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Message: [QUOTE="javadoc, post: 4363847, member: 338"] I "lived" there for about 6 months on a contracting assignment in ~2000. Long time ago, but my recollections... There are indeed no significant waterways, but there are mountains to be had within driving distance comparable to the Daks (ADR 46r #3151 here) or the Catskills, from SYR. There are some interesting and enjoyable monadnocks in NC and SC along the I-85 corridor. At the time, I thought that there were a crazy nasty number of people there who smoked. It seemed endemic. That may have changed in the 20 years since I was there. Plenty of jobs. Depending on your "needs" that may be enough. Interesting article in the AJC recently, about the Georgia legislature's approach to banking in the 70's. (I live in Alpharetta so that's my angle on the story.) The legislature passed a law (laws?) to favor the distributed, local banking model, to the detriment of "big banks". That pushed the big banks out, and they went to Charlotte. Atlanta could have been the banking capital of the USA now but for the choices of the state government. As it stands, the plumbing that keeps the banking ecosystem alive resides in Atlanta, so while we don't have the customer-facing banks, we control the conduits of banking that make the system work. Weird how that evolves. I'm an addicted classical music fan. Charlotte's not going to help there. But if NASCAR is your thing, you're set. Charlotte makes sense for a conference whose DNA is based in North Carolina. Atlanta is an objectively better location on any metric you can pick, but it doesn't make sense for the conference. I wish there were a conference that could have NYC as its headquarters. Even in my wildest dreams of a Big 10 East conference that encompasses the northeast, the logical place for conference HQ is probably Chicago. So... Charlotte is a fine place for conference HQ. A very fine meh choice for a conference with a meh vision, stuck in a provincial past. [/QUOTE]

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