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In this case, Greenville was indeed brought up by a Columbia poster for purposes of comparison, but I'm sure you know that tends to be the exception rather than the norm for whenever Greenville comes up in Columbia threads so you can't act like it doesn't happen. And most of the insecurity seems to come from the one or two Greenville posters that typically have engaged in hijacking Columbia threads. It's not about it being "threatening," but more or less tiring. But like I said, this particular thread is an exception.
At any rate, back to the discussion at hand. With all the donut hole annexations underway, I wonder how much square mileage that will add to the city minus the Fort. As of right now, it stands at about 50 square miles with a lot of that being tax-exempt property.
I think Columbia is now forcing those inside the doughnut holes into the City. There was an article some time ago that they threatened to cut off water to those who refused to annex within a certain amount of time. Though effective..it seems like it would be illegal. However; I cant necessary blame the City for resulting to such measures since the General Assembly would NEVER pass a law that would allow cities to take in doughnut holes that are under a certain size with or without the property owners consent. I think we have had this discussion before. Richland County has to send a garbage truck into the heart of Columbia to pick up trash at a half dozen residents' homes.. Thats a waste of resources. On the other hand some doughnut holes are created and perpetuated by the City. Last time I checked the low income housing on both sides of the James Clyburn Pedestrian overpass were not in the City Limits though they petitioned to be annexed when they were built. Apparently the city denied the request then because they were against the concentrating of low income housing in an area that apparently was already saturated with it. The development moved ahead under the County's zoning and the city moved to deny them water. I am not sure what happened after that. I do know that they had to build their own water tower and I guess that they have to maintain the water and sewer infrastructure.. though they may be purchasing water from the City's system.
Was Greenville first brought up by a Columbia poster or a Midlands poster? Where is Sumter-Columbia? And who in this thread said having smaller city limits "absolutely does have advantages?" I assumed the first mention of Greenville was from a Greenville poster because I'm so used to it. Sorry for jumping the gun. It didn't take long, though, for favorable comments about Greenville to appear that insinuated a disadvantage for Columbia for having more square miles in its city limits. (Fort Jackson is a huge, huge portion of that and has very few residents compared to the rest of the population.) I'm not insecure about the Greenville comments in all the Columbia threads that contain anything good or bad about Columbia, but it just has gotten so annoying.
Anyway, this article from cnnmoney.com says the Brookings Institute singled out 21 metros for their ability to keep their labor and housing markets stable and for posting robust economic activity for the past few years despite the Great Recession. Maybe that fact that Columbia is on the list is related to the metro's towns' and city's population increases. We already new that Columbia was on this Brookings list, but I figured it woudn't hurt to post CNN's take on it.
any list of recession proof cities that includes buffalo and rochester, ny is fraudulent. haha. i've met people from various mid west and upper mid atlantic states all over south carolina but i don't think i've met more people from one particular region than the western new york state region. i coach high school swimming in the upstate and was at a coaches meeting recently and i kid you not of the 10 people at the meeting 4 were from either buffalo or the syracuse area. people must be running away from those jobs up there.
And CSAs are part of states, states are part of countries, countries are part of continents, etc... You need to draw a line somewhere.
Yeah, but at CSA's?
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I thought municipalities were part of CSA's.
