The humidity's alot higher. After some point, it really doesn't matter though - it's all just hot and sticky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 The hometown of Ross McElwee. (Although he's been living for years in Cambridge, MA, which might tell you something...) Took the words right out of my mouth, though I'm pretty sure he lives in Brookline and not Cambridge... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave9199 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Guy, you doing the same state to state move I did in Sept 06; CT to NC (I'm in Durham). In the winter here (though I haven't experienced this yet) it's more ice storms than snow. I haven't been here long enough to have an opinion other than I've realized being from New England, I swear a lot for no reason, but here they really don't do it. They say dang a lot. The people I work with are very nice people, easy to get along with. I felt Hartford, CT was pretty soulless, I didn't spend much time in New Haven, but it just looks better than Hartford. I like to quote my brother (who's been here since 1992) on going outside of the Triangle of Durham/Chapel Hill/Raleigh: "That's dirty T-shirt country." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Not that it matters...but my mother-in-law lives in Concord, NC. She loves it there. [And thank God, too. I live in California....um, did I say that?] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Garrett Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I feel no sympathy for either of you. Edit: I once spent a summer in Houston. I have felt your pain. I've spent 42 summers in Houston, and I'll take the blast-furnace heat and humidity here over Northern winters any day. I haven't even had a functioning air conditioner in my car for the past two years, but I may break down and get it fixed before this summer. Hasn't been a real big issue, as my daily "commute", if you can call it that, is only ten minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I feel no sympathy for either of you. Edit: I once spent a summer in Houston. I have felt your pain. I've spent 42 summers in Houston, and I'll take the blast-furnace heat and humidity here over Northern winters any day. I haven't even had a functioning air conditioner in my car for the past two years, but I may break down and get it fixed before this summer. Hasn't been a real big issue, as my daily "commute", if you can call it that, is only ten minutes. When? Midnight? When I moved to Florida in '93, my car had no AC, and it was absolutely brutal. I can't imagine happily living with no AC if all it needed was a repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I feel no sympathy for either of you. Edit: I once spent a summer in Houston. I have felt your pain. Houston is quite a bit worse (IMO) than the DFW area. The humidity's alot higher. Absolutely correct. DFW is just Hell. Houston is Hell's VIP room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 ... still... you look at the nicer old southern houses & they were well-designed to compensate for the heat. True, but those same houses accomodated the heat by allowing people to leisurize in relative comfort while "other people" did the work. Those "nice old southern houses" weren't built by & for the working class. And besides, I've spent enough time in enough of them over the years Denton back in the day was full of such that had been turned into rent houses, either in toto or broken up into quasi-appartments) to know that no matter how relatively comfortable they are during the day, in bed at night, if you're upstairs, the only way to get your mind off the fact that you're hot and sweaty until at least midnight is to have somebody in the bed with you to provide an alibi for the sweat... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted February 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 FWIW, some economists hypothesize that it was the arrival of air-conditioning that really allowed the south to take off economically. Not sure how credible that is. Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 FWIW, some economists hypothesize that it was the arrival of air-conditioning that really allowed the south to take off economically. Not sure how credible that is. Guy Not sure how "complete" it is, but it sure as hell is credible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 tejas-- true 'nuff, tho' thanks for being explicit (sincere)-- i assumed folks knew THAT part. Hey - being in a hot, sweaty bed alone at midnight is a totally different psychological dynamic that being in a hot, sweaty bed with somebody you're...well, you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERIGAN Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Lived there twenty-five years ago for almost a year. Souless City. So, I take you liked it there then??? :rsmile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERIGAN Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 while most places are weirder than they first appear, Charlotte is about as bad it gets-- there is NO worse southern city. one good soul food place & what's the pop? wake me when there's applebees!! seriously, if someone is able to make it there it's bc they don't ask for much culture or can get it via kinky sex & beer-- which ain't to say those things are bad... Charlotte is like a bigger Des Moines w/a slighter diff accent, minus girls six-on-six basketball-- think about THAT. 10 Southern cities that blow Charlotte the fuck away, working our way south-- Richmond Charlottesville (but it's expensive) Winston-Salem Chapel Hill/Durham Lousiville Lexington Morganton Nashville Memphis ATL Athens Tampa-St Pete not even gonna get into Tejas... hell, even Jacksonville beats ass on Charlotte & you have a more interesting landscapes too. hope you LOVE the work Guy & git a good car bc yr gonna wanna use it. wait-- wait-- pull over!! is that a Cracker Barrel?!?! BENNIGAN'S!!!! there is some killa Carolina 'Cue, as as killa' as it gets (ain't no Texas or Georgia, tell you that, Son) but it ain't in Charlotte. edc Trust me, I lived in Jacksonville for 10 years, it is a much worse city than Charlotte(Though to be somewhat fair, I haven't lived there since 1993 and there have been some improvements) More racists per capita in Jacksonville than anywhere else in the south I've been. By far. Even my Canadian born optician, had lived there long enough to be a racist! I didn't have a single friend who was born in Jacksonville when I lived there......It's the armpit of the south, IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERIGAN Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Guy, one thing I know about Charlotte(was only there once for a few hours, lots and lots of tall insurance buildings I recall) is that the city leaders seem to get what they want. They beat out Jacksonville for an NFL expansion team,(And a few other things I can't think of right now-if Charlotte was in the running, we knew we were sunk) and beat out Atlanta for the NASCAR hall of Fame. Perhaps not your cups of tea, but they don't sit on their hands while someone else gets the brass ring.... and yes, the south is hotter than NYC, at least more humid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kulu se mama Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 They beat out Jacksonville for an NFL expansion team how is this possible - the panthers and the jaguars entered the league at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjarrell Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 They say dang a lot. I was born in NC, still live here, and have never once said "dang". Never typed it either, until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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