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We have what it takes to change the world. If your looking to make it happen, you need to come to Greenville. No doubt, we have the skills...and the bills need to be paid. I actually don't understand why there isn't only one poll with one city listed. Maybe the other cities are just listed for pity's sake or comic relief. Greenville has heart. I'm talking about blood-pumping, not giving-upping, never quitting, make a differencing kind of heart. The kind of heart that makes things happen, and pumps life into all of these tributaries around us.
Right there with you greg! This site has no love for Greenville, but I can tell you we are definitively in the race. 800ish votes in the last 6 hours and many more to come. Move over Asheville and Topeka something or another, We're here.
WOW...Greenville, SC is hands down the best pick. After living in Asheville, NC and Greensboro, NC, the answer to me is obvious. Asheville is quaint, but the diversity of industry and people is not nearly as broad as Greenville, SC. Greensboro, NC is okay...the best thing going for it is that the Asheboro Zoo is not too terribly far away and last time I checked, not too many animals were using the internet.
Go Humboldt!
Greenville is a great up and coming city. This will help draw new business to our fine town - one of the best places to live in the US!
Memphis needs good things!
Greensboro is a great city and is an up in coming city in the south like Charlotte. We are having big business like FedEx, and Greensboro just needs a small kick to come through. Google Fiber could be that kick and bring GSO too a new level.
Humboldt Bay California is a perfect place for Google. We're the part of California that hides behind the Redwood Curtain. So many telecommuter's live here and are heartbroken by the limited access to the outside world. Diverse in it's people and its' politics. Humboldt state University would love it as would the rest of us- rural loving natives!!!
Asheville is a funky and innovative town. It is the perfect place for Google. Y'all will love it here.
Humboldt Bay
Asheville is the right city for Google Fiber!
Baton Rouge, La is the place you ought to be!!! The capital city of the great state of Louisiana. Geaux Tigers!!! We have what Google needs the gateway to America. Baton Rouge has the infrastructure to support Gigs of bandwidth to businesses as well as home users. Check out the website www.GeauxfiBR.com for all the details. Who Dat wants them Google? We do!!!!!
Lakeland, FL. - Located between Tampa and Orlando makes Lakeland an ideal choice for Google's fiber initiative. Because let's face it. After Google's successful implementation of GB fiber, they're not going to want to stop there. They're going to want to expand outward from there. And having two major markets within such a close proximity, could you find a more perfect place to start? I don't think so.
Humboldt Bay, California is the place to go. Check us out!
Asheville Loves Google Fiber!
Jason
http://googleavl.com/
Durham!
Durham has it all: economic, cultural, educational and urban/rural diversity; a vibrant global business community; a thriving arts community; a world-class "foodie" scene; universities and medical centers; and a lot of people anxious for the opportunities that this Google initiative will offer us. CHOOSE DURHAM, NC.
Google should pick Greenville because we know how to pull together as a community to get things done. We've worked with Google in the past and have a great relationship with them already. What was once a textile town has been transformed into a beautiful and diverse community. I've lived in five of the cities on the list and visited nearly all of the others. They all have their good points, but Greenville really brings it all together. Our businesses range from Fortune 10 G.E. all the way to one man start-ups. We've got innovative Proterra moving in from Colorado. We have a great downtown area, plenty of residential suburbs, and yet we still have gorgous green spaces to get in touch with nature. We're not so big as to be an overwhelming task for Google, but small enough that choosing us impacts the entire community.
CHOOSE GREENVILLE, SC!!! VOTE FOR GREENVILLE, SC!!!
Lakeland, FL *REALLY* has the wherewithall to use the capabilities that Google Fiber can bring. All of our local government officials are willing to work with Google, heck our local electrial company already has "dark fiber" running around the city. How easy is that. With the New Poly' coming to town, High speed rail and some high tech companies, things will get better and better. No silly stuff here though, just solid people and solid companies that can make solid use of amazingly high bandwidth.
Asheville isn't just a city, but it's a community. A community that charishes and cares about culture, art, going green, and most of all our people. We are diverse and our diversity makes us stronger. Vote Asheville.
Asheville is a beautiful mountain tourist town known for its art and culture. If Asheville gets Google fiber, it can be enjoyed by all who visit and live there. Pick Asheville, then visit!
Greenville, SC should be the hometown for Google Figer!! We are one of the newest up and coming cities here in the south with a little bit of country life mixed with a little city life in our beautiful revitalized downtown area. The
American Planning Association named our Downtown Main Street one of the Top 10 Great Streets in America last year and US Airways Magazine did a city profile just last month. Residents in Greenville, SC are proud to live here and are always working towards ways to spotlight our city, bring growth, and welcome smiling new faces!!
Pick Greenville! We LOVE Google here. We're the best kept secret in the south, and we are a beautiful, diverse and rapidly growing community. Plus we are home to BMW, iCar, Michelin, Furman University, etc.
Ironically, I have had the chance to live in three of the cities above. Of all of them, Asheville is the most deserving of the Google Fiber. Grand Rapids, MI, was a great place to go to high school and is still a wonderful city to visit. but they have a lot of people who couldn't care less about updated technology or moving into the 21st century--they are wonderful people full of caring but would not take full advantage of the advantages. Greensboro, NC is another wonderful town but is a much bigger city than Asheville with many more advantages than it. Asheville, NC is a wonderful city in so many ways. Being in the mountains, it is an attraction for many visitors, artists, professionals and innovators. It has been harder hit by the recession than Greensboro and deserves the honor more than the other wonderful cities where I've lived!
Greenville, SC is truly unique. The quintessential small Southern city, it is gracious, mannerly and wlecoming --- with a healthy dose of big city energy and business acumen. It is among the most sophisticated cities in America, able to attract the attention and hold the on-going loyalty of many of the world's best known and respected international companies.
Google's decision to come to Greenville would place it in the panoply of super-star international companies (BMW, Michelin, Fuji, Milliken,etc.) that already know the wonders of the South Carolina Upstate. While other communities might benefit from Google being there, no one else can actually showcase Google as well.
Going elsewhere? Really charitable. Coming to Greenville? Really smart! Google and Greenville --- good for each other!
Go Asheville GO(ogle!)!! Why are we the best choice? Other than simply because we are the best? Well, we have the medical, the industrial, the educational, the artistic, the tourism, the small and large business owners, the techies and the non-techs. We have the wireless downtown, showing that our city wants visitors and residents alike to have access to the internet, because we realize how important that service is to daily life and business operations. We want to promote GoogleFiber to the world, and show them what a wonderful resource it is. Asheville may be considered Weird, but we now want to be Wired - with GoogleFiber that is!
The people of Asheville deserve GoogleFiber because, like the people of Google, we are so much at ease for what's merely possible.
Go for Asheville!
Here's something you may not have considered, Asheville, NC is the Mountain View, CA of the east! Also, there are only 3 people in Asheville opposed to Google Fiber and we honor their diversity but whisper quietly behind their backs.
Asheville is the right size, the technologically poised and is waay cooler than that 'Other town' in North Carolina, which is wonderful place to visit and all...
KILL THE STRANGLE HOLD OF COMCAST! Pick Knoxville TN!
Petaluma because what goes better with google fiber than butter and eggs? With all our dairy we seriously need some high speed fiber.
Day 2 of voting. I still love Asheville! And Asheville Loves Google Fiber!
Visit us at http://googleavl.com/
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Asheville should be selected since it will help people work and play smarter. With all the creative folks here, we would be a great incubator for this and other Google initiatives, working together to see what we can do with all this bandwidth. There are so many possibilities from art, to music, architecture, medicine, education, and on and on. The sky's the limit here in the Land of the Sky.
I have never lived anywhere where I saw as much of an entrepreneurial spirit as Asheville! If given the privilege of Googlefiber, Asheville will do GREAT things with it! We are creative, we are intuitive, we are techies, and we have a DREAM!
Duluth needs Fiber. I need fiber, even my doctor tells me I do. Oh, sorry wrong fiber.
But seriously we need Google Fiber in Duluth. We have the beautiful scenic views. We have universities and colleges that educate us. We have a world class medical community that keeps us healthy. We have doggedly built a diverse economy for our City. Now we are ready, willing and able to welcome Google Fiber Home to Duluth!
Google come to Duluth! We deserve fiber!
Asheville! It's the perfect size community for this venture and there are plenty of tech-savvy people here ready and willing to partner with Google.
I strongly support greensboro and google's working together on this. I am only a highschool student but have already realized the impact that interent has on a community. My school, for example, utalizes this resource in almost every way possible. I have seen firsthand the advantage that gives us. The same goes for our city. It is a larger community yes, but a community worthy of google fiber none the less. I have just moved to greensboro and am already astonished at the feel of the place. It has so much to offer without losing that small-town familiarity. I cannot think of a better place to implament this new google. The potential that google and greensboro have seperately is great, but think if they joined together.
Google should not buld in Asheville, this town is a joke there is 0 infrastructure, resources and alot to do about nothing. Asheville is the definition of town that has no heart nor soul, it thinks it does the people that live here care nothing about anything that happens outside downtown.
I am a native of Asheville, have traveled to several other cities in the US, and would not even think of living anywhere but Asheville. We are diverse, yet traditional. We value people above politics and possessions. Asheville has the arts, educational opportunities, workforce. etc. for a successful partnership with Google. Thank you for considering my hometown.
I think Asheville and Google could work wonders together. Our town is said to stand out among the other towns of North Carolina with it's eccentric, fun-loving, folksy and intelligent natives. We are a city that truly cares about the community around us. There are always events being sponsored downtown and in parks; a faster internet would lend greatly to the artists, business folks, and providers who are constantly working to make Asheville a livelier, more spontaneous place.
Duluth is the city that has worked the hardest and provides the best oppportunity for the Google Fiber network because the city government, state government, universities, business, non-governmental orgnizations, and private industry but most of all the hard-working, highly-educated, definitely technologically astute people are in full force behind this project. Our beautiful northern location provides a diversity of users and a highly creative and innovative populace and moreover is a unique testing ground with the well-known weather extremes that should put Google in a great position to provide the best working service to other locations in the future. Duluth has the tools in place and the experience to broadcast the message that Google Fiber wants to go out to the world. Duluth's grass roots efforts have already proven that the state, city and it's people are deserving and will work the hardest to make this project a huge success. There should be no choice but Duluth.
Asheville rocks!
Google should pick Greensboro! As my fellow "Boro" residents have said, we are a city that houses so many colleges. But that's not all! Greensboro is a mixture of history and emerging technologies, of national chains and local business, and of beautiful parks and busy urban scenes. Google would fit well in the mix!
Asheville has heart!
Google should pick Greensboro because it has a multitude of colleges (Guilford College, NC A&T, UNCG, Greensboro College, Bennett College, Elon School of Law, etc.) That being said, there are plenty of people who could benefit from getting Google Fiber in Greensboro, not to mention Google could probably work out some killer contracts with the colleges.
Google should definitely pick Greensboro, because our services are limited, our community is reasonably tech-savvy, and we have a government that is very much ready and even promoting efforts to get Google Fiber in our area. We definitely would utilize this and be able to reach out to many other large communities nearby in our "triad" very easily.
Be sure to see Greensboro's website, www.googlegreensboro.com, and I am sure our town will deliver in more than just PR stunts and favors.
Google should pick Greensboro because although my internet is somewhat fast, it is very unreliable and doesn't even work most of the time.
Google should pick Asheville because this is a community that knows how to pull together. In Asheville you will have the support of government, business, education as well as individuals. We bring the whole community together like a family, and we'd love for you to be part of the family. The city is highly educated and tech-savvy. A smaller city will help you deliver and test your new network in an efficient, cost-effective manner. As a town with one of the most-visited tourist attractions in North Carolina, and one of the most-visited in the South (The Biltmore Estate), we are used to the spotlight. We are also professionals at telling our story to others. With Google as part of our community, our stories would be intertwined, and we'd be happy to spread the news about what Google is doing. Asheville is ready for Google. We hope Google is ready for us.