Here's What Columbia, South Carolina Looks Like These Days
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2021
- Columbia has a super pretty downtown!
For this edition of dashboard tours, I took I-20 east from Atlanta and headed to Columbia, the capital of the great state of South Carolina. It was a beautiful morning - it had rained the night before, but on this day, the sky was shining bright, pal. It was 9:45 on Saturday, January 9, 2021.
Columbia has a population of 135,000 people, making it just about tied with Charleston as South Carolina’s largest city. It’s growing, but not very quickly. It’s an old city - founded in 1854. The infrastructure here was old for a long time, but revitalization began in the 90s, as old warehouses and dilapidated buildings were replaced with artsy places and restaurants and shopping and condos and other mixed use buildings. Jobs wise, it’s steady, not booming. There are a decent number of health care, manufacturing and banking jobs in the area.
Here’s the rest of downtown Columbia, South Carolina.
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Columbia SC is the size of brooklyn
Oh I just LOVE this guy ! What a marvellous sense of humour he has . His videos are always entertaining but at the same time very informative . Hope he never gives up making them .
He’s a pretty funnel guy 😂 This is my hometown he’s covering
My daughters live in SC.. It's nice to see that Columbia is busy with construction, with clean streets and maintained landscaping..!!
It feels I was on the drive with you. I love the history intro bit, very cool drive, thanks for sharing!
My hometown I’ve lived near for 18 years till about a month ago, where I moved to the Upstate for college. Pretty nice city, it’s been steadily improving for over a decade now. Love to see you covering my city Nick!
I stay about 30 to 40 minutes in Fairfield County. And Columbia is BEAUTIFUL inside and out.
This guy has it all figured out! Taking trips all over and writing them off as a business expense. I love it! I have an upcoming trip to Columbia at the end of the month so it's helpful to be able to get a lay out before hand. Especially of the traffic so I know what I'm going into. Loved the video!
_Must've been an early Sunday morning drive_
*Thx4Sharing the drive Nick* 👍🇺🇸
i love this kind of videos , very addictive , Fun to see what life is like in another country.
Nice, got to see a bit of my old college commute along Assembly and Gervais passed the Capital building 👍
I love your videos, it let me no what other cities look like this one is good
I love watching your state videos.
oh my I used to work in the building at 7:15. thanks for the video. brought lots of memories when I was in SC in 2000
Too bad you didn't go out to the lake. Lake Murray is one of the most beautiful lakes I have ever been to. The best thing about Columbia, away from downtown, is that the people here are extraordinarily nice. I am originally from Virginia, but went to USC for grad school, and always wanted to come back. I live out on the lake, and can be in Charlotte, Charleston, Atlanta, Asheville for day trips. It's amazing. Thanks for posting this video, we all love the work you do bringing real places to life.
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.
Looks like a beautiful drive Nick!
I have lived in Columbia all of my life. One of my paternal great great grandfathers settled here in 1892 and part of the family have been here ever since. I have grandchildren growing up here. I love Columbia. Thank you for posting this well-filmed video. Warms my heart!!
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.
Thank you Mr.Johnson for your driving videos!
This is my hometown. Columbia is your basic medium sized capital city, and after staying here for a while it becomes basic. Housing is cheaper than other states if you decide to retire here maybe one place you may consider. As far as entertainment or shopping you are better off going to bigger cities like Charlotte or Atlanta. Columbia literally replants it retail stores and restaurants everytime they build a new development on another side of town and leaves other sides of town vacant so be prepared to drive way on the other side, and it is pretty hot in the summer.
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
Great camden video. Thanks
if this city is like this during the work week... this is faaantastic!! Planning visiting SC soon, thanks for the video.
Thanks for visiting my city
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
Hi Nick, I’m glad I stopped by the Columbia South Carolina video I’m considering moving down and about Columbia South Carolina. My best friend has relocated down there now for four years ago she loves it and now I’m thinking about joining her down there with new beginnings , Thank you nick for this video it’s very informative..
Great Vid Nick ! 🙂👍
Went to Basic Training and AIT at Jackson and that's exactly what I used to do on our passes, I'd go to the airport, rent a car, and just drive around. Granted I know I probably wasn't supposed to but I turned 35 when I was in AIT, I was a big boy.
Woah Nick uploading quick nowdays
The long brick building on the corner @ 1:00 used to be where they printed Confederate dollars. Now it’s a Publix.
Ironically I just left from that very Publix 3hrs ago
I didn’t know that they printed confederate dollars there!!
The Bassett Warehouse
We stay in Columbia knew where you were the whole time. Surprise more people didn’t pass you if you were really driving this slow lol. Our drivers are inpatient here.
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 😂
Good morning Nick... Hey I'm first.. Can I have a medal?... 🏅... Thanks for the great tours, it's like driving around while lying on my couch, LOL... 😊🇺🇸🤠🐨🇦🇺
I left Columbia when I was 12! I am almost 72 now! I would love to see t again! I have traveled many places out of the United States, but never went back to Columbia!
I live there right now!! I wish I knew you were coming!
Me too!
Its a great place to live it you like a quiet life in a place where the people are friendly the shopping could be a little better but there are still good places to shop and if you want more shopping Charlotte is an hour away but who want to do in depth shopping in person everyday or time they shop when there is Amazon and online shopping that comes to your door........I love my hometown and wouldn't trade it for anywhere........I have lived in Charlotte for a short while and it was nice but it wasn't home.......Columbia is a place you will love or not and I like that about it because I like places people and things that have their own charm and not so much things that EVERYBODY do just because.
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I love Columbia SC , my daughter was born there and she’s still living there , I live in El Salvador 🇸🇻
Yeah! I saw the Grateful Dead in Columbia on Halloween in 1985. A classmate and I drove down from Charlotte after we got out of class (11th grade).
Nice driving
You missed the five points area & lots of other side street areas but great video !
I left from down there on june,4 2017 AND WENT BACK TO MY HOMELAND here in new york!
Love the downtown area
I like how the google earth image of this city has the river colored orange !
It resembles Calgary, empty and clean. Though I guess nowhere near as cold, which is a HUGE plus!
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
It would have been nice to mention what streets you are traveling on while you were driving around in circles, at least for your audience.
I was born in Columbia, SC I liked it for awhile but not much opportunities for jobs and neighborhoods can get rough the next block over
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
Don’t get me wrong Columbia is beautiful I’m from Florence but loved her since I was 14. I’m 22 now and I appreciate my state the more I explore it BUT I also find more violence doing so it’s bittersweet 🤷🏾♂️
Sometimes it's amazing how much does not change. I left Columbia 17 years ago and it's a bit surprising how much looks exactly like when I left.
You're getting too close to me Nick, I'm getting scared now.
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 😂🤣
Yes Columbia is a beautiful place. It can be very dangerous too. I was outside a restaurant. A man knocked me down and took off with my cellphone.
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 💀
Hello.. great subject. What camera do you use?
You missed the other end of Main Street past the hospital area. At that end of the city, there is the Greek Orthodox Church and other buildings. You need to take a trip around the University grounds as well.
columbia south carolina is my favorite place in the world
Some parts are dreamy and nice, no question, but to say I haven't found issues I'd be lying.
tour city for me when i come from New York every few years to visit!
1st, this is my hometown. 2nd, this is my alarm music. 😊
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). :(
I really missed living in my Columbia
Yay!
我好喜欢这个频道的节目💖🌷
😂😂😂 back to Columbia huh... I see you took our advice 💕💕💕
He seems to like Columbia.
@@LongLeggedOne lmao
I need VR Nick drive content man. I don't have VR but I'd get it for that lol.
My state's capital!
Spent almost 6 months here...at Fort Jackson mostly.
Saturdays are Soda City Market from 9am to 2pm on main street
Fun!
I giggled when he said deep south lol
Was this early Sunday morning or something? It sure wasn’t morning or afternoon on a weekday
I love to be in columbia soon, nicce environment.
I must say, I underestimated Columbia. It isn't the most walkable, but not the most sprawling and car centric city, especially in the South but also in contrast to Western and Midwestern cities. And perhaps its because the pandemic still has people at home, perhaps it was the sunny weather, but being from Portland, the downtown is impressively clean.
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
Beautiful city I need to get down there. Reminds me of Raleigh kinda.
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
That old Mill looks so creepy at night.
I have been to SC but not to Columbia .
It is so funny to see one solitary skjyscraper - in NY they are all over
Why are you comparing NYC to Columbia SC?
Yeah I mean, they are very different geographically so that makes sense
I lived in Columbia for 11 years...it gets ragged on by people from Charleston and Greenville but I had a great time there....aside from the heat.
So true! The heat here can be brutal but other than that I love it.
Looks almost exactly like Louisville, KY, Columbus, OH and ever other midsized metro I've been to.
beautiful state
south carolina reminds me of california wit the palm trees
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.
You passed my work place 😂
Hoping I was going to see myself skateboarding down the street or something
Maybe next time!
Nice are you ever going to talk about and do videos in Canada or you strictly US base
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
I'm new here in Columbia SC:)
On adam
@@NickJohnson what do u think abt west Columbia SC?
My aunts hometown she’s pretty much within driving and flying distance of everyone in my family
east of the Mississippi
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I didn't know that South Carolina's biggest city/cities were that small
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
The metropolitan area of Columbia is about 800,000 and that number better reflex’s the city size.
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.
The title says '4k' but I see 1080p as the highest res :shrug
My old home.
Downtown Columbia looks nice
Oh yes it is 😊
It's Sunday so that's probably why you don't see a lot more cars on the road. For the person who said NC was prettier-You're basing one town on the whole state?!
@@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.
lived there 8 months said this aint me, went back home to New York!
Was that baccy in the bog?
Looked like it was, but it's best to not dig deeper to find out if it was though.
Columbia,South Carolina
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Wow, it looks as if it is 5am on a Sunday. Where are all the people?
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.
Downtown Columbia use to be dangerous not long ago. I am still afraid to go near downtown.
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
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They call it dip, not chew.
Man I’m not sure what to say about Columbia it use to be a nice upcoming city but not sure what happened this place is basic at its best I’m not sure if I can even give it basic it’s more comparable to Birmingham or Montgomery it had a lot of potential back in the day but I think this city has missed the progress train it has ent had a new sky scrapper in over a decade and most of the business are closing down
I could hardly hear the music. You know I need the cruising music
Take this route every day to work...well,most of it lol
Is SC still in lockdown ? The streets look deserted ?? I have to say I watched your NC vid and it looks a lot prettier than SC !!
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.
Born and raised here. Left at 23 for Atlanta. Glad I got the hell away. Its depressing, and boring in Columbia. Atlanta All day
Really kind of a pretty town
Columbia South Carolina seems okay I was just wondering if it's a good place to live
It has some nice areas in Columbia and surrounding suburban areas (Lexington, Irmo, Blythewood) the Public Schools System K-12 isn’t very good..ranks below in the state. Crime is relatively low but has very little cultural and social things to do for those in the 20s-30s. Pretty good place to retire. Like most cities there are inner city neighborhoods surrounding this downtown area that do have gang presence. Most ppl work in Columbia but actually live in the neighboring towns mentioned above. On a scale of 0-10 I’d rank it around 5. Just depends what you desire/expect from a city. I’ve lived in Colorado Springs, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky and New York. I’m actually in the process of moving to Charlotte which is a phenomenal city
@@tammi_michelle you have to be careful with Charlotte it's got some rough areas too
Depends on where you go, I was open to living in all or most of it but housing availability is tight. A LOT of people I found want to come to the Carolinas now. More than I even expected.
@@tammi_michelle Charlotte is a wonderful city!
@@Americafirst-i8q Yes I’ve heard that also. We’ll definitely be careful while searching for areas within the city. Thanks
a big unknown is what happens to city centers when autonomous cars become a reality. i think parking garages go away.
It was ok when I was there nice place and people I meant 👍
1:54 Tallest habitable structure and building in SC folks
I realize that it was still relatively early, but this city looks like a ghost town.