North Carolina’s interesting because they have a lot of pretty big cities but Georgia basically threw all of it’s eggs into one basket with Atlanta lol

As a Florida boy, I always was partial to North Carolina mostly because the mountains and streams are so different then Florida, and the outer banks are amazing to visit!

As a resident of North Georgia the Smokey mountains are objectively better than the Okefenokee swamp.

Macon over the Piedmont Triad? Even my Georgia reared wife is shocked at that pick. Otherwise, great video!

I'm from NC and this is pretty accurate. Asheville is cool, Fayetteville sucks, and I refuse to drink Pepsi. Atlanta is carrying Georgia though and I think our mountains, beaches, and small cities deserve more credit.

I live in SC (Columbia), so I have an equal view of both neighboring states. I would have chosen the Triad area over Macon and I would have chosen Great Smoky Mountains NP over Okefenokee Swamp. I agree with the rest, so I would have given the win to NC. Good list of comparisons.

They are both beautiful states and great places to live! If you’ve only seen Atlanta you wouldn’t believe how beautiful the rest of Georgia is.

As someone living in GA, I might be a little biased. That being said Macon shouldn’t have beat out Piedmont Triad, but I do think GA is better

The second you mentioned Fayetteville I knew regardless of what you were comparing it to, Fayetteville would be worse.

Lol mentions Home Depot from Georgia but not Lowes from North Carolina?

I respect your choices but I'll go with NC.

They bring up Coke vs. Pepsi because they're the two biggest soda brands on the planet. But it doesn't mean you can't enjoy lesser known sodas from both of those states, such as Nehi and Cheerwine.

I'm so supprised that north Carolina created Texaspete hot sauce.

I would have compared Atlanta to Charlotte, Athens to Asheville, and Savannah to Charleston.

As someone who has lived in both states, I love this video. I would make some different comparisons, but I love your videos and hearing the rationale for your choices.

Did you not see the HUGE BATTLESHIP IN WILMINGTON?!?! That thing was crazy!

To me this is an easy choice. While both states are similar, North Carolina clearly has better outdoor recreation opportunity

Great video kyle! born and raised in NC, it was tough to see the semi-blowout here lol I was most surprised you chose Coke (Georgia) over Pepsi (North Carolina) 😂

North Carolina is cute but Georgia is the superior state in my opinion. Neither one has especially remarkable food but Atlanta is the capital of the south and of Black America. I live in Georgia but I don't think I'm that biased. I was born in Birmingham and grew up in Chicago. I deliberately chose to move to Georgia over North Carolina because I felt it's a bit better. Charlotte has much lighter traffic than ATL though, which is a major benefit.

North Carolina definitely wins with public transit.

Both are 1000× better than about anything South Carolina has to offer.

North Georgia is in the Appalachian region and is very similar to the rest of southern Appalachia in terms of scenery. It has many of what we call “mountains” in the east as well as waterfalls. Mt. Mitchell in western North Carolina is the highest point in the Appalachian mountain range. It is about an hour away from north east Georgia. The middle part of North Ga is home to a section of the Blue Ridge mountains as well.

Loved seeing Atlanta United get a shout-out! And the Charlotte Map Store!! I live less than 5 minutes from it

I've lived in the Raleigh area for 17 years now and love it. I'll never head back north to the DC area. You left out Wilmington's famous filming locations. Kinda fun stuff to see. But gotta say our favorite town is Savannah, other than the summer heat, it's the best. Great videos.

I am OFFENDED you ranked Macon higher than the Triad.

You got charlotte metro population wrong charlotte is about 3million now

So, I live in North Carolina, and I uh. . . . you got me feeling some type of way right now. 😬 Don’t worry though, I’m not mad (or disappointed in my state 😓), I’m proud to live in NC! We’ve got picturesque mountains and tranquil beaches, so take that Georgia! If you’re looking for places to have long walks on the beach 😚, come on up to the Outer Banks! 🏖

I was close to buying a property in the NC mountains Asheville area but ultimately settled for the Appalachian countryside in GA. Neither NC or GA mountains can hold a candle to CO Rocky mountains where I used to live but its so DRY there and you have to worry about forest fires unlike in NC and GA. I think the countryside is prettier in GA. Stay away from ATL traffic though! Worst traffic ever!

I live in Atlanta and I'm looking so forward to retiring to a lake somewhere in western N.C.

As a resident of Georgia, I read the title of this video and said to myself "Bud, you got one chance and one chance only to get this right." Also, hard to talk about Athens without mentioning an incredible music scene.

"Well North Carolina has this aspect which is good for reason A, reason B, reason C, and reason D. Georgia doesn't have many good things in this aspect, but I personally just prefer it, so I'm going to go with Georgia."

As a person from Winston-Salem, High Point just doesn’t exist in my mind.

>"Dilworth" >Shows Brevard Ct

I gotta visit Atlanta, i feel like i'll love it

North Carolina is the winner hands down.

Greensboro resident here; since this video’s release several major companies have set up or are setting up new factories here. Most notable are Toyotas battery plant (expected to employ around 5000 people) and Boom Supersonic (aiming to produce Americas first true supersonic airliner). In addition, Greensboro is home to Mack Truck world headquarters, Volvo Trucks of North America headquarters, HondaJet, Ameritek Industries (the largest die shop east of the Mississippi River) and will be home to a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in a few years. As a result, housing prices have gone through the roof

You left out how the entire Southeast of Georgia smells like a hard-boiled egg fart for as far as the nose can stretch thanks to the paper mills.

Education? My strong guess is that NC would win. UNC system, Duke, NC State, sooo many good colleges and public schools in general are good

Thank you for all the ideas about what to see and do in these two states! I would not have considered the swamp, now I will. And I love peaches!!

Oh man the Georgia food category would have been saved if we considered the diverse people in the metro... no better place to get truly authentic mexican, ethiopean, koren, chinese, indian, cuban, romanian and so many other ethnic and delicious foods!

I was in FORT Benning GA for 6 months since I was doing OSUT I had 6 months of basic with no AIT. I never knew Columbus was that beautiful. I was taken from Atlanta Airport in early morning to GA then I left early in the morning to leave for my duty station. Hopefully i would get a chance to visit Columbus one day.

I enjoyed the video. Having family from North Carolina and a definite preference for mountains, I have to disagree. I'd rather live in North Carolina any day. Of course, I've never been to Georgia, so I have nothing against the state or its people. I just love mountains.

Awesome! I kind of predicted you would pick Georgia. Like you said Atlanta is just a world class cosmopolitan city that a wider range of career possibilities and amenities than NC can offer. And if you are a lover of all types of music (I am) then its better. And it seems on average even the smaller cities have more going on there average as well than the NC counterparts. And if you find swamps fascinating - then another additional pro there. Though if you have a career in finance or research and development, North Carolina is better, you love the hippy-artsy mountain towns similar to what you find out west like Boulder, CO or Eugene, OR then Asheville is better. Also if you are a foodie and have an interest in southern cuisine sounds like NC is better as well. And if you want to experience the most wild solitudinous beaches on the east coast as well. Can we even go a step further and say if you are bit more of a city person - go with Georgia, and if you see cities more as a base where your career is, and you prefer to spend weekends in the great outdoors - go with North Carolina.

Choosing Coke over Pepsi can't be forgiven....

Enjoyed the video, but man, you really shortchanged NC. On natural beauty alone it wins hands-down. You choose a swamp over the splendor of Western NC? And nothing about the research triangle?

I'm from Greensboro. We call it Greensboring haha

I know he didn’t just say that swamp was better than the smoky mountains-

Augusta has the Masters!!!

Oh... You're one of those damn Coke people. I'm from NC and I reckon we'll have to agree to disagree. I love NC

Georgia is just the overall better state let's face it

North Carolina is very possibly the best state in the country if not it’s close. Georgia is still a great state though but North Carolina is better.

Yeahhh once he left out Lowe’s Home improvement and EPIC games from NC companies this video lost credibility to me.

Charlotte is the Queen City of the South But ATL is the Queen’s sister city of the South haha. Also Georgia has the Blue ridge mountains in North & NE Ga, all the Southern citys are on a come up, southern city’s like Nashville Memphis Austin Dallas Houston Richmond Raleigh New Orleans Tampa Miami Even Birmingham trying to get with the New groove of things. Jackson Ms has some work to do. Savannah definitely Good,little rock Arkansas is less then Jackson Mississippi on things to do. But Ms has a good music history.

Live in Wilmington, been to Savannah. I'll take our homeless against theirs anytime. I will say that Little Debbie Stadium in Chatanooga is beautiful.

Would love to see a similar video for Arizona vs. Nevada!

While true, NC college basketball championships do beat GA football championships, I believe it’s worth noting the claimed football national titles held by four different colleges. UGA has two 1942 & 1980. GT has four 1917, 1928, 1952, 1990. Then two lower division schools Valdosta State has four Division II championships 2004, 2007, 2012, 2018 and Georgia Southern has six FCS championships 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1999, 2000.

Can you do Virginia vs North Carolina?

I would have figured you would go Atlanta vs Charlotte then Raleigh vs Augusta.

I like North Carolina better than Georgia, but I like Atlanta better than Charlotte. I love Savannah for an urban getaway, but the Beaches in NC better than the Georgia beaches.

I'm not surprised by the disrespect for Macon. But things have and are changing. Here is my response to one post: Why would you be surprised about picking Macon over the Triad? When was the last time you actually stopped (instead of driving through) and explored all that Macon has to offer? Beautiful downtown (restaurants, museums, art galleries, festivals)...great architecture...history around every corner (American Indian, War of 1812, Civil War, Civil Rights)...music everywhere (Otis Redding, Little Richard, Allman Brothers, Lena Horne, Jason Aldean...and live music all the time downtown)...totally surrounded by nature (Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park is about to become Georgia's first actual National Park)...and all in a much more compact area. Macon has been featured in many national and international travel magazines lately...and there's a reason for that.

I see more people go to the mountain then swamp. Charlotte city limit is bigger than Atlanta. Atlanta metro is bigger than Charlotte. Atlanta metro is 6 million Charlotte Metro is almost 3 million. SunTrust is now headquarter to Charlotte because BB&T bought SunTrust. James Brown is from South Carolina, he died in Georgia. He used to stay in Georgia and used to saying Columbia South Carolina too. He is buried in South Carolina too.

I actually live in Georgia

Georgia and the Carolinas are One. There not much to compare. I love them both.

Coming from someone who moved to NC, the 2 Carolinas almost feel and act like one big state, a lot of people from other places think we have a huge serious rivalry which is only partly true, but it’s more like a sibling rivalry. We show much respect for one another. We always go back and forth across the border for many things, I can go down to SC for buying fireworks, and SC comes to us for the college sports and bigger city life. It’s tough to tell if the Carolinas “hate” any states, it depends. We all have our ups and downs with different places. Their definitely up there with my favorite states!

You forgot Calabash seafood for NC. Greensboro is nicer than Macon, and you should have compared Charlotte to Atlanta. I have lived in both states and these are my 2 favorite states, but go with NC because Atlanta is just too big with terrible traffic. I'll also take Chapel Hill over Athens, and Wilmington over Savana. I grew up in Asheville so partial to the mountains, but Georgia is a great state.

I lived in Augusta GA for about two years back in the late 80s. I hope for its sake that it has made strides since then, but at the time it seemed to combine the worst elements of a small town and a big city, including small-town views and outlooks of the people (coupled with pretentious golf snobbery) and a fair amount of crime and urban blight. I got out of there as soon as I could, and I have never been back.

I haven’t lived in Ga in about 10 years but I was born in one of the oldest cities in the south Savannah Ga

Finally, a lead we didn’t blow

A swamp over the Smokies.... CMONNNN. Haha, nice video. North Carolina is the best

I love Asheville and its music scene and its breweries, but Athens, GA has a bigger and better overall alternative rock music scene and brewery scene. Athens was "hipster" before other cities in the South. Heck, the indie culture coming out of Athens inspired a whole generation of musicians including Nirvana. There's even a book called "Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture". The university is much bigger in Athens so a much bigger student population and a lot more activities going on. Having said that, the proximity to mountains alone gives Asheville a lot of extra points.

I stopped at the beginning of the Atlanta part. There is no traffic at 3 AM. Ever. The traffic is horrendous for sure, but it's quite predictable. It's during rush hour, when people travel to and from work. I drove up to Gwinnett from Buckhead today at 7 PM, and it was fine, Also, you start talking about Midtown, and you show pictures of Little Five Points, in East Atlanta. Completely different area and vibe, about 4 miles Southeast.

Just to add a little something for the sports of each state, not that anyone cares of this one apparently. But, Both North Carolina and Georgia, each have a NASCAR track, that the NASCAR Cup series (the top tier series, along with the second and third tier series). One being "Charlotte Motor Speedway" in North Carolina, an 1.5 mile asphalt quad oval, where is also the same city that the hall of fame of NASCAR is located and is considered to be the "home track" for NASCAR itself, considering most to a vast majority of race team headquarters are based around or near the Charlotte area, or at least in the state of North Carolina. Which also hosts a crown jewel of the "Coca Cola 600", which is the longest race of the NASCAR season. Not to mention in North Carolina gave NASCAR some great notable names, many hall of famers, a lot of them legends, such as: Seven time series champion; Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Harry Gant, "The King" Richard Petty and his Petty family, Buck and Buddy Baker, Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson, Richard Childress, and many many others. While Georgia has "Atlanta Motor Speedway", another 1.5 mile asphalt oval. Which currently is notably known for it's abrasive surface (meaning tires wear much quicker than on most other tracks) , due to aging asphalt. The track was once held as a championship race, before a much newer track called "Homestead-Miami Speedway" down in... well Homestead, Florida. But the track also has memorable moments, such as Dale Earnhardt, edging a bumper past Bobby Labonte for the win, and for it to be repeated a week after Dale's tragic death in Daytona, where Dale's car and team, which now is the 29 drove by rookie Kevin Harvick edged a bumper past Jeff Gordon for the win. Georgia has also gave a fair share of most notable names, both active drivers, hall famers, and legends such as; Bill Elliot, 2020 NASCAR Cup champion; Chase Elliot, Tim Flock, Ken Ragan, Jack Smith, Fonty Flock, Frank Mundy, and several more names! If NASCAR would've been included in the sports category, the scoring wouldn't change, considering North Carolina is the home, and birthed out many upon many great NASCAR drivers, both active, hall of fame, legends. Not to mention North Carolina is literally NASCAR's "Home state", with more drivers from that state having at least one title under their belt, than Georgia.

Coming from SC, they are the same PITA to drive through.

For next comparison do Colorado vs Washington State

I'd have compared Savannah to Asheville, being that they're both tourist-driven. Wilmington is nice but clearly doesn't hold a candle to Savannah. Athens should be compared to Chapel Hill or Boone.

I'm from Georgia, so I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment! Geography King for the win!

NC hands down, no question is the better state.

Don't forget about The Red House, where black people and white people buy furniture. Perhaps the best commercial ever.

There’s no way this guy put Macon, GA over The Piedmont Triad, NC

North Carolina scenery chews up Georgia's and spits it out. GA is blue now though. NC's almost there.

Good job on the list, Loved it

NC and GA is nothing a like. Georgia has world city but its sprawling and its main economic engine. North Carolina is better because it has more cities with metros well over 1 million. 😂 Macon is nothing compared to the piedmont tri cities 😂 this list is BS. Macon is declining

He left out a lot of things about North Carolina. Greensboro, which barely got a mention, has the Civil Rights Museum and an important Revolutionary War battlefield. Asheville has Biltmore Estate and white water rafting. Wilmington has been important in the film industry and has the USS North Carolina. Charlotte has NASCAR and Carowinds. Barbecue isn't the only NC food. There are other singers from here that he didn't mention. And so many other things. I was disappointed and annoyed. Some of the comparisons didn't make sense. The Great Smoky Mountains are more beautiful than a swamp. But he was right about Fayetteville. lol

Request for the next comparison: West coast vs the Northeast

very appreciative of your sharing knowledge with us....

He could if added who has the Best transportation service to. City bus,subway & trains & light rail around the cities & suburbs. Also comparing best neighborhoods & area’s of both city’s, best airport for international travel, most non stop flights from Charlotte/ ATL to Europe Africa Asia South America Central America.

A swamp over the Smokey mountains??? Come on mannnn

Both great Southern states!

As you were listing the companies, I was thinking, "what about Coke?!?"...you redeemed yourself at the end!

Nice to see Macon getting some positive publicity!

i'M gOiNg tO cOMpArE aUgUStA tO cHaRLotTe nOw Should've compared Atlanta to Charlotte, Athens vs. Ashville was much more fair.

I'm moving to Tabor City, North Carolina

I live up here in Greenville South Carolina so this one was a little extra personal preciate that!

And don't forget, Asheville also has the Arcade Museum. Really cool spot and possibly the cheapest beer in town.

you could tell he was biased against NC when he compared Charlotte and Augusta. 🙄

The Avett Brothers of Concord, NC would like a word!

South Carolina sitting between the two southern powerhouses as a third wheel be like:

I live in NC but have traveled many many times to GA. While I enjoyed this video, I think you missed out on the variety of beaches NC has to offer along with the fact Asheville is not only a great small town but there are an immense variety of recreational opportunities all around it. But to each their own :-)

I'm glad Georgia won, but did you really say North Carolina has better sports?! That's total BS when you look at revenue from sports because major league sports make TONS of more money and have LOTS more fans than college. Just cause a few colleges win meaningless basketball championships does not mean that sports in North Carolina are better. The Braves itself have tons more fans than all basketball teams in North Carolina combined.

NC wins! Should have compared Charlotte to Atlanta which, Atlanta would probably win but my personal taste would be Charlotte. Then Savanna to Asheville. After that Georgia has no areas that compare to Raleigh, Durham Chapel Hill or even Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point. It's Atlanta Metro and not much else. NC has mountains, scenery, cities, colleges hands down.