I like ATL, but it's way too crowded.... the social and economic infastructure for blacks is strong too... I've heard about Charlotte coming up.... I'm torn as to where I wanna go. I have fam everywhere, but there.... Texas seems a logical jump being from OK, but I'm intrigued with Charlotte
Atl is super congested these days, but Charlotte just cant compare.
Once you get past the downtown in charlotte, it's all glorified sprawl and/or actual sprawl. But it's NC's metropolis ... if that means anything.
I've been in NC for 15 years. I done seen with my own two eyes Durham nikkas shut shyt down. Whether it's acting a fool at a night club, or Merking NY nikkas who came down and tried to disrespect their money, to the Jamaicans that tried to strong arm the dope game back in 2001. NC nikkas are far from soft.
But you noticed the OP ain't said what he's repping cuz it's probably some p*ssy ass city/
Them Durmites aren't passive. And FayetteNam and 336 aren't passive either. More rural towns, yeah, maybe. But not the urban areas of NC.
No it's not. It's some money here but the Black culture is dead compared to the A. Just facts bruh. Creative Loafing had an article about this very same thing this week.
True story. Link that when you get a chance. I'd argue that Durham (even Raleigh) has more black culture than Charlotte. It's older blacks carrying that mantle in Durham (and Raleigh), however, but Durham has rich black history.
Charlotte is still a relatively new city.
Aside from banking, energy, and the pro teams, and NASCAR it really doesn't have much of a cultural identity. You do have a number of younger successful blacks there because they inmigrated there from across NC ... and SC. too. And they are more of the corporate type. And a whole lot of blacks doesn't necessarily mean culture. CIAA tourney alone can't provide culture.
Charlotte is wide open and the money is easy here but you have to have patience with the locals, its hard for a lot of them to see the vision. If you move here then you need to have your plan mapped out from A-Z and know what you gonna do from the minute you hit the ground because it aint a whole lot of real networking going on here. Charlotte may only have like 2 or 3 Black networking events a month, and most of it is just some bullshyt. Most folks here is on the 9-5 tip, it aint a lot of hustlers here so you pretty much end up spinning your wheels at events like that. Where Im from its the exact opposite, even 9-5 folks got a side hustle and every where you go somebody trying to shove they business card in your face
You're really on point. Gonna rep. you. Charlotte is very wide open, but I've seen niccas go there with no plan, but grandiose dreams and end up living hand to mouth with a couple kids still tryin' to keep a struggling business afloat. And they never really got plugged in.
I'm like

nicca, you coulda done that in your hometown.
the clubs on glenwood that went through a phase of choking nikkas out and tossing them like 2 years ago...
Never happened. There was/is a

practice with many clubs on Glenwood, but niccas werent getting choked and tossed out by white owners/bouncers on GP or just for shyts and giggles. I have witnessed/heard of that happening to niccas, but only when niccas started wildin'. (as any bouncer would do... kick wild niccas out)
One of the black guys who believed he was being discriminated against on glenwood even protested the

practice a couple years ago, and it caught steam.
You work in in RTP?
So NC nikkas are just good at killing other brothas, right? Obviously not effectively. I stayed in Durham for a month...half the block was from New Jersey...
Nahhh... unless they were Jersey bloods. What part of Durham were you in? What block were you on?