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The only thing that sucks about Atlanta, is that you always want Chik Fil A on a Sunday when it's not open. Other than that friendliest city I've ever visited... Charlotte's the city that has too many transplants if you ask me.
The only thing that sucks about Atlanta, is that you always want Chik Fil A on a Sunday when it's not open. Other than that friendliest city I've ever visited... Charlotte's the city that has too many transplants if you ask me.
The Atlanta metro area is over three times as large as our's, but you somehow think that Charlotte has more transplants? LOL, ok.
Atlanta has more transplants, but they seem to come here and blend in with Atlanta culture more than transplants do in Charlotte. Up there NYC transplants are seemingly in vogue and even people who are originally from Charlotte try and act like a newly arrived transplant from NYC. IMO thats makes the real transplants more brash and in your face. We dont act the same in Atlanta, we make them conform to us. We dont conform to them.
Atlanta has more transplants, but they seem to come here and blend in with Atlanta culture more than transplants do in Charlotte. Up there NYC transplants are seemingly in vogue and even people who are originally from Charlotte try and act like a newly arrived transplant from NYC. IMO thats makes the real transplants more brash and in your face. We dont act the same in Atlanta, we make them conform to us. We dont conform to them.
This is the craziest thing I've ever read and I can assure you as one who lives here, this is hardly the case. Native Charlotteans trying to act like "a newly arrived transplant from NYC"? ROFL!!! The only way the transplants are "in your face" here is when it comes to loyalty to their sports teams back home, and that's pretty much how it is anywhere. If anything, it seems that there is more of a backlash in Atlanta by transplanted Northerners. It seems that a thread pops up regularly in the Atlanta forum about how somebody moved there from up North and how it's slow and the people are different and how it's not what they're used to and how they want to go back home. That doesn't happen nearly as often in the Charlotte forum. I think that's because people who move here have a more realistic expectation about this city, while too many people mistakenly think of Atlanta as a southern version of NYC and when they arrive they see how mistaken they were.
Honestly, while we definitely have our fair share of transplants, that whole phenomenon tends to get overblown anyway. The majority of people who move here do so from other areas of the Carolinas and the South in general.
This is the craziest thing I've ever read and I can assure you as one who lives here, this is hardly the case. Native Charlotteans trying to act like "a newly arrived transplant from NYC"? ROFL!!! The only way the transplants are "in your face" here is when it comes to loyalty to their sports teams back home, and that's pretty much how it is anywhere. If anything, it seems that there is more of a backlash in Atlanta by transplanted Northerners. It seems that a thread pops up regularly in the Atlanta forum about how somebody moved there from up North and how it's slow and the people are different and how it's not what they're used to and how they want to go back home. That doesn't happen nearly as often in the Charlotte forum. I think that's because people who move here have a more realistic expectation about this city, while too many people mistakenly think of Atlanta as a southern version of NYC and when they arrive they see how mistaken they were.
Honestly, while we definitely have our fair share of transplants, that whole phenomenon tends to get overblown anyway. The majority of people who move here do so from other areas of the Carolinas and the South in general.
Seeing as though you live there I’m sure you know, and seeing as though I’ve only been to Charlotte once (thank god) and High Point once (thanks to the one on high again) and really never done anything except drive thru the rest of the state on my way somewhere else, I’m sure your right. But the perception I always had about NC was that the people were wanna be NY'ers. And to be honest the little bit of time I have spent up there, and my time in college with allot of NC residents did not dissuade me from that line of thinking. I actually have caught people who were born and raised in North Carolina, either lying about where they were born, or putting on an accent and trying to talk like they were born in NYC. And it hilarious because the only times I have seen that happen, it has been with someone from North Carolina. That was like the running joke when I was at Howard U up in DC, that all North Carolina people wish they were from NYC.
Seeing as though you live there I’m sure you know, and seeing as though I’ve only been to Charlotte once (thank god) and High Point once (thanks to the one on high again) and really never done anything except drive thru the rest of the state on my way somewhere else, I’m sure your right. But the perception I always had about NC was that the people were wanna be NY'ers. And to be honest the little bit of time I have spent up there, and my time in college with allot of NC residents did not dissuade me from that line of thinking. I actually have caught people who were born and raised in North Carolina, either lying about where they were born, or putting on an accent and trying to talk like they were born in NYC. And it hilarious because the only times I have seen that happen, it has been with someone from North Carolina. That was like the running joke when I was at Howard U up in DC, that all North Carolina people wish they were from NYC.
There are a lot of NY'ers in Charlotte.
But, I've never heard anyone from NC say or wish that they were from NYC. Not one.
Many NC'ians are proud of being from NC.
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