Moved to South Carolina - HUGE MISTAKE (Greenville, Summerville: income, property taxes)

[waccamatt]

Originally Posted by marielee

hi, I am a single mom with 2 kids, one is in her 2 year in college. I would like to move to south carolina, but don't know where. i am in the health proffesion. would like to move to an area where is not to far from a hospital also close to a good colllege, where the crime rate is very low, but is a good area. Not looking for a very expensive one, but nice and decent area because I have a 5 year old kid who has a speech problem and would like to know if school supplies speech therapist.

I think the Columbia area or the Charleston area would be up your alley. Both cities have medical schools and a number of large hospitals. Columbia has the largest college population in the state, by far, with Charleston a distant second. You will often find that the better school districts are more expensive to live in, but I think the Rosewood area of Columbia might satisfy your needs. Parts of Rosewood are in the Dreher High School zones and the feeder schools, like AC Moore Elementary and Hand Middle School have good reputations. Rosewood is not known as a high crime area and it is very convenient. I have pictures of a number of Columbia neighborhoods on my website, but I don't have many of Rosewood. If you'd prefer to live in a newer area, the schools in Irmo have good reputations and there are some affordable areas. Affordable is all relative. If you know what price-range house you would be looking for and what interests you have, I could give you more recommendations.

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[SCBeaches]

Someone said that SC has a Baptist Church on every corner...and that's supposed to be a bad thing?? First, I would think one would do their research before moving to a new place. Second, when one moves to a new place, one is now the "newcomer" and needs to acclimate/adjust himself to his/her new surroundings, not the other way around. Should we get rid of all the churches, history, humidity, and heat to please our newest residents or should these newest residents have just stayed put where things were the way they wanted them in the first place?

I have lived here for 24 years and love it. It took me a year or 2 to get used to a new way of life, but I adhered to the motto "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" and I did just fine!
I didn't used to appreciate the saying: "If you don't like the way we do it in the South, then go back home!", but I do now!!

[SCBeaches]

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The schools may not be so good but everyone sends their kids to good private or Christian schools -- QUOTE]

That totally depends on where in SC you live. As a 24-year veteran public school teacher I know first-hand that there are some excellent public schools in SC and all over the South. I teach at a highly regarded public elementary school in Charleston County - our students are motivated and well-behaved and also do very well on the PACT (state standardized test). We often get new children who are Northern transplants and 9 times out of 10 those children are at least a year behind where we are.
I teach 5th grade and all three students who were place in my classroom mid-year were from the North and were also a year or more behind in Math and the Language Arts.

[donnaba]

I'm sorry that you chose the area you did, If you would have moved to Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Lake Wylie,Tega Cay, all next to Charlotte NC you would have loved South Carolina.There are parts of South Carolina, like all other states that even we wouldn't live. Please don't judge our whole state by the country hick town you chose.

[scjj]

donnaba, how much exactly do you know about Summerville to be labeling it a "country hick town"? FYI, Summerville (Dorchester County) is one of the fastest growing in the state and 33rd in the nation and has one of the leading school systems in the state of SC. Hardly a "country hick town".

[PoBoy40Plus]

Disclaimer: I will refer to the Negroid racial classification in this
article as "blacks", instead of using the "N word", or even using
the confusing intermediate term "coloreds". I am sorry, but this
really has to be said. Also, I am Black. I state this so that no
reader will assume that "Whitey is just being uppity".

First, the "N word" is derived from the standard American and British
ENGLISH word "nigard". If you'd ax yo'sef widout dissin' yo'sef about
the word "nigard",
. (Hey, I didn't start this thread, but I'm really tired of this stupid
. conversation, in it's entirety in every medium that it appears.
. Grow Up, and just quit using "black talk" completely)
"nigard" is an adjective meaning "dumb, slow, or retarded".
If you walk around the halls of most buildings
(from high schools to goverment buildings,
. from WalMart to Sachs on Fifth Avenue),
you will constantly hear blacks referring to other blacks as "N word".
What's worse, they get confused and self-conscious about using
"black talk" when I start laughing raucously when I hear statements
comin' out de moufs like
-- "My stupid!"
-- "whazzup, my stupid?"
-- "Stupid, can I hitcha up fo' a dolla' fo' da' macheen?"

Just remember that "N word" means "stupid" the next time you hear
it. You too will wonder why anyone would really want to be happy
with someone who called them by "N word".

All Hail to blacks who rose above the level of most of their race, and
became normal human beings. People like Bryan Gumbel, Condaleeza Rice,
Tiger Woods, and many many more. Even early in our nations history
there were examples like George Washington Carver, "father of the
peanut", who actually made light bulbs and many other inventions
using the peanut as a fundamental part of the devices or products.

Blacks have brains. Whites have brains. Orientals (or Asians) have
brains. All of them are just too lazy (for the most part) to use their
brains.

Since Native Americans have been determined to be both of both
Asian AND European decent, they are included twice in the "brains"
discussion already, and they are guilty as well of not using their
brains.

Peace out. Word to ya mama.

[Rggr]

That's actually not true. The word "nigard" that you mention is actually "*****rd." It does not mean stupid and has no relation to the "n word" under discussion. *****rd refers to someone who is cheap or greedy. The "n-word" comes from a variation of the words that languages use for black.

[PoBoy40Plus]

If you are retired, be very careful of local area taxes anywhere
you want to move, and how they are itemized and computed.

When I lived in an apartment in Harrisburg PA, I had to pay
school taxes as part of local labor taxes, even though I was
single and a virgin, and had never been married.

Later, after the virgin situation was resolved, I had to pay
school taxes in GA (still no children, but school was still part
of labor taxing I believe).

Got married in SC, and immediately became a grandfather, and
contracted as a 1099 employee.

In NC-Charlotte, I was still a 1099 contractor.

In MD (St Marys county), I was W2, and had local taxes, but I
believe that school taxes were part of property taxes there.

In TN (Memphis area), I didn't have to pay any local labor taxes,
and I didn't own a home. In Shelby County TN, school taxes
were a part of property (home) taxing.

Then, I repeated a couple of states (SC and NC) as a 1099
contractor.

I just started a perm job in the Florence SC area, so I'm back
to SC. Hope I don't have to pay school taxes in my property
taxes here, seeing as my grandchildren don't attend school
in this state (they are in the Memphis TN area).

Unfortunately, education in SC is somewhat scattered. In
general, education scores and ratings in SC are better if
there is a good number of colleges and universities in the
region.

The Upstate is much better (regionally) if education is an
important part of where you live. There are areas of high
education standards and success (certain schools) in the
Columbia and Charleston area, and the rest of the state
of SC is apparently a barren wasteland for any education
(unless you pay the bucks to send your children to private
schools).

SC is still mostly a farming state... and there aren't many
glowing educational meccas outside of GSP, Columbia,
Charleston, and maybe Sumter or Summerville... and SC
is still 49th in the national rankings of the states for
education... which is really a shame with glowing examples
in education excellence that we have that so many other
schools are falling by the wayside. It's a combination of
"farmer/isolationist" mentality and unwilling students in the
educational process. The teachers are superb... the students
are just not interested in learning. At least, that's what I saw
while substitute teaching in TN, SC and NC.

A comment was made that education is determined by the
success of the sports. Unfortunately, that's been the case
for a long time. No one want to live where the last state
championship team was 40 years ago. For a long time, the
State Champion in 4A football was either Spartanburg High
or Summerville. Then they started developing the west side
of Spartanburg, and built the new campus for Dorman High
School (or as they call it, Dorman University). The weight
of Spartanburg City shifted over time, and now Dorman is
the only high school that you hear about in Spartanburg.

Sorry for the ramblings, but my goal is to inform objectively.

Good luck, whereever you are or whereever you end up.

[PoBoy40Plus]

Then they changed the entymology of the word in the past ten years.
Not unheard of, since "ain't" was added to the English dictionary a while back, as well as other words which have no business being considerred words.
If the Queen doesn't use the word, then it shouldn't be considerred English.

[groove1]

Originally Posted by PoBoy40Plus

Then they changed the entymology of the word in the past ten years.
Not unheard of, since "ain't" was added to the English dictionary a while back, as well as other words which have no business being considerred words.
If the Queen doesn't use the word, then it shouldn't be considerred English.

Forgot those Brits. We defeated them 2x 200 years ago or so. And I'm 1/2 British (1/4 English, 1/4 ScottisH) and work for a British company. But this is America so I could care less what the queen uses.