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This thread is starting to scare me. We've been planning to move for a year or so, and Charleston has been at the top of our list for a while. To the point we've become kind of enamored with it. We've been planning a trip, probably in April as of right now, but until then we've only got boards like this to help learn about the city.
When I first moved to Vegas(1994), there was a very large NY population here. And while they could be blunt or even rude to sensitive people, they stayed out your business, and didn't try and turn Vegas into a second NewYork. It was very much do what you want, as long as you mind your business and don't disturb other people.
But then in 96 I joined the Army for a short tour. When I got back, most of the Newyorkers were gone, and we had a new increasing population of Californians moving in. Now they were the opposite of the NewYorkers, polite to your face, lie right to it, while always in your business. And They are constantly trying to make Vegas like California. Most of the locals make comments online about how we are slowly being annexed into LA. Makes me miss the NewYorkers.
I was born in Columbia and spent a part of my child hood in the south.(Parents were in the Army too, so we moved a lot), So I miss the South, and want to give that experiance to my son. My wife and I love the Genteel Culture of Charleston. She's Loved it even before she spoke english. She's an immigrant, and use to collect picture of the clothing, style, and city before she even knew what it was.
Our plan is to move near Charleston, but far enough away we can buy some land and not be living on top of our neighbor like we do in Vegas. Become part of the city, Open/buy a few businesses, get my son involved in the culture so when he's older he'll choose to stay. You know Become a Charestonian, like any immigrant should. Hopefully all the Westerners won't change it. One of the reasons we originally looked at South Carolina is the stubbornness and the nature to fight change.
This thread is starting to scare me. We've been planning to move for a year or so, and Charleston has been at the top of our list for a while. To the point we've become kind of enamored with it. We've been planning a trip, probably in April as of right now, but until then we've only got boards like this to help learn about the city.
When I first moved to Vegas(1994), there was a very large NY population here. And while they could be blunt or even rude to sensitive people, they stayed out your business, and didn't try and turn Vegas into a second NewYork. It was very much do what you want, as long as you mind your business and don't disturb other people.
But then in 96 I joined the Army for a short tour. When I got back, most of the Newyorkers were gone, and we had a new increasing population of Californians moving in. Now they were the opposite of the NewYorkers, polite to your face, lie right to it, while always in your business. And They are constantly trying to make Vegas like California. Most of the locals make comments online about how we are slowly being annexed into LA. Makes me miss the NewYorkers.
I was born in Columbia and spent a part of my child hood in the south.(Parents were in the Army too, so we moved a lot), So I miss the South, and want to give that experiance to my son. My wife and I love the Genteel Culture of Charleston. She's Loved it even before she spoke english. She's an immigrant, and use to collect picture of the clothing, style, and city before she even knew what it was.
Our plan is to move near Charleston, but far enough away we can buy some land and not be living on top of our neighbor like we do in Vegas. Become part of the city, Open/buy a few businesses, get my son involved in the culture so when he's older he'll choose to stay. You know Become a Charestonian, like any immigrant should. Hopefully all the Westerners won't change it. One of the reasons we originally looked at South Carolina is the stubbornness and the nature to fight change.
New Yorkers sure, but you won’t find too many Californians here.
If you live far enough away where you can actually buy some land, you’re probably not going to be surrounded by many transplants.
If people keep moving here with the attitude that they don't want to "live on top of of anyone else," like cities are by nature, they're eventually going to end up living in housing subdivisions that will overrun the country where my mother and her parents and their parents and their parents, etc. were born and raised, sixty miles from Charleston in southern Orangeburg County, and I will hate them and the developers who built the housing subdivisions.
They said NYC’s median price was $474k which isn’t much more than some of the zip codes around here. Honestly that alone isn’t high enough to justify moving across the country and starting all over again. I’ve never heard of anybody from anywhere else outside the Northeast moving to New York City...ever. So who is moving into all those vacant $474k homes when they all moved to Florida and here?
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