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My wife's first "visit" to Columbia...
Sep 30, 2012, 11:31 PM
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My family (wife and 8 month old boy) took a trip to Atlanta this weekend to watch the Braves and Chipper's last homestand.
As we headed through Columbia (coming from Charlotte), of course my 8 month old started fussing. We (by "we", I mean my wife as she had yet learned what stopping in Columbia entailed), had to pull off to change a diaper and get some lunch.
My wife, looking at GPS on her phone, said there are a few parks just off the interstate, to which I replied, "Honey, it's best if we not get off the interstate until we are outside the city limits (which seem to expand on a daily basis)".
The first "park" we passed, had barbed wire around it. Enough said.
The second park we stopped at, had a big water tank that said "Welcome to Columbia---or something like that" and was literally inside a correctional institute.
My wife then commented..."is all of Columbia like this"....to which I responded: "Unfortunately..yes."
My wife has never really understood (she's from Canada), my dislike of everything Gamecock...but now she has already decided that our 8 month old will never go to the ghetto that is USC.
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Why would you go through Columbia to Atlanta?
Sep 30, 2012, 11:36 PM
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It's much easier (and safer!) do go down 85 through Greenville
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Have family outside of Augusta we were visiting.***
Sep 30, 2012, 11:37 PM
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Orange Blooded [2507]
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I'll be dead and buried befre my child goes there
Oct 1, 2012, 12:36 AM
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I lived all of ten minutes from their campus and could never stand it. Five Points is an area you go to if you have a death wish and the whole palce is a run down cesspool
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I live near the cesspool and unfortunately work just outside
Oct 1, 2012, 7:59 AM
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the city. I can tell you there are ZERO, NADA safe places. I don't live here by choice but was tricked into living here after marriage. I have visited many other US and foreign cities and none compare to the dumpster fire that is Cootlumbia. I have already told the wife that when I retire I am leaving a vapor trail for home and she can stay in Hades if she wants.
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Seems like a disproportionately large amount of bad areas
Oct 1, 2012, 8:27 AM
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in Columbia for a city its size.
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All-TigerNet [10401]
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Or maybe I should have said relatively few nice areas. That
Oct 1, 2012, 8:28 AM
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might be a better way of describing that city.
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Re: Or maybe I should have said relatively few nice areas. That
Oct 1, 2012, 9:47 AM
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Lexington, Irmo, and Blythewood are nice. Not many nice places to live downtown though.
Way too expensive for the house you get, and your always within 2 miles of 1 of the ghetto's, plus the public schools are not nearly as good as the suburbs I mentioned above.
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