Asheville, NC vs Greenville, SC.

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

I was borned and raised in Greenville, SC. I love Greenville today, always have always will, it is where my family still lives.

But, as I watch WLOS TV, it's as if they are saying Asheville, NC has gone national on a number of different levels, everything from the beer breweries to exqusite restaurants, etc . I realize it is WLOS TVs responsibility to some degree to promote Asheville as much as possible.

But, to me Greenville, SC still has it on Asheville on every level, except maybe scenery, and I'm not totally willing to concede on that point.

What are your opinions about how the two cities compare?




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[GamecockTripp]

If you're looking for chicks with hairy armpits then Asheville wins hands down.

 

[Rod Dangerfield]

Asheville is better on all counts except for the fact that it is in N.Carolina.

This post was edited on 3/20 8:47 AM by Rod Dangerfield

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by Rod Dangerfield:
Asheville is better on counts except for the fact that it is in N.Carolina.

Strongly disagree with you about Asheville is better on counts, if I am interperting your comment correctly.
This post was edited on 3/19 1:38 PM by Freddie.B.Cocky

 

[funktavious]

I don't see how you could not concede that Asheville has better scenery. It's in the Appalachian Mountains!

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by funktavious:
I don't see how you could not concede that Asheville has better scenery. It's in the Appalachian Mountains!

I'm talking about the city of Asheville vs the city of Greenville. I think Greenville is 10 times prettier than the city of Asheville. Especially, the River Falls area of Greenville.

 

[USCEgghead]

Once you step away from the "touristy" side of Asheville (the "hip" restaurants, bars, craft beer offerings, shops, etc.), it's a pretty rough, backwoods, drug-fueled mountain town...drugs, violence, poverty, etc.

 

[gamecockjosh]

Asheville has the mountains and better scenery, but in my opinion Greenville has better restaurants, better shopping and much more industry. Greenville is growing faster and has almost twice as many people as Buncombe County. To me, it's really not much of a comparison. Two different types of cities. If you love the mountains and outdoors, then Asheville will be your favorite. Beyond that, I would go with Greenville.

Now...I did just think of one thing. There are probably less Clemson fans in Asheville.....but there are also less Gamecocks and more UNC and UT fans. Not sure if that ends up being a wash or not.

 

[Titleist*]

Both have their strengths...great restaurants in both, better stores/boutiques in Greenville, beer selection and breweries are better in Asheville, better access to mountains/outdoors in Asheville. But, to each their own. These national surveys and rankings are always going to be subject to reviews based on opinions and interpretations of statistical information. In the end, if you like a place, who really cares what some survey or ranking says? For instance, I think Carolina is miles and miles better than clempson, regardless of any rankings and because of rankings...it's just better!!

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by USCEgghead:
Once you step away from the "touristy" side of Asheville (the "hip" restaurants, bars, craft beer offerings, shops, etc.), it's a pretty rough, backwoods, drug-fueled mountain town...drugs, violence, poverty, etc.

That's exactly where I am coming from.

 

[cockycurran]

You could say the same for Greenville. One of the toughest neighborhoods in the country is located right there.

 

[CockofEarle]

bein' off 85 u'd think gvl, but day n day out ash has a better muzak scene*


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[CaliCock]

Asheville might be a great place to visit, i wouldn't know, I've only ever lived there and as a place to live it sucks the chrome off a trailer hitch. As a city it has more insufferable assholes per capita than any other place I've ever lived, and that includes every city I've ever lived in The People's Republic of Mexifornia.

 

[USCEgghead]

There are bad neighborhoods, crime, gangs, yadda, yadda everywhere. With Asheville, after you move away from that little trendy downtown area, what do you have? Lots and lots of poverty, gangs, drugs, bad schools, teenage pregnancy, etc. If you love to climb mountains, fly fish, live off the earth, etc., it might be the best place for you. But, for the average person looking for modern life, Greenville has more to offer...multiple parts of town that are nice and safe...good restaurants, decent schools, shopping, etc.


Bands don't stop in Greenville for two reasons...it's too close to Athens, where the cool bands play, and Greenville is not thought of as a "young person's (early 20's...you know, the types who stay out late, drinking) town.

 

[Bubbaglide]

Asheville is Ann adding hippie town. Saw on a tour dyed tee shirt "Asheville....where weird is normal"

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by Bubbaglide:
Asheville is Ann adding hippie town. Saw on a tour dyed tee shirt "Asheville....where weird is normal"

When I visited San Francisco for the first time in '85 I saw more weird stuff there in the first 20 minutes that I saw in an entire life time of living in NC, SC and going to college in Johnson City, Tenn at ETSU at that time.

But, in the late '90s and/or early 2000s Asheville was almost as bad. Maybe not as quite as bad but almost. LOL!

 

[ipull4usc]

Originally posted by Rod Dangerfield:
Asheville is better on counts except for the fact that it is in N.Carolina.

Nailed it.

 

[Judge Gaffney]

Asheville is more diverse, more liberal, more eclectic, and more socially tolerant of peoples differences. If this appeals to you, Asheville wins hands down. Greenville has more of a "down south" feel but is progressive in many ways. Greenville hasn't gone over the edge. Asheville jumped off the edge years ago, and I'm not saying that's a bad or good thing.

 

[FORKCOCK]

Asheville is very artsy fartsy.
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[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by Judge Gaffney:
Asheville is more diverse, more liberal, more eclectic, and more socially tolerant of peoples differences. If this appeals to you, Asheville wins hands down. Greenville has more of a "down south" feel but is progressive in many ways. Greenville hasn't gone over the edge. Asheville jumped off the edge years ago, and I'm not saying that's a bad or good thing.

I tend to agree with your assessment, too. But, to one of your specific points, I think Greenville is far more progressive than Asheville.

 

[heelzfor2]

Originally posted by USCEgghead:
Once you step away from the "touristy" side of Asheville (the "hip" restaurants, bars, craft beer offerings, shops, etc.), it's a pretty rough, backwoods, drug-fueled mountain town...drugs, violence, poverty, etc.

Not according to nationals stats, Greenville has more crime per 1000 residents...google it.

 

[USCBIRDS]

Asheville, NC vs Greenville, SC......That's easy.....Charleston, SC.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by ipull4usc:

Originally posted by Rod Dangerfield:
Asheville is better on counts except for the fact that it is in N.Carolina.

Nailed it.

Please sir, don't make me fight you. j/k.

 

[Cock_Donor]

Who has the better music and arts scene?

 

[TN--Gamecock]

Johnson City, TN is Asheville plus Greenville/2.....we are the culturally central of the two which is why I like it....I have mountains, the Appy trial , college town, hippies (we have a camp with old buses with smoke stacks where these folks live (Erwin, TN on Nolichuckey River), Appalachian Dharma, big mall, coffee houses (Willow Tree is my fav), hiker hostels, unique bed and breakfasts,.....

I was reared in Greer and my dad lived in Asheville for 20 yrs starting in 1978...I remember Asheville when they were boarding it up downtown...so Asheville doesn't mean the same thing to me that people who only know Asheville of the last 25 yrs....

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by TN--Gamecock:
Johnson City, TN is Asheville plus Greenville/2.....we are the culturally central of the two which is why I like it....I have mountains, the Appy trial , college town, hippies (we have a camp with old buses with smoke stacks where these folks live (Erwin, TN on Nolichuckey River), Appalachian Dharma, big mall, coffee houses (Willow Tree is my fav), hiker hostels, unique bed and breakfasts,.....

I was reared in Greer and my dad lived in Asheville for 20 yrs starting in 1978...I remember Asheville when they were boarding it up downtown...so Asheville doesn't mean the same thing to me that people who only know Asheville of the last 25 yrs....

Johnson City, Tenn is a nice place, especially today. In ways, it is just the right size, not too big to have all the crime, etc but not too small either, in that they have one of everything, example chain resturants, department stores, auto places, etc. One doesn't have to leave the city to get what they want in most cases.

Where I live in Marion, NC we have to go out of town for all major shopping have very few chain restaurants, besides McDonalds, Hardy's, KFC. We do have a Fatz and think of that as being big time. LOL!

 

[heavycock]

Greenville is like Asheville except it got a haircut, got a job, moved down the mountain and started voting Republican.

 

[TN--Gamecock]

This not being pro Vol at all...but between Asheville, Greenville, Charleston, Charllotte,...Knoxville imo wins hands down....due to being a big city, smoky mountains in the metro, college town, Tennessee River, restaurants galore, great high paying jobs, big name acts coimg to Thompson-Boling arena., artsy areas (4th & Gill), natural beauty.....

 

[Cocky kebo57]

Originally posted by Rod Dangerfield:
Asheville is better on counts except for the fact that it is in N.Carolina.


True... but... at least Asheville is further from the stank from clemmons than Greenville is.

 

[67gamecock]

Originally posted by heavycock:
Greenville is like Asheville except it got a haircut, got a job, moved down the mountain and started voting Republican.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Post of the day on this subject ^^^^^^.

Good (funny, but true) post, heavycock.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by TN--Gamecock:
This not being pro Vol at all...but between Asheville, Greenville, Charleston, Charllotte,...Knoxville imo wins hands down....due to being a big city, smoky mountains in the metro, college town, Tennessee River, restaurants galore, great high paying jobs, big name acts coimg to Thompson-Boling arena., artsy areas (4th & Gill), natural beauty.....

Sir, that is just so wrong on so many different levels.

 

[USCBIRDS]

This not being pro Vol at all...but between Asheville, Greenville, Charleston, Charllotte,...Knoxville imo wins hands down....due to being a big city, smoky mountains in the metro, college town, Tennessee River, restaurants galore, great high paying jobs, big name acts coimg to Thompson-Boling arena., artsy areas (4th & Gill), natural beauty.....
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Nobody agrees with you! You realize that Charleston is the number one tourist destination in America for four years running...Right? It has also been first or second in the world, over the same time period.

 

[Cock_Donor]

Originally posted by TN--Gamecock:
This not being pro Vol at all...but between Asheville, Greenville, Charleston, Charllotte,...Knoxville imo wins hands down....due to being a big city, smoky mountains in the metro, college town, Tennessee River, restaurants galore, great high paying jobs, big name acts coimg to Thompson-Boling arena., artsy areas (4th & Gill), natural beauty.....

 

[usc1855]

Asheville is about 8 times better in every way.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by usc1855:
Asheville is about 8 times better in every way.

You are kidding, of course!

 

[rangercock]

Freddie, the only thing that gives A'ville any "national cred" is the PC, alternate lifestyle shtick. The view of the mountains is obscured by the run down buildings, etc, so that doesn't enter the picture until you are LEAVING town. G'ville is hands down a better, more family and pedestrian friendly, but the best thing it has going for it is that it's in the great state of South Carolina!

I've lived in Hendersonville now for over 30 years and A'ville proper is now overtaken with Earth Muffins. Those who brag are generally describing the "surrounding area". Asheville proper can't hold a candle to Greenville!

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Originally posted by rangercock:
Freddie, the only thing that gives A'ville any "national cred" is the PC, alternate lifestyle shtick. The view of the mountains is obscured by the run down buildings, etc, so that doesn't enter the picture until you are LEAVING town. G'ville is hands down a better, more family and pedestrian friendly, but the best thing it has going for it is that it's in the great state of South Carolina!

I've lived in Hendersonville now for over 30 years and A'ville proper is now overtaken with Earth Muffins. Those who brag are generally describing the "surrounding area". Asheville proper can't hold a candle to Greenville!

Bingo, you NAILED it.

 

[SClanding]

Re: Asheville is where you go after dinner on Saturday night to

see the weirdos......

Truly Asheville is where the pretentious hipster doofuses go in the area whom get run out neighboring small towns because they are insufferable bores which have decided that they know every single thing in every field of study in the history of the with their vast 2 years of life experience.

It you love the type of ignorant boobs whom look at drug addicted and often mentally ill homeless persons not as people whom are in serious need of help but instead as just more local color much like a graffiti on a wall, the Asheville is your place. It is a place of constant idiocy such as die-ins blocking traffic on Tunnel Rd to protest the use of cars on the Blue Ridge Parkway which were killing all the Cedar trees....except it turned out to be the result of an parasite imported likely from a infusion of weed or heroin from Southeast Asia......

The latest idiocy was the local chapter of Code Pink fools trying to close down a local power plant by scaling the former smoke stacks and unraveling a banner screeching about the release of such pollution into their majestic environment.....except that after they were rescued by the local EMT, these fools were educated that it was not pollution but like all the power plants in SC\NC, that it was nothing more than the release of water vapor which was the by-product of the plants chemical reaction cleanup of the smoke\pollution.....these ignoramuses did not understand of course until one of their own told them it was just water.

The final idiocy was having to explain the kids why the 18 year old bagboy at the local grocery store was outside in the parking lot on a break unable to walk two feet without taking a nosedive into the pavement, while we was pulling at his hair, skin and clothes and screaming about the imaginary bugs and rolling around the parking lot nearly getting run over and then sprinting into the side of cars.....

If you decide on Asheville....you MUST look into the area around the Grove Park Inn or between there and UNC Asheville....at least you will be surrounded by sane regular people.


And as a side note...outside of Asheville Country, Grove Park Inn and Biltmore Forest the golf community is a dead.

 

[AsheGamecock]

Originally posted by 67gamecock:

Originally posted by heavycock:
Greenville is like Asheville except it got a haircut, got a job, moved down the mountain and started voting Republican.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Post of the day on this subject ^^^^^^.

Good (funny, but true) post, heavycock.

Not true at all, other than maybe the transplants (and the progressive people who continue to move in this area) around downtown. However, most people around Buncombe county and the surrounding areas, you know people born and raised in the area, are every bit Republican.

 

[UpstateGC]

Re: Asheville is where you go after dinner on Saturday night to

Originally posted by SClanding:
see the weirdos......

Truly Asheville is where the pretentious hipster doofuses go in the area whom get run out neighboring small towns because they are insufferable bores which have decided that they know every single thing in every field of study in the history of the with their vast 2 years of life experience.

It you love the type of ignorant boobs whom look at drug addicted and often mentally ill homeless persons not as people whom are in serious need of help but instead as just more local color much like a graffiti on a wall, the Asheville is your place. It is a place of constant idiocy such as die-ins blocking traffic on Tunnel Rd to protest the use of cars on the Blue Ridge Parkway which were killing all the Cedar trees....except it turned out to be the result of an parasite imported likely from a infusion of weed or heroin from Southeast Asia......

The latest idiocy was the local chapter of Code Pink fools trying to close down a local power plant by scaling the former smoke stacks and unraveling a banner screeching about the release of such pollution into their majestic environment.....except that after they were rescued by the local EMT, these fools were educated that it was not pollution but like all the power plants in SC\NC, that it was nothing more than the release of water vapor which was the by-product of the plants chemical reaction cleanup of the smoke\pollution.....these ignoramuses did not understand of course until one of their own told them it was just water.

The final idiocy was having to explain the kids why the 18 year old bagboy at the local grocery store was outside in the parking lot on a break unable to walk two feet without taking a nosedive into the pavement, while we was pulling at his hair, skin and clothes and screaming about the imaginary bugs and rolling around the parking lot nearly getting run over and then sprinting into the side of cars.....

If you decide on Asheville....you MUST look into the area around the Grove Park Inn or between there and UNC Asheville....at least you will be surrounded by sane regular people.


And as a side note...outside of Asheville Country, Grove Park Inn and Biltmore Forest the golf community is a dead.

You're "dead on" from what I've heard from my reliable sources who know the area. Another comparison I've heard for years is that Asheville is trying very hard to become the "San Francisco of the East."