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I posted this article in a thread that someone deleted pretty much immediately. It was the Greenville vs. Columbia thread. I'm giving it another try here in a new forum. The attached article, with links to two economic reports, discusses and compares the economies of SC's three largest metros to each other's and to other southern US MSAs'. While they are written from Greenville (and Clemson University's) point of view, it contains interesting comments and statistics. NewYorkBorn would appreciated this, but last I knew she had me on ignore.
I posted this article in a thread that someone deleted pretty much immediately. It was the Greenville vs. Columbia thread. I'm giving it another try here in a new forum. The attached article, with links to two economic reports, discusses and compares the economies of SC's three largest metros to each other's and to other southern US MSAs'. While they are written from Greenville (and Clemson University's) point of view, it contains interesting comments and statistics. NewYorkBorn would appreciated this, but last I knew she had me on ignore.
The link must have gone on to bigger things since 2010, but the past 10 years have seen a lot of growth, so I wonder what the same type of article would say now. GDP-wise, median income-wise, job growth, population growth, housing prices and rent, etc.
This article would have been during the height of the great recession so I wonder if it was related to the stunted economic nature of the time. I have never heard of Greenville referred to as being in the "economic doldrums." Before the 2008 collapse Greenville was booming - downtown had seen the park open in 2004, the stadium a couple of years later, new hotels were starting to pop up, new condos, and several high rises had been proposed that died with the recession. Outside of DT there was a lot growth, apartments, big investments, etc.
This article would have been during the height of the great recession so I wonder if it was related to the stunted economic nature of the time. I have never heard of Greenville referred to as being in the "economic doldrums." Before the 2008 collapse Greenville was booming - downtown had seen the park open in 2004, the stadium a couple of years later, new hotels were starting to pop up, new condos, and several high rises had been proposed that died with the recession. Outside of DT there was a lot growth, apartments, big investments, etc.
Indeed, that headline didn't make sense until I saw it was from 2010.
I got out of the military in February of 2009 and had a lot of free time before starting a degree program later that year. I remember going into Barnes and Noble in Greenville and seeing several middle aged men on their laptops, in the middle of a weekday. Likely people who had recently been laid off in the recession. But that was the whole country at the time.
A study ranks purchasing power of South Carolina’s top 10 counties:
The correlation with MSAs is strong, so I’m posting this in this thread.
It’s primarily a study of median income measured against the cost of living in each county.
Beaufort
York
Charleston
Berkeley
Dorchester
Lexington
Greenville
Lancaster
Richland
Spartanburg
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