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.
Again, you are showing your ignorance. Pittsburgh is an amazing city to live in. It is a boomtown at the moment because of the amazing growth in oil and gas industry due to the Marcellus Shale, but the town is also a recognized center for education and medicine. It has been voted America’s most livable city several times in the last decade. It has low crime and an affluent populace. Both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh medical facilities are world class. I grew up in Columbia during the 60’s and Columbia was much bigger than the 30-40,000 that you mention and I also own a home outside of Charlotte on Route 73, so I have been going to Charlotte most of my life. Big cities have big city problems, but that doesn’t mean it’s a $hithole. There is more crime in small towns in SC than big cities, especially drug related and property crimes. Charleston has higher crime than Columbia. The only reason the crime statistics appear to be lower is because Mt. Pleasant, with very low crime, is included in the Charleston numbers. You may be right about Charlotte, but you are wrong about Columbia, and it has nothing to do with trying to protect the politicians as they are the biggest criminals of all. I never said Columbia was a paradise. After living in Pittsburgh for 25 years I find Columbia boring as hell, but it is an up and coming town whether you believe so or not.