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Aziz Ansari has this bit where he talks about growing up in Bentleyville and going to the Governors School where he meets kids from Greenville and Charleston who might as well have been from NYC. He's right, for most rural South Carolinian's those are big city places.
Nobody would confuse Florence with anything but a small city. The above things are located in Florence because it is the largest town in a mostly rural area.
Florence is much more closer to Myrtle Beach, than Columbia. With the combination of Pee Dee and Grand Strand populations, we can consider ourselves to be a big city.
Florence is much more closer to Myrtle Beach, than Columbia. With the combination of Pee Dee and Grand Strand populations, we can consider ourselves to be a big city.
If Florence is a "big city", we have lost all perspective.
I still don't understand why people on here don't just read the question. It's clearly states what defined a big city in SOUTH CAROLINA. Not asking for a national definition but keeping it South Carolina specific.
Tier 1
Columbia, Charleston, Greenville
Tier 2
Spartanburg, Rock Hill, Aiken, Florence, Myrtle Beach, North Charleston, Summerville,
I still don't understand why people on here don't just read the question. It's clearly states what defined a big city in SOUTH CAROLINA. Not asking for a national definition but keeping it South Carolina specific.
Tier 1
Columbia, Charleston, Greenville
Tier 2
Spartanburg, Rock Hill, Aiken, Florence, Myrtle Beach, North Charleston, Summerville,
What of Sumter? Thomas Sumter is rolling over in his grave at the thought that Gamecock City would be overtaken by Summerville......
I still don't understand why people on here don't just read the question. It's clearly states what defined a big city in SOUTH CAROLINA. Not asking for a national definition but keeping it South Carolina specific.
Tier 1
Columbia, Charleston, Greenville
Tier 2
Spartanburg, Rock Hill, Aiken, Florence, Myrtle Beach, North Charleston, Summerville,
I still don't understand why people on here don't just read the question. It's clearly states what defined a big city in SOUTH CAROLINA. Not asking for a national definition but keeping it South Carolina specific.
Tier 1
Columbia, Charleston, Greenville
Tier 2
Spartanburg, Rock Hill, Aiken, Florence, Myrtle Beach, North Charleston, Summerville,
I agree with Tier 1, but Tier 2 gets tricky because it's a mixture of suburbs, satellite cities, and true small urban centers. North Charleston and Summerville are clearly suburbs and pretty much wholly dependent on Charleston for their survival. North Charleston is its own municipality but is nothing more than the northern extension of Charleston, which is why it has the jobs (Boeing) and amenities (retail) that it does. I consider Rock Hill and Aiken satellite cities. They are included in larger metro areas but don't act purely as suburbs as they had some significance in their own right as independent cities before being drawn into the sphere of orbit of larger neighboring cities; each is also its own urbanized area. Spartanburg, Florence, and Myrtle Beach are true small urban centers with their own MSAs (even though Spartanburg is in a larger CSA and has a degree of interdependence with Greenville).
I grew up in a "town / city" in Northwest Ohio called Lima (pop. 40k) and it has 2 major hospitals and a large regional mall BUT that's because if you go north of Dayton, Ohio or south of Toledo, Ohio its the only "city" in between both. sometimes there are places that take on the "city" vibe because they are the only urban area in a large rural region. Florence would fit that bill IMO.
Greenville's problem is is that the majority of the metro population lives outside the city limits and the city itself is very small within those limits.
To me Charleston best exemplifies a "city" in SC. Columbia is not far behind, Charleston has just always had more of the city feel to it. Maybe its the urban midwesterner in me but Charleston fits the bill.
I agree with Tier 1, but Tier 2 gets tricky because it's a mixture of suburbs, satellite cities, and true small urban centers. North Charleston and Summerville are clearly suburbs and pretty much wholly dependent on Charleston for their survival. North Charleston is its own municipality but is nothing more than the northern extension of Charleston, which is why it has the jobs (Boeing) and amenities (retail) that it does. I consider Rock Hill and Aiken satellite cities. They are included in larger metro areas but don't act purely as suburbs as they had some significance in their own right as independent cities before being drawn into the sphere of orbit of larger neighboring cities; each is also its own urbanized area. Spartanburg, Florence, and Myrtle Beach are true small urban centers with their own MSAs (even though Spartanburg is in a larger CSA and has a degree of interdependence with Greenville).
Tier 1
Columbia, Charleston, Greenville Tier 2
Spartanburg, Anderson, Rock Hill, Aiken, Myrtle Beach, Florence Tier 2a
North Charleston (Maybe Tier 2), Mount Pleasant, Summerville Tier 3
Greer, Mauldin, Taylors, Easley, Simpsonville
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