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Originally Posted by EastSideHBG
I guessed it without looking anything up but I have been through parts of Greenville before and recognized some of the landmarks from pics I had seen. It looks like a neat, charming place so next time I am down there I am definitely going to explore it further. Congrats on the move and what are your thoughts so far?
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To be honest, I haven't had much time to really spend out in the city, so I don't have as many thoughts on things as I'd like. I can tell you though that Greenville definitely
feels like a city. It feels much larger than Asheville and I suppose that's a given, considering that only on paper is Asheville larger. Greenville has a much smaller municipal population but an exponentially larger metro area.
That being said, traffic in Greenville also feels like big city traffic, and it doesn't fuck around. On the bright side though, people use their turn signals much more often than anyone does in Asheville. In Asheville, only the tourists use their turn signals and the locals know not to, because knowing that only tourists use them, it makes the locals driving nearby drive more aggressively. If you use your turn signal in Asheville it draws attention to yourself.
Otherwise, an aspect of Greenville that I've seen enough to love is the fact that Greenville is so much more diverse than Asheville and still, even after decades spent visiting Greenville now and then, you're almost guaranteed to hear at least three different languages being spoken in Greenville whenever you go out shopping or to eat. That hasn't changed about the place and I think that's great. Another aspect is that Greenville in many ways is delightfully ghetto. For instance, on the north side of town is a beauty supply store in an old Eckerd's pharmacy building called Boom Boom Beauty, a name, I think we can all agree, that simply has class out the ass. To give another example, my husband and I were grabbing dinner at a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru when the lady -- who was sporting glittery nails and fake eyelashes, both about three inches long -- accidentally dropped our food out the window. "Shit!" we all exclaimed in unison, made eye contact, then had a good laugh while she went back to remake the order. Little things like that just make the place endearing.