Charleston, SC vs Savannah, GA - Is one better to live in? (populations, metropolitan)

[NDFan]

Charleston blows Savannah away in terms of living there. It's really not close. Charleston costs a lot more tho

[ggplicks]

Originally Posted by NDFan

Charleston blows Savannah away in terms of living there. It's really not close. Charleston costs a lot more tho

Elaborate?

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by NDFan

Charleston blows Savannah away in terms of living there. It's really not close. Charleston costs a lot more tho

No way.

[SEAandATL]

Originally Posted by NDFan

Charleston blows Savannah away in terms of living there. It's really not close. Charleston costs a lot more tho

Maybe for some people but not all. It's one of those subjective things. Personally if I had to choose to live in one of them I'd choose Savannah but maybe because I'm more familiar with it and I have to tendency to stick to what I know. For living I'd probably look at the Pooler or Richmond Hill areas. The latter is not cheap either as most of the houses are in the $400-500's.

If I had to live anywhere in SC it would probably be Greenville. Speaking of which, I forgot to mention in my last post but even though Charleston is the biggest city/metro in SC, Columbia and Greenville appear larger since their downtown areas look bigger, with taller buildings. But they don't have the dwarfing effect like Atlanta does to the other GA cities.

[sonofaque86]

Originally Posted by SEAandATL

Maybe for some people but not all. It's one of those subjective things. Personally if I had to choose to live in one of them I'd choose Savannah but maybe because I'm more familiar with it and I have to tendency to stick to what I know. For living I'd probably look at the Pooler or Richmond Hill areas. The latter is not cheap either as most of the houses are in the $400-500's.

If I had to live anywhere in SC it would probably be Greenville. Speaking of which, I forgot to mention in my last post but even though Charleston is the biggest city/metro in SC, Columbia and Greenville appear larger since their downtown areas look bigger, with taller buildings. But they don't have the dwarfing effect like Atlanta does to the other GA cities.

Greenville is the largest metro, followed by Columbia, Charleston is the third largest metro.

[SEAandATL]

Originally Posted by sonofaque86

Greenville is the largest metro, followed by Columbia, Charleston is the third largest metro.

That I didn't know. I was thinking Charleston was the closest to the 1 mil mark but after looking it up I see that Greenville is just shy of it, and might cross it soon. Columbia has slightly more than Charleston but Charleston could potentially pass it depending on the growth rates.

[Treeman1]

Charleston has a lot of charm, relatively strong economy and job market, decent cost-of-living, some tech jobs, constant government money from air force jobs and ancillary employment, quite a few tourist and local attractions, and is right on the ocean.

I can't say much about Savannah since I haven't visited. It's a tad more inland, certainly cheaper... yeah, I don't really know much about the city.

[waronxmas]

This is a tough one.

I prefer the historic city of Savannah over Charleston, but I prefer Charleston's suburbs to Savannah's by a lot. The other thing that is hard to ignore is that the food in Charleston is not only better than Savannah by a lot but it's some of the best in the country. I'm a Georgia boy though, so Savannah is always going to win in my heart.

[SEAandATL]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

This is a tough one.

I prefer the historic city of Savannah over Charleston, but I prefer Charleston's suburbs to Savannah's by a lot. The other thing that is hard to ignore is that the food in Charleston is not only better than Savannah by a lot but it's some of the best in the country. I'm a Georgia boy though, so Savannah is always going to win in my heart.

The only suburb I'm familiar with is Mount Pleasant simply because I got a hotel there cheaper than in the city, but that's a nice area. It's also not far from Sullivan's Island.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by SEAandATL

That I didn't know. I was thinking Charleston was the closest to the 1 mil mark but after looking it up I see that Greenville is just shy of it, and might cross it soon. Columbia has slightly more than Charleston but Charleston could potentially pass it depending on the growth rates.

The Upstate region as a whole (Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson) has long been the most populous in SC. For a time, it constituted a singular MSA but was broken up after the 2000 Census into three individual MSAs with each being the primary city of its metro and they then constituted the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA which continues to the present. After that, Columbia became the largest MSA until revisions after the 2010 Census combined Greenville and Anderson into a singular MSA.

As is, it's pretty certain that Charleston's MSA high growth rate will push it past Columbia's to become the second-largest in the state this decade. However the geography of the Lowcountry is a limiting factor and that's a constraint that neither Columbia or Greenville have. This is why Charleston lacks a CSA unlike the other two.