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[distortedlogic]

Originally Posted by FrozenAngel

This Saturday's forcast high for Greenville is 70 degrees! Is that normal for this time a year? Or is that very unusual? And is it possible to see 70 degrees before the winter is over???

Weather is most important to me move. Today in MA. the wind chill was 8 degrees. I worked outside today ...... how I hate the cold!

No. That will be close to a record high. Todays 55 or so is much closer to "normal", though normal has not meant very much the past several years. 70 does happen a few times in Dec, or possibly even Jan, but it certainyl isn't the norm, but then again neither are single digits.

[Skyliner]

December is typically unpredictable. I remember multiple Christmas days in the 70-degree range. It is also not completely surprising to see wintry precipitation in December. Pretty random, but that is the way weather is here, so close to the mountains.

[ScranBarre]

I can honestly say that this is one of the best threads on the City-Data forum, and that says a lot because I tend to saunter and lurk around most of the states on this message board. I've just taken more than an hour to carefully read every reply on this thread, and I've drooled over just about every photo. I'm now nearly in tears to see just how refreshing it is to see so many folks so proud of where they live. I've posted thousands of images on this forum from various communities here in the Tri-State Area (PA/NY/NJ), and I don't get nearly the positive feedback that the four of you have received with your photogenic genius. Instead I often get slammed for not showing the "true" sides of cities or for making caption comments that others don't agree with. For as much as I champion my own hometown of Scranton, PA as being a city on the path for a rapid comeback as we're annexed as a suburb of New York City, the apathy, pessimism, negativity, and bitterness around here is disgusting. I'm frequently attacked for promoting the city, and it's truly sad when more people want to see your hometown fail than to see it succeed.

This thread has inspired me to realize that there are others besides myself who love their hometowns and love to see them shine brightly on the Internet. Greenville looks absolutely incredible! Tree-lined streets, wide sidewalks, sidewalks cafes, art galleries, festivals---what's not to love? Well, for me I wouldn't be able to live in a climate with such little snow each winter, but otherwise Greenville looks like everything I have ever hoped and dreamed for and then some.

I'm also happy to hear that you're all so young and vibrant. I myself just turned 21. It's nice to see so many in our generation taking an active role to revitalize our hometowns. If only our parents' generation could be as idealistic and hopeful as we are about our communities instead of being such gloom and doomers---just think about what could be accomplished if everyone had a "Can Do" personality! Greenville is lucky to have so many cheerleaders in its midst; I wish I wasn't the only one in Scranton.

Keep up the great work. With the exception of the brief fight on this thread regarding the guy who wanted to move here from Raleigh, you've all proven to me that great things can happen when folks believe in a community. Bravo! Here's one Yankee that is pleasantly surprised by just how beautiful South Carolina is!

[FrozenAngel]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

I can honestly say that this is one of the best threads on the City-Data forum, and that says a lot because I tend to saunter and lurk around most of the states on this message board. I've just taken more than an hour to carefully read every reply on this thread, and I've drooled over just about every photo. I'm now nearly in tears to see just how refreshing it is to see so many folks so proud of where they live. I've posted thousands of images on this forum from various communities here in the Tri-State Area (PA/NY/NJ), and I don't get nearly the positive feedback that the four of you have received with your photogenic genius. Instead I often get slammed for not showing the "true" sides of cities or for making caption comments that others don't agree with. For as much as I champion my own hometown of Scranton, PA as being a city on the path for a rapid comeback as we're annexed as a suburb of New York City, the apathy, pessimism, negativity, and bitterness around here is disgusting. I'm frequently attacked for promoting the city, and it's truly sad when more people want to see your hometown fail than to see it succeed.

This thread has inspired me to realize that there are others besides myself who love their hometowns and love to see them shine brightly on the Internet. Greenville looks absolutely incredible! Tree-lined streets, wide sidewalks, sidewalks cafes, art galleries, festivals---what's not to love? Well, for me I wouldn't be able to live in a climate with such little snow each winter, but otherwise Greenville looks like everything I have ever hoped and dreamed for and then some.

I'm also happy to hear that you're all so young and vibrant. I myself just turned 21. It's nice to see so many in our generation taking an active role to revitalize our hometowns. If only our parents' generation could be as idealistic and hopeful as we are about our communities instead of being such gloom and doomers---just think about what could be accomplished if everyone had a "Can Do" personality! Greenville is lucky to have so many cheerleaders in its midst; I wish I wasn't the only one in Scranton.

Keep up the great work. With the exception of the brief fight on this thread regarding the guy who wanted to move here from Raleigh, you've all proven to me that great things can happen when folks believe in a community. Bravo! Here's one Yankee that is pleasantly surprised by just how beautiful South Carolina is!

Gee, I don't even live in Greenville but I want to say thank you anyway for taking the time to say so many nice things.

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by FrozenAngel

Gee, I don't even live in Greenville but I want to say thank you anyway for taking the time to say so many nice things.

It's just not often that I come by a thread this long that captivates me from first page to last page the way this one has. Greenville is truly fortunate to have so many upbeat, cheerful, friendly, optimistic residents. You don't get that here in Scranton, PA. All you get are long faces, frowns, grimaces, whining, kvetching, b*tching, etc. about everything. Anything positive in this region is slammed into the ground by throngs of naysayers. New medical school coming? Let's gripe about it. New high-speed commuter rail line linking Scranton to New York City? Let's gripe about it. New law school coming? Let's gripe about it. New Yankees minor-league baseball franchise? Let's gripe about it. Being the setting for the hit NBC sitcom "The Office?" Let's gripe about it. New film office coming? Let's gripe about it. Downtown art galleries opening up monthly? Let's gripe about it. I think I'll have a cheese festival up here---the rest of the residents have plenty of whine to accompany it.

I wish Greenville was in Pennsylvania because then it would be perfect in every way---there would be plenty of snow to accompany it! (We've already had a foot for the season thus far and counting!)

[p2y2r7o]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

I can honestly say that this is one of the best threads on the City-Data forum, and that says a lot because I tend to saunter and lurk around most of the states on this message board. I've just taken more than an hour to carefully read every reply on this thread, and I've drooled over just about every photo. I'm now nearly in tears to see just how refreshing it is to see so many folks so proud of where they live. I've posted thousands of images on this forum from various communities here in the Tri-State Area (PA/NY/NJ), and I don't get nearly the positive feedback that the four of you have received with your photogenic genius. Instead I often get slammed for not showing the "true" sides of cities or for making caption comments that others don't agree with. For as much as I champion my own hometown of Scranton, PA as being a city on the path for a rapid comeback as we're annexed as a suburb of New York City, the apathy, pessimism, negativity, and bitterness around here is disgusting. I'm frequently attacked for promoting the city, and it's truly sad when more people want to see your hometown fail than to see it succeed.

This thread has inspired me to realize that there are others besides myself who love their hometowns and love to see them shine brightly on the Internet. Greenville looks absolutely incredible! Tree-lined streets, wide sidewalks, sidewalks cafes, art galleries, festivals---what's not to love? Well, for me I wouldn't be able to live in a climate with such little snow each winter, but otherwise Greenville looks like everything I have ever hoped and dreamed for and then some.

I'm also happy to hear that you're all so young and vibrant. I myself just turned 21. It's nice to see so many in our generation taking an active role to revitalize our hometowns. If only our parents' generation could be as idealistic and hopeful as we are about our communities instead of being such gloom and doomers---just think about what could be accomplished if everyone had a "Can Do" personality! Greenville is lucky to have so many cheerleaders in its midst; I wish I wasn't the only one in Scranton.

Keep up the great work. With the exception of the brief fight on this thread regarding the guy who wanted to move here from Raleigh, you've all proven to me that great things can happen when folks believe in a community. Bravo! Here's one Yankee that is pleasantly surprised by just how beautiful South Carolina is!

As frozen angel said, thanks for taking time to post! Glad you like what you see, maybe you can visit us some day!

[NorthmeetsSouth]

Scranton PA, you are right. This is one of the friendlier and more positive threads I have come across. I have been reading a lot of threads because I am trying to decide where we will want to move to. We currently live near Atlanta and the atmosphere gets worse by the week here. Thanks to the beautiful pictures posted by Skyliner, and all of the positive comments by so many others, my husband and I are taking a drive up there this weekend to see it first-hand. the greenville area sounds like the sort of place we may want to move to.

[Skyliner]

ScrantonWilkesBarre, I have been to your hometown and found it to be just as you described, "a city on the path for a rapid comeback." I really like the hills surrounding the urban areas. It is a bit too cold for me during the long winter months, but I would probably find enough good in the place to be content there. I believe that even a short visit to Greenville would be a greatly refreshing break from the extreme cold up there, plus you would likely come away with lots of exciting ideas to share with others regarding the continual revitalization of your hometown. That is one of Greenville's strengths... helping other cities find their unique attractiveness by showing off our own unique beauty. It was a tough task to accomplish over the past few decades, but obviously well worth the straining efforts and lost sleep. Now people want to be here. Downtown is packed out every night and more is available to do than anyone could ever hope to be able to take in. And life is continually improving. What an exciting time to be living here!

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. I hope you will continue to be strong and eventually reap the benefits of your steadfast commitment to success in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre.

[valicky]

I am always lurking around the Greenville forum. I love the "tone" that's here. Even the disagreements are friendly.
I'm in Miami, and if you don't want to see negativity, don't ever peek in that forum. It's so bad that the moderator had to step in and issue warnings and delete, delete, delete. I'm not happy in Miami, but it isn't 100% horrible. Every place can have some good in it. Greenville seems like it's got ALOT more than other places though. This is my favorite thread and I'm always checking to see if new pics have been posted. I love them all!

[Aardvark219]

I've just spent roughly an hour going through every post and looking at all the beautiful pics of Greenville and I am in tears because I think I may have found what I have been searching for. I have been praying and searching for a better place for me and my son to live..somewhere not too hot, not too humid, not too cold and somewhere safe...also somewhere that I can build my home based business. At first I was looking to the northwest area in CO, OR, ID and WA...then it was onto NH and VT but didn't like the idea of more snow. I live in Michigan and hate the weather and economy at this point. I stayed away from looking into South Carolina for a long time because I saw on a list that it was only #45 for being the safest and #46 on the unemployment list...Michigan is #50 on umemployment and #40 for safety. All of that scared me away. But for some reason I was drawn to Greenville and Simpsonville without knowing a thing about it. I looked at homes for sale online in the Simpsonville area and liked what I saw and then started reading about Greenville on this site. I also would visit the Greenville Craigslist Rant and Raves section to see what most people ranted and raved about and what their general attitude was. It sure wasn't as bad as the Detroit section where it is just absolutely disgusting about what they talk about! What I was reading was differently on this site than from what the unemployment/safest lists had stated. I looked into the weather and safety for Greenville and things started looking up for me. Then I came across this posting with all the gorgeous pics and fell in love. I want to visit so badly, just have to figure out where the money is going to come from. I want a calmer more peaceful life for me and my son and Greenville just might be it. Thank you so much Skyliner and others for posting those pics....you made my evening. Gotto go pray about his now! I hope I see more pics soon.