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Interesting set of towns in SC. I never even heard of GLoverville and Pacelet.
Timmonsville isn't too far from Florence which has more stuff. If you want the small town experience it probably will work for you. There aren't a lot of jobs in town.
You could look at the Oakdale country club area in west Florence. It isn't too far from Timmonsville and it is pretty rural. I don't see much of an advantage in living in T'ville over Florence which is small enough.
Whitmire is pretty isolated. That would be my last choice of the 4.
Gloverville appears to be near Aiken. Aiken is a great small town. I would probably suggest living a little closer to Aiken.
Pacolot isn't too far from Spartanburg. I would expect that to be kind of a mill town and kind of rundown. SPartanburg is ok but it has high crime in the city center.
I would either roll with Timmonsville or Gloverville of these 4 choices.
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Timmonsville had the life (and retail) sucked out of it by Florence. I have roots in the Timmonsville/Manning areas and I find the whole area to be devoid of charm, especially when there are so many wonderful places to live in SC. But each to their own. The housing is cheap.
Timmonsville had the life (and retail) sucked out of it by Florence. I have roots in the Timmonsville/Manning areas and I find the whole area to be devoid of charm, especially when there are so many wonderful places to live in SC. But each to their own. The housing is cheap.
It couldn't have had much sucked out of it by Florence because never that much there. Other than that Rebel Pie pizza place, what has moved from Timmonsville to Florence?
T'vill does have some good doctors and dentists, my family used to go there for medical stuff.
You might want to consider Darlington or Lake City as well, near Florence.
Both Pacolet and Whitmire are towns that developed around mills. Both mills have since been demolished.
Pacolet, in east southeast Spartanburg County, is populous. Its biggest drawback is being a food desert. The last supermarket in town was Piggly Wiggly. It closed with two others in Cowpens and Union three years ago. Both Pacolet and Cowpens have been ignored by other supermarket chains since.
Both Pacolet and Whitmire are towns that developed around mills. Both mills have since been demolished.
Pacolet, in east southeast Spartanburg County, is populous. Its biggest drawback is being a food desert. The last supermarket in town was Piggly Wiggly. It closed with two others in Cowpens and Union three years ago. Both Pacolet and Cowpens have been ignored by other supermarket chains since.
Thanks for your answer any idea about the schools in the area?
Gloverville is part of a string of back-to-back mill villages between Aiken and North Augusta known as "the valley." It is not an incorporated town. Gloverville was one of the first villages to have ranch style homes. There's little new development there. It does have its own elementary school, which is surrounded by a ranch style neighborhood. The only things there are churches, a few local dives-diners/bars, and a handful of body shop type businesses. For groceries, you'd have to go to Langley, Graniteville, or Clearwater, which are other villages in the valley. For shopping, you would have to go to Aiken, North Augusta, or Augusta.
Thanks for your answer any idea about the schools in the area?
Pacolet is in Spartanburg County School District Three. The district stretches along the Pacolet River serving communities of Clifton, Glendale and Converse and Cowpens. Schools feed into Broome.
For Gloverville, there's Gloverville Elementary, which is an OK school and is small so there's good student to teacher ratio in the class. For middle school, approx. 75% of Gloverville goes to Leavelles McCampbell Middle in Graniteville, while the other 25% go to Langley-Bath-Clearwater Middle in Bath. LMMS has been a tad rough lately, but that's mostly due to the former principal who was completely incompetent. Said principal has since been demoted all the way back to teacher. New admin are turning it around and they are getting a brand new school building in 2015-2016 as it currently is in the original high school built in early 1900s. LBCMS is a good school with a great staff and had been remodeled in the last 5 years. Both middle schools feed Midland Valley High School, built in the 80s to consolidate LBC and Leavelle High Schools into 1 school and make the old schools the feeder middle schools. MV is a good school with the best high school principal in the county. MV's attendance zone runs from the extreme western edges of Aiken addresses across the entire valley to the extreme eastern edges of North Augusta addresses.
There is new development in the valley, but its on "the hill" or the upper side of US 1, not down in the villages.
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