You’ve been to both and that makes you an expert, huh? Columbia may be more liberal than the upstate but the violent crime rate is lower than Greenville. In fact it has the lowest crime rate of any large city in SC. Look it up. You know nothing. I live in Columbia. Moved here from Pittsburgh three years ago and it is nothing like you portray it. You probably think Pittsburgh is still full of steel mills. Some people don’t understand how cities change. Columbia is experiencing a building boom that is unprecedented at this time. It might have been the “$hithole” you claimed sometime in the past, but those days are long gone. On the other hand, Clemson will be a dump forever.
Yep Charlotte tried the same building boom, and light rail, and every other liberal pet project they could find.
Closed all the public housing around downtown, and sent all the ferals out to the suburbs to rob and kill out there.
Compared to Pittsburgh, I’d say it does seem like paradise.
I know nothing. Right. I was born in 1964. When I graduated HS in 1982 Charlotte’s population was a smidge over 100,000, and Columbia was 30-40,000
Now Charlotte’s metro is 3.5 million. It looks all shiny uptown, but I’ll give you a hundred dollar bill if you (assuming you’re white) can walk down Tuckaseegee Rd on a Friday night and live to tell about it.
All the cities in the south are going the way of all the cities in the north. Columbia’s no different, except it’s a Capitol like Raleigh, and cops do clean the streets a little better so the politicians are protected.
You think I like living in the country? BS I would love to be back in the city with the great restaurants, and music, and museums, but I’m not going to live somewhere I have to carry just to walk out of the door in the morning.
My definition of a nice city in SC, Charleston beats them all.
Darlington ain’t bad either.