Is Charlotte, NC a Good Place to Live? 

Surely you have all those horrible spiders in SC too? 😳

Some of the first things you mentioned are very exaggerated and lacks reasonable context. As a Statistical Analyst and Relocation Specialist since 1985, as far as car "dependency", rail transit is the extremely economically inefficient into terms of tax dollars spent on initial/continual costs and riders per taxpayer ratio. For the money spent, very few people use. It's a horrible money pit. The reason that's the case is cars exponentially offer the most freedom of any mode of transportation. It's not even close. One can go anywhere they want, want time they want, no matter the location or distance. Transit, no matter how good, can never come close to offering that. That is why the overwhelming majority of citizens will not give up their cars, and it makes perfect sense. The reality of its true freedom compared to transit is undeniable. Too, at the end, at various parts of the video, you keep using metro area and city interchangeably. They're very different. You couldn't pay me to live in the CITY of Charlotte. I would never live in any large city. BUT, the Charlotte METRO AREA of about a 40 miles radius is an incredible area in which to live. There's a big difference. Not trying to be unkind, but I don't think the video is a very objective example of what the city or metro area of Charlotte is truly like.