Greenville Off-Topic

[krazeeboi]

If my calculations are correct, the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA, consisting of Greenville, Laurens, Pickens, Spartanburg, Anderson, Cherokee, Oconee, and Union counties, comes out to 1,185,534, which is about a 12,000 increase from 2004.

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So Spartanburg, Anderson, Cherokee, Union, and Oconee Counties together only gained 1,000 people according to the Census estimates? That doesn't make sense at all.

[krazeeboi]

Well, I performed my calculations again and came up with the same number. I'm using the 2004 MSA estimates as listed in the thread in the SC forum. Somebody may want to follow me up.

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I would expect that Spartanburg and Anderson Counties have gained at least 1,000 new residents EACH in a year. I can't imagine that many people leaving these counties to keep the number so low. Oh well, it's the Census estimate, afterall.

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Okay, now I know the number is higher. Look at this chart and see that the Upstate counties have all increased population. Note that the purple ones depicting largest increases exclude the Upstate counties for some reason.

Click here

[krazeeboi]

If anyone else would care to do the calculations and show me where I have possibly erred, by all means do so. The estimates can be found here. I added the numbers for a third time and still got 1,185,534.

[Spartan]

That table shows growth since 2000 though.

I ran the numbers in Excel, and here is what I found based on change from 2004:

SC:

POP: 4,255,083

Change: +57,191

Pecent: +1.4

Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA:

POP: 1,185,534

Change: +12,696

Percent: +1.1

Primary Counties Change

Anderson:

POP: 173,547

Change: +1,967

Percent: +1.1

Greenville:

POP:407,383

Change: +6,364

Percent: +1.6

Spartanburg:

POP: 266,539

Change: +2,703

Percent: +1.0

The only county in the Upstate CSA that lost was Union (-102, -0.4%)

[interestedexpat]

I saw something interesting/sobering today that comments on how unfamiliar people are the NC/SC cities.

I'm from Greenville/Anderson but live in Asia now. Through the magic of the Internet and the generosity of CBS sports, the NCAA games can be streamed live for the first three rounds. This is great because our local cable has 8 sports channels all showing European league soccer. They take short breaks for Table Tennis and Darts and skip most major US sports events.

Anyway, it's 7:30am and I'm watching UNC Wilmington VS George Washington in Greensboro live via the CBS internet service and the TV tag identifying the place of the game says, Greensboro, SC.

It's pretty disappointing to me that national media would make a mistake like that and it would still be up at halftime.

[krazeeboi]

Hush, it's good publicity for us, even if it's inaccurate.

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And I heard one of the sports anchors actually say "Greensboro, South Carolina!" How uneducated these people are about our cities.

[krazeeboi]

I just KNOW that burned the North Carolinians up; they absolutely hate to be mistaken as us.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Don't forget to wear GREEN in the capital city of GREEN! It's kind of funny that green has always been my favorite color.

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Such a GREEN day in Greenville! $100 million on St. Patrick's Day, on the verge of Spring.

[RestedTraveler]

Don't forget Rip'it! He's GREEN, too.

[Greenville]

And the GREEN MONSTER at the new ballpark!

[RestedTraveler]

Did anybody dye the Reedy River (intentionally)? Well, that's not to say that it hasn't been dyed intentionally before, but ...

[goodbye]

I recall someone mentioning that Greenville should have an IKEA store. Thought you'd find this site quite cool. Definitely one of my favorites!

[Spartan]

That is very cool

[sc smitty]

I saw this story over the weekend about the Landmark Tower in Fort Worth being imploded. I thought it was a bit ironic that we can't wait to get a new tower built here, and Fort Worth demolished one of its own to replace it with a parking lot.

Story

[gs3]

I saw this story over the weekend about the Landmark Tower in Fort Worth being imploded. I thought it was a bit ironic that we can't wait to get a new tower built here, and Fort Worth demolished one of its own to replace it with a parking lot.

Story

Thanks sc smitty! I feel sorry for Ft.Worth. City leaders letting a 30 story skyscraper be imploded only to replace with a parking lot. I thought those days were over and people had wised up. Sad.

[RestedTraveler]

Fort Worth...talk about a place where cattle literally roam the streets...how fitting that they now have one less high rise and are going to be getting one more parking lot...

*MOO*

[Spartan]

That is unfortunate for Fort Worth. Its always fun to see a building fall down though

[gs3]

Fort Worth...talk about a place where cattle literally roam the streets...how fitting that they now have one less high rise and are going to be getting one more parking lot...

*MOO*

[NYTransplant]

Fort Worth...talk about a place where cattle literally roam the streets...how fitting that they now have one less high rise and are going to be getting one more parking lot...

*MOO*

[EDPro]

Anyone seen this yet:

www.tonytrout.com

While I certainly appreciate what he and 7(?) other County Council members did to pass the MLK Day resolution, I'm starting to hear stories that he is a bit of a loose cannon. His blog is definitely pretty entertaining.

(disclaimer: I do not live in his district)