I live between Greer & Inman, I have lived in SC my entire life and particularly in Greenville & Spartanburg Counties for the past 18 years. Where I am is 15 mins from downtown Greer, hardley any traffic, very rural and 15 mins in the opposite direction has me in Landrum. I love where we are, it's quiet, crickets at nights, birds in the mornings, fair land prices, convenience to Greenville & Spartanburg yet away from the hustle & bustle of their traffic, etc. There are all natural stores in Greer, Spartanburg & Greenville. Along with the same type Drs in all three areas. Granted Inman doesn't have a downtown like Landrum does but Greer's is close. I am right in the middle of these two towns and luckily also on the border of the two county lines.
This sounds like something you might want to consider to enable you to be within close driving range to all theplaces you want to be. We take day trips to Lake Lure, Chimney Rock, Rutherforton, Spindale, Flat Rock, even Asheville..all within an hour to us. Unfortunately Woodruff is sor of out there on it's own. Yes you can drive to Greenville or Spartanburg but there isn't much there for retirement age people to see or do (gee I hope I didn't offend any Woodruff folks). From Greer, Inman, Lyman, Landrum, Campobello you can be in the mountains in a half hour. Property in Landrum and Greer will be more expensive. Remember Landrum is only 5 minutes from Tryon, NC which is home to many high dollar horse farms. Put yourself in driving distance without paying inflated prices. Due to our business, we will be moving soon into Western NC and I must admit the prices there are a little higher than what we have around here. We have to have a business address and a place to store property there or else we would just drive back & forth. We have decided to try living there since we go there all the time
Let's get to the home schooling and home birth issues real quick. I home schooled my daughter for 4 years of her school years. I am not sure what regulations you speak of. Either my husband or I had to have a high school diploma and we had to be prepared to show proof of the work she had completed if we were checked by the state. Other than that, I am not aware of any regulations. As for home births, my sister in law did that with a midwife, not my cup of tea but it can legally be done in SC. My first child I insisted on all natural, no problem because labor only lasted 20 mins! My second child, they said I was not in labor and stopped it. This put me to sleep for 6 hours. I woke up in hard labor and had a baby girl 3 hours later. My third and last child I realized there were no trophys given for painful labor & delivery and agreed to an epidural IF I felt a need during labor. After 6 hours of labor the dr said
"you are really tense, I think we could have this baby in 30 mins.if you would go ahead and take the epidural now." Less than 10 mins later I had a baby boy. That said, I am 43 years old and if I fould out today I was pregnant I would request an epidural at 7 months!!! JUST TEASING!
Welcome to our beautiful state and I know you will enjoy your retirement years here regardless of which little town you end up in. There is SO much to see & do.
Good Luck
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Tryon, and Landrum
