{"id":42134,"date":"2016-01-28T14:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42134"},"modified":"2020-07-18T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T18:55:57","slug":"dont-worry-nobody-wants-to-be-charlotte-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42134","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t worry, nobody wants to be Charlotte either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-42135 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/charlottelol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/charlottelol.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/charlottelol-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I love to rag on Atlanta as much as the next Atlantan, because Atlanta truly does a whole lot of stupid stuff and makes a lot of terrible decisions.\u00a0 But when the day is over, it\u2019s kind of like mom jokes, where the royal we, are allowed to make them, but the royal you, AKA people who don\u2019t live here, cannot.\u00a0 At least, not without occasional retribution or expectations of defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteagenda.com\/35300\/how-not-to-become-atlanta\/\">Charlotte, North Carolina blogger<\/a>\u00a0has decided to take it upon themselves to speak on behalf of the population, declaring what the city must do\u00a0<em>avoid<\/em>\u00a0becoming like Atlanta.\u00a0 Their extensive list is three bullet points big, one of which holds some weight, one of them shoe-horned in to give their list some fluff, and one an obvious personal gripe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Yes, it\u2019s embarrassing that Atlanta has as big of transportation woes as it does, and we\u2019re all aware of all the racial, bureaucratic and money-driven reasons to why such exist.\u00a0 Next, it\u2019s amusing to dig up intel of a drought that occurred nearly ten years ago as justification to water concerns; a modicum of research might show that part of which was due to the state basically selling surplus water haphazardly, not to mention the city\u2019s Department of Watershed is operated by crooks and incompetents which has lead to legions of backpay and high rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">As for this author\u2019s motorcycle, sucks to be them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Either way, this list was shoddily written, obviously a fluff piece to stomp on someone else to try and elevate one\u2019s self, but the fact of the matter is that at least Atlanta has already gotten to a size where trite things can be debated and argued, as opposed to Charlotte, which is pretty much the size of Alpharetta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m pretty sure Mr. Perfect (RIP) could\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8iK7vRYeY3U\">complete a pass to himself from one end of Charlotte to the other<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Atlanta is far, far, far from a perfect place, but honestly, I\u2019d rather be Atlanta than Charlotte.\u00a0 Charlotte is small and pales in comparison in things that I like in a city (professional baseball, expansive food scene). \u00a0It\u2019s kind of interesting that Atlanta has this complex of trying to be a worldly city in the same breaths as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, but in perspective, there are still places like Charlotte and Birmingham that have dreams of entering the same atmosphere as Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to rag on Atlanta as much as the next Atlantan, because Atlanta truly does a whole lot of stupid stuff and makes a lot of terrible decisions.\u00a0 But when the day is over, it\u2019s kind of like mom jokes, where the royal we, are allowed to make them, but the royal you, AKA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t worry, nobody wants to be Charlotte either<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,15,143,52],"class_list":["post-42134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42136,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42134\/revisions\/42136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}