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I have to admit, Greenville does have a fairly nice downtown. I liked the median with the trees and outdoor cafes. Had a couple nice Irish Pubs as well. Just a bit to conservative for me once you get into the surrounding areas
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This one is pretty easy.
Are most of the areas outside of Main Street Downtown Greenville run down?
Yes.
Are there rusty steel buildings all around.
Yes.
Is there only one new "bling" shopping center/strip mall?
Yes.
Is there garbage and "junk" on the side of the roads and highways?
Yes.
Are there lack of zoning laws to prevent a transmission shop or a funeral home to be parked up against a residential development? (That's a true scenario BTW, my wife was just like "WTF?")
Yes.
Are there new expensive homes built next to run down trailer homes and a mish mash of other houses that makes no sense?
Yes.
I can go on and on. These are not subjective things. They are objective.
It is what it is.
That's the "truth".
Greenville is a dirty little hole compared to cities like Charlotte NC. Even the Northern burb of Charlotte, Concord is a huge difference.
Hey sweetheart, I guess you missed when I brought some of those cities up too for the same reasons.
It's not about North vs South, but about reality.
Oh and on that note, the REALITY is you live in Marrietta GA, NOT Greenville. I used to live in Charlotte and never dreamed Greenville would be so far removed from a place like Atlanta and Charlotte. Why don't you take a day trip to Greenville and then come post back here.
Don't worry, give it time to all sink in. You'll figure it out soon enough, it took me two years of the seven I lived in the Southeast.
BTW some of those cities you listed are MUCH MUCH nicer then Greenville. Manchester NH is one of them. ???
Everyone else may not be wrong, but they might also have a different sense of reality too. Example: Two people move to Greenville. One from Buckeye Kansas and one from NYC. The person from NYC says the pizza sucks in Greenville. The person from Buckeye says it's great and doesn't know what the arrogant self righteous "yankee" is talking about.
I would go with the person from NYC's opinion because the person from Buckeye probably doesn't know what pizza is supposed to be like outside of Dominos and Hungry Howies.
When people write me and say "It's just like Charlotte, new, pretty, clean but none of the congestion and closer to the mountains" And "I've lived all over this country, this is the closest to paradise as I've ever found". I would like and expect the place to match the hype. Compared to what I know, it failed, bad.
The reality is in the end, said person never lived anywhere out West and in the Northeast yet "lived all over the country".
Go figure.
I'll say it till the day I die. Greenville sucks. It's a small wannabe Southeastern city loaded with a bunch of a fanboys who don't know any better. The downtown is a joke. Portsmouth NH (pop 20K) and Portland ME (pop 64K)make the place look like an amature in regards to "charm" and "history"
Hell Salisbury NC gives Greenville a run for it's money. lol
I'd live in Charlotte, Willmington NC or even Atlanta (And I say even because I'm not a fan of cities that size.) ANY day over that place.
I'm sure Greenville's heart is breaking right now.
I live in the city of Decatur, not Marietta. That is clear across town.
And I'm not your "sweetheart"; do women in Portsmouth and Portland allow you to speak to them that way?
It's spelled 'amateur'...as in amateur poster, amateur urban planner, amateur comedian.
Toodles.
My city Houston has everything I could possibly want in it's downtown.
Bars
Nightclubs (I don't go, but they're there)
Grocery stores
Light rail
Condos
Theater district
Museums
Libraries
Banks
What more could a person ask for?
I would also add parks and sports venues that also exist in the downtown area.
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