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I hate to say this. After three years of living in Charleston and coming back to Columbia two or three times a year for property upkeep, I find Columbia to be aesthetically depressing overall. It has it spots of beauty and attractiveness. I’m headed out now, back to the Holy City.
I hate to say this. After three years of living in Charleston and coming back to Columbia two or three times a year for property upkeep, I find Columbia to be aesthetically depressing overall. It has it spots of beauty and attractiveness. I’m headed out now, back to the Holy City.
To be fair, half of the peninsula (the parts tourist don’t see, closer towards 526, are run down abandoned houses that some have bought with hopes to one day fix them. So every city has run down parts that aren’t pretty, even Charleston. I know from my little one month stay in Hanahan.
I lived in Charleston (Mount Pleasant) from 2000 to 2010 then I moved to Columbia (Lexington). While I love it here, there is no doubt that overall Charleston is a prettier/cleaner city then Columba is. The difference is not night to day, but it is there.
I realize that every city has its rundown sections and spots. I feel, however, that Columbia could do a much better job of realizing its potential aesthetically than it is doing, now. Maybe some live oaks would help. Charleston seems to have the patience of Job for waiting until its big wave of a development boom washes over the derelict properties that we all know will mostly be restored and not torn down. Actually, it’s happening now.
I lived in Charleston (Mount Pleasant) from 2000 to 2010 then I moved to Columbia (Lexington). While I love it here, there is no doubt that overall Charleston is a prettier/cleaner city then Columba is. The difference is not night to day, but it is there.
I wish Columbia could be as clean as Charlotte. Now there’s a clean and pretty city.
Charleston definitely looks lived-in. To me it is too authentic to feel Disneyfied. I’m talking about general upkeep of gateways and main corridors. Weeds, dead trees, the need for bigger statements with flower beds (and more of them), and more tree canopy to buffer the wide streets and paved parking lots. It strikes me as a city that would look so much more put together and complete with some fine-tuning on the landscaping if nothing else. It’s not like Charleston and other cities don’t have those same issues, but it seems to me as though Columbia isn’t focusing enough on mitigating them.
Charleston definitely looks lived-in. To me it is too authentic to feel Disneyfied. I’m talking about general upkeep of gateways and main corridors. Weeds, dead trees, the need for bigger statements with flower beds (and more of them), and more tree canopy to buffer the wide streets and paved parking lots. It strikes me as a city that would look so much more put together and complete with some fine-tuning on the landscaping if nothing else. It’s not like Charleston and other cities don’t have those same issues, but it seems to me as though Columbia isn’t focusing enough on mitigating them.
It's just so hilarious that Columbia was just fine while you were living there, and now that you've left, it can't do anything right and your absence makes it hell on earth. You must possess the Reality Stone or something.
God forbid you move to Singapore or Geneva. I'd hate to see what you'd have to say about Charleston then, and I'm sure Columbia just might as well not exist at that point.
Things I like about Columbia: Lake Murray, the zoo, nice new Fireflies ballpark, some pretty cool restaurants, state fair
Things I don't like: going from scary ghetto to high-dollar homes in a block's span, Saturdays in the fall(USC has one of the most vile, vulgar, and disrespectful fan bases I've ever seen), dirty sketchy parking garages (had to park in one for a 2-month class and it was full of bat turds and homeless leftovers), visually unappealing in many places.
Tiger17, I'm pretty much 100% in agreement.Columbias is rundown, too hot and boring, but I'm not at all sure I could identify a bat turd!?!?!?
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