Commentary: Say Bye-Bye to Mt. P

Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that in the past year, Mount Pleasant’s population actually fell by about 500 down to 95,469. That’s a significant change because Mount Pleasant had been consistently gaining residents year in and year out. What’s changed? Here are a few ideas:

Nextdoor members have run out of contractors and restaurants to whine about. It only takes about three comments to devolve into the usual “what a moron you are” or “what the hell, let kids be kids” personal comments.

The traffic is stopped dead on 17 most afternoons. It is always blamed on Yankees relocating to Charleston as if those flatbeds with the jet-sounding exhaust were imported from north of the Mason Dixon line. I think not…

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