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| Lack of creative restaurants and fine dining - 12/31/2011
Florence is a great place to go out for BBQ or fried foods but it lacks creative or fine dining options. There are some good ethnic options. Not a good town for foodies.
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| Great Place to Live! - 6/3/2011
Florence is a great place to work and live in SC. It offers an excellent hospital system, adequate interstate infrastructure, and decent shopping. It has an interconnected walking trail and a multi-park system. The cost of living is fantastic (although I realize the unemployment rate is very high). It has a convention center, The Florence Little Theater, and a new fine arts center. It's about 90 minutes away from the beach, two hours to Charlotte, NC. Although there are enough restaurants for the size of the city, it could use a greater variety. [read more...]
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| Indoor season/outdoor season - 6/2/2011
Florence, SC is a pleasant small city in the Pee Dee section of SC between the mountains and coast. Although it boasts pleasant to mild cooler months, the warm months can often make one forget the cooler. Essentially having two extended seasons, summer from mid-May through mid-October and very shortened autumns and springs bracketing a generally mild winter from late November through March. Frequently, the only options available during the extended summers are in the pool or indoors, while the moderate cooler months invite plenty of outdoors enjoyment. If you like or do not object to muggy heat, this can be a very nice place to live.[read more...]
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| Worst Town Ever!!! - 1/6/2011
Florence is sadly not a great place to live... Many "locals" try to cover up all the flaws, but there are SO MANY reasons why someone should never live here. Many local "southerners" are extremely oblivious to reality and what true character means. This town is VERY corrupt, unfriendly, dirty, and UGLY. The people here are not welcoming and do not show any type of "Southern Hospitality" whatsoever. On top of all of that... the town is very segregated and closed minded. I moved to Florence, SC two years ago and I am counting the days till I'm gone!! If someone was thinking about moving to this area... I would highly recommend them to think twice!!![read more...]
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| Considering moving there. - 1/27/2010
In regards to living in Florence SC,
We now live in Cols. Ohio, and really
don't like it here, too many people, weather isn't
good, only about 75 days of sunlight a year.
Crime rate is climbing.
Need some advice.
thank You
Lea[read more...]
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| florence - 1/25/2010
good cost of living, but not a lot to do. florence still has quite restrictive blue laws. crime is fairly high. there is gang activity. if you are from the north some people will be stand offish and unfriendly. It is probably about 10 years behind similar size towns on the west coast and the north east in terms of technology and ways of doing business .unattractive downtown area. unfortunately i've lived in 5 states and i like this town and this state the least.[read more...]
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| Florence, The Good and The Bad - 4/8/2009
We have been living here since August and overall we like the city. It is only about an hour and a half from Myrtle Beach, which is nice. We like the mild climate here and it really wasn't too hot even in August. Generally, the people here in Florence are nice, but there is still alot of predjudice between blacks and whites. The crime is high here for it to be a smaller city. We had our van stolen in Septmeber right out of our drive-way and we live in a nice development. Thankfully we did get our vehicle back.[read more...]
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| Not much to offer - 11/8/2008
We've lived in Florence for about 2 years and can honestly say that this is not for everyone. The schools are horrible and we are paying a private school for the same level of education that is offered in public schools in the Upstate of SC. Gang violence is prevalent, particularly in the north side where murder seems to be a common event. The infrastructure of the city is terrible with roads that needed to be paved years and years ago continually being ignored. Downtown is downright ugly although they are working hard to revitalize the area with the new Little Theater and plans for a new performing arts center. Unfortunately, the progress is at a snails pace due to what appears to be the class warfare going on at city council. You can't just put up nice new structures in the midst of a junk yard and expect the whole area to shine. As far as the people, I've seen my share of both kinds but there is a somewhat closed mindedness in the city because I guess they were never used to having people relocate to this area until bigger businesses started moving in. The best thing about Florence? You are only an hour away from the beach.
P.S. If you are swayed by Lyles' positive comments, she worked for the city's business development department.[read more...]
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| best places in the united states - 7/5/2008
i am interested in finding where in the united states are the best places to live, visit, in relation to low crime statistics, affordability, comfort level (heat/humidity) things to do. we live in south carolina, so we are interested in places nearby like; florida,georgia,north carolina,virginia,tennessee,alabama,mississippi. we enjoy the beach, parks (like Dollywood) we also enjoy things like christ centered things like gospel music, the miracle experience inpidgeon forge tennessee. any information you could offer or let me know, if possible where i could find this info, would be greatly appreciated. contact info: griffith1751@yahoo.com[read more...]
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| Florence, SC - 11/5/2007
Cost of living is not bad. The downtown area is not very attractive. Nicer areas are to west and south of downtown.[read more...]
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| Florence is a wonderful place to work & live! - 5/11/2007
I have lived in Florence for 21 years and I think it is one of the most business friendly & fast growing communities in the area. Florence does have a lot to offer in the entertainment arena: the Civic Center brings entertainment year round- including an in-door football league, Little Theatre (new $20 million facility is currently being built), new Performing Arts Center ($20 million facility- will breakground in 2008), tons of wonderful restuarants, 2 malls plus over a hundred small shopping centers, outdoor receation- parks, rivers, Freedom Florence Baseball complex, fabulous golf courses, ect. We are 15 mintutes from Darlington Raceway- home to the Nextel Nascar Mother's day race in May (plus they have a wonderful history museum).
We have expanding industry and new industry coming to the area: QVC, Inc. & Johnson Controls, Inc have just built new facilities in Florence. Existing large business & industry include: Honda of SC Manufacturing, Roche Carolina, DuPont, GE, IFH Foodservice Distribution, McCall Farms, PET Dairy, Pepsi, Coke, Coors, Budweiser, Nan Ya Plastics and hundreds more!
Florence is home to some of the best infrastructure in the state of SC- we have I-20 & I-95, Florence Regional Airport, CSX Rail & close proximity to the Ports of Charleston, SC & Wilmington, NC- basically you go get anywhere quickly from Florence! We are home to the most hotel rooms of any other county on the I-95 cooridor.
Florence's cost of living is very reasonable and we are the only county in the state to have a real estate market that is still on the upward curve. Land & building costs are some of the lowest in the SouthEast.
Our education opportunities are endless: early public education is becoming much more agressive and improving, we offer over 12 private schools, home to Francis Marion University & Florence-Darlington Technical College.
Overall, Florence is a wonderful place to work & live![read more...]
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| Boring, Unfriendly People - 5/26/2006
This city has absolutely no recreation. They used to have an East Coast Hockey team, but the team was moved due to lack of participation from the residents. The only things to do in Florence are go to the movies (2 theaters), go to the ONE mall, get drunk, or hang out at Books a Million. Also, the people aren't very friendly, especially if you didn't go to school with them. I suggest staying FAR away from this town![read more...]
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