Wanting to relocate From Memphis to South Carolina.... Need recommendations and advice! (Greenville: lease, home)

[jersgrl1969]

It's not unbelievable. I'm from NJ and I feel the same way. If someone down here thinks I'm rude, I talk too fast, and that I'm outspoken and brash, well, they can congratulate themselves because they've just met a Northeasterner. We're known for our attitude. (see my status above).
NewYork has every right to feel the way they do. They came here thinking SC was a wonderful place and got the s****y end of the stick.
The OP wanted honest opinions about life in SC, and that's what she's getting, right? Obviously all of the opinions aren't going to be positive.


What I want to know is: there's so many people out of work here--poor, destitute--how the hell do they pay their bills?? NJ offers heating assistance, electric assistance, car insurance assistance, etc. SC offers zilch. So what do these people do?? Go buy a tent and live in the woods??

[Columbiadata]

jersgrl1969, if I were to generalize about NJ I'd talk about its god-awful-ugly turnpike. And we all know NJ has no poverty.

Moderator cut: flamingignore me if you wish. I was just trying to be helpful because of the consistency of the one error I've noticed in your postings. My recent postings have been in response to your diatribes about South Carolinians and their ignorance and pitiful way of life, so I don't feel I've been off topic if you haven't.

[natsherr]

[SIZE=5]Columbiadata[/SIZE]
Senior Member

lets stop the arguing please

i appreciate all the different opinions and grammar differences!

[jersgrl1969]

Originally Posted by Columbiadata

jersgrl1969, if I were to generalize about NJ I'd talk about its god-awful-ugly turnpike. And we all know NJ has no poverty.

NewYorkBorn, ignore me if you wish. I was just trying to be helpful because of the consistency of the one error I've noticed in your postings. My recent postings have been in response to your diatribes about South Carolinians and their ignorance and pitiful way of life, so I don't feel I've been off topic if you haven't.

NJ has poverty-just not as much as SC.
As far as the turnpike goes, I'm from the southern-most tip of NJ. I've never even been on it.
It seems as if people think everyone who lives in Jersey is in the north end and works in NYC. Not true! Plenty of people reside below Trenton.
(Sorry for going off the subject, OP)

[Columbiadata]

My recommendation for anyone wanting to move from Memphis to South Carolina is to come see for yourself what it feels like here. Look around at the poverty, the mansions, the McMansions, the towns, the cities and everything else you can see in a sizing-up trip, and look at your own personal situation to determine whether you think it would be a good move.

Don't listen to a bunch of natives and transplants argue about the good and bad of each others' states. For a state that was trounced and burned for misguidedly trying to hold onto an institution that was started elsewhere in the nation but became a mainstay for the envy-provoking, power-centered prosperity of a few southerners during that dark period of our history such a short time ago in the overall scheme of things, South Carolina ain't half bad.

[NewYorkBorn]

Originally Posted by jersgrl1969

It's not unbelievable. I'm from NJ and I feel the same way. If someone down here thinks I'm rude, I talk too fast, and that I'm outspoken and brash, well, they can congratulate themselves because they've just met a Northeasterner. We're known for our attitude. (see my status above).
NewYork has every right to feel the way they do. They came here thinking SC was a wonderful place and got the s****y end of the stick.
The OP wanted honest opinions about life in SC, and that's what she's getting, right? Obviously all of the opinions aren't going to be positive.


What I want to know is: there's so many people out of work here--poor, destitute--how the hell do they pay their bills?? NJ offers heating assistance, electric assistance, car insurance assistance, etc. SC offers zilch. So what do these people do?? Go buy a tent and live in the woods??

The thing that get's up under my skin is that us Northerners are called rude and harsh........but the same people who are pointing their evil finger at us are the same people who pick the fight in the first place. One thing is for sure if they pick a fight with one of us they can expect to get smacked!

The other thing that I have noticed on this forum is that people like this want to be the only one's who share their opinion about life in the south. In all of my posts on here from the day I started participating on the forum I have always discussed both the good and the bad about living here........however it seems that the only points that they want to attack are the one's that expose the other side of living in the south. As you said the poster asked for all opinions both the good and the bad. The way I feel about it is that if my experience here in SC can cause someone to stop and re-evaluate moving here so that they do not get bad surprises and end up in financial ruin then that is great. At the end of the day those of us who are willing to tell the truth will have stopped someone from making a mistake moving here.

[natsherr]

and honestly, if i wanted the sugar coated version of what living in a certain place is like, i would have went to the state website. i like getting personal input from the people that are experiencing it, not from a website designer whose main purpose is to lure people in with pretty bright pictures and alluring words!

i really do love south carolina and i have visited probably about 10 to 12 times. but vacation and living are two totally different things!

[pburgess68]

Originally Posted by natsherr

and honestly, if i wanted the sugar coated version of what living in a certain place is like, i would have went to the state website. i like getting personal input from the people that are experiencing it, not from a website designer whose main purpose is to lure people in with pretty bright pictures and alluring words!

i really do love south carolina and i have visited probably about 10 to 12 times. but vacation and living are two totally different things!

Now THAT is the truth!!!! I always thought living here would be fun after coming down for vacation for 10+ years. Not so much. My boyfriend felt the same, and he lived in a different state than I did (we actually met down here).

Will we move back up North? Eventually, but not to the original states we were from (I can't take the cold anymore due to an injury).

[NewYorkBorn]

Originally Posted by natsherr

and honestly, if i wanted the sugar coated version of what living in a certain place is like, i would have went to the state website. i like getting personal input from the people that are experiencing it, not from a website designer whose main purpose is to lure people in with pretty bright pictures and alluring words!

i really do love south carolina and i have visited probably about 10 to 12 times. but vacation and living are two totally different things!

Good for you wanting to read all perspectives. As you said visiting a state for vacation (short amount of time) is one thing, packing up all of your possessions and deciding to live there as a resident is totally different. I came to Columbia, SC to visit friends and fell for the whole SC cheaper cost of living hype. Now one of the people who cheered me on is now living in NYC because he could not pay his bills on the money he was making here.

Speaking of pretty pictures if you want a cover up you can always read the Greenville forum. All they talk about is the renovated downtown area, restaurants, golf courses, the mountain and nice homes for sale in these subdivisions. What about the fact that people need to make decent pay so that they can afford to enjoy those things? To read that forum one would come to the conclusion that everything is perfect!

I wish you the best of luck wherever you end up.

[Colddiamond102]

Originally Posted by jersgrl1969

What I want to know is: there's so many people out of work here--poor, destitute--how the hell do they pay their bills?? NJ offers heating assistance, electric assistance, car insurance assistance, etc. SC offers zilch. So what do these people do?? Go buy a tent and live in the woods??

Simple. Buckle down and find other ways of paying bills without depending on the state. It IS possible you know, to not depend on the government when your financial situation goes awry.SC is a lot of things, but a nanny state isnt one of them.

I know several people who use Ebay, flea markets, or even simple things such as cutting neighbor's grass, to make ends meet. Even still others I know supplement their food supply with deer, or they grow their own veggies.
Where there's a will, there's a way.