There's a lot of Charlotte love on this thread...

There are actually plenty of good places to eat in Charlotte, as there would be in any city of reasonable size. You just have to know where to look. Or, at least there are in the burbs to the south of Charlotte (and Pineville) which is as far as I ever go. Our extended family does an eat out once a month, so I've been to a lot of places in that area that I'd never have known about (each person picks in turn, and a couple of them work in the food distr business so they know all kinds of places.)

You could rent a really loud, jacked up four wheel drive truck and run screaming up and down the road in front of my place. That seems like a really popular activity.