Reviews & Comments
Greenville, SC
re: Beautiful city, nice climate, people are cold -
3/1/2018Tracy Completely agree, except I also dislike the climate.
Greenville, SC
re: More things they don't tell you... -
3/1/2018Yes. I have experienced this and it is awful. The notes are downright libelous, you are dead right about that.
Greenville, SC
re: This city is a nightmare with a makeover -
3/1/2018Yes... largely agree. I have lived here for about 2 decades and it is a horror show in many ways. It has improved in some ways, and I think you are being somewhat hyperbolic for effect, but then I would too. There are progressive (not the same as democrats or many liberals so none of this dnc cheerleader bs i see in the comment below) minded, cultured people here and libertarian rational people, but they tend to be pocketed away amongst 1:20 on bad days or areas and 1:10 on good days ratio and therefore, hard to find.
I have had to make peace with the reality that I will be here awhile longer. But it sucks.
But what you said about the façade I really strongly agree with. It is one of the things that bothers me the most here. And the awful disparity on an economic level is terrible, and this area does not offer ways to ease the path from lower middle class and lower class to stability. The public transit is terrible, the roads are terrible, the offering for those struggling is just so small as to be non-existent. There is a lot of hidden despair that gets buried under the façade of new shopping complexes and a kind of half assed renovation of downtown and some uber wealthy.
I think that the people that are being defensive probably have too little familiarity and up close experience with the high levels of despair and disparity. This is true of supposed liberals in the area too. This is not just a "conservative" blindness.