Columbia vs.... (Charleston, Jackson: house, university, live in)

[traveler3]

Can anyone whose been to these cities compare them to Jackson.

Jackson, MS
Tallahassee, FL
Orlando, FL
Mobile, AL
Baton Rouge, LA

[CarolinaBredChicagoan]

Are you asking because you want to get a sense of what Columbia is like? Or because you want to find out which is better?

If you want to know what Cola is like, visit. It's pretty easy to get to.

As for pitting cities against one another, that's ridiculous.

If you are, by any chance, on the up-and-up, of the cities you listed that I've been to, (Tallahassee, Orlando, Mobile), Columbia is the most similar to Tallahassee, and has very little in common with Mobile or Orlando. (Very, very, little in common with Orlando... thank God.) That's just my opinion, of course.

[traveler3]

Originally Posted by g-man430

What is up with all of these city vs. city threads? Wish a moderator would shut them all down. They cause debates and nothing more.

Isn't this forum for getting information from locals ?

I have been to a few of the others but not Columbia. Hence the comparison.

Sorry to put you out. I was just curious about your city.

[CarolinaBredChicagoan]

Originally Posted by traveler3

Isn't this forum for getting information from locals ?

I have been to a few of the others but not Columbia. Hence the comparison.

Sorry to put you out. I was just curious about your city.

I think it was just a bit of misunderstanding, as this came off as a "why one city is better than another" thread.

As you appear to be genuinely curious, I restate that, though I've never been to BR or Jackson, Columbia has the most in common with Tallahassee, of the cities you named. State capital. Sizable university. Even a remotely similar feel, to me, with the live oaks and hills (though Tallahassee isn't as hilly as Cola, that approach to the state house strikes me as feeling very "columbia".) In fact, when I first visited Tallahassee, I noted that it had a vaguely "columbia" feel to it.

Orlando is so overrun with tourism it feels like no other city in the southeast (besides a few other FL towns), in my opinion.

Mobile, to me, is almost more comparable to New Orleans or, in spots, Savannah or Charleston than it is to Columbia.

[Akhenaton06]

I've been to Jackson, Mobile, and Orlando. Of those three, Jackson felt most similar to Columbia to me.

[gsupstate]

Originally Posted by traveler3

Can anyone whose been to these cities compare them to Jackson.

Jackson, MS
Tallahassee, FL
Orlando, FL
Mobile, AL
Baton Rouge, LA

I lived in Jackson briefly and can say Columbia is the most like Jackson or Tallahassee in several ways: being the center of state government, weather, state museums, demographics, etc.

Nothing at all like Mobile, Baton Rouge or Orlando.

[cuebald]

Columbia is definitely more like Jackson to me, especially the lousy drivers who tailgate, weave while talking on cell phones, run every red light they can find like it's a sport, and don't know their cars have turn signals.

Orlando is nowhere close. If it were condensed, it would be a real city.

It's been years since I was in any of the other three.

[g-man430]

Orlando is not a real city. My uncle and cousins live there so I should know. It's a place where sprawl surrounds glorified theme parks and nothing more.

[Akhenaton06]

^Maybe that's because your uncle and cousins live in that sprawl so that's all you know about Orlando. Have you checked out the urban core and the areas surrounding it?

[g-man430]

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

^Maybe that's because your uncle and cousins live in that sprawl so that's all you know about Orlando. Have you checked out the urban core and the areas surrounding it?

Yes I have. I go there almost every year.