Greenville, SC or Augusta, GA

[socaguy]

Greenville feels a little bigger than Augusta, especially in the Downtown/West End neighborhoods, but I believe Augusta has a larger historic district.

[krazeeboi]

Augusta's historic district is pretty cool.

[goodbye]

Too hard to choose for me...they both seem so identical. The only difference I see between them is that Greeville may be a little more dense and Augusta has the Masters.

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This may help. I posted this list in the Knoxville v Greenville thread.

Greenville:

• BMW - North American Headquarters

• Michelen North America - Headquarters

• Hitachi

• Cryovac Sealed Air - Global Headquarters: Maker of bubble-wrap for packaging

• Flour Corporation - Global Headquarters

• Bi-Lo - Headquarters

• Royal Ahold - North American Data Communications Headquarters

• Rockwell Automation - Global Headquarters

• International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR) - Multiple international corporations and research facilities coming, incl. Microsoft, IBM, BMW, SAE, etc.

• IBM - employs over 900 in Greenville today, with more jobs coming at ICAR

• Hubble Lighting - Global Headquarters

• Dunlop - Design, research, and manufacturing facility

• General Electric Gas Turbines - Massive plant distributing turbines globally

• Bowater - Headquaters: One of the largest paper companies in the World

• Ryan's Family Steakhouses - Corporate Headquarters

• IMI Resort Management - Headquarters

• Lockheed Martin - Contracts with military and government, incl. work on Air Force One

• 3M Company - Large adhesives plant at Donaldson Industrial Air Center

• Charter Communications - Headquarters

• Liberty Corp. - Headquarters: May soon be bought by RAYCOM

• Millennium Campus - Several U.S. and international corporations and research facilities coming

• Global Trade Center - Multiple international companies coming

• Verdae - A massive development with well over 1000 acres for residential, retail, and office

These are only a few that I could think of in the minute it took to write. Remember that Greenville and the Upstate has the highest per capita of international investment in the entire World, plus the highest per capita of engineers in the World. This just helps to balance the view.

Edit: I've added a few more that I couldn't remember. There are many more that I've left out, and new announcements are coming in regulary, but this should give a better idea of Greenville's importance.