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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrong.

---  There may be may nice things about Charlotte, but the "Mexican food I Charlotte" thing made me LOL. All Charlotte Mexican food will do is make OP's young friend sad. Austin isn't Beaumont, but it's a heck of lot closer than NC. ---

"Driving down South Boulevard or Central Avenue, it’s easy to see the influence of Hispanic and Latino communities in the shops, taquerias and lavanderias that line both roads. It is perhaps an updated version of the historical image of immigration to the United States, not one of tightly packed tenements and ethnic enclaves in the shadows of the skyscrapers of Northeastern or Midwestern cities. Since the 1980s, immigrants have followed varied paths to different places in the United States.

It’s been nearly a generation since the 2000 Brookings Institution Report that classified Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham as “Emerging Immigrant Gateways,” based largely on the rapid growth of Hispanic/Latino immigrant population. Hispanics make up more than 10% of the population of the 14-county Charlotte region, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau population estimates."
https://ui.charlotte.edu/story/charlotte-regions-hispanic-population-grows-rapid-pace[/quote]

Ok, you can’t be from Texas. Anyone from Texas who has spent time living anywhere else knows that the number of Hispanic immigrants has absolutely nothing to do with whether there is decent Texas style Mexican food available. If that were true, Alexandria would have lots of good Mexican restaurants, and it most assuredly does not. “Mexican” restaurants outside of Texas (and Southern California) are almost 100% owned by Salvadorans and others who have their own, often excellent cuisine, but the “Mexican” portion of the menu is consistently awful. When not in Texas or California, I’ve finally learned, after ordering too many “beef enchiladas” made with ground beef and yellow processed cheese, to try to figure out what on the menu is actually the restaurant owner’s native cuisine, and order that.  Sometimes you can get good “street tacos” at a hole in the wall taqueria, but that’s really about it. I promise OP’s friend will be homesick for Texas food (and we haven’t even talked about beef vs. pork barbecue).  [/quote]

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