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You should be familiar with crime, you are in Charleston.
Not sure why you find humor in CD's post. The interesting thing I see on this board is that Columbia, Greenville and Charleston are all very similar in most categories. There may be differences in short term examples and a lot of chamber driven magazine rankings but there is not a material difference in day to day living.
Attitude is the biggest difference........you don't see Columbia or Greenville residents claiming to be on par with SF in restaurants or having the single largest economic driver (the port) in the state, or arguing for pages that Charleston is somehow still a major southern city....it's not or that it is a major cultural city and my favorite.it may get get NFL. Charleston is a nice small metro with job growth driven primarily by the government. Why do residents continue to argue that it is still leading the south?
Magazine or not, Charleston is still one of the top ten foodie cities in the county. SF is on that list too. Feel free to Google it. Not all of us are exaggerating claims like you.
Columbia is the be all and end all of the world. Bow down to it. It is THE center of all that is imporant, food-wise, art-wise, everything-wise. There is no other place on earth that holds a candle to it - the people with their diverse makeup, the trees with their graceful spacing along wide streets, the waiters and waiters that grace the restaurants and the bar tenders that strike up genuine conversations and the modern edge that adorns the urban design and the rivers that traverse the center of the universe and the dialects you'll hear on the sidewalks and the books you'll see in the library and the big Gamecock you'll see next to the Mellow Mushroom and the strands of hair that Nikki Haley left on the governor's office desk, Columbia is the be all and end all of the world ad-infinitum forever and always - world without end amen, amen.
Haha, awesome post. Some people aren't getting what you're doing. Its hilarious.
ALL HAIL COLUMBIA!!!!!! The SECOND best city in the Milky Way....behind Charleston, of course
You should be familiar with crime, you are in Charleston.
Not sure why you find humor in CD's post. The interesting thing I see on this board is that Columbia, Greenville and Charleston are all very similar in most categories. There may be differences in short term examples and a lot of chamber driven magazine rankings but there is not a material difference in day to day living.
Attitude is the biggest difference........you don't see Columbia or Greenville residents claiming to be on par with SF in restaurants or having the single largest economic driver (the port) in the state, or arguing for pages that Charleston is somehow still a major southern city....it's not or that it is a major cultural city and my favorite.it may get get NFL. Charleston is a nice small metro with job growth driven primarily by the government. Why do residents continue to argue that it is still leading the south?
Um......the Charleston metro area has a lower crime rate than the Columbia, Greenville, Charlotte and Atlanta metro areas. Hmmm.
Your problem is that you see everything through the lens of "size". I'll hold off on my speculation as to why. But its true.
As for "major" or significant, it depends on topic.
For example, did you know that almost every piece of equipment in the Iraq/Afghan wars at some point passed through Charleston....on a C-17 at Joint Base Charleston, since it supplies almost all air-transported war supplies to that area as well as Europe and Africa? Its the reason why during the Cold War....Charleston was on the USSR's top 10 list for cities targeted by nuclear weapons.
Or, that if the nation ever had conflict with China or Russia, it would likely involved a large naval war, and SPAWAR in Charleston is a major technological development center for the Navy/DOD? A tad more "relevant" and important than, say, making sure Bank of America's CEO gets his 6th home (probably in Charleston by the way haha!)
Soldiers are trained in the midlands (Columbia's Ft Jackson, largest Army recruit depot), Marines are trained in the Lowcountry (Parris Island, 1 of only 2 places in world USMC trains recruits). And the USAF operates a major, critical base of C-17's (along with Seattle). And of course, SPAWAR and the Naval Weapons Station....which in part does all training for the Navy's nuclear submarine operators, and the US Coast Guard marking Charleston as it's primary location of all in-service training, and the FLETC facility....................
Well, GSP, maybe the financial market that is upheld and stabilized by the military power of the United States.....you should thank, in part, all US cities that have a major military presence (or, as you say, "just government jobs").
Because if World War 3 broke out........Charlotte would be almost irrelevant as to what cities matter most. Cities like Charleston, and Columbia, and Fayetteville, NC......those "just government jobs" are the ones who provide the bubble of safety and stability of this nation.... for people in places like Charlotte to slave away in the cubicle to ensure that share holders and CEO's rake in the big bucks.
So, "relevant"??? Depends on what lens you see that term through.
Magazine or not, Charleston is still one of the top ten foodie cities in the county. SF is on that list too. Feel free to Google it. Not all of us are exaggerating claims like you.
True. He's obsessed with "size".
Charlotte is Wal-Mart. Charleston is the boutique and deli on the corner. Oh well, know what I prefer
Charlotte = Walmart
Charleston = Caviar and Bananas
I know where I'd rather get a sammich...
Yep. Seems Charleston may only be 700K people. But, somehow, has become one of the most well known, famous 700K person metro areas in the world. Wonder how that happened
The world class Spoleto Festival is just around the corner. You going?
Guess the NatGeo folks found Charleston worthy of rubbing shoulders with some of the world's most famous cities. I looked for Charlotte on the list......or ANY list that didn't involve A) Banking or B) NFL team roster or C) NASCAR.......and couldn't find it.
NatGeo puts Charleston into its list right alongside of cities like Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, NYC, London, Madrid, Barcelona.
Not bad for a little ole metro of 700K that GSP says is, well, irrelevant and such. Wonder how many other 700K metro areas would like to be bumping shoulders in national and global magazine lists with some of the worlds best and most famous cities??????
But, as GSP says, those are just "magazine rankings". And you sure cant trust info given by......well, but lots of fellow humans who go out, live, visit, drink, eat, work......and document how they feel about a place, and then have all that feedback published.
Magazine or not, Charleston is still one of the top ten foodie cities in the county. SF is on that list too. Feel free to Google it. Not all of us are exaggerating claims like you.
Funny, people in Charleston brag about great restaurants like Newts Of Summerville and talk about being a foodie town. Look, Charleston has some good restaurants but here is the perspective, on Tripadvisor, there are reviews of 4,600 restaurants in SF. In Charleston, 718 are reviewed. They review 810 in Columbia and 751 in Greenville. Now, this is another website that you guys like to follow
And Charlotte, roughly 2k are reviewed. The depth of other cities makes it laughable to compare Charleston with places like SF. Would you compare Blackbaud with Google?
As for Charlotte and Wal Mart crap, grow up and quit having an inferiority complex to a far larger, wealthier and better educated city. King's St is nice but Saks could not make it work there. On the other hand, Neiman Marcus likes Charlotte. Bentley just opened a dealership here as did Aston Martin and Maserati. Guess your perspective is off again, read about it on the Internet.
You and CD need to lern a little more about what you are talking about.
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. But its true.
