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urban, you wouldn't say that if you lived that closed to Cherokee County, SC.
That's not fair though. Cherokee county is the "armpit" between metro Charlotte (York county) and metro GSP (Spartanburg county). We certainly have our fair share of armpit counties too (all states have them).
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That's not fair though. Cherokee county is the "armpit" between metro Charlotte (York county) and metro GSP (Spartanburg county). We certainly have our fair share of armpit counties too (all states have them).
It might not be fair, but it can't be ignored. Cherokee county is responsible for part of the high unemployment in Gaston & eastern Cleveland counties. It's about as devoid of employment sources & it could be. People in the north of the county come to Kings Mountain & Gastonia. In the southern half of the county they go to GSP. There aren't that many jobs in Gaffney. The roads are horrifying, schools are bad. . .
As for taking money from the major metros of the state just to build roads to nowhere; not a good idea. A casino however..... I like it!!!! Score 1 more point for SC:
Let's see how NC vs SC looks so far...
-Better road building for urbanized areas; +1 SC
-Innovative, greedy, and creative Native Americans; +1 SC
-Themeparks (the better rides of Carowinds are on the Fort Mill side of the park); +1 SC
-Governor (too easy); +1 SC
-Beaches/coastal cities (Hello!!! Myrtle and Charleston) +2 SC
-Governor (correction);+287,436,437^3 SC
-Unemployment; +1 SC
^^^Um, why am I NOT living in Fort Mill; it's only 4.7 miles from my house?
I wouldn't go quite that far on governor. The governor of South Carolina really isn't that great. In fact, most people I know there hate her.
As for taking money from the major metros of the state just to build roads to nowhere; not a good idea. A casino however..... I like it!!!! Score 1 more point for SC:
Let's see how NC vs SC looks so far...
-Better road building for urbanized areas; +1 SC
-Innovative, greedy, and creative Native Americans; +1 SC
-Themeparks (the better rides of Carowinds are on the Fort Mill side of the park); +1 SC
-Governor (too easy); +1 SC
-Beaches/coastal cities (Hello!!! Myrtle and Charleston) +2 SC
-Governor (correction);+287,436,437^3 SC
-Unemployment; +1 SC
^^^Um, why am I NOT living in Fort Mill; it's only 4.7 miles from my house?
Maybe your perception is based on everything Charlotte, but Greensboro has the best interstate/highway system of any city in the Carolinas... never quite understood why?
Aren't the Sandhills home to the Lumbee Native Americans? If they really wanted an economic stimulus, why don't they get together and build a casino? The Cherokees did and the Catawbas of SC are working on it....(
Lumbee aren't federally recognized, which is required to open a gaming facility, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the New York Tuscarora lobby every year to keep it that way.
Maybe your perception is based on everything Charlotte, but Greensboro has the best interstate/highway system of any city in the Carolinas... never quite understood why?
State legislators from the area got a more than fair share of DOT funds. Same reason why 64 from Raleigh to the ocean will be 4 lanes in a decade.
I don't know if I'd say the highways around Greensboro are "nice" though. Maybe the 85 bypass and Bryan blvd. out toward PTI. The rest is as about as crappy as it's always been for years.
Really the only thing SC has going for it is Charleston, and even then the novelty wears off quick. The rest of the state's like if you took eastern NC and dumped it in one of those tiny former Soviet republics in southeastern Europe.
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I like it!!!!
