Well I have been here for 2 months now almost. Its better than what I thought it would be, much better. Its a really nice city, beautiful actually. The university is very nice too, its big, around 25,000 students I think, and well maintained. I live right across from the university so I usually jaywalk to school everyday, unless there university cops around, they’re strict when it comes to jaywalking.
Anyways Charlotte, aka The Queen City, has a lot of businesses headquarters here, and its growing very fast, its one of the fastest growing cities in America. There are over 2 million people who live in or around the city. Its also the 2nd financial center in America, after New York. Over 300 of the Fortune 500 Companies are represented here.
Charlotte is home to the Carolina Panthers (football), Charlotte Bobcats (NBA, they suck), Charlotte Sting (WNBA), and the Coca Cola 600 (NASCAR, actually 90% of NASCAR teams are located here, and they will soon build a NASCAR Hall of Fame here). I dont know why Americans like NASCAR, they are crazy about it, and I dont see anything special about it, its like a low class Formula 1, and all they do is drive in one large oval. When NASCAR comes to town, there are like 100,000+ tourists who come here on weekend the races are on.
A nice number of Arabs are here. There are like 5 mosques, more than 10 arabic supermarkets, and atleast 3 arab resturants (4 falafils for $2.99 !!!!!).
The weather is very nice here too. This week we got amazing weather, the kind of weather we only dream of back home, I cant belive that I was wearing shorts today, even though it was like 18 degrees out (Celsius), I dont think I have ever seen anyone back home wearing shorts when its 18 degrees. Today was the hottest 18 degrees weather I have ever lived to see :). The only downside, atleast to me, is that it rains a lot, its not like Seattle, but we usually get 2-3 rainy days a week here. Its light rain so doest bother me, but for some reason I hate rain.
(click below for more facts and pics)
Here are some interesting facts:
- Cost of living below the national average
- City, County and State AAA bond ratings
- Average of 594 airline flights daily
- 306 Fortune 500 firms represented
- $18 billion in annual retail sales
- 1st most popular move destination
- 1st America’s most livable communities
- 1st economic strength ranking
- 2nd largest banking center (controls over $1.8 trillion in assets)
- 3rd best city for corporate headquarters
- 3rd best metro area for business location
- 5th in number of Fortune headquartered companies
- 5th largest urban region
- 6th largest wholesale center in the U.S.
- 7th best city for business development
- 7th highest new & expanded business activity
- 7th largest University Research Park
- 9th best city for entrepreneurship
- 17th most active airport in the country
- 19th best real estate market
- 21st largest city
Heres a picture of the Uptown
? I will try to post more pics later.
Hey…you have your own website….it seems you like it there…anyways congratulations on the site.
Thanks man,
come back and be in touch
enjoy vegas
I still prefer California!! Between 60-90F all year long! Silicon Valley for the win! lol
man akeed u cant compare california with anywhere in the states
yeaahh….good weather is the shit! I remember back when I was in Michigan, I’d be walking for about 45 minutes to a bus stop. Now in MIchigan, we usually got a shitload of snow during this time also! So I’d probably be walking through a feet or two of snow…it’s ok, I couldn’t feel my feet anyways!!! But the spring over there was simply amazing…I hate snow!
It’s been almost two years since I’ve been out of this greenhouse affected country called Kuwait. The only place I went to during these past two years was Dubai, bu zlayqa land. Just in case no one knows what that means, imagine a soggy rash haunting your nuts due to the humidity!
Anyways, I just felt like typing and flooding your site with my BS. Looks like your having fun taking pictures like a Japanese tourist! I were you pal, I’d go to WRESTLEMANIA or watch RAW live!
PEACE
Fahad, aka TweeZ
hehehehe so ur STILL into wrestling, RAW was in charlotte a couple of weeks ago actually.
back to the weird wearther, last night while i was writing this, it was 17 degrees out, todays high will not even reach 17, weird weather.
nice comment about dubai
ps: the picture is from wikipedia
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