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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only place more depressing and third world IME is Cairo, Illinois. Lots of racism too.[/quote]

Charleston, SC

I couldn't get over the racism there. Plus everything was grimy and dirty.  Beautiful old buildings in rotten decay.  I don't get how people like it there.  I felt like the historical racism made the air thick.... and I'm white.[/quote]

Wow I don’t see that at all. What parts of town did you go? I have only been once but I learned so much about the history of that region and how the black culture in and around the city evolved. It does have a terrible racist history but I feel like they own it and acknowledge it in a way a lot of other places paper over. For instance, this was years ago, but it was a historical site near Charleston that I first went on a tour that was centered on the enslaved people who built it and cultivated the land, rather than the slave owners. This is now more common in the South, but it was very uncommon then.

Also, the food in Charleston is phenomenal. And you can be at the beach in a half hour.

I can’t imagine calling it depressing in the way people are talking about here. It’s diverse, economically vibrant, culturally rich.[/quote]

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