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Also live in Inman. Great place, close to everything, but still rural. Love it here

Inman here. 3 acres, Greene Creek forms one border. I love this place.

I moved here from Simpsonville, which I loved, but we wanted to move out a little. I love it here too!

Yep

The heat is not the problem it's the humidity

Live in Columbia all my life. Hot hot and hot summers (humidity), but I am used to it. The ideas and speed of Columbia is "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Very slow to catch on compared to the neighboring city of Charlotte NC. Always behind because no one wants to change overall. Now to add to the Charleston comment, it is a beautiful city BUT it is expensive to live there!!!! Charleston and Myrtle Beach have the highest taxes in the state. Greenville has the lowest! Can you believe that?? I plan to move to Greenville as we have had earthquakes (4 or more) in the past week! Yes Columbia SC has had a total of 32 since last year. I cannot believe this.

@@America1st69 right that is it.

I'm from Charleston SC born and raised and it's really affordable down here plus the beaches

@@titanjake8640 I live in Chapin. WTH is going on with all the earthquakes? 😄🤔😭😭

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It's a fun state, and used to visit frequently. I am also from California, but never really say anything as many are not thrilled about people from CA in general. There are exceptions though.

@@naomiemoore5725 I would only say I'm from CA while visiting but not if I was moving there, definitely wouldn't lol.

@@jennysjourney02 Got that right. I let people get to know me then once some rapport has been established it's a different story.

Of course people in California are not happy they voted Democrat and they also have to pay for all the illegals that are living there for free

The south Atlantic has beautiful white sand beaches and subtropical islands but the rest of the east coast doesnt look that way. Up north and in the mid Atlantic the beaches are similar to the beaches in Los Angeles except without the majestic tall palm trees.

We bought 56 acres over in Aiken.

Nice! Aiken has a very nice downtown.

I love lake City

I agree the people in Anderson are very nice and I’ve also never experienced anything crime related even in the more rundown areas, Ik it’s there for sure but like you said it depends on the people you’re with.

We probably went to school together. Hail TL. (Hanna) Used to have a family cabin in Mountain Rest up above Hogwaller , (take the right at Cuzzins store) across from Camp Crystal Lake... We used that to keep the honeys close after we lied and said Friday the 13th was based on it! 😂

Hogwaller! You're too funny. I haven't heard anyone use that term in years. Yes I went to Hanna. So yep, it sounds like we did go to school together. Yeah man, I always thought the Camp Crystal Lake thing was funny as hell too. I was class of 87. Went on to Clemson afterwards. How about you?

@@charlesk5040 Clemson 87' but was told Mr Holder you need to actually attend class, to which I said but I'm majoring in Bacardi 101 at TTT every night... Ended up at Tri County Tech majoring in Radio and TV. Stint in the Army then a poli sci degree from FSU, ( Fairmont State University, WV) Back in Anderson now.

Understood. I've done my share of majoring in Bacardi 101 as well. It's all good. Speaking of Hanna, I drove past our old alma mater twice today. The old Hanna - I can't get used to calling it McCants! It looks the same as it always did. I assume you went to the old McCants as well? What a dump! My youngest son is still in high school. He can't believe that the old McCants was the "rich kids" junior high school! Ha.

I love Augusta. Been wanting to move there for awhile. My wife says it is boring. We are in Columbia and I say it is borrrrrrriiionnnggg

Hi neighbor

@@titanjake8640 I love it here and have never been bored a single day of my life no matter where I live!

Tell me more about Augusta...thinking of moving there.

@@teresabrown9171 I love it here.... great people, great weather (most of the time) - it gets hot in the Summer, but that's typical of the South. I don't feel unsafe walking downtown or pretty much anywhere I go. What specific things do you want to know?

Strange fact. The family who owned Hargray actually had to sell because of too much growth. Everything was big expense up front, that will pay off down the road but there is a point you come to where the debt load is just too much. Also I think they lost their ass buying spectrum for cell phones, Hargray cell phone did not make money. LOL, oh well doesn't have to do with me directly.

Me too 😃

Aiken is nice and affordable but the problem is it's very boring

@@America1st69 yes, that is true. Lol.

@@America1st69 But within very easy driving distance to Augusta and Columbia. Easy to get to the beaches and mountains, too. Small town living with large city access!

We had vastly different experiences. I hated it

Yep. Actually, don't move here with your tranny crap either. Thanks.

Don't worry. Only the reds are coming. I have been waiting for Blue Dem reinforcements for 18 years to arrive. Lol

@@cathymc116 Maybe you should switch!

@james6275 I don't miss the snow. Usually, I am the only voter showing up for the primary elections--it's weird!

Same. Born and raised in Charleston, SC. I always knew I was going to leave when I got older. Being away from home, made me appreciate the beauty of the city. At age 36, I’m moving back home next month.

From MA. Do you mean HERE! Not hear. You hear with your ears.

Fixed it for you, Karen.

@@Tattooed.homemaker Thank you. I live in SC also.

Bluffton proper actually has a bunch of children and families. You are right, out in Jasper county is God's waiting room also known as Sun City and a couple of other places but Bluffton isn't as old as you make it seem.

Is McCormick more upstate?

Modoc is my home. I am a lake rat.

The problem is too many people from New York are moving in and they're all Democrats

I live in Carolina Forest M.B. the traffic is nitemare thinking of moving down to Surfside Beach or Murrells Inlet.

I live in the city of Myrtle Beach. Traffic's not bad. I am near the Coastal Grand, Market Common, Broadway at Beach, and the Boardwalk. Also, Surfside, where the traffic is getting outrageous!

​@james6275 I don't like the traffic from north of 544 to Murrells on 17 business... getting as crazy as 501!

McClellanville doesn't have much housing. I have been looking there over the years.

Knowing the people that live there, I think a housing development would be the last thing they would want. I would love to live there too but paradise should never be crowded.

Gilbert is a shit whole and poor town and there schooling is horrible, has some of the worse testing scores in SC!

Awesome been there to the Dollhouse I live down in Carolina Forest

Elgin,Lugoff and Cassett all very livable :-)

@@djt1633 yea exactly great places for the most part except schools ig

Today, Elgin is a bedroom community for Columbia.

You've had quite a number of quakes in Elgin... & most recently Lugoff. Wondering what's up with that. Has it always been that way?

@@DoodlebugsDream No it just started in December. We are still a get area to live. Sorry it didn't make his video

What do you mean about all the available land? Like open land like trails?

@@our.secret1130 I mean like all the land we live on like I live on a full acre. Didnt have that luxury back home in Kansas. Unless you lived on a farm.

I live in Pamplico and completely agree!

Its definitely not but soon will be if ppl dont stop moving here

Oh yea, I had to drive from Myrtle beach to Columbia and it sent me on that highway, so few cars and so many long straightaways, have to be careful but I guess if you live there it’s not bad

Stay out of Florida. We are full.

Yes, but crack and methville is just down the road in Gaffney!

I'm from PA and even I know that the civil war was more about the North wanting to grow the federal government and the South wanted to keep it the way the Constitution intended, more than it was about slavery. History is written by the winners. The Union weren't the good guys from what I've been learning.

Anderson is not in the mountains. They’re in the foothills. Big difference. And I know Anderson well. I graduated from Clemson.

@@nedhill1242 . It isn't far from Table Rock State Park. Foothills .... Mountains.... Still a beautiful place and is not "crime ridden or a place of poverty"

@@nedhill1242 . A foothill is a hilly region at the base of a mountain range as defined by Merriam Webster. The point of my comments was in response to the RU-vid user stating SC is a poverty state, particularly Anderson SC and that you "shouldn't move to SC". Clemson graduate? I can see that. Did they teach how to use that arrogance to read a dictionary?

@@MsMoosieify What are you talking about. You’re all over the map in this comment. First he didn’t say you shouldn’t move to South Carolina because of poverty. He said a lot of small towns in South Carolina. Have a lot of poverty. I actually the south does have a lot of poverty because following the Civil War, the United States, government intentionally punished South Carolina and the rest of the south. The depression was especially hard on the south. The south did not start truly recovering from the Civil War until World War II. South Carolina also has a lot of poverty because like all southern states almost 1/3 of the population is minorities. If you go to places like California and New York or Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey, any other very blue state when you look at the counties with the most poverty they’re always the counties with the highest percentage of minorities. And I’m not sure why you’re getting so upset about the COM yet because by definition, Anderson Clemson, Greenville Spartanburg, or not in the mountains. That section of South Carolina is actually called the foothills. If you cross into South Carolina on interstate 85 from either Georgia or North Carolina the first exit will take you to South Carolina 11, which is also called the Cherokee’s foothill Trail. That starts getting you into the edge of the mountains in South Carolina. You I always love when people like you respond to comments and feel it’s necessary to insult someone. I’ll put my IQ and my success in life up against you any day. Clemson is in fact a very good university. I have a BS and finance and an MBA. I will absolutely put my IQ education and life success up against you. Because, intelligent educated people don’t need to resort to insults. Unless they graduated from the University of South Carolina. But then they’re still not educated. Clearly you’re triggered, but you might want to stick to the facts because nothing you posted was factual. And my post that you felt you had to attack was in fact completely accurate. Yours. Neither one of them. We’re accurate. Now I suggest you go away and quit because you already behind. More posting on your part will only dig the hole deeper. But since you’re not smart enough to have self-awareness you will probably foolishly comment again.

@@MsMoosieify Again. I didn’t say there was poverty. That’s the video not me. Also, I aware it’s close to table rock. I didn’t say it was not far from the mountains. That’s the definition of foothills. There at the base of mountains. Seriously, you’re not very intelligent and you really need to stop commenting. All you’re doing is making yourself look dumber. And yes, it is beautiful and I love that part of the state. I love all of South Carolina. I’m from the Lowcountry and went to college at Clemson. All of South Carolina is beautiful. But again we do have a lot of poverty like all of the southern states, do because of demographics, and because of what happened following the Civil War. But none of that has anything to do with the stupid comments you’re making. And you clearly have zero ability to read and comprehend because you’re making comments that I did not make. You’re saying I stated things that I did not.

I did. I lived in Gaffney for too many years. It's a cesspool.

LOL!

Sadly, my younger kids went to Woodruff schools. My brother sometimes drove them & he would often say "Do you know how Woodruff got it's name? An old Indian man ran out of toilet paper & said WOOD.....ROUGH!" 🤣🤣

Shhhhh don’t tell anyone about Chapin, the gem needs to stay hidden until I can buy some land out there

You’re crazy

I did not enjoy my two decades living in SC but Greer, SC. The best city, my family and I loved it.

Simpsonville is a nice town. I lived there for 18 years. It really grew in that time. I would even recommend the subdivision we lived in. It is called Neely Farm. If you are raising children, its all about kids. Olympic size swimming pool, big playground, tennis courts, hiking trail, large area for any ball sports. Schools are great, you got every store and restaurant just about. Movie theater,etc. Great 5g internet with Spectrum. Lots of factories for well paying work nearby. We moved when we retired to downsize a little and get outside of the busy scene. It really started booming. In Greenville , the hospital system is great and it spread out with hospitals all around. Lots of family docs. Not sure what the crime rate is there, but we never heard about anything in our neighborhood. Worth checking out if you’re looking to move to SC

@@lindaaldridge5165 yeah, I've been leaning towards Simpsonville a lot. Has the price of housing increased a bunch?

@@SemperFi_EDC_Guy Yeah, prices are going up everywhere surrounding Greenville. Greer, Travelers Rest, Spartanburg, Simpsonville etc. Check out places like Pickens or Cleveland, places that are farther from Greenville if you're looking for somewhere that isn't getting built up with newer housing developments

@@SemperFi_EDC_Guy hi, it has, but it seems to have slowed down somewhat.

Only one grocery store

I would love to see what rural areas of California and❤

As far as Costal, Cayucos is my favorite town to visit. It's so kick back and not near as packed as most CA beach towns.

Too expensive to buy a home.

Ppl say this 😂 all this time. I do understand it. After covid, my home state had an influx of too many ppl to support, with mental and physical health care, hugely under funded schools. In contrast the housing market jacked up 80--EIGHTY--PERCENT higher than they were and in tandem with that we saw rent hit thr roof--and the landlords turn into commercial folks who are not in state and have no idea what the area is really like--median income is 40 k absolute highest--with rent for a 2 bedroom crap hole being 1800/2 K, minus the exorbitant cost of heat in a cold state. All of this effectively pushed out older and younger ppl who couldn't pay for their homes and apartments. Idiotic taxes in NH, like the "view" tax. If you can see the tip of a skiing peak? Really? What if I'm blind?! Just tax tax tax. But call it beautiful, tax-free NH. Live free or die. Live expensively or die. Homelessness is pretty impossible with 20 below and noreaster weather. Sigh. I can tell I'm getting old.

I do want to leave my home state to be fair

Nah.....there's plenty of room in South Carolina! Come one Come all!!

@@kevinwhelehan421 there really isn't and the last thing we need is more ppl comin here trying to screw this place up like the places they left

@kevinwhelehan421 haha. Not surprised a true SC person would sound so welcoming. So far we've met nothing but sweethearts. Such a stark contrast from my home state

That is so darn true. South Carolina is full of stupid people doing stupid crap !!! I’ve lived here most of my life.

Idiots? Look in the mirror….. Glad you moved!

@@tedmcnair9709 I moved back to South Carolina. I see stupidity every day no matter where I am in South Carolina. You might wanna take your blinders off and start paying attention to things.