Not a good place to settle.
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11/25/2020
I lived there for a year and hated every minute. Columbia reminded me of the San Francisco of the Midwest. It is overrun with homeless people. Law enforcement is ineffective, but that's because they lack manpower. Crime is ridiculous. I lived in what was supposed to be a decent area, but there was a running gun battle in front of my place one afternoon. I lost count of the number of times the police were observed responding to incidents on my street.
Another thing is the city is oddly overrun with Brown Recluse Spiders. I have lived all over the world, but have never seen an area infested with them like there.
Columbia is a college town and everything is focused on that. There was nothing there I found attractive to compel me to stay. Even the weather was extreme with too much snow in the winter and too hot and humid in the summer.
Nathan | Edinburg, IL