Home > Can You Do Without Your Crochet Magazine?
We Have Found 1 Products for your search of Can You Do Without Your Crochet Magazine?.
Displaying Items 1 - 1:
Big Surprises In Charlotte - N.C.
by London
What happened to Charlotte, North Carolina and how did it happen so fast? I don't mean thatin a negative way. It was an epiphany for me.
I had visited the city several decades ago and it was a sleepy hamlet. Not that there is anythingwrong with a sleepy hamlet, a lot of people prefer to live in that environment. Having grown up ina sleepy hamlet, I wanted anything but to be in one.
And it was not to be. After the plane landed a friend picked us up and drove us to my girlfriend'ssister's home where we were to stay for two nights. Looking at the landscape I can remember thinkingI was either dreaming or hallucinating. This could not be the Charlotte, N.C. I had seen not more than a few decades ago. It was.
The Charlotte of today is bustling, wired as the Silicone Valley if not more-so, and full of life andthings to do.
There were museums, galleries, major banking centers, IBM, and other major corporations havelocated in the area? Why? I can only take a stab at guessing why all the business but I asked aroundat it turns out that Charlotte seems to be a part of "The Research Triangle" which is sort of a grown-up incubator for high-tech ideas, products and services. Everywhere one turns there was some sortof software or hardware development firm.
And of course to me, the dead giveaway of a "city on the move" is a Starbuck's on every corner. And yes, Virginia, there is one.
On my last night there, I was to give the "final test". I lived in many major port cities withocean near enough for the freshest and best-tasting sushi anywhere. I was invited to a sushi restaurant. I did not tell my friends that "this was a test, only a test, had it been an actual emergency..." Ok bad pun, but I was testing the "waters" so to speak (no pun intended).
The sushi was the best I'd ever had and helpings twice as big as your usual sushi bar. Amazing.
A friend of my girlfriend's sister is in the real estate business. I viewed beautiful homes in thebest school districts in the $100,000-200k range. In cities in which I had lived, these beauties would have gone for at least $600k-1 million.
I do not mean to gush about Charlotte, but it is impressive. And I mean impressive. I happento be an inventor of technological products. I hold a patent on a proprietary medical alert device andlocated in Durham, the center of the Research Triangle, not far away, is the center of this triangle. They even have an association for members. It is the Council For Economic Development. You can visit their site at http://cednc.org/.
I do not know if Charlotte is my "final destination" or not. But I do know there is just too much happening in my field not to at least try to be a part of it.
Whether you plan to move there or only visit, please take a second look at Charlotte, N.C.You will most definitely be pleasantly surprised.
About the Author
Rick London is a writer, entrepreneur, inventor and cartoonist from Hot Springs, Ar. He owns one of the most visited sites on the Internet, the offbeat Londons TimesCartoons londonstimes.us and is the inventor and patent holder of the world'sfirst fully-automated computerized medical alert device "Insert Alert" http://www.nsatinc.comIn his spare time he travels and writes travel articles.
| 
