Are you a native? I wonder if you know some guys I went to school with. I'm 38 and I'm from Cincinnati Ohio. I used to visit Charleston all the time 🌴👍🏾🍾
Charleston is beautiful I’ve live in downtown Charleston until the age of 9 and move onto James Island till this present day and I am 34 now. But my heart is downtown where I was born and raised.
Isn't that the TRUTH? ;^> I watch videos like this all the time, and my brain actually starts to _absorb_ the various drives, and I recall them almost like my own memory. I experience the Google street-view shots and 3D cityscaping much the same way: even if I travel the actual paths myself, I recall the "virtual" travels with equal accuracy. SOOOO cool!!!
@@tmichele8922 Depends on what you call expensive, but no less than $175,000. There is quite a long commute if you work in Charleston because the traffic is terrible.
Yes summerville is so charming. On a much smaller scale than charleston but none the less "beautiful places, smiling faces" glad to have your smiling face here!
Charleston is one of the most beautiful cities I've seen. Funny that you mention James Island cause we got a speeding ticket there on our visit. The cop looked like he just walked off the set of Smokey and the Bandit. It was something like $150 for the ticket and this was over thirty years ago.
Gina Bayer is the neighborhood in Edward Scissorhands your idea of a nice place to live? Daniel Island is like coloring by numbers. Just keep your round peg in your round hole.
My brother left Australia after being scouted by UT for their golf program over 20 yrs ago...then he headed over to Carson-Newman ...then ended up as head coach at Charleston Southern...he met his wife and married and i have 2 beautiful southern belles as nieces.. Ive never had a chance to visit him and his heart will always belong in Perth but.what a beautiful place he now calls home 🐨🐨 great video 😊
What a great video! I havent been back in Charleston for years- if anything its more beautiful than i remember. Thank you Niick- the video and the music. Mr. Johnson- you sure have talent!
I spent most of my life in the Charleston suburbs. Summerville, and North Charleston to be exact. I was born in N. Charleston my parents are from Ohio. My dad joined the Navy, and his first assignment was here. We moved every couple of years, but always found ourselves back in Charleston. I love it here, but with decades of uncontrolled growth it is a nightmare to get anywhere around here. I wish people will stop moving here we are full, and that is no joke.
This is a pretty well done short tour of my home city. Yes, parts are not so good. True, the secrets out and everyone else is moving here. 99% of all cities probably have bad areas, but there are tons of great to go with the not so greats. The people are awesome here, the food is amazing and the views of the harbor never get old. There's history in every direction and getting out into the country is only a short drive. Next time you make it here, hit me up, I'll get you out on the water for Chapter 2! Ya'll come back, now!
@@NickJohnson No, on a blimp...YES, on a boat! ;) I have an eco tour company here in Charleston. I'll get you this same tour from the water, and the view is just as good!
I moved here a few years ago and yes there are the good and the bad parts of Charleston but overall I love it. I work downtown at Virginia’s on King and Kings Street is full of southern charm. I enjoy working there. Just visited parts of Summerville and it has built up a lot as well. Overall, it’s a beautiful place to visit and certain to settle down into but it’s up to you. I love it here!! Lots more to do. Thank you for this video
Nick Johnson jeez Nick, how do you define charming? I’m glad you are so perceptive, to see what is laid bare before you, as so many blind pointing out directions to other blind.
I think the complaints are he really didn't show Charleston. He showed the white picturesque part. I can trace my slave descendants back to johns island. I was born and raised in Charleston. This is not a true reflection of the city at all. He only showed what tourist want to see. I'd change the title to a tourist view or Charleston.
That area has had alot of history between the american revolutionary war time when the British occupied Charleston to the civil war. Seems like a great city to tour.
I lived in charleston for 21 years, and still have family there. It’s a beautiful historic place! But to be fair, IT DOES HAVE GHETTOS ALSO, JUST LIKE MANY OTHER CITIES. North Charleston, Johns island, WEST ASHLEY , WHERE I LIVED , ALL HAVE GHETTOS. Downtown Charleston has slowly been gentrified, just like many other places in this country. And just like anywhere it has good and bad. Still a beautiful city though!!! Excellent video!!!
Ponderosa 2016 My family and I have lived in Charleston all our lives and still here. When you want to mention ghetto areas, Johns Island is not one of them, it’s a country area but not ghetto. There’s a difference
Wait, what about the peninsula itself? Ghettos? If you think that what is in Charleston, even the roughest parts of the tri county area aren’t THAT bad. Ghetto? Where are you from when you say something like that? Arizona? West Ashley? Ghetto? Good god man. The very worst parts of West Ashley are not like instant danger, as the real ghettos are in major cities. Get a grip. Your comment reeks of superficial observation. Sorry. Seriously. I apologize for the abrasive nature of my comment, but that pales in how offensive yours was. Bubble much?
@@samanthalinen4058 @Ponderosa2016 Samantha, I totally agree. I live on Johns (near Angel Oak) and it's a less commercialized James Island, and an upgrade from West Trashly- I saw that jokingly because Ashley is not as bad as it used to be. That Poderosa2016 person sounds like some Mt. Pleasant / Isle of Palms elitist.
You know, people have a right to live where they want. I live in Charleston half the year for work, and I believe I add to the community rather than take from it. I volunteer, I take an interest in local issues, I don't hurt anyone and I spend my money locally. Being from Seattle, I totally understand why you don't want Charleston to grow too big too fast, but not every outsider is a bad person, and not every native Charlestonian is virtuous. I'm saying this with love, but get over yourselves.
Thank you for a beautiful drive through one of my SC cities. Please visit Florence, Columbia, Aiken, Rock Hill, Spartanburg, and Greenville to name a few. South Carolina (SC) is a wonderful place to live and vacation. Thanks again.
@@NickJohnson If you are a history buff, you will enhance your visit by visiting our many historic sites. The battles of the Cowpens and Kings Mountain are located in the upstate. Just 20-30 miles apart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cowpens en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain
If you like old buildings with "southern charm", there's always market street, and just outside the city there's plenty of plantations. How's that for charming?
Thank's Nick! I remember shopping along the strip with so many stores & great food! I also remember (SOB) thats South of Broad :) ! Miss that place! I stoped looking in Florida, & focusing on South Carolina! Hope to be ready by 2024 if all goes well! 🙏🙏🙏
This is a trip....... I'm a dump truck driver in charleston and surrounding areas so it is fun to look on the internet and see and recognize areas I drive through all the time.
I moved to Cane Bay recently and Summerville from Massachusetts. I have to say I am in love with this place. Perfect school system And great neighborhoods. So much more affordable than Massachusetts
My father was in the Navy and I was born in Charleston we moved around the world and I finished my last year of high school in Summerville South Carolina approximately 20 miles west of Charleston. I went to college for two years and then I joined the Navy myself. South Carolina is a nice place to visit between say mid September and mid April other than that it’s scorching hot with the highest humidity you’ve ever experienced.
Nice video Nick. This is probably my favorite (Drive) videos. I love history and this place definitely has it. I appreciate you narrating it a little more than others you did. Make sure you make it up to Chicago soon. Alot of history in there too with prohibition and depression era. Like the Biography Theater still stands almost perfectly persevered where one of my heros John Dillinger got gunned down by the FBI in July 22 1934.
Everything about Charleston has gone down hill in the last 7-8 years . Quality of life, traffic, housing cost, cost of food, flooding, losing its charm due to the amount of people moving here combined the rate they’re showing up. Drinking water quality is very very poor. Harbor water quality is getting worse due to Constant sewage spill from an overwhelmed system. Enormous loss of trees and green space just to make room for over priced apartments and hotels. The list goes on and on.
Charleston is more than just the downtown district with the expensive homes. It is the people and the food and the arts and Crafts and the history. It is the trees and rivers and marshes and islands.Charleston is Mount Pleasant and West Ashley and North Charleston and even Summerville. Charleston is an amazing place, but we are full!! Come visit anytime, y’all!
This is the same tour that I was given when I got suckered into accepting a job here 14 years ago. Biggest mistake of my life. The "southern charm" here is just a face mask covering the ugliness of the people here. So much arrogance and entitlement. The infrastructure can't handle the growth. All those million dollar homes get flooded out regularly by king tides and storm surges. Tourism makes it unbearable for the locals. I could go on for days. Yes, it is extremely beautiful and full of history, but I wouldn't recommend living here.
Been in Charleston a number of times....trucker......once right after hurricane Hugo...snapped off those tall trees about half way up.....lost a lot of them then.....can sense the history of the place...
Shhh! Don’t tell people about our nation’s most beautiful secret, Charleston...I was born and raised here. There is no other place in America that I want to live. But we are full...I miss the days of the quieter Charleston.
Charleston in the 90s, back when growth was just taking off post-hugo, was the best time and place that ever was. Foreigners have completely changed the attitude and character of the city, not to mention made traffic a nightmare.
I love Chucktown. I have family there and visit often. Gets really hot in summer and downtown has a constant smell of urine. I highly recommend a visit to one of the local plantations and also make sure you go see Angel Oak. A tree that will blow your mind.
Beautiful-looking city, you picked a wonderful day for the drive too. It'd be great to see you do a Seattle driving tour (on a similarly nice day of course) if ever you go up there
I have family in Charleston so it's nice to see this side even if my family and I never get to live here. I know my ancestors roamed these streets and played a huge part of its existence today. As in most nicer areas my family do not take time to frequent these area as they feel unwelcome but each time I visit, I make sure to roam the area where my ancestors were brought, sold and worked. Thank you for a closer glimpse.
Hot as Hades in the summer months with all the 90 degree water around it. Prefer the cooler temps way up north in Wilmington and Raleigh :). I visit Chucktown 1-2 times a year when I need some Lowcountry food and to trip over cobblestones.
Nick Johnson I moved from California to north Carolina for work it’s not too far to move it was nice if you ignore all the bigots with confederate flag junk
andydguitar what the hell does any political leaning have to do with this horrifically uninformed video? For your information, and in spite of its history, Charleston is the most liberal city in South Carolina, and while that’s not saying much, it’s better than nothing. I mean, I guess I could live where you do now. Oh, the horror.
Andrew Higdon dude calm down most black people don’t like seeing that crap is all I’m saying and sadly I saw it a lot some people are just stuck in their own ignorance
Our daughter is studying there for a year, so we were lucky to have been able to spend both Thanksgiving and Christmas there. While it was very lovely being there at that time of year, It felt a little strange sitting outside having croissants and coffee at the end of December!
No skyline, one Audi, and no minorities. Reminds me of Cumming (population 200,000) in Forsyth County GA. Cumming is the County Seat and employees one Black and two Hispanics. In 1990, the entire county has one Black resident.
@@CocoTaveras8975 Cheaper than California but thats not saying much. Area floods from time to time. Has alot of snakes, cockroaches, etc. Parking costs and enforcement are ridiculous. But it sure has its beauty. Just make sure you get the best flood/hurricane insurance and you will be good. It does have some ghetto areas to the nw. Its a place to visit but not to live for most.
Andrew Higdon Usually the suburbs of big cities are nice and don’t have snakes or roaches. I grew up in the suburbs in the Northeast and never saw a snake and only saw roaches when I went into the actual city.
So pretty. Reminds me of the French Quarter of New Orleans, only probably a lot safer. BTW, take Mappy and Mrs. Mappy to do a tour of Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA. Just as lovely and historic
I went to Charleston once on Christmas and couldn’t believe it got so cold there, ditto Savannah the next day. Stayed at the John Rutledge House Inn which I highly recommend. The Downtown area is a nice place to walk with drop dead gorgeous architecture and we actually found a great Thai restaurant that was open Christmas night. The National Park Service does its usual bang-up job at the visitor center connected to Fort Sumter. Even JFK would rendezvous with a pre-Jackie girlfriend (who was suspected of being a spy) at the Fort Sumter Hotel on King Street. Speaking of which, great name for a street. Right up there with King William, Virginia (where I stopped on the way back from Charleston/Savannah). Whew! A lot of driving in my (then) brand new BMW.
I love living here! I moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma and it's like living in a movie everyday, it's almost always beautiful and the people are usually very nice. A bit more expensive than we are used to but just as long you aren't living in Charleston proper you probably aren't going to pay any more than living most other cities.
LeoNation89, why wouldn't you want to move there? I'm close to getting out of California and Charleston is on my short list of places to move. And no, I will NOT be wanting where I move to become California. I'm leaving it to leave it, so don't worry folks.
Here's my entire Unboxing America Series: ruclips.net/p/PLq-_cmf3H6yqgM1vGG305six5T7dqGURF
Thank you Nick for featuring Charleston🙂It is a lovely place to live in & move to!
What a BEAUTIFUL city. It feels like a mix of Europe and the old South... I've got to visit this place soon!
I live in Charleston and it is absolutely beautiful.
Charleston is tiny, over crowded and boring
Melanin Kay wym there is so much things to do in Charleston...
Are you a native? I wonder if you know some guys I went to school with. I'm 38 and I'm from Cincinnati Ohio. I used to visit Charleston all the time 🌴👍🏾🍾
@@melaninkaygirlboss1798 You live in Charleston?
Sean McFarland savage
It’s weird watching this when you walk these streets almost everyday
Dang I missed you!
Moving Here next month
@@quonncheeba9081 boring
@Melain probably where YOU are 🤣🤷🏾♂️
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I remember a tour from years ago to Charleston, Jekyll Island and Savannah. The most beautiful part of the south that I have ever been.
I realize I take for granted how beautiful it is since I see it everyday
Lucky you...
Charleston is beautiful I’ve live in downtown Charleston until the age of 9 and move onto James Island till this present day and I am 34 now. But my heart is downtown where I was born and raised.
I spent the whole week on James island
I love my city
Loved the video. I can't travel much for reasons, so this is my way of traveling. Thanks Nick.
Good! Well you're GOING to NEW YORK this Friday. Well at least the worst parts of New York.
@@NickJohnson Thanks. And you're welcome to come over and visit 😊
Isn't that the TRUTH? ;^> I watch videos like this all the time, and my brain actually starts to _absorb_ the various drives, and I recall them almost like my own memory. I experience the Google street-view shots and 3D cityscaping much the same way: even if I travel the actual paths myself, I recall the "virtual" travels with equal accuracy. SOOOO cool!!!
I might be going there in a few weeks to visit the Citadel. Great work once again, Nick.
ive heard great things about the citidel Lou.
My father in law is an officer there. Great school!
Nick Johnson Nick Johnson they run the triple Option and I’m very close with their coaching staff
Beautiful city and beautiful music.
I love this area 😍. Moved here from NYC over 30 years ago and never got homesick. Nick, come to Summerville next time you visit.
Chara Baxter are the homes expensive in Summerville?? Thinking of relocating
@@tmichele8922 Depends on what you call expensive, but no less than $175,000. There is quite a long commute if you work in Charleston because the traffic is terrible.
Chara Baxter yes I’m in Ohio doing transit but if I come there it’s a $14 cut to do city transit
@@tmichele8922 Unfortunately depending on what you do, salaries aren't that great. A $14 cut is a lot to me. Do your research.
Yes summerville is so charming. On a much smaller scale than charleston but none the less "beautiful places, smiling faces" glad to have your smiling face here!
Charleston is one of the most beautiful cities I've seen. Funny that you mention James Island cause we got a speeding ticket there on our visit. The cop looked like he just walked off the set of Smokey and the Bandit. It was something like $150 for the ticket and this was over thirty years ago.
I like James Island
Gina Bayer is the neighborhood in Edward Scissorhands your idea of a nice place to live? Daniel Island is like coloring by numbers. Just keep your round peg in your round hole.
My brother left Australia after being scouted by UT for their golf program over 20 yrs ago...then he headed over to Carson-Newman ...then ended up as head coach at Charleston Southern...he met his wife and married and i have 2 beautiful southern belles as nieces..
Ive never had a chance to visit him and his heart will always belong in Perth but.what a beautiful place he now calls home 🐨🐨 great video 😊
Hopefully you learned something!
@@NickJohnson i certainly did...the history alone is fascinating 😊
This is my home town born and raise, My hubby and kids still live here we luv it!
Very good video Nick. Thanks for sharing. And the music: WOW. I could put this video on loop and have it as background music for a while.
It's all RUclips audio library stuff
What a great video! I havent been back in Charleston for years- if anything its more beautiful than i remember. Thank you Niick- the video and the music. Mr. Johnson- you sure have talent!
What a beautiful city Charleston is.
I spent most of my life in the Charleston suburbs. Summerville, and North Charleston to be exact. I was born in N. Charleston my parents are from Ohio. My dad joined the Navy, and his first assignment was here. We moved every couple of years, but always found ourselves back in Charleston. I love it here, but with decades of uncontrolled growth it is a nightmare to get anywhere around here. I wish people will stop moving here we are full, and that is no joke.
That's true David!
Yeah the traffic is so bad
Nice change of pace thanks for sharing. I love the South a lot. Keep up the great work.
Hey Andre. Me too :) Charleston is cool!
It looks so nice. I used to live in Columbia back in the 70's. I would like to visit Charleston.
This is a pretty well done short tour of my home city. Yes, parts are not so good. True, the secrets out and everyone else is moving here. 99% of all cities probably have bad areas, but there are tons of great to go with the not so greats. The people are awesome here, the food is amazing and the views of the harbor never get old. There's history in every direction and getting out into the country is only a short drive. Next time you make it here, hit me up, I'll get you out on the water for Chapter 2! Ya'll come back, now!
Like on a boat? Email me haha
@@NickJohnson No, on a blimp...YES, on a boat! ;) I have an eco tour company here in Charleston. I'll get you this same tour from the water, and the view is just as good!
Good grief, it's so beautiful, I would love to visit it sometime.
I moved here a few years ago and yes there are the good and the bad parts of Charleston but overall I love it. I work downtown at Virginia’s on King and Kings Street is full of southern charm. I enjoy working there. Just visited parts of Summerville and it has built up a lot as well. Overall, it’s a beautiful place to
visit and certain to settle down into but it’s up to you. I love it here!! Lots more to do. Thank you for this video
Welcome 😉
Looks awesome, beautiful houses with character. New Hope, Pennsylvania has nice historical houses too.
Nice and relaxing video.
It's chill. Outside of downtown it's less and less charming pretty quick.
Nick Johnson jeez Nick, how do you define charming? I’m glad you are so perceptive, to see what is laid bare before you, as so many blind pointing out directions to other blind.
I think the complaints are he really didn't show Charleston. He showed the white picturesque part. I can trace my slave descendants back to johns island. I was born and raised in Charleston. This is not a true reflection of the city at all. He only showed what tourist want to see. I'd change the title to a tourist view or Charleston.
Yeah cause this particular video is aimed more towards tourism. He's got other videos that mention more of the desparities of the city.
Charleston is absolutely breathtaking.
This makes me want to go visit. Looks very, very nice!
It's charming!
That area has had alot of history between the american revolutionary war time when the British occupied Charleston to the civil war. Seems like a great city to tour.
👍👍 thanks nick..!! I always love this kinda videos drive videos.
me too sometimes its just nice to chill.
@@NickJohnson yep that's true.!
I'm sorry I'm sorry. I just couldn't resist that last comment. I'm from Charleston and great job Nick! we love showing off our city.
I lived in charleston for 21 years, and still have family there. It’s a beautiful historic place! But to be fair, IT DOES HAVE GHETTOS ALSO, JUST LIKE MANY OTHER CITIES. North Charleston, Johns island, WEST ASHLEY , WHERE I LIVED , ALL HAVE GHETTOS. Downtown Charleston has slowly been gentrified, just like many other places in this country. And just like anywhere it has good and bad. Still a beautiful city though!!! Excellent video!!!
i was being nice :)
Gina it'll be there when you return 😉
Ponderosa 2016 My family and I have lived in Charleston all our lives and still here. When you want to mention ghetto areas, Johns Island is not one of them, it’s a country area but not ghetto. There’s a difference
Wait, what about the peninsula itself? Ghettos? If you think that what is in Charleston, even the roughest parts of the tri county area aren’t THAT bad. Ghetto? Where are you from when you say something like that? Arizona? West Ashley? Ghetto? Good god man. The very worst parts of West Ashley are not like instant danger, as the real ghettos are in major cities. Get a grip. Your comment reeks of superficial observation. Sorry. Seriously. I apologize for the abrasive nature of my comment, but that pales in how offensive yours was. Bubble much?
@@samanthalinen4058 @Ponderosa2016 Samantha, I totally agree. I live on Johns (near Angel Oak) and it's a less commercialized James Island, and an upgrade from West Trashly- I saw that jokingly because Ashley is not as bad as it used to be. That Poderosa2016 person sounds like some Mt. Pleasant / Isle of Palms elitist.
Stay away we are full
Cool! I'll be moving there tomorrow! Lol
Lol😂
We have to do folks like they did Mary and Joseph no more room at the inn.
You know, people have a right to live where they want. I live in Charleston half the year for work, and I believe I add to the community rather than take from it. I volunteer, I take an interest in local issues, I don't hurt anyone and I spend my money locally.
Being from Seattle, I totally understand why you don't want Charleston to grow too big too fast, but not every outsider is a bad person, and not every native Charlestonian is virtuous.
I'm saying this with love, but get over yourselves.
Jonathan Weir Do you own Charleston?
Thank you for a beautiful drive through one of my SC cities. Please visit Florence, Columbia, Aiken, Rock Hill, Spartanburg, and Greenville to name a few. South Carolina (SC) is a wonderful place to live and vacation. Thanks again.
I plan on it I've really only seen the coast so far. My favorite coast of all!
@@NickJohnson If you are a history buff, you will enhance your visit by visiting our many historic sites. The battles of the Cowpens and Kings Mountain are located in the upstate. Just 20-30 miles apart.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cowpens
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain
Great video Nick 👍 like always
You should do a walk through of James island, Folly beach & Magnolia plantation.. beautiful places right outside our city!
You're right!
Dont forget Daniel Island
If you like old buildings with "southern charm", there's always market street, and just outside the city there's plenty of plantations. How's that for charming?
Charleston is a beautiful city, and we've met so may pleasant people there over the decades.
Thank's Nick! I remember shopping along the strip with so many stores & great food! I also remember (SOB) thats South of Broad :) ! Miss that place! I stoped looking in Florida, & focusing on South Carolina! Hope to be ready by 2024 if all goes well! 🙏🙏🙏
Charleston is beautiful. Also nick how are you
it IS and I am fine how are you Stun?
This is a trip....... I'm a dump truck driver in charleston and surrounding areas so it is fun to look on the internet and see and recognize areas I drive through all the time.
I know!
Thanks for the excellent video! Heading here in 3 weeks.
Beautiful thanks for sharing
I moved to Cane Bay recently and Summerville from Massachusetts. I have to say I am in love with this place. Perfect school system And great neighborhoods. So much more affordable than Massachusetts
I liked it a lot,you do a very great job 👍🏻🙋🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🕊️😁
📸💿🕹🏰✈️🚝🛵
Teen girl saint Julie Wilson is watching from her heavenly abode and spiritually saying congrats for taking a close look at her former home state.
We love Charleston! My family would vacation there all the time. May be going this August
Hey Nick, that video was superb, thanks for posting it.
Hey Rob!
Thanks for the ride along. Beautiful area.
I live in Myrtle Beach South Carolina
And love going to Charleston
Charleston is great!
I grew up in the West Ashley section of Charleston down near Middleton Plantation.
It's been quite some years but I still miss it powerfully.
My father was in the Navy and I was born in Charleston we moved around the world and I finished my last year of high school in Summerville South Carolina approximately 20 miles west of Charleston. I went to college for two years and then I joined the Navy myself. South Carolina is a nice place to visit between say mid September and mid April other than that it’s scorching hot with the highest humidity you’ve ever experienced.
I've felt it
Charleston is amazing can't wait to go back this summer
Absolutly charming this video , like it 👍
Nice video Nick. This is probably my favorite (Drive) videos. I love history and this place definitely has it. I appreciate you narrating it a little more than others you did. Make sure you make it up to Chicago soon. Alot of history in there too with prohibition and depression era. Like the Biography Theater still stands almost perfectly persevered where one of my heros John Dillinger got gunned down by the FBI in July 22 1934.
Mike I will make it to Chicago again eventually but it's gonna be east coast hoods for a while - DC Baltimore up next
Sorry I missed you! Excellent video♥️
I saw you Diane - you acted like you didn't know me I was 😥😥😥😥
Great video Nick. Charleston looks amazing😁
It's pretty cool Jill, although this was the first time I saw the BAD sides so it felt less charming than the last time I was here :)
Ohhh that's not good🤔
Everything about Charleston has gone down hill in the last 7-8 years . Quality of life, traffic, housing cost, cost of food, flooding, losing its charm due to the amount of people moving here combined the rate they’re showing up. Drinking water quality is very very poor. Harbor water quality is getting worse due to Constant sewage spill from an overwhelmed system. Enormous loss of trees and green space just to make room for over priced apartments and hotels. The list goes on and on.
Charleston is awesome. I live here and uber downtown. Nightlife is crazy. We also got carnival cruises that leave from here
I saw one parked there when I was there
Charleston is more than just the downtown district with the expensive homes. It is the people and the food and the arts and Crafts and the history. It is the trees and rivers and marshes and islands.Charleston is Mount Pleasant and West Ashley and North Charleston and even Summerville. Charleston is an amazing place, but we are full!! Come visit anytime, y’all!
Born n raise in Charleston!!
Charleston South Carolina or Savannah Georgia???
This is the same tour that I was given when I got suckered into accepting a job here 14 years ago. Biggest mistake of my life. The "southern charm" here is just a face mask covering the ugliness of the people here. So much arrogance and entitlement. The infrastructure can't handle the growth. All those million dollar homes get flooded out regularly by king tides and storm surges. Tourism makes it unbearable for the locals. I could go on for days. Yes, it is extremely beautiful and full of history, but I wouldn't recommend living here.
I wish I knew you were here. I live here, I would’ve been happy to give you a tour! ☺️
Well it would have been awkward with you staring at my hot driver all day though 😉
Nick Johnson that depends...who was your driver??
By the way stop moving to Charleston..... We Full!!
You know how many apartment homes are being built everyday? Always room for more!!!
TheScarredEconomist there putting apartments right in the traffic jamming area. Our roads ain’t ready for that 🥺
@Rob Y. Your right charleston is trash lol
DaMighty Kram Do you own Charleston?
Shut up boomer
I would love to move there, i visit 2x a year.. but it would be a major pay cut.
lived here all my life on james island and too many folks are moving here.
Same way in Phoenix too.
Welcome to my hometown!!!!!!!!!
Hi Samantha. Sorry we missed one another 😘
Nick Johnson maybe we can meet the next time you are in Charleston.
Been in Charleston a number of times....trucker......once right after hurricane Hugo...snapped off those tall trees about half way up.....lost a lot of them then.....can sense the history of the place...
Charleston, finally a good one
Shhh! Don’t tell people about our nation’s most beautiful secret, Charleston...I was born and raised here. There is no other place in America that I want to live. But we are full...I miss the days of the quieter Charleston.
Charleston in the 90s, back when growth was just taking off post-hugo, was the best time and place that ever was. Foreigners have completely changed the attitude and character of the city, not to mention made traffic a nightmare.
Nice driving! 5:58 😂
I love Chucktown. I have family there and visit often. Gets really hot in summer and downtown has a constant smell of urine. I highly recommend a visit to one of the local plantations and also make sure you go see Angel Oak. A tree that will blow your mind.
Beautiful-looking city, you picked a wonderful day for the drive too. It'd be great to see you do a Seattle driving tour (on a similarly nice day of course) if ever you go up there
Alan if I ever do go to Seattle you'll be the first to know!
I have family in Charleston so it's nice to see this side even if my family and I never get to live here. I know my ancestors roamed these streets and played a huge part of its existence today. As in most nicer areas my family do not take time to frequent these area as they feel unwelcome but each time I visit, I make sure to roam the area where my ancestors were brought, sold and worked. Thank you for a closer glimpse.
Hey, .. that's my hometown! 👍👍👍 Now living in the SF Bay Area.
Did you stop and eat anything? I moved here 6 months ago and love it.
Sure I did!
Charleston has amazing food.
Its been about 30 yrs since Hurricane Hugo struck the area. I don't know if you remember that event.
I do
Hot as Hades in the summer months with all the 90 degree water around it. Prefer the cooler temps way up north in Wilmington and Raleigh :). I visit Chucktown 1-2 times a year when I need some Lowcountry food and to trip over cobblestones.
Haha they are very trippy
Are you going to do the whole state of South Carolina like this
Maybe one day
The population number quoted does not include the surrounding boroughs, where everyone lives.
Wow I could only imagine how even more charming this place would be during Christmas
Side-note: I think you exposed the secret to all the Californians
haha i think this is too far away for them to wander.
Nick Johnson I moved from California to north Carolina for work it’s not too far to move it was nice if you ignore all the bigots with confederate flag junk
andydguitar what the hell does any political leaning have to do with this horrifically uninformed video? For your information, and in spite of its history, Charleston is the most liberal city in South Carolina, and while that’s not saying much, it’s better than nothing. I mean, I guess I could live where you do now. Oh, the horror.
Andrew Higdon dude calm down most black people don’t like seeing that crap is all I’m saying and sadly I saw it a lot some people are just stuck in their own ignorance
Our daughter is studying there for a year, so we were lucky to have been able to spend both Thanksgiving and Christmas there. While it was very lovely being there at that time of year, It felt a little strange sitting outside having croissants and coffee at the end of December!
Oh boy another one! Thanks for the interesting uploads!
it was just a nice moment on a nice day. it cant always be negative on this channel :)
You should visit south bend it's like half and half good and bad areas
A second into the video and my heart go so full. I miss my hometown. #843forever
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@1:07 whats so great about the Battery? Every car has one.
wow , I was born there . my birth place .
how come you left darryl?
Thanks for stopping by! 🤗
Has European qualities, US east coast towns are beginning to be old enough to be properly historic, some are 400 years soon.
Charleston South Carolina looks pretty nice are their homes really expensive there just wondering?
YES $$$$
No skyline, one Audi, and no minorities.
Reminds me of Cumming (population 200,000) in Forsyth County GA. Cumming is the County Seat and employees one Black and two Hispanics. In 1990, the entire county has one Black resident.
Congratulations? I bet that one black is that "friend" they all claim if called prejudiced. 😉
One of my former homes. I love it
Keith Ratamess Nice 👍👍. Also, if you don't mind me asking, is it expensive living there?
Coco Taveras Yes
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Cheaper than California but thats not saying much. Area floods from time to time. Has alot of snakes, cockroaches, etc. Parking costs and enforcement are ridiculous. But it sure has its beauty. Just make sure you get the best flood/hurricane insurance and you will be good. It does have some ghetto areas to the nw. Its a place to visit but not to live for most.
Pauly P are there places that are nice to live in without snakes or cockroaches? Alaska?
Andrew Higdon Usually the suburbs of big cities are nice and don’t have snakes or roaches. I grew up in the suburbs in the Northeast and never saw a snake and only saw roaches when I went into the actual city.
Can you do a video where you drive through Columbia, South Carolina?! Because that's my home city!
Can you drive through Conway S.C. next
Not next but I will!
So pretty. Reminds me of the French Quarter of New Orleans, only probably a lot safer. BTW, take Mappy and Mrs. Mappy to do a tour of Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA. Just as lovely and historic
Huh I had no idea. Okay maybe I will!
@@NickJohnson You'd be surprised at how pretty NJ can be!
I went to Charleston once on Christmas and couldn’t believe it got so cold there, ditto Savannah the next day. Stayed at the John Rutledge House Inn which I highly recommend. The Downtown area is a nice place to walk with drop dead gorgeous architecture and we actually found a great Thai restaurant that was open Christmas night. The National Park Service does its usual bang-up job at the visitor center connected to Fort Sumter. Even JFK would rendezvous with a pre-Jackie girlfriend (who was suspected of being a spy) at the Fort Sumter Hotel on King Street. Speaking of which, great name for a street. Right up there with King William, Virginia (where I stopped on the way back from Charleston/Savannah). Whew! A lot of driving in my (then) brand new BMW.
Sounds fun!
Your going to make me go home next weekend ..this is my hometown where I was born raised until 19,
my parents and most of family still live there
DORCHESTER RD BY THE WAYLYN IS VERY BEAUTIFUL 🤗🤗🤗
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I will be visiting in September and staying on King street. Can somebody tell me how is traffic around 4-7pm going from king street to FLETC?
I love Charleston its a beautiful city. I would not want to live there though.
how come?
@@NickJohnson aren't you from North Carolina yourself??
Yes
I love living here! I moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma and it's like living in a movie everyday, it's almost always beautiful and the people are usually very nice. A bit more expensive than we are used to but just as long you aren't living in Charleston proper you probably aren't going to pay any more than living most other cities.
LeoNation89, why wouldn't you want to move there? I'm close to getting out of California and Charleston is on my short list of places to move. And no, I will NOT be wanting where I move to become California. I'm leaving it to leave it, so don't worry folks.
Go to theater 99! It’s amazing!