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I honestly don't have any idea where in SC I'd want to live, but let me give you a little information about myself and my family and perhaps some of you can enlighten me and steer me in the right direction of places to consider.
I guess employment wise I'd consider myself 'blue collar' (factory work, truck driving, gas & oil industry). We're active, so we'd want to be in a place with some 'life' to it. Sports for all ages, parks, entertainment, nightlife, but also we'd want to live in an area where we're not necessarily 'side by side' with neighbors, I don't have to live in the "active" area just close by. We've kind of got a 'country living' mentality with the interest of being 'city active'.
Some of the things that would be important is, safe neighborhoods, good schools, job market, and of course the other items I listed above.
I guess i should also ask what the house market is like. And is there any 'economical advantages' to SC over other states?
Area size, i dont nessarily want to be in the city, more of a suburb location vut as far as the city, how big or small it is doesnt greatly concern me. Im from the Williamsport, PA area but ive also lived in Pittsburgh, pa
feel free to ask me any questions if it'll help you help me. Thanks in advance.
The three biggest cities are Columbia, Greenville and Charleston.
You could find 'country living' in the Simpsonville, Traveler's Rest, Powdersville, Greer suburbs of Greenville. Anderson is about 30 minutes away from Greenville and it has some nice areas around highway 81 that are a little more rural. Anderson is close to Lake Hartwell. Anderson has a lower cost of living.
Greenville has a fantastic downtown area with a tree lined main street with a ton of restaurants and bars, and a 30 foot drop waterfall right next to it with a massive pedestrian bridge right over it and a nice park around it. It has a minor league baseball stadium near the waterfall and there is a minor league hockey team playing at the arena nearby. Clemson University is 45 minutes away if you like college sports. Football and basketball games are a blast there.
The Greenville and western part of SC known as the Upstate is near the Blue Ridge mountains. You can see the mountains in the distance from various points in the Upstate. Greenville itself has a little mountain, Paris Mountain, that has a state park. There are a ton of waterfalls and mountain overlooks and hiking trails nearby, and Lakes Jocasse and Keowee are clear water lakes at the base of the mountains. The whitewater river Chattooga (the river that the movie Deliverance was filmed on) is about 1.5 hours from Greenville.
You might want to check out VisitGreenvilleSC.com for a comprehensive look at Greenville.
I'll let other people talk about burbs in the other 2 metros that might work for you.
Where in South Carolina have you considered to locate so far?
Honestly, I haven't specifically looked at anywhere yet. We probably won't actually move until sometime next year, so I've just started doing some research.
The three biggest cities are Columbia, Greenville and Charleston.
You could find 'country living' in the Simpsonville, Traveler's Rest, Powdersville, Greer suburbs of Greenville. Anderson is about 30 minutes away from Greenville and it has some nice areas around highway 81 that are a little more rural. Anderson is close to Lake Hartwell. Anderson has a lower cost of living.
Greenville has a fantastic downtown area with a tree lined main street with a ton of restaurants and bars, and a 30 foot drop waterfall right next to it with a massive pedestrian bridge right over it and a nice park around it. It has a minor league baseball stadium near the waterfall and there is a minor league hockey team playing at the arena nearby. Clemson University is 45 minutes away if you like college sports. Football and basketball games are a blast there.
The Greenville and western part of SC known as the Upstate is near the Blue Ridge mountains. You can see the mountains in the distance from various points in the Upstate. Greenville itself has a little mountain, Paris Mountain, that has a state park. There are a ton of waterfalls and mountain overlooks and hiking trails nearby, and Lakes Jocasse and Keowee are clear water lakes at the base of the mountains. The whitewater river Chattooga (the river that the movie Deliverance was filmed on) is about 1.5 hours from Greenville.
You might want to check out VisitGreenvilleSC.com for a comprehensive look at Greenville.
I'll let other people talk about burbs in the other 2 metros that might work for you.
I'm a Pittsburgh Sports and PSU fan. The Greenville area does sound intriguing. What is the public schooling like?
The three biggest cities are Columbia, Greenville and Charleston.
You could find 'country living' in the Simpsonville, Traveler's Rest, Powdersville, Greer suburbs of Greenville.
I wouldn't exactly call those places "country living". Maybe Traveler's Rest is close but the other three are all pretty are very typical suburbs and are very busy. If you really want "country living" within the Greenville area I'd look at southern Greenville county, rural Anderson county (between Powdersville and Anderson) and the areas up towards Dacusville. They're all pretty rural while remaining reasonably close to Greenville. If good schools are also important, I'd definitely go with Piedmont/Pelzer/Williamston and the areas in between in Anderson county.
As for economic advantages, you can find a lot of blue collar and industrial work in this state. Housing costs here are pretty cheap compared to the rest of the nation. Gas prices are also some of the cheapest.
The outskirts of Simpsonville / Fountain Inn are definitely rural while also being closer to the main shopping areas in Greenville with an easy drive up I-385.
I know a couple of guys that have little farms around 418 in the Fountain Inn area.
I think even the suburban areas around Woodruff Road in Greenville have a country feel to them. The Powdersville neighorborhoods are going to seem like country living to a lot of people.
Going by school scores, most of the schools outside of the poorer areas to the west of the downtown area have decent ratings. In my view, and this is generally a minority view on these forums, the school scores don't tell you anything about the teachers.
I went to schools in another part of the state with pretty low school scores and I was able to get into Clemson University. My freshman calculus, physics, and chemistry classes were nearly identical to those that I took in high school. I felt like the teachers at my K-12 schools in SC prepared me for college.
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I honestly don't have any idea where in SC I'd want to live, but let me give you a little information about myself and my family and perhaps some of you can enlighten me and steer me in the right direction of places to consider.
I guess employment wise I'd consider myself 'blue collar' (factory work, truck driving, gas & oil industry). We're active, so we'd want to be in a place with some 'life' to it. Sports for all ages, parks, entertainment, nightlife, but also we'd want to live in an area where we're not necessarily 'side by side' with neighbors, I don't have to live in the "active" area just close by. We've kind of got a 'country living' mentality with the interest of being 'city active'.
Some of the things that would be important is, safe neighborhoods, good schools, job market, and of course the other items I listed above.
I guess i should also ask what the house market is like. And is there any 'economical advantages' to SC over other states?
Area size, i dont nessarily want to be in the city, more of a suburb location vut as far as the city, how big or small it is doesnt greatly concern me. Im from the Williamsport, PA area but ive also lived in Pittsburgh, pa
feel free to ask me any questions if it'll help you help me. Thanks in advance.
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