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I am looking to relocate to the Charleston area as soon as possible. My background is in hotel hospitality and I am currently looking for jobs on Kiawah. I'd like to get an apartment in the Mt. Pleasant area so my question is how bad would that commute be? I'm assuming normal business hours for now. Would getting past the city be backed up and then clear out once I get onto John's Island?
Thanks for any advice you can provide! If the commute is long and arduous, it'll have to be a sweeter gig out on the island to draw me out there so it helps knowing ahead of time.
I am looking to relocate to the Charleston area as soon as possible. My background is in hotel hospitality and I am currently looking for jobs on Kiawah. I'd like to get an apartment in the Mt. Pleasant area so my question is how bad would that commute be? I'm assuming normal business hours for now. Would getting past the city be backed up and then clear out once I get onto John's Island?
Thanks for any advice you can provide! If the commute is long and arduous, it'll have to be a sweeter gig out on the island to draw me out there so it helps knowing ahead of time.
I'm sure someone else will chime in but what I remember, Kiawah is about an hour drive from Mt. Pleasant. Remember you have to go south past the island then get out on the island and it is only a two lane road. James Island or Johns Island would be better.
Any reason you are zoning in on Kiawah? The Charleston area and downtown has some spectacular properties.
I am also looking at properties all over the Charleston area, but wanted to make sure the drive to Kiawah shouldn't rule it out as a place to even bother looking.
I think you'd be hard pressed to make to Kiawah from Mt P in even an hour. If Kiawah is where you end up getting a job, BlueHerons is right.... You'd be better on Johns Island or James. If Schools aren't important to you then Johns Island is closest.
Edit: Really, you can do Mt P to Kiawah in an hour if there's not much traffic. It also depends on where in Mt P and where on Kiawah.
I would set the expectation of that commute at a minimum of 1 hour and expect that it could be worse depending on where you live in Mt Pleasant. It's not the kind of commute that is all highway. You'd be getting off 17 cutting across downtown Charleston then over another bridge onto 2 lane backcountry roads. Wouldn't be an ideal commute..for me anyways.
Last weekend I met some folks that live in I'on that have a summer home in Kiawah Island ... it seemed somewhat redundant to me to have homes seemingly that close to each other but apparently not uncommon. Perhaps it speaks to how practical it really is to commute between the two ... or it speaks to having more money than common sense.
Last weekend I met some folks that live in I'on that have a summer home in Kiawah Island ... it seemed somewhat redundant to me to have homes seemingly that close to each other but apparently not uncommon. Perhaps it speaks to how practical it really is to commute between the two ... or it speaks to having more money than common sense.
It's about an hour from one to the other. Where I'm from there are plenty of people that live an hour from the coast that have beach or island homes.
Nothing to do with common sense. Just a person's desire to spend some of their disposable income.
Just a person's desire to spend some of their disposable income.
I was actually being facetious, it was more to emphasize that the two locations are far enough from each other for some folks to warrant owning separate residences in each one, thus aiming to address the commute question in a roundabout way. Plus I would venture to guess that your friends that live an hour from the coast and have a second home there don't actually live ten minutes from the coast in the winter as is the case in I'on.
My first reaction when I was told this is that it may be a local tradition going back generations when the two were a day's trip from each other, and that this has remained a custom for families of a certain wealth level. Then I wondered why not just live in SI and have the best of both worlds ... but then I thought that they are either golfers, or more likely have a group of friends that may live in other places and they all gather in Kiawah every summer.
It was just interesting more than anything else, because it is reasonable for an outsider such as myself to find it curious for someone to have a winter and summer home within 30 miles of each other, for in many places in the US that's about the average commute.
My first reaction when I was told this is that it may be a local tradition going back generations when the two were a day's trip from each other, and that this has remained a custom for families of a certain wealth level. Then I wondered why not just live in SI and have the best of both worlds ... but then I thought that they are either golfers, or more likely have a group of friends that may live in other places and they all gather in Kiawah every summer.
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It is very much a South Carolina thing. I grew up in Myrtle Beach (my mother's family is Charleston) and we have a beach house in Murrells Inlet. Lots of my friends families that lived in the Dunes Club have Garden City Beach houses.
They are also vacation rentals.
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