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murksiderock said:
@Bryan Danielson

I'm not originally from the East Coast ir the South, but I've lived in alot of places and I travel alot, so I tend to have conversations like this in my real life. Because I travel alot domestically, I meet a ton of other people who do the same...

In the same sense, I think not being from the East Coast or the South, gives me a broader perspective of place, than people who haven't lived or traveled much outside their home region...

I personally rank Charlotte above Baltimore and Austin, and I'd say 'most' people do as well, but there is some push back to that----->especially when it comes to Baltimore. There are a LOT of people who favor Baltimore over Charlotte....

I've never been to Austin, but I've been to Baltimore and few times. Can't nobody convince me that Baltimore is a stronger city than Charlotte, not in 2025. Before 2015, sure, but I think Charlotte passed Baltimore in the late 10s. I stand on that, but there are a lot of people who disagree with me and love Baltimore...

I'm saying that to say, while I have Charlotte over Baltimore, spending so much time in cities I rank ahead of Charlotte, truly highlight what Charlotte lacks. Denver is right ahead of Charlotte for me, and San Diego right in front of Denver----->but Charlotte is quite a ways away from being even an equal to that SD/Denver level...

I've grown to love Raleigh. Its a smaller city than Charlotte, so all the cities in Raleigh's weight class are also smaller than Charlotte, and as such Raleigh has less ground to cover between it and those cities. Raleigh is already fairly close to all the cities between my #38 (Milwaukee) and #26 (Nashville). Raleigh could conceivably leap most or all of those cities and become a fringe-Top 25 city, in a quicker amount of time than it takes for Charlotte to catch Denver and San Diego...

Do I expect that to happen? Not really, because everybody else's city isn't just sitting idle while Raleigh booms, and same for Charlotte. But Raleigh is closer to being a Top 25 city, than Charlotte is to being a Top 15 city...

I'll repeat this though, both cities are a good distance away, and as it is i think its dope that NC has two cities continuing to expand their national reputations. Charlotte is a legit Top 20 city, Raleigh is a legit Top 40 city. When people call these places "boring" and shyt like that, I vehemently disagree. If you really out in either city there's plenty going on...

Raleigh and Charlotte are the Carolina version of Dallas and Houston...
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Charlotte is the better Brand between it and Baltimore but Baltimore is the better metro. The city just removed itself from the "most dangerous cities" list. Baltimore also grew in population last for the first time in 10 years. Culturally it isnt even close. I'd say that they are even with the city of Charlotte having its shyt together more, while Baltimore is the better metro.
 
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Bryan Danielson said:
Cooler? Y’all not though :mjlol:

Aint no too either :russ:
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We DEFINITELY some smoother nikkas than Clt nikkas 🤣

It is a "too", these are the fastest growing cities since 2020 Census (only listing major cities, not suburbs of somewhere else):

1 Miami (+10.12%)
2 Fort Worth (+9.71%)
3 Salt Lake (+9.04%)
4 Orlando (+8.87%)
5 Charlotte (+7.88%)
6 Tampa (+7.69%)
7 Raleigh (+6.88%)
8 Durham (+6.48%)
9 San Antonio (+6.41%)
10 Jacksonville (+6.34%)
11 Seattle (+5.97%)
12 Las Vegas (+5.77%)
13 Oklahoma City (+4.68%)
14 Atlanta (+4.28%)
15 Phoenix (+4.04%)
16 Tacoma (+4.04%)
17 Houston (+3.71%)
18 Austin (+3.3%)
19 Richmond (+3.11%)
20 Columbus (+3.04%)

Charlotte #5 and we #7 but we aint tripping, we know what time it is in The City 🤣
 
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Bryan Danielson said:



Holla at me if they get to finals! Lol
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Nah we got put out last night. But you should want to support the only successful Carolina team, we the only team out here to win a championship and have a parade. Raleigh builds winners. Charlotte.....well at least yall got cheap tickets to see your garbage teams 🤣
 
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murksiderock said:
Nah we got put out last night. But you should want to support the only successful Carolina team, we the only team out here to win a championship and have a parade. Raleigh builds winners. Charlotte.....well at least yall got cheap tickets to see your garbage teams 🤣
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That was dirty….. that why I properly respond so posting THIS to get my Win back :russ:




Char-LIT:blessed:
 
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murksiderock said:
nikka we have so many festivals and events in Raleigh we aint tripping off what yall got there. The biggest ones in the state take place in The City anyway 🤣
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Same…. We got a bunch….. as I showed a small portion sometime back….

But they still adding stuff… it’s crazy

Last weekend was a movie, even Funny Marco was in town cuz he had to pull up
 
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