From the Charlotte Observer:

Residents find there's a lot to love about Charlotte, but lots of room for improvement, too.

That's what a newly released poll from the Gallup organization and the Knight Foundation shows. Researchers interviewed about 1,500 area residents early this year and found that they loved its openness to newcomers, its green spaces and its education systems - especially its colleges.

But on many of those same measures, respondents felt the region could do better, or rated it less highly than respondents polled in similarly-sized cities such as San Jose and St. Paul.