Columbia is very central to the state of South Carolina, so it's about as good as you could ask for location-wise. I keep wanting to go down there to explore for a couple of days, and they have a really nice zoo that I enjoy.
As for Raleigh... Meh. Everything about Raleigh is meh. I spent the weekend there a couple of weeks ago because my nephew is in college there. Raleigh is pretty inconvenient to the entire western half of the state. Probably Charlotte would have been a more convenient location for the capital city if you wanted to take the entire state into account.
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