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I can't believe anybody would brag about their city having bad traffic problems. That's like bragging about your neighborhood having flood problems.
And yes Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville outside of their downtowns are for the most part nothing but sprawl upon more sprawl with a few and I do mean few exceptions. Highway 17 in Charleston, Harbison Blvd. in Columbia, or Woodruff Road in Greenville...pick your poison and bring your patience.
No, on a pretty objective level. Beaufort, Wilmington, and Galveston are obviously smaller so I can see how someone might object to those, but at the least, there's no way one can objectively say "There's nothing else like Charleston in the South" when Savannah and New Orleans exist. I mean you can point to some distinctions that Charleston has compared to those cities, but they are all pretty much cut from the same cloth. But that is a pretty exclusive club in the South, so Charleston is still among the most unique cities in the South.
No, on a pretty objective level. Beaufort, Wilmington, and Galveston are obviously smaller so I can see how someone might object to those, but at the least, there's no way one can objectively say "There's nothing else like Charleston in the South" when Savannah and New Orleans exist. I mean you can point to some distinctions that Charleston has compared to those cities, but they are all pretty much cut from the same cloth. But that is a pretty exclusive club in the South, so Charleston is still among the most unique cities in the South.
I think we are getting a little too specific with definitions. No doubt they are all nice cities but, Charleston is at a place today economically and historically that is hard to beat. It has a great blend of the old but also is doing great economically. And, nationally, it is becoming a great spot for the very wealthy. We'll have to agree to disagree.
The answer to the original question that is one in the same with the title of the thread is absolutely Columbia hands down. No contest.
No, that is not the answer to the thread title. That is one lifelong Columbia booster's personal opinion. The only correct answer to the original question is, "you visit each of the options above and decide based on your own inclination because each city meets your briefly stated criteria."
No, that is not the answer to the thread title. That is one lifelong Columbia booster's personal opinion. The only correct answer to the original question is, "you visit each of the options above and decide based on your own inclination because each city meets your briefly stated criteria."
I was being silly. Treads like this one allow for that.
I think we are getting a little too specific with definitions. No doubt they are all nice cities but, Charleston is at a place today economically and historically that is hard to beat. It has a great blend of the old but also is doing great economically. And, nationally, it is becoming a great spot for the very wealthy. We'll have to agree to disagree.
How well a city is doing economically tends to be cyclical and usually people don't attach the "unique" moniker to that. Even so, with the huge success that Savannah's port has been experiencing (having zoomed past Charleston's in recent years and stands to gain even more ground with the expansion of the Panama Canal) and the renaissance that New Orleans is undergoing, I'm still not sure Charleston can claim to be the most unique in the South even on that basis. Now I love to tout the successes of SC cities as much as any SC homer, but I've got to be realistic also.
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That's like bragging about your neighborhood having flood problems.
