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I guess the people from Kiplinger's magazine never actually
Aug 22, 2013, 9:26 AM
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took time to visit cootlumbia before they decided that ranking?
My favorite quote:
"Instead, we should just lament that Kiplinger's failed to mention the stirring sound of a rooster crowing, which is broadcast throughout downtown on Fridays during football season.
Now that's culture."
Lol really? I guess dictionaries in cootlumbia have a different definition of what culture is then what I've always understood it to be?
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It is abundantly clear the people from Kiplinger's ....
Aug 22, 2013, 9:35 AM
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never actually visited the City.
All of the gangbangers, crack dens, ##### houses and homeless people not to mention a smelly and polluted river would have all been stirring reminders that Columbia is a boil on the buttocks of South Carolina.
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Re: It is abundantly clear the people from Kiplinger's ....
Aug 22, 2013, 9:48 AM
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"A boil on the buttocks of South Carolina."
Hahahaha perfect
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Re: the many tiger fans(including myself) who live in and
Aug 22, 2013, 9:53 AM
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Around Columbia thank you for your kind words regarding our home. NOT! I have lived here since 1995 and do not agree with your assessment. It has been, and will continue to be, a great place to live and raise a family.
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It's all a matter of personal preference and opinion
Aug 22, 2013, 9:56 AM
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Which is why people shouldn't be so vicious with their words, really. All you're trying to do by doing so is either make someone else feel bad, or yourself feel good, neither of which is a very noble endeavor.
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I wasn't trying to do either....
Aug 22, 2013, 10:02 AM
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While I am sure there are some areas, it is my opinion that Columbia is, by and large, an absolute cesspool.
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OK. In my 18 years here, I don't really see it.
Aug 22, 2013, 10:06 AM
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Maybe your definition of "cess" is different from mine.
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My main point was making fun of how it's
Aug 22, 2013, 10:14 AM
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ranked number 5 great places to live by them. Wasn't necessarily personal to anyone living there. But would you honestly rank it number 5 or higher great places to live?
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Frankly, it wouldn't make the top 5 in South Carolina....
Aug 22, 2013, 10:30 AM
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let alone the entire nation.
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Might be better than Spartanburg though
Aug 22, 2013, 10:32 AM
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for some reason I've always hated Spartanburg
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Re: Might be better than Spartanburg though
Aug 22, 2013, 10:44 AM
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I was born in SC. I live out of state. I enjoy going back 'home' and have spent many weeks through the years in Charleston, along the Strand, down in Sea Island territory, up around Clemson, and at various lakes and parks all over my lovely home state.
Columbia has the least appeal to me of any place in the Palmetto State. It seems mostly nondescript like Birmingham, Jackson, Raleigh, or any of those other midland southern places.
Bland. Hot. Boring.
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Maybe that's the thing for me: "undescript" doesn't seem bad
Aug 22, 2013, 11:16 AM
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I'm an "undescript" kind of guy. I'm not much for lakes or oceans, since I don't swim. I'm not much for mountains, since it's colder there. If I "go out," it's to Olive Garden or something, so snazzy places to eat/hang out aren't high on my list.
My family is here, and my church is here. That pretty much sums it up for me.
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You probably live in Irmo or Cayce
Aug 22, 2013, 10:23 AM
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or maybe even Lexington, heck people are starting to move as far away from the city as Gilbert and Prosperity and commuting just to avoid living amongst the Columbians.
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Re: Corruption reigns here.***
Aug 23, 2013, 1:53 PM
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Re: It is abundantly clear the people from Kiplinger's ....
Aug 22, 2013, 11:14 AM
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BigCU, you must live here in cola, b/c you have to live here to know the real truth about this stink hole. And you seem to have hit the nail square in your observation of cootlumbia.
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something you've never heard one person ever say:.
Aug 22, 2013, 9:34 AM
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"We've decided to go to Columbia for vacation this year."
One of, if not THE best single reason to live in Columbia: NO Yankee tourists. None. Since General Sherman.
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I don't know what all the fuss is about.
Aug 22, 2013, 9:45 AM
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I live in Columbia. It's not some kind of utopia, but I don't have any problems. Of course, I don't go around looking for any.
The silly part is when people make some kind of competition out of it. Why would someone from Charleston want to trash another city, and vice versa?
And why is it that Clemson fans always trash Columbia, and USC fans always trash Clemson? What's the point?
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I've lived in Columbia in various areas
Aug 22, 2013, 9:59 AM
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West Columbia, Cayce, Northeast Cola (Columbia Mall area), and Five Points.
I've also lived in 15 different cities/towns over the years.
Columbia comes in at #14, just ahead of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
It's not good.
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All-In [26968]
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I've only lived in two places: Columbia and Greenville
Aug 22, 2013, 10:01 AM
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We moved to Columbia when I was 10, so I really don't have much of an opinion of Greenville. But Columbia seems nice to me, and I have no desire to live anywhere else.
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as long as you don't know any better, it does seem OK
Aug 22, 2013, 10:15 AM
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if you ever moved away from there, you would never want to go back, I can assure you.
Even though I did for a short time, to take a job there. But my primary goal in taking that job was to get back out as quickly as possible.
Convenience to other places (Charleston, Charlotte, Greenville, Augusta, Savannah, ocean, mountains) is the ONLY positive to living there.
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I've been to other places...most in SC, Charlotte,
Aug 22, 2013, 11:12 AM
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Atlanta, etc. Didn't really like anything better than Columbia. I absolutely detested Charleston, for example. I'd love to never set foot in that place again. But I don't run around saying "Charleston sucks," because for many people, it doesn't, if that like that kind of thing.
As far as LIVING somewhere, it's true I don't have a frame of reference. But all the things and people I care about are here, so I honestly don't see myself ever moving away.
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"minutes to nowhere"
Aug 22, 2013, 9:45 AM
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Excellent insight.
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Re: Funny article in Post & Courier re: cootlumbia....
Aug 22, 2013, 9:51 AM
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I live on a lake that always has water in it and I can go get a great meal without having to stand in line.
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Ring of Honor [26353]
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And these two things are exclusive to living in Cola?
Aug 22, 2013, 10:11 AM
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My whole life is a lie now that I realize that I will have to wait in line for food anywhere but Columbia
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Re: Funny article in Post & Courier re: cootlumbia....
Aug 22, 2013, 10:26 AM
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If you live on Murray you must not have been there long, Murray was WAYY down a few years ago when they were working on the ###
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Re: Funny article in Post & Courier re: cootlumbia....
Aug 23, 2013, 12:41 PM
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I was there, temporary issue, not every year we don't have record rain fall.
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If your idea of good living is "lots of insurance stores and
Aug 22, 2013, 10:23 AM
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factories", then I guess the cesspool known as Columbia is a good place to live per Kiplinger's.
Couple this with the piped-in sound of a rooster crowing (classy).
Place is a ####hole.
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Re: If your idea of good living is "lots of insurance stores and
Aug 22, 2013, 1:22 PM
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I could go on forever on this subject, but I don't feel it's worth my time.
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columbia
Aug 22, 2013, 2:01 PM
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Was born and raised in Columbia and could not get out fast enough. That being said it was a great place to be a kid because you don't know any better. It is like Montgomery Al . The only reason it exists is because it is a state capital. If I move back to SC it would be Gville or the coast hands down. Columbia's faults have nothing to do with that school located there . It is location
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