Living in Charlotte

It was year 2004 of July when I first set foot in the Queen City and feel in love with the place. They call it Queen City in the honor of the wife of King George III, who was the king of England. In 1768, Charlotte became an incorporated city. Charlotte was located in the new county Mecklenburg, which was also name in the honor of Queen Charlotte’s homeland of Germany. This is how Charlotte became known as the “Queen City”.

Charlotte is the one of the fast growing city in the US, and having been live here for 4 years now is great. People are nice, friendly and you’ll still see and experience the old southern hospitality tradition, although I must say that there are still some people that are not so nice which is common in every place/country.

What I love about living in Charlotte is the weather. Growing up in the Philippines is different since we only have 2 seasons, that’s rainy season and many of those very hot days. I enjoy early summer, spring, fall and winter and that’s only is the weather channel is forecasting that were going to have a snow. Snow is very unlikely to happen in December and January. If we’re going to have a snow it’s going to be in February and early March if not we’ll better luck next winter for us. Some people say’s I will eventually get use to the cold weather, but I don’t it will happen to me. I like snow, but I don’t like cold weather for 3 months, I guess that’s one of the many things that I need to live by, not unless we move to Florida.

The second thing that I love living in Charlotte is the food. Wooh! They have variety of restaurant that’s you’ll enjoy and it’s always worth every bucks spend. My fave restaurant are Bonefish Grill, Flatrock Grill and Longhorn if am hungry for seafood. For steaks, I love Mortons and Ruth Chris. For Italian and pasta I love Villa Antonio, Olive Garden, Cheesecake factory and Buca de bipo. For Burger, it’s got to be Five Guys; they have a very scrumptious burger paired French fries cooked in peanut oil. For Ribs, I like Tony Roma’s they have the great ribs and it’s always good paired with a loaded baked potato. For Pulled Barbeque, its 521 barbeque in Fort mill the place is quite small, but there food is delicious. With a barbeque plate you’ll get the pulled pork barbeque, 4 pieces of hushpuppies, French fries, beans and a choice of coleslaw or potato salad and the best part you’ll only pay 8.95 for the whole meal. That’s a lot of food for one person, but I can assure when u leave the place you’re full, have a smile on your face and you’ll go back whenever you have the chance.

Third and most important thing why I love living in Charlotte is my husband “Vic”. He’d been living in Charlotte for 15 years and his enjoying every minute of it. I have learn to love and enjoy this place because of him and wherever he is that’s where am going to be. Right now, I consider Charlotte as my home and we’ll be for a very very long time.