It was recently announced that minor league baseball is returning to Spartanburg and that a new stadium is going to be built downtown. Hopefully, this will provide an economic boost to the downtown revitalization. The present stadium, Duncan Park, is almost 100 years old snd is very historic. Also, Spartanburg was the first city in SC to be named a bicycle friendly city by the American Bicyclist Association.
Both cities potentially have the capability of being great like Greenville, but are held back by bad crime rates. Hopefully city officials can get a hold of it and work on redefining their cities like Greenville did.
@smitty30rocks, Thank you for sharing that. Out of state folk like myself appreciate heads up, to take into consideration while doing our own due diligence.
I live in Spartanburg, born and raised, and don’t think that the area is “held back by crime”. Spartanburg is booming with new subdivisions and apartments. New industries have been announced and Publix and Target have announced new stores in the Boiling Springs area. The most reliable source of information about crime in Spartanburg is the city police annual crime report released in January and available on TH-cam. Several years ago an organization called Neighborhood Scout published crime statistics for Spartanburg based on data from an area larger than the city. The city sued Neighborhood Scout over the inflated statistics. The city is addressing crime. Most of the older crime ridden public housing projects have been demolished or remodeled. The city has implemented an innovative community policing program , was the first in the upstate to establish a Homeless Court and the first to hold a gun buyback. A new city police headquarters is under construction. The city is presently planning a redesign of the main square downtown and a revitalization of the gateways into the downtown and has had a revitalization effort underway for the Northside neighborhood for several years. In the late 1960’s and early ‘70’s Spartanburg led the way in transforming upstate SC’s economy from being textile based to more diverse by bringing foreign investment in, German and Swiss companies that located along 1-85 at Spartanburg.
I lived in spartanburg. Crime is high here. But certain areas are nice but others, not so friendly. I can't even walk my kids outside without looking around. I've seen a guy walking daylight outside with a gun in his hand.
@@goodmeasure777 I have lived in Duncan in Spartanburg county for over 20 years and love it. We moved here from Southern California. If you do some research, we are one of the safest towns in South Carolina.
It's not crime - It's the fact that people in Spartanburg don't WANT it to turn into another Greenville. I've heard it for years. Sptbg is just now starting to turn itself around, but the natives over there are not happy about it at all.
Gud moring Our daughter is visiting Anderson ,SC In march for her birthday which she thinking moving with her boyfriend I have been looking in youtube about SC thank you for making this video .
Spartanburg has 7 colleges: Wofford, Converse, USC-Upstate, Spartanburg Methodist, Spartanburg Community College, Sherman Chiropractic College and VCOM (Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine). It is also home to the SC School for the Deaf and Blind.
I'm thinking of relocating from Maryland to SC but not familiar with all the towns/cities. I am mainly looking for the areas, if any, they have fiber Internet service providers. Does anyone have any knowledge of that?
ATT has fiber optic internet in some areas. I don’t know all of the areas or what other Internet providers have it. I live in the city of Spartanburg and ATT recently switched my Internet to fiber optic.
@@livinginsouthcarolinayes I agree Anderson remind me of Spartanburg it is growing very fast too both are but Anderson sc has a lot coming so they are catching up the city of Anderson as of 2024 is 30,000 and Spartanburg 38,000 people living in those city limits
It was recently announced that minor league baseball is returning to Spartanburg and that a new stadium is going to be built downtown. Hopefully, this will provide an economic boost to the downtown revitalization. The present stadium, Duncan Park, is almost 100 years old snd is very historic. Also, Spartanburg was the first city in SC to be named a bicycle friendly city by the American Bicyclist Association.
Both cities potentially have the capability of being great like Greenville, but are held back by bad crime rates. Hopefully city officials can get a hold of it and work on redefining their cities like Greenville did.
@smitty30rocks, Thank you for sharing that. Out of state folk like myself appreciate heads up, to take into consideration while doing our own due diligence.
I live in Spartanburg, born and raised, and don’t think that the area is “held back by crime”. Spartanburg is booming with new subdivisions and apartments. New industries have been announced and Publix and Target have announced new stores in the Boiling Springs area. The most reliable source of information about crime in Spartanburg is the city police annual crime report released in January and available on TH-cam. Several years ago an organization called Neighborhood Scout published crime statistics for Spartanburg based on data from an area larger than the city. The city sued Neighborhood Scout over the inflated statistics. The city is addressing crime. Most of the older crime ridden public housing projects have been demolished or remodeled. The city has implemented an innovative community policing program , was the first in the upstate to establish a Homeless Court and the first to hold a gun buyback. A new city police headquarters is under construction. The city is presently planning a redesign of the main square downtown and a revitalization of the gateways into the downtown and has had a revitalization effort underway for the Northside neighborhood for several years. In the late 1960’s and early ‘70’s Spartanburg led the way in transforming upstate SC’s economy from being textile based to more diverse by bringing foreign investment in, German and Swiss companies that located along 1-85 at Spartanburg.
I lived in spartanburg. Crime is high here. But certain areas are nice but others, not so friendly. I can't even walk my kids outside without looking around. I've seen a guy walking daylight outside with a gun in his hand.
@@goodmeasure777 I have lived in Duncan in Spartanburg county for over 20 years and love it. We moved here from Southern California. If you do some research, we are one of the safest towns in South Carolina.
It's not crime - It's the fact that people in Spartanburg don't WANT it to turn into another Greenville. I've heard it for years. Sptbg is just now starting to turn itself around, but the natives over there are not happy about it at all.
Gud moring
Our daughter is visiting Anderson ,SC
In march for her birthday which she thinking moving with her boyfriend
I have been looking in youtube about SC thank you for making this video .
I am interested in Anderson. Do you have a moving guide?
Spartanburg also has USC-Upstate and Converse College.
Spartanburg has 7 colleges: Wofford, Converse, USC-Upstate, Spartanburg Methodist, Spartanburg Community College, Sherman Chiropractic College and VCOM (Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine). It is also home to the SC School for the Deaf and Blind.
Do you have advice as to where I should look for a job in the suburbs of Greenville as a teacher? I live in NJ currently and want to get out
what about for retirees? is anderson prone to flooding. We like tranquility.
I'm thinking of relocating from Maryland to SC but not familiar with all the towns/cities. I am mainly looking for the areas, if any, they have fiber Internet service providers. Does anyone have any knowledge of that?
ATT has fiber optic internet in some areas. I don’t know all of the areas or what other Internet providers have it. I live in the city of Spartanburg and ATT recently switched my Internet to fiber optic.
Which she is a medical tech
Someone gets shot every day in Anderson, every week in Spartanburg.
It happens every day somewhere in upstate SC or in Asheville.
According to this ridiculous comment, Anderson is responsible for 0.8% of all of America's annual reported gun deaths.
Anderson is country and smaller than Spartanburg too😅@@livinginsouthcarolina
Spartanburg way bigger than Anderson... can't even compare
Spartanburg County has just north of 300k people, while Anderson County has just north of 200k. While it is bigger… hard to say they aren’t comparable
@@livinginsouthcarolinayes I agree Anderson remind me of Spartanburg it is growing very fast too both are but Anderson sc has a lot coming so they are catching up the city of Anderson as of 2024 is 30,000 and Spartanburg 38,000 people living in those city limits
Fix the southern border or whole country is ruined.