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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Myrtle Beach is tiny. It's unlikely to even have the largest numbers of move-ins in its own state, let alone the country.
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City populations in South Carolina are always deceptive. State law more or less forbids annexation, so city populations stay small even as their sprawl balloons. In Greenville for example, probably about eighty percent of what people think of as "Greenville" is not actually in the incorporated City of Greenville.
Populations:
Myrtle Beach -- 35,682
Horry County -- 351,029
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach MSA: 447,823
I mean, ask yourself: Could a city of only about 36,000 people support an international airport the way Myrtle Beach does? And could that airport have served as the main hub for Hooters Air in the early 2000s the way Myrtle Beach International did? Of course not! You need a sizeable metropolitan area of spectacular trashiness to pull off a feat like that!
Other fun comparisons that make people think South Carolina cities are much smaller than they actually are:
Charleston -- 150,227
Charleston County -- 408,235
Charleston MSA -- 813,052
Columbia -- 136,632
Richland County -- 416,147
Columbia MSA -- 837,092
Greenville -- 72,824
Greenville County -- 558,036
Greenville-Anderson-Greer MSA -- 958,958
Spartanburg -- 39,040
Spartanburg County -- 356,698
Spartanburg MSA -- 383,327
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA -- 1,590,636