After law school, I clerked for a SC state judge - he was the Chief Administrative Judge for the 16th Circuit (York and Union counties - counties on the border with NC and adjacent to Meck). I heard more than one defendant appearing before the judge complaining that the charges they faced for crimes committed in Fort Mill, SC were significantly higher for the same conduct than they would have faced on the other side of the border.
Unfortunately, Charlotte has become Atlanta's junior brother and is now basically run by the DEI industrial complex. Vi Lyles (the mayor) cares about nothing more than her status in that group.