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Originally posted by TerryBPP
My fiance is from there and I couldn't imagine living there. Its bascially a really nice 5 mile radius town surrounded by 20 miles of ghetto. Service in restaurants, convience stores, etc. all sucks. The East Blvd. area is nice but is very small and expensive. Uptown is not real safe.
There are TONS of nice restaurants and some decent night life. But not worth moving there IMO.
People in Charlotte make fun of Gastonia as a white trash town. I've never been there so I can't comment.
MY 2 cents.
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Are you talking about Charlotte or Gastonia?
My wife and I have been married a while now, and we have lived in Quantico, Little Rock, Columbia, MD, Winston-Salem, Warsaw, IN, Dallas, TX, Ft. Worth, TX and finally home to Charlotte. The only other place we would go back to is FT. Worth.
The public schools suck but everything else is pretty great. 2 hours to the mountains, 4 hours to some of the best beaches on the east coast, Davidson has a lot of bike ways and tons of riders, the P-car group here is very active with track events at VIR and CMS, plus we're doing a DE at Lowes' this summer. Restaurants and night life might not be up to D/FW standards, but it is way more than simply adequate.
PM me with your phone number or email and I am more than happy to answer any and all questions you might have.