Here's What Columbia, South Carolina Looks Like These Days 

Columbia SC is the size of brooklyn

He’s a pretty funnel guy 😂 This is my hometown he’s covering

My take is that theres better places than Columbia, but the west coast cities aren't any of them. And now even New England too. so it looks like its going to be a battle between what southern cities are the best. So Columbia won't win there stacked up to all the competition. Augusta might even beat Columbia as its got the Atlanta/GA advantage going for it, even though its practically the same city as Columbia.

@@LongLeggedOne Augusta is a whole 2 hours from Atlanta not even close lol

@@leonation89 You know what I mean though, still.

@@LongLeggedOne Augusta is nowhere near Columbia. Even Augusta residents whether travel take the trip to Columbia. People from Columbia says it’s basic, and I’ve said the same until I lived in multiple cities the size of Columbia, other than Colorado Springs (population probably grew since I’ve lived there), none of the those cities can compare to Columbia.

Columbia is Columbia and by far it’s a nice place to live… the shopping centers are great the malls are great to n the restaurants are great. I’m living in the Augusta area right now and it’s only one mall here…. But it’s nice here to but Columbia is much more prettier than Augusta

I just moved here within 4 months almost. I have a few videos on my channel as well about the streets of Columbia when I was in Northeast. I like Columbia but at the same time, it all depends where you go. I like it a lot beside Irmo I been finding, the West Columbia end. Was soooo lucky to find a place as inventory was tough for awhile.

I like the Irmo side better toward West Columbia than say if I had to live in Lexington. Lexington seems more insane than Irmo/West Columbia to drive in at least. So before the lake vs after it is what I would say the better part of town is. Lexington isn't bad, I'd live there but I prefer it toward Irmo more.

Ironically I just left from that very Publix 3hrs ago

I didn’t know that they printed confederate dollars there!!

The Bassett Warehouse

Haha mine too! Columbia is not a bad city, and it’s been steadily improving over the last decade especially. Lived here my whole 18 years of existence so I’m fine with it :)

I was born in West Cola but grew up all over the Columbia Metro area

In my country 20 mph zones are common...funeral cortege speed is great...

Alot of people pass me when I am in the car 😅

@@karotfartr Me too, I always go 5 over exactly and people still zoom past me lol 😂

Some parts are dreamy and nice, no question, but to say I haven't found issues I'd be lying.

Oh yes it is 😊

Thankfully, we don't have cold weather to deal with here in Columbia. HOWEVER, summers with the heat and humidity here are intense. Columbia's motto, "Famously Hot" is spot on!

@@elizabethcameron6045 tell me about it I work as an auto mechanic here in Aiken South Carolina, and the sweat just runs down my back, it's so hot and humid

@@Americafirst-i8q Columbia's worse

Yeah you say that… try living there lol. I woulda traded that Columbia heat for your Calgary cold any day

It usually has a lot more traffic then this, Nick must have filmed this on a weekend in the early morning. I rarely see it this dead Edit/Addition: For me personally, I’d much rather prefer the cold over the heat, it gets hot here in the summer and into the 20’s at times in the winter. But you might be so tired of the cold in Calgary that you’d welcome the heat

Portland Oregon is more dangerous now though. Columbia once I think was more dangerous, but sometimes I wonder if trends are reversing, like the once safe places are becoming dangerous and the once dangerous places are becoming safer due to abandonment and other factors. I left a pocketbook in a cart one time, in NE Columbia, not even far northeast where it was the nicest but before that. Someone surprise surprise, returned it to the manager and I got it back with all the money in it too. In Portland that could have been stolen altogether.

Crime is everywhere you go ! No city is safe .

@@jessiescott9313 True, some more than others still though. Go to NJ, crime seems to be happening there like all the time and a lot of the lying scumbags haven't left.

This is why there should be phones that stun people who steal them. Smart watch activate item number 6. Zap!

Try Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. It looks like the zombie apocalypse 💀

Hi. Do you meet anyone online from the area? I moved new to Columbia not long ago.

@@LongLeggedOne Le kidnapping

Lol 😆. I lived (up till a month ago for college) just 25 min from downtown. In West Columbia. Now I’m a lot closer to Greenville then Columbia so I can avoid Nick’s searching 😂🤣

Me too!

My grandma used to live in Hollywood Hills which I hear is a gang neighborhood now. So sad. I have so many memories there.

What about irmo?

@@u2fkeys665 Near lake Murray it’s nice, I did multiple ride alongsvwith IFD

Did you think maybe you were dreaming while you watched it?

@@NickJohnson a little bit! I sure miss it there. haven't been home in 2 years (Covid). :(

Yes I've been there.. way back years ago, though!

It is my hometown. After being there for a while it is your basic medium size capital city. Maybe if you stay on a certain side of town it is more peaceful than other sides. More people go to Charlotte or Atlanta for entertainment or shopping. Didn't feel it was progressive enough for me so I moved away.

What bothers me about that though is how people and more drivers should be conscious to the fact that it IS a walkable city, even if not the most. It still is, and a lot of drivers don't even yield to the fucking pedestrians when they have the right of way a lot of the time. They will run you down if you don't stop them in their tracks and look angry at them. And I did live in Portland also, the west side, Sherwood/Tigard area. I also lived in SE Portland off Division at one time. I do not like living in Portland and the area though, I liked it to visit years ago, I had fun BUT I also had to spend a lot of money out at bars too. Portland is a fake plastic place which Columbia at least isn't. I find in Columbia, the hood in NE Columbia is distant kind of like Portland can feel. It reminds me of a little more shabbier version of Northeast 82nd. Not too bad, but at the same time distant, and if in a hotel out there, gotta watch your surroundings. I found a lot of hoodrats.I did kind of in Portland too though years back staying at the Comfort Inn up there just with more black people in Columbia. I went to Magnuson in NE Columbia this time. It was dumpier than the Comfort Inn in Portland, but it also had that same gritty feel kind of too just with Columbias NE looking a bit more shabby. Walked all around NE Columbia in the nice warmer weather. I can't even do that in Portland now outside of 3 months of the year due to how cold it is.

@@LongLeggedOne Lol it isn't even that cold here. Anyone from Canada or the Midwest can testify to how mild the winters are.

​@@suprensa4393 But it isn't if you're used to Florida kind of weather. Moving to Columbia is like more what I am used to. And also, people downplay how cold it is in the NW.. People tend to lie a lot in that region. A lot of pinocchio like characteristics in Portlanders. Making it look like people can ride a bicycle all year long and its no big deal when its so not true. And downplaying the weather to where people are underdressing so you constantly think, its ok to go out, well it isn't unless you put heavy gear on. I would be freezing cold if i followed the crowd. People have that nordic blood so they can tolerate it and tend to be the types who don't like sunshine. The people who like the cold don't go to the Northeast unless its the very tip or close to it or they go to the NW. The beaches are cold, its colder for longer even if it seems like its 47 to some people. 47 in Portland/Seattle is like 35 in New England and it is humid cold in the air. Just 3 warm months, almost 4 months of sun I would say. That = depressing as hell.

@@LongLeggedOne I feel like the summers up here are hot. I feel like summer anywhere within 38 degrees of the equator would be insufferable.

You are from Portland. Comparably everywhere is clean

It looks nice but I wonder if there's anything to do down there

Hell no

@@Americafirst-i8q No

I looked at Raleigh, decided to pass on it as it had too many traits of Portlands west side that I wanted to get away from.

@@LongLeggedOne mmmm

I also thought Arizona too and I did find cactuses. I thought San Diego maybe as well when it comes to Columbia, just with San Diego feeling more snobby by far and more eccentric. Id imagine if you're not in Gaslamp, it probably feels dead and things close early. Columbia might even be like Tucson as well.

On adam

@@NickJohnson what do u think abt west Columbia SC?

Why are you comparing NYC to Columbia SC?

Yeah I mean, they are very different geographically so that makes sense

Fun!

So true! The heat here can be brutal but other than that I love it.

Maybe next time!

Why will it be like this in South Carolina, Greenville SC has 75k and its metropolitan area has almost a million people, I don't understand.

He’s not counting the metro population for Columbia which is around 810,000 something around that number which I would call medium sized at least and Charleston’s metro is about the same number as Columbia

They're small big cities. 140000-160000 people

He seems to like Columbia.

@@LongLeggedOne lmao

It was mainly the because of MLK street and the apartments called gardens and ABC. I grew up in The gardens around the Benedict area they tore the place down it was wild back then glad they making the place safe tho

@@Eman1900O SC is beautiful too. Columbia kinda reminds me of Raleigh

This was a Saturday he said

Cause South Carolina is nothing more than a watered down, Deep South version of NC.

A bumper crop of crooked cops & crooked pols

Yes early Sunday morning !

They're in bed doing the who who

People don't seem to like to come to downtown, yet enough of them do. Its weird. I can tell they don't put a lot into their downtown and the things to do and the places to eat are all on the outskirts. Parking spaces manage to be full, but not a lot of good bars open, its nuts in that regard.

He did a couple about Toronto and Ontario. Remember that most Americans cannot enter Canada since last year.

@@alexfortin7209 oh yes now i do thank you

Yes we can tell there's nothing going on

That's because this video was taken in the morning when everyone was asleep

No this is normal on a Sunday

You must be from France or Spain because if you were American, you would know that most American cities are not full of people strolling about.

Charlotte has some rough areas too it's not perfect in any way

You think Columbia's bad try living in Los Angeles

@@Americafirst-i8q or Portland.

Rather than nicer I would simply say larger and more crowded. I enjoy both cities though.

@@Americafirst-i8q San Francisco too is bad

That pawn shop was there first.

@@GreyGoose545 Really...? 🤣

@@CarlJones14 Yes, that pawn shop has been there since the 60's or 70's but the surrounding businesses are from the 80's or newer, all of them.

@@GreyGoose545 urban planning at its most effective.

@@CarlJones14 "Urban planning"?!?! What form of magic is that?