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Rural prosperity is not much of a thing in SC. We left our rural areas behind. The closest things to me would be sea island communities like Pawleys, Fripp, Daufuskie, Edisto, etc. Kiawah is too built up in my opinion. Secluded =/= rural, and Hilton Head is not rural in the slightest. It's heavily suburban and is its own functioning city with a commercial airport, a mall, nightlife, a tolled highway, and 40,000 people.
Not all of SC's rural areas are the same: the rural towns around I85 seem to have held up better than the ones along I95. Some towns are dying more and more every year, while some are just going on about their business, but none are really Mayberry esque wealthy enclaves like you'd see in a place like Connecticut or New Hampshire, though there's some quaint, well preserved towns, just not uber wealthy.
Camden and Chapin are a couple rural town though that could be somewhat like youve asked, though Chapin is slowly growing more exurban.
Thanks for the answer. Overall, are the wealthiest communities in SC regardless of rural/urban on the coast like Kiawah and Hilton Head? The more second home/vacation house/retirement destination type places?
Charleston's South of Broad seems like a forerunner for affluent coastal locales too.
Thanks for the answer. Overall, are the wealthiest communities in SC regardless of rural/urban on the coast like Kiawah and Hilton Head? The more second home/vacation house/retirement destination type places?
Charleston's South of Broad seems like a forerunner for affluent coastal locales too.
Yeah the wealthiest parts of SC are along the coast on the sea islands, and peninsular Charleston, which is pretty sure the most expensive place in the state. Homes there easily go over $1 million. Forest Acres in Columbia is also regarded as pretty wealthy, as well as intown Greenville and the Five Forks community, and Mount Pleasant and York County near Charlotte. But in general, it is the islands and Charleston and Beaufort County along the coast and waterways.
FWIW- when a lot of the wealth was found in rural areas it was in no way a robust upper class. Their was very much a top tear of planter society and everyone else fell behind (if they were even functionally or even literally free.) You would have fabulously wealthy people living in poor areas. I still see a lot of that in smaller towns where successful business or land owners do very, very well while the area as a whole is depressed. Sometimes it is in the form of rich families that maintain farms/hunting land-cabins as their 2nd/3rd homes.
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