What do you know about Easley SC ? (Greenville, Anderson: home, safe area)

[spees5490]

Hi,
I am looking to move from Michigan and start a new business. How is the economy? I would need to be within an hour drive of a large metro area.

I am looking to start a custom window treatment business and/or also a business selling produce from a market garden.

What are your opinions about either one?

Thanks for any info provided.

[NoodlesKnowles]

Originally Posted by spees5490

Hi,
I am looking to move from Michigan and start a new business. How is the economy? I would need to be within an hour drive of a large metro area.

I am looking to start a custom window treatment business and/or also a business selling produce from a market garden.

What are your opinions about either one?

Thanks for any info provided.

this would probably be best in a thread of its own, since it is very specific to your situation.

[Tarwolve]

Thank you for the insights Skyliner. To answer your questions, we currnently live nearly 40 miles from the great museums and theater of Washington DC making us suburbanites. Our price range for a SFH ranges from $200K - $325K. We bike on our local rail trail nearly everyday and are very into water aerobics. In our retirement years we are leaning toward warmer temps and southern hospitality. That leaning also includes an Urban (or closer to those areas) and the benifits to easier access of health, recreation and entertainment ammenties.
Let me just add here, yours was the first post I read about Greenville and I simply fell in love with all your pictures of the downtown and surrounding area. I also enjoyed your wonderful sparring posts from the infamous living in Greenville vs Spartanburg. That being said, I do value your insight on Greenville. The Swamp Rabbit Trail trek and the locations as far west as Five Forks you mention is where I'll focus my search.

[Odell195]

Originally Posted by CharlieLovesCarolina

Thank you for the responses. Easley sounds like a wonderful place. I currently pay over $230 a month (over 30, married, no tickets, no accidents) for one car so I'm definitely looking forward to low insurance rates.



Safety is a huge concern for me so I'm glad to know that it's a low crime area. I can't imagine what kind a person would steal a bicycle though. Honestly, what has the world come to?

Does it still have a Southern feel to it though? My family is originally from the Lancaster/York County area and that area is so overrun with the Charlotte sprawl that it's lost it's Southern feel. I guess what I'm looking for is the little Southern town that I remember in my youth where people are friendly and say hello to you on the street, where you can strike up a conversation with the person next to you in the grocery line without getting an odd look, people wave to you when you drive by & neighbors bring you a sweet potato pie when you move in, etc, etc. Please tell me that still exists somewhere.

I'll never forget when we first moved here in 2005 and the salesman offered to help carry out our packages to the car. Coming from South Florida we did not get a sweet potato pie but the people are definitely much nicer.

[barbarabak]

Hi Not trying to hijack anyone's post but hubby and I have been looking to move out of Florida for sometime now (way to hot, humid, buggy, to much worrying about hurricanes, tornados, wild fires, and getting way to expensive for two retirees, when we moved here intended for it to be our "forever home" economy has hit our area HARD, unemployment highest in the state, foreclosures, short sales, homes just left, yet the mayor, city council, town manager still spend like there is no tomorrow the "we want it and we want it now attitude") anyway just wanted to say Easley sounds like a very nice place, sort of like the town I grew up in up in NE never seen so many people say so many possitive things about their home, its really refreshing.
Could I ask one thing, what is the population, both Easley and the County, thought CD said it was something like 25,000 for the city and for what it seems to have to offer sounds like its much larger. Thanks

[Pat Grissinger]

You might find that info at the Easley Chamber's website. Just google Easley SC Chamber. Not sure of the specific address off the top of my head.

[Skyliner]

Greater Easley Chamber of Commerce

Welcome to Pickens County

Pickens County, South Carolina - Population Finder - American FactFinder

[Made_it_To_the_Metroplex]

Originally Posted by barbarabak

Could I ask one thing, what is the population, both Easley and the County, thought CD said it was something like 25,000 for the city and for what it seems to have to offer sounds like its much larger. Thanks

I don't know the 2010 population figures (the Census website is just too complicated for my little brain ), but I'd say the reason Easley has so much in the way of businesses, shopping, etc is that it's a now a suburb of Greenville. Like many current suburbs, it began as a separate mill town, but as Greenville grew, it has been melded into the overall metro area.

[WannaliveinGreenville]

Originally Posted by UpstateBooster

I don't know the 2010 population figures (the Census website is just too complicated for my little brain ), but I'd say the reason Easley has so much in the way of businesses, shopping, etc is that it's a now a suburb of Greenville. Like many current suburbs, it began as a separate mill town, but as Greenville grew, it has been melded into the overall metro area.

I love my town of Easley It's so nice to see all the stores popping up in the Walmart Shopping Center, ( although I don't know all of them, I recognize Kohl's ) or do you call it Town Center ?

Does anyone know the others that are actually up right now ( in their infant stage at this point ) ?

[NoodlesKnowles]

Originally Posted by WannaliveinGreenville

I love my town of Easley It's so nice to see all the stores popping up in the Walmart Shopping Center, ( although I don't know all of them, I recognize Kohl's ) or do you call it Town Center ?

Does anyone know the others that are actually up right now ( in their infant stage at this point ) ?

Originally Posted by g-man430

UPS Store, Jersey Mikes, Super Cuts, AT&T, Aspen Dental, GameStop, Sprint, and Five Guys in two separate buildings.

also I do believe it is to be called easley town center