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This picture is located above the Greenville SC on this website.
Relocate-America's™ 2008 Top 100 Places to Live (http://top100.relocate-america.com/ - broken link)
This picture is located above the Greenville SC on this website.
Relocate-America'sâ„¢ 2008 Top 100 Places to Live (http://top100.relocate-america.com/ - broken link)
I can't place it anywhere in greenville.?
Yea, my wife and I looked at that picture and said, "that's not in Greenville". Kind of a bummer that we get this huge accolade and then they provide a photo of some other city. They do provide a picture of Falls Park in the link though.
Bingo. Don't get me wrong, Greenville is a fine area, but I find the futility of highlighting these "best places to live" articles worthy of discussion. It's the epitomy of a moving target. Anybody whose taken basic economics can see that just based on scarcity the margin of profit, which in this case we can equate to "quality of life" as loosely defined by cost of living and income, is an index that increases up to a population point and then begins to decline. Such is the case of prime examples like Atlanta, where in 1998 (when I moved there for 3 years) was hailed as the perfect combination of cost of living and opportunity, yet in 2008 I couldn't give Atlanta the time of day in the "places I'd relocate to", how things change in just 10 years. People gravitate to these places, and when Greenville starts seeing the higher cost of living and infrastructure pressure eager transplants inevitably bring to "desirable" areas, such appeal will cease to exist. In essence, such appeal is great for the people who live there NOW, but will lose that appeal when other people move in and impose downward pressure on said qualities. It's a catch-22.
Yup, I agree. Living in FL, (born and raised) I have seen first-hand what branding places (best places to live/retire/etc) can do to a place that used to be so awesome. Many parts of FL are more like NJ now, and many Floridians are leaving, and really, who can blame them? I hope Greenville SC stays the same and loads of malcontents from other places dont ruin it, like many have done in my state of FL.
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