Mt Pleasant SC (Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Sumter: new home, neighborhoods, theatre)

[wynettam]

What is Mt. Pleasant like is it more like a resort area

[jojoIOP]

Mt Pleasant is a beautiful, unique waterfront community; not resort-like at all unless you want it to be (in your mind!)

Family oriented, but lots of singles/retireds here too, community oriented, school sports are big, public schools are well attended (test well) and the residents are very involved in outdoor activities and the parks. The council really think of the future for this town.

There's tons to do without driving more than 10 miles: shopping, movies, flying lessons, restaurants, parks, trails, fishing, boating, and beaches; theatre, museums & music in historic Charleston (just 4-6 miles away). It's also a wonderful place to go home to after work, and get some peace.

[carolinajack]

Mt Pleasant is awesome, great golf and tennis facilities, great bedroom communities, with only a 58,000 population. Excellent recreation, wonderful shopping and restaurants, historical sites and museums, old churches, Old Mount pleasant architecture, the most wonderful people, close to the beach and water way and to the resort island of Isle of Palm,where the surfing and fishing and golf is fab,

Its my hometown and I love it and miss it, and pray that God will bring me home there soon.

[marycarson]

Mount Pleasnt SC is a mix of the old and the new. Located just across the Cooper River from downtown Charleston (East of the Cooper), Mount Pleasant has its Old Village - the original Mt P. Neighborhoods have developed as the town grewly slowly in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. With the epening of Hwy 17 By-Bass (Johnnie Dodds Blvd), new land was became available and growth has continued north along Hwy 17. The geographic center iof Mt P is now considered the Interstion of 17 and the Isle of Palm Connector. When my family & I moved here in 1987, there was no IOP Connector and the last neighborhood out was Snee Farm. Now there is a whole "new" Mt P located north of the Connector. New homes, new shopping, new places of worship, parks, etc. has been developed in the what some call Mt Pleasant North. The latest buzz word is Central Mt Pleasant, which refers to a large tract of land located between Hungryneck Blvd and Rifle Range Rd. Plans for this tract are in the works and include parks, homes, shopping, etc. Mt Pleasant has been able to maintain a good balance of the old and new and continues to be a wonderful place to call home. We're not a Mytrle Beach and we're not a Hilton Head - we have our own personality!

[SRmom]

Any more information about central Mt. Pleasant plans?

[quicksilverms]

I would also like to get more information on this area as we are near retirement and want a home away from home in the colder months. We last visited the Charleston area in 2002 and got thoroughly lost, even with a map. Any good ideas on how to get around the area, see some of the smaller less busy communities and avoid the wrong turn syndrome?

[carolinajack]

well i dont know where you are coming from but if you are coming in town from I-26 to get to MP you just have to get on 526 and come over that way.

Downtown is pretty simple to get on Highway 17 over the New Bridge and you will come right into MP.

If you have specifics we can probably help you that way.

[quicksilverms]

Thanks for the tip, we usually travel in from Savannah. We live in Indiana, and go south every year as all good southern children should do to see family and take the cemetery tour with the elders. We know the time is coming when the cold will take its toll and we'll have to go somewhere else during the winter months. We try and take the long way home to Indiana through places we may want to stay in. Thought we'd give the Charleston area another look around.

[carolinajack]

amen to that, we have to be good southern children and return to our heritage and ancestors at least once a year. As for retiring, you cant beat the Charleston area.

what are you looking for specifically? housing, info on arts and culture, recreation, etc?

I too am a Mt Pleasant SC boy who is currently an expatriate living and working in the North--cant wait to come home permanently in the next 2 to 3 years, when my child has to start school.

[Steve Rowe]

Quicksilver,

As with any coastal area, there are nooks a crannys caused by the coastline and access to the communities partly defined by rivers and coastal islands. There are certainly main travel arteries that make it easy, once you've gotten oriented a bit, to get to the main areas around the tri-county.

This tri-county area has a wonderful diversity of things to see and do, many of them richly historical or wondrously natural in their beauty.

If you know someone in the area, I'd talk them into being your windshield tour guide. If not, just plan on staying a few days, and enjoy getting lost as you discover neat spots scattered around. Depending on what you like to see, the attractions range from the historic downtown, the Battery, Rainbow Row, and literally hundreds of other historic sites, along with plenty of fine restaurants. Or the many beaches, historic plantation grounds, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie, old Summerville, Old Charlestowne Landing, the Angel Oak over on Johns Island, funky Folly Beach, Patriot's Point along the harbor in Mt Pleasant, or a host of other neat things and places.

Enjoy the discovery!