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Well...more people, more jobs, more cultural/historic sites and institutions, more restaurants, more retail, more parks, bigger river, better schools, higher wages, same COL....
Wages are not collective thing paid by the city. There are more poor people living in Richmond than Greenville because Richmond has more people.
I think Greenville has a much better engineering job market than Richmond.
I'm pretty sure COL is higher in Richmond than Greenville.
I don't think there is any evidence that Richmond has better schools and I'm not sure how you are qualified to review schools in Greenville. Do you know a single teacher in Greenville. I know people who went to my small town SC high school who are now physicians, engineers, scientists, college professors, accountants, etc so I'm confused as to how attending Richmond schools could have led to more success for them.
I don't think Richmond has anything like Falls Park in Greenville, a top 10 TripAdvisor park in this country.
I think downtown Greenville has much better aesthetics, streetscaping, and a better layout than Richmond. Also more sidewalk seating and restaurants open to outside.
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Outside of having more people, I don't think Richmond blows Greenville away.
Nor do I. Outside of this forum, I never hear of anyone discussing Richmond. I've heard talk of Greenville as far away as the Pacific Northwest.
Of the three cities most emblematic of the Old South(Richmond, Charleston, Savannah), Richmond has done the poorest job at historic preservation and self-promotion. Perhaps that's deliberate.
Nor do I. Outside of this forum, I never hear of anyone discussing Richmond. I've heard talk of Greenville as far away as the Pacific Northwest. Of the three cities most emblematic of the Old South(Richmond, Charleston, Savannah), Richmond has done the poorest job at historic preservation and self-promotion. Perhaps that's deliberate.
I'd say those three cities would be Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans.
Richmond has done a great job in the historic preservation department, but probably not as much in terms of self-promotion. The coastal locations of the other three help sell those cities.
So basically the people voting in favor of Richmond are using facts such as how it has more jobs, higher wages etc and the people voting for Greenville are basing their votes off of anecdotal evidence, word of mouth and lack of experience with Richmond? Sounds like more of the usual.
So basically the people voting in favor of Richmond are using facts such as how it has more jobs, higher wages etc and the people voting for Greenville are basing their votes off of anecdotal evidence, word of mouth and lack of experience with Richmond? Sounds like more of the usual.
I live in Greenville and my brother lived in Midlothian outside of Richmond for several years.
A city having more jobs is irrelevant to a comparison between living in the two cities. I think everybody understands Richmond is a larger city. Greenville isn't a small town and it has a lot of transplants.
So basically the people voting in favor of Richmond are using facts such as how it has more jobs, higher wages etc and the people voting for Greenville are basing their votes off of anecdotal evidence, word of mouth and lack of experience with Richmond? Sounds like more of the usual.
Are you aware that most of the criteria is subjective?
Are you aware that most of the criteria is subjective?
Yea, but even the half that isn't subjective people are still trying to give to Greenville. Richmond has done a poor job at historic preservation? A lot of the people commenting clearly have limited experience with Richmond.
I live in Greenville and my brother lived in Midlothian outside of Richmond for several years.
A city having more jobs is irrelevant to a comparison between living in the two cities. I think everybody understands Richmond is a larger city. Greenville isn't a small town and it has a lot of transplants.
Jobs numbers are the most overrated figures on this board. For me jobs are a binary: is there a reasonable chance that I will be able to find a job in my field paying a salary commensurate with my experience? If the answer is yes, I don’t care if some other city has better numbers.
I’m sorry but none of those feel integrated into the CBD. It is my understanding that Richmond has intentionally kept a little bit of distance between the true CBD and the James because it was so susceptible to flooding. Development on the northern bank has been mostly logistics based, and doesn’t encompass more than a mile, or so, and development on the south bank is fairly recent and limited to a couple of blocks. As far as River cities go, I don’t think Richmond has truly integrated its river.
Downtown Richmond/CBD is so close to the James River, they had to build a frickin' flood wall to protect Downtown from floods. What the hell does, "I don't believe Richmond has truly integrated it's river" mean?
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