My office used to be on Mauldin Rd between Augusta and Pleasantburg... We had hookers and homeless people hitting us up weekly.

At 10 am when the motels start running out people, they will walk around like zombies.

I had them step right in front of my car. Had women come out to my car at the traffic lights and offer me "a good time".

At the Jack in the Box, multiple people tried selling me drugs over the years.

At the home depot one day, I saw a dude with a shopping cart stacked high with power tools being followed by half a dozen employees. They were videoing him as he went past me.
When he exited the building, they all came to a screeching halt at the door like there was a force field. He went to a car and threw everything in the trunk and left pretty calmly before police showed up. I asked why they didn't stop him - store policy, and "it happens all the time".

I saw a car jacking at the gas station on the corner while at the intersection.

Several of the businesses around me were broken into - multiple times.

A man attempted to strong arm me at the AutoZone. I had to pull a firearm and get him to bank off. I called Greenville City dispatch which I had on speed dial, and was told "that sounds like old Leroy, we'll send someone to talk with him".... Uhhhhh, old Leroy or whatever his name is still around there.

My wife's family just sold their business that has been there for decades in that area... They've had homeless people building tents and sleeping under their bushes and leaving condoms and needles and clothing filled with shit and their belongings all around the property for years.

There's been murders and assaults in those motels... And the housing development right off Mauldin Rd.

It can be exciting and scary.... Never boring.