Spend some rush hour time in Charlotte and get back to me how great it is.
Charlotte seems to be the big "it" city for many or those that live in the Mid Atlantic states (aka rustbelt) and are looking for the promised land. I travel through it at least a few times a year and have an ex employee that My familiy has visitied. The town seems very nice but the traffic can be horrible. They only have a few major arteries in and if there is any accidents, your talking cars parked and not moving for an hour. On top of that, it is just too "new" for my liking. I can only take so many new housing developments and strip malls built within the last 10 years and looking identical. Pittsburgh has its share of rundown neighborhoods and ugly areas. It also has plenty of beautiful parks and culture that only a couple of hundred years of living can develop. I think Pittsburgh fluctuates between "most livable" and "worst" on someones list every years. I don't put much thought in these