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Local leaders, especially city leaders, are turning the corner on steering new development into the right places. Charleston is on the verge of updating its zoning codes for new construction to be built on higher ground with a comprehensive approach to flood prevention including not causing new issues for areas near the new construction. Stay tuned.
It means go back North if you came from above the Mason Dixon line (Richmond, Virginia - Capital of Confederacy). Here's a good quiz for you to see if you have to return back or not .....
It means go back North if you came from above the Mason Dixon line (Richmond, Virginia - Capital of Confederacy). Here's a good quiz for you to see if you have to return back or not .....
It means go back North if you came from above the Mason Dixon line (Richmond, Virginia - Capital of Confederacy). Here's a good quiz for you to see if you have to return back or not .....
We're finishing up vacation here (spent the past several days at Sullivan's Island, Folly Beach, and exploring Charleston and all the other historic sights in the vicinity). We're enjoying it immensely, but I noticed there IS a lot of urban sprawl. We visited the Angel Tree (the 400 plus year-old oak tree), and were dismayed to learn that it came close to being chopped down to make way for an 800-house development. Thankfully the locals fought so hard and saved it. It's truly magnificent, BTW...make sure you take time to see it if you're in the area. A bit out of the way, but really worth it.
There wouldn't be any need for all the development if northerners wouldn't relocate there. A lot of the "locals" we spoke with are bemoaning the deforestation and urbanization of the area. One said, "They're cutting down all the trees...that's why we can't breathe!"
There are a lot of other people moving to the Charleston area than Northerners.... On my street alone are people from TN, KY, IL, WA, TX, MI...
The ironic thing is that the trees couldn't have been cut down and the land developed if the locals hadn't first sold the land.
Serious question, and I hope that I don't offend anyone by asking, but I really want to know...Why do some people here have a "thing" against people from the north?
Could someone please explain what the undercurrent is behind this derisive "Yankee Go Home" sentiment?
To answer your question quite simply: older people are loud, and the world they grew up in has changed rapidly and they feel like everything they once knew and loved is now lost. Some people still have a delusional mindset that the Forrest Gump era is how the south should still look in 2021. Charlotte, Atlanta, Greenville, Charleston, Columbia, Raleigh, Greensboro, Augusta, etc are too modern and shiny - and northerners are blamed for them being modern and shiny, because to some people its like southerners cant adapt.
Hugh McColl is how Bank of America got to where it is today and why Charlotte turned into a shiny banking hub. Hugh is from...wait for it...South Carolina. But yet its the northerners fault for Charlotte being so "not real south"...RTP was created by North Carolinians in 1959, and yet its the northerners fault for Raleigh not being real south, because its too shiny.
Northerners are basically blamed for coming in and ruining the Forrest Gump-esque tranquility, with people sitting on the porch sipping sweet tea, churchbells tolling, kids in overalls playing stickball in the street, old pick up trucks on main street parked in front of the mom and pop....its northerners fault that we have skyscrapers, large malls, subdivisions, arenas, research facilities and world class hospitals, freeways, museums, food trucks...so they say.
It's not like westerners, midwesterns, and international people move to the south. Nor is southerners moving to other southern cities and states a thing that actually happens. Nor can southerners change their views, affiliations, habits.
There's the mindset that every single northerner votes blue - and not just blue, but dark dark blue. Every northerner is a purple haired, flaming, socialism loving death to America liberal, while every single southerner votes red and is a charming belle. All of them, every single person below Maryland votes straight R and always has. So when the northerners come down here, they taint the red kool aid and want to impose a 400% tax increase on the locals...because why not.
Fact of the matter is this the United States. Many northerners are moving down south for various reason ---- the SAME way southerners made an exodus up north in the 20th century (but southerners conveniently forget this). It's called migration. We've experienced migration since the native Americans. Migration will continue. People will go inland, people will go back up north, people will keep coming south, some people will leave the US altogether. It's nothing new and this all boils down to people being shocked by all the diverse change, and blaming someone else and turning themselves into a victim is their only way to cope.
We dont need anymore NY Yankees fans down here, but other than that, I personally dont care where people come from. I dont care how you vote, what you practice, what you eat, as long as you respect the people already here, I'm good. You should want to live in a place with people of various cultures and ethnicities, coming from different parts of the world. I had a friend in 8th grade move here from Australia. I was baffled back then why anyone would ever leave Australia for SC...but now I'm glad they took the plunge. Dont be bothered by the go home Yankees! Folks are just bitter and sad.
We're finishing up vacation here (spent the past several days at Sullivan's Island, Folly Beach, and exploring Charleston and all the other historic sights in the vicinity). We're enjoying it immensely, but I noticed there IS a lot of urban sprawl. We visited the Angel Tree (the 400 plus year-old oak tree), and were dismayed to learn that it came close to being chopped down to make way for an 800-house development. Thankfully the locals fought so hard and saved it. It's truly magnificent, BTW...make sure you take time to see it if you're in the area. A bit out of the way, but really worth it.
There wouldn't be any need for all the development if northerners wouldn't relocate there. A lot of the "locals" we spoke with are bemoaning the deforestation and urbanization of the area. One said, "They're cutting down all the trees...that's why we can't breathe!"
Urban sprawl...like the rest of the US? It's not even just a sunbelt thing: look at Long Island, look at Chicagoland. Is Charleston supposed to be immune to it? Charleston began sprawling in the 1950's when West Ashley was formed, and contrary to how it feels, was growing at a faster rate then than it is now. People look at developments like Carnes, Cane Bay, and Nexton and scream "sprawl!!", but Goose Creek was master planned in the 1960s. At least Charleston's sprawl is oddly narrow and somewhat consistent, compared to many other sunbelt cities that have grown all over the place with no actual design.
And fun fact: Charleston's #1 growth comes from....other South Carolinians. #2: North Carolinians. #3: Georgians. #4...Floridians. Do these people not need homes? Only northerners can/want to live in 800 house developments?...
If you want people to stop moving to Charleston, then there's 1 simple thing you need to do: get rid of the jobs. Then we wont need 800 house developments. Of course, with everyone being unemployed, I'm not sure how long Charleston's charm would last.
The Mason/Dixon line is the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania... some 150 miles or so north of Richmond (as the crow flies).
Correct. The line between Emitsburg, MD and Gettysburg, PA so called because that was the names of the two fellows hired to survey that delineation. I grew up 20 miles below it).
Urban sprawl...like the rest of the US? It's not even just a sunbelt thing: look at Long Island, look at Chicagoland. Is Charleston supposed to be immune to it? Charleston began sprawling in the 1950's when West Ashley was formed, and contrary to how it feels, was growing at a faster rate then than it is now. People look at developments like Carnes, Cane Bay, and Nexton and scream "sprawl!!", but Goose Creek was master planned in the 1960s. At least Charleston's sprawl is oddly narrow and somewhat consistent, compared to many other sunbelt cities that have grown all over the place with no actual design.
And fun fact: Charleston's #1 growth comes from....other South Carolinians. #2: North Carolinians. #3: Georgians. #4...Floridians. Do these people not need homes? Only northerners can/want to live in 800 house developments?...
If you want people to stop moving to Charleston, then there's 1 simple thing you need to do: get rid of the jobs. Then we wont need 800 house developments. Of course, with everyone being unemployed, I'm not sure how long Charleston's charm would last.
Says the poster who would like high rises on the Battery.
Let's be honest. Way too many Northerner's are loud, abrasive, and obnoxious*. It plays well in the
large metro regions of the north. Not so much down here.
*Note specifically that I did not say ALL.
But country folk are country folk, regardless of geographic region.
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