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.
It’s not ignorance, it’s opinion.
I’ve been to or through Pittsburgh hundreds of times, as a matter of fact I’ve been to all 48 states, Canada, and Mexico.
I think I see why we have such a difference of opinion.
You say you have a House on 73 outside of Charlotte.
If I had lived up by Lake Norman I might see the city differently. If you have lived in equally nice places in Columbia, and Pittsburgh, good. I didn’t
I grew up between Freedom Dr, and Wilkinson Blvd. It was an ok neighborhood in the 70’s. By the 80’s we had a shooting every day in West Charlotte.
I got out. Went Southeast, to Indian Trail, which also used to be nice and is now overrun by Illegal Immigrants, Lived in Waxhaw for a while same story.
My Dad lived in the same house until he died a couple years ago. Try visiting your dad, not sure if you’re gonna be hit with a stray bullet walking from the car to the driveway, because the park at the end of his road is run by gangbanging drug dealers.
One of my best friends was shot and killed in Charlotte. He was black, and the guy who shot him was black. I cried with his Mama, and carried him to his grave and still have a hard time talking about it. This was in the 90’s. He was killed, shot in the head from under his chin from behind. Blew the whole top of his face off because he wouldn’t let the guy dance with his date. His Mama couldn’t even open his casket. The guy who killed him got 7 years. 7 f-ing years.
Please don’t tell me how much better crime rates in the city are compared to the country. I’ve seen it, and lived it.
Where I live now there have been 5-6 murders in 75 years.
Try living in that environment for 40 years, and I bet your attitude, or opinion becomes a little more jaded like mine.