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Beautifully Spoken ! I could have literally wrote your post
One more very important thing : I LOVE how courteous most ( 98.9% ) of drivers are !
They hardly EVER honk ( not polite, love the Southerners.. ) They let you out on insanely busy Woodruff Road and other heavy traveled roads... I love how they wave to let you pull out onto the street .
Where I came from**** forget it ! You are going to sit there 25 minutes until someone is nice enough to let you out...
Ha! to be honest thats what I hate about living around here. driving is way different, everyone assumes you will let them in, you can't leave a car length between you and the car in front of you or you lose it!
One more very important thing : I LOVE how courteous most ( 98.9% ) of drivers are !
They let you out on insanely busy Woodruff Road and other heavy traveled roads... I love how they wave to let you pull out onto the street .
That can be a blessing and a curse... I've seen several near-misses when someone stops one lane of 2 or 3 going one direction to let someone turn left across traffic etc. That could get REAL ugly, real fast.
Ha! to be honest thats what I hate about living around here. driving is way different, everyone assumes you will let them in, you can't leave a car length between you and the car in front of you or you lose it!
I think its pretty even. When you are stopped at a light and someone is trying to get out and you leave a little room for them to do so, I find THAT alot here and I would rather have the politeness than the rudeness
I love this post. Sure makes a Southerner feel good to hear all of these good things. I have lived here all of my life as well but I will still say--I love sweet tea. LOL.
I love that people here honestly feel this sentiment: 'I work to live, not live to work'...coming from Maryland it is such a refreshing change!
I love how there are so many lifestyle options for buying a home:
Rural - lots of privacy + great chance of having amazing views of the mtns.
Downtown Greenville: no further explanation necessary!
Suburbia (Woodruff Rd/Simpsonville area) not for me, though...too much like Md
Best part is that no matter what option you choose chances are you're still within 15-20 minutes of anything!
Now if I could just decide where I want to buy! Everytime I think I've made my mind up I discover something new that blows me away and I'm back to square one.
I love this post. Sure makes a Southerner feel good to hear all of these good things. I have lived here all of my life as well but I will still say--I love sweet tea. LOL.
I think its pretty even. When you are stopped at a light and someone is trying to get out and you leave a little room for them to do so, I find THAT alot here and I would rather have the politeness than the rudeness
But then, that's just me !
I don't see how it is about being rude. It's polite to wait until traffic has cleared to pull out, and not pull out when someone is driving toward you at 50mph. Its polite to wait until someone waves you on to pull out like that at a stop light. People don't wave, they don't even look at me and they cut me off, all the time. Especially on woodruff rd.
People pull out in front of me everyday at the stop light by the old walmart(123 and S pendleton). They must think they have the right of way because of the big white x in the middle of the road,but in fact the intersection is supposed to be clear so that people can pull INTO the parking lot, not out. they act like I have a stop sign. it is aggravating and I have almost been in more than one accident there.
and don't get me started on merging, I never realized the turn signal was optional until I moved to South Carolina.
I love the sound of leaves blowing across the street when I run down McDaniel Avenue in the fall...and the smell of dirt when it rains in the spring...the beautiful lawns and the pride people take in their homes...no matter how big or small, the houses are lovely there and AFFORDABLE!
I love a picnic in Cleveland Park and Falls Park on a Spring day, the beautiful flowers that bloom year round, hiking Paris Mountain and Caesar's Head, paddleboarding on Lake Jocasse, and Lake Keowee sunsets, cycling on a Sunday morning through downtown...coffee from Spill the Beans, dinner at Trattoria Georgia in the courtyard, Tako Sushi's Volcano Roll and Shelby's (the owner) awesome IPod beats, Smoke on the Water and Perry Major's music, running into Edwin McCain and George Hincappie at random unexpected places, Sunday nights at Chicora Alley, dinner at Rick Erwin's and Nantucket, Augusta Road even during rush hour...and of course sweet tea and a chili cheeseburger/half and half from Como's! and I love the beautiful people who live there! I miss living in Greenville so much...thanks for the great post! Greenville is simply the BEST place I've ever lived...
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I could have literally wrote your post 
you love it here
