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We may also be looking at this in different ways also and there can be multiple comparisons between the 2.
Downtown Beauty - Greenville by a long shot in my opinion.
Overall City Beauty (leaving downtown) - Asheville
Shopping - Greenville by a long shot
Food (Non Chains) - Asheville
Food (Chains) - Greenville
Biltmore is also overrated in my opinion (don't shoot me..)
We may also be looking at this in different ways also and there can be multiple comparisons between the 2.
Downtown Beauty - Greenville by a long shot in my opinion.
Overall City Beauty (leaving downtown) - Asheville
Shopping - Greenville by a long shot
Food (Non Chains) - Asheville
Food (Chains) - Greenville
Biltmore is also overrated in my opinion (don't shoot me..)
I agree with some of this. Big box shopping is better in Greenville as well as food chains. Downtown beauty depends on what your preferences are: Asheville’s downtown is Bohemian and eclectic while Greenville’s is more traditional but very well done. I like both.
Driving from Florence to Atlanta through Columbia is quite rural, and I-85 through NC looks like you're in a major metropolitan area almost the entire 220 miles.
I'd say your idea of what a major metropolitan area looks like is vastly different than that of most people.
I'd say your idea of what a major metropolitan area looks like is vastly different than that of most people.
Agree. 4 lanes of 95 surroubded by open fields, churches, billboards, gas stations and fast food doesn't really screen major metropolitan area to me. I actually think 95 through the Carolinas is probably one of the worst stretches of the road, though none of it is actually pleasant.
Agree. 4 lanes of 95 surroubded by open fields, churches, billboards, gas stations and fast food doesn't really screen major metropolitan area to me. I actually think 95 through the Carolinas is probably one of the worst stretches of the road, though none of it is actually pleasant.
He was referring to I-85 which, despite going through Charlotte, Greensboro, and Durham, has long stretches of areas that absolutely do not resemble a major metropolitan area. North of Durham, I-85 is the definition of desolate.
Agree. 4 lanes of 95 surroubded by open fields, churches, billboards, gas stations and fast food doesn't really screen major metropolitan area to me. I actually think 95 through the Carolinas is probably one of the worst stretches of the road, though none of it is actually pleasant.
It is ok, it is NC “urban”. Said it a thousand times, not sure the complaint, everybody that moved here from up there, is trying to escape the urban rat race for the most part. I really wish people would stop inferring that Northeast corridor “urban” with meaning better, that is an absolute false perspective.
We may also be looking at this in different ways also and there can be multiple comparisons between the 2.
Downtown Beauty - Greenville by a long shot in my opinion.
Overall City Beauty (leaving downtown) - Asheville
Shopping - Greenville by a long shot
Food (Non Chains) - Asheville
Food (Chains) - Greenville
Biltmore is also overrated in my opinion (don't shoot me..)
I agree. Greenville definitely wins. Especially as a place to live.
I'd say your idea of what a major metropolitan area looks like is vastly different than that of most people.
Well after living for the past 30 years in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston, New York City and Northern New Jersey, when it comes to highways I have a pretty good idea of what interstates in the US look like.
I-85 does not look like a rural interstate except for at each border with about 30 miles near VA and about 10 miles at SC.
That's out of about 220 miles for the entire length of I-85 through NC.
For the overwhelming majority of the distance, the highway is 8 lanes wide, some of it is 6 lanes, and there are many, many exits with all kinds of businesses, hotels and gas stations and eateries.
That's exactly what the suburban peripheries of major cities look like including Atlanta and Southern California.
I-85 through the upstate of SC looks like that too. It does not look like you are in a rural area.
Well after living for the past 30 years in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston, New York City and Northern New Jersey, when it comes to highways I have a pretty good idea of what interstates in the US look like.
I-85 does not look like a rural interstate except for at each border with about 30 miles near VA and about 10 miles at SC.
That's out of about 220 miles for the entire length of I-85 through NC.
For the overwhelming majority of the distance, the highway is 8 lanes wide, some of it is 6 lanes, and there are many, many exits with all kinds of businesses, hotels and gas stations and eateries.
That's exactly what the suburban peripheries of major cities look like including Atlanta and Southern California.
I-85 through the upstate of SC looks like that too. It does not look like you are in a rural area.
Florence to Augusta in SC does look rural.
Interstate 85 from North of Salisbury to the 85/29 split at Grandover looks rural with the possible exception of exits 111 (Archdale) and 103 Ithomasville)
With the exceptions of the huge interchanges on the southwest edge and eastern edge of Greensboro, 85 through Greensboro doesn't look like you are driving through a major metro. Plenty of lanes, but plenty of trees, but no built up interchanges except for the Interchange with Elm/Eugene Street. Actually in my opinion, outside of going through Charlotte, the 8 mile stretch going through Burlington looks more ”major” than any other part of 85 throughout the state. Burlington looks like a city of 200,000 as opposed to 50,000 if just going by that built up section.
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