I am going to the Wachovia Championship @ Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte today with three Homeschooled teenagers thanks to the generosity of one of our deacons. We hope to follow Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
Charlotte, NC is a cool town. We have the Carolina Panthers, Chalotte Bobcats and NASCAR. What more could a good southern boy ask for. No, I don’t work for the Chamber of Commerce but Charlotte is like a smaller Atlanta without all of the traffic. Uptown Charlotte is a cool place to hang out. There are few downtowns that I would be caught in at night. Charlotte is different. We live near a lake and there are lots of activities for people who love the outdoors. Plus we have are share of Starbucks.
There are also 1000’s of people who have no relationship with Jesus. That is what keeps me motivated every day!
What are some of the great things about where you live?
I am a blessed man. I will not be allowed to bring my TREO into Quail Hollow so be nice! 
You are a blessed man. May Tiger hit you with a ball and you become his new best friend.
I love living in SW Florida. Siesta Beach is one of the top 10 beaches in the US. We have warm 70 degree days when freezing temps dominate. Gold courses galore… 60 minutes away is the Buc and the newly winning Rays. St Armans circle has great restaurants. Every Saturday, a 5 block radius in downtown Saraosta is closed for a farmer market and various craft and art shows. Every Friday and Saturday night there are street performers who can actually perform.
Enjoy your day!
I agree with you brother about Charlotte. I’ve only lived hear for about ten months but love it. Not too big, Not too small. And the harvest is plentiful. The diversity of people from all over the world is amazing. The church here is challenged to become more multicultural in order to reach the lost.
In the words of Napoleon Dynamite (that beloved Mormon)m “LUCKY!”
I too am blessed to live in a great place – Fort Worth, Texas. I know that you have some fond memories of this town and I enjoy living here. Aside from the dust and smog that sometimes gets bad, things are great. We have just about everything a farmboy could want: rodeos, stock shows, horse and cattle museums, stockyards, etc. For those of us who enjoy culture we’ve got several other museums (many free – that’s HUGE). We have wide open spaces and beautiful sunsets. We’ve got a great zoo and plenty of parks and running trails which my wife and I enjoy. On top of that, there are a number of great churches with plenty of brothers and sisters in Christ that we can join together with. And, since Fort Worth continues to grow at a quick pace, we have quite the diversity of cultures and unique opportunities to reach out to people from a myriad of different backgrounds.
I absolutely love living in Austin, Texas. It’s a laid-back, progressive, active city. People are engaged in the community, most people are active and enjoy being outdoors, we have an unrivaled live music scene, and some of the best Tex-Mex and bbq around. We’re also a short drive from the Texas Hill Country, which has lots of opportunities for camping, hiking, and tubing down rivers in the summer. We have great churches, all the culture that comes with being a major university city, and the never-ending entertainment of watching the Texas Legislature. And did I mention that God’s greatest gift to humanity (LONGHORN FOOTBALL) is just a few blocks from my office?!?
I’ve only been to Charlotte twice, but it was really a nice place. The traffic is manageable, even at rush hour (well, there were a couple of slowdowns, but nothing like Atlanta or Houston!) and it has some really nice neighborhoods. Downtown was very impressive. And as far as being a place to change planes, it is far easier and far less stressful than Atlanta. In Charlotte, the concourses are short, the crowds aren’t pushy or in a hurry, and in the two times I’ve changed planes there, the gates were within a two or three minute walk of each other.
As far as Houston goes, it’s what you would expect of the nation’s fourth largest city. Yeah, the traffic is terrible (I have a 16 mile commute that takes an hour but there are five Starbucks along the way!) and the climate leaves a lot to be desired in the summer and fall, but winters and springs make up for that. We’re less than an hour from the beach, on the edge of the piney woods, and in the middle of lakes and bays everywhere. We have a symphony, an opera, major theater, a museum district that is second only to New York, a downtown and midtown entertainment district, city life, suburban life or rural life within minutes, some very distinctive, unique residential neighborhoods, professional sports teams in the NFL, NBA, major league baseball, a major golf tournament and some of the greenest golf courses anywhere, major college sports at Rice and UH with Texas A&M an hour’s drive, UT and LSU three hours away, the world’s largest and most renowned hospital complex, the largest “Galleria” in the country, and my favorite, Memorial Park, right in the middle of the city, where you can relax and think you’re way out in the woods. We’ve got Tex-mex, authentic Mexican food, and the world’s best Bohemian barbeque.
It’s MY KIND OF TOWN…Chicago, is!
Well,
There are hundreds of great things about the Windy City:
1) Free concerts in Millenium Park all summer long. I think I went to about 30 of them last year–didn’t pay a dime for any of them, and they were marvelous: Orchestra, Jazz, Blue, Big Band, Ballet…
2) There is a rich, rich spiritual heritage in Chicago: D L Moody (The Moody Church and the Moody Bible Institute), A W Tozer (Southside Christian and Missionary Alliance Church), and a host of other things.
3) Wonderful architecture–unparalleled anywhere. Fabulous skyline.
4) Two baseball teams, one football team, one men’s basketball team, one women’s basketball team, hockey, soccer, and hopefully the Olympics in 2016!
5) Eighty-five distinct ethnic neighborhoods just inside the city limits!
6) The best pizza in the world! Wonderful food, all the way around.
7) Two major airports, and no need for a car here–public transportation here is great–99% of the time, that is.
And that’s coming from a man who was born and raised in the heart of Dixie!
Charlotte is a great place! My daughter moved there 3 yrs. ago. I had never been there until then. I live in north Alabama – Charlotte has been the only other place I’ve ever considering living. It’s a really big place though! When my son visited from El Paso, TX, he couldn’t get over everything being so far apart. It can take a while to get from one side to the other. And speaking of the airport, my daughter currently works there (check out Johnston & Murphy if you’re ever passing through).