re: #417 Carlos Danger

Everything about “uptown” Charlotte (as the hipsters like to call it) is centered around the banking industry and sports and niche businesses that support them. The real poverty is more concentrated on the west side of town, traditionally the most segregated area, esp around 5 points at Johnson C Smith Univ, but it is also spreading to the north and east sides as the middle class collapses. If you’re at a high enough income level, you might keep a condo in town (one of many that have sprung up) but your actual residence is in Ballantyne or Pipers Glen in south Charlotte, or in old money neighborhoods like Myers Park and Eastover (closer to town). It’s your middle mgrs, lower paid professionals, and clerical help that live in the suburbs, esp towns like Huntersville, Cornelius and other out-lying areas of Mecklenburg County, even across the SC line in the Rock Hill/Ft Mill area. I-77 is kept very busy.

Not many families can afford the very expensive nights out offered by going to “uptown” events.