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We have a beach home in Brunswick County. It is absolutely Mayberry with the laid back feeling. I actually lived in the Beach home when attending UNCW. It would be great if they widen 211 ( 4 lanes) out to HWY 17 and widen the other road(?187) from Southport to Leland.
The worst thing about Southport is getting out of the traffic during the July 4th fireworks. In 20 yrs LongBeach has taken a big hit on the appeal to go to it over Holden Beach though. I'm pretty sure results of the Hurricanes in the last 15 yrs is part of it.
In my opinion Southport is so boring theres nothing to do, it may have a splashworld but it costs a fortune to get in + you can never get on the slides coz the ques are so long waiting for a rubber ring.
Overall southport is boring and a rubbish place for children of anyage.
In my opinion Southport is so boring theres nothing to do, it may have a splashworld but it costs a fortune to get in + you can never get on the slides coz the ques are so long waiting for a rubber ring.
Overall southport is boring and a rubbish place for children of anyage.
I'll be looking to get a retirememt cottage or small land to build one in southport. Would anyone living there please tell me if it is safe for a single senior lady to live there by herself? I'm thinking of driving down from upstate NY and want to find out if Memorial day week would be a good time to visit and explore the area. Most of these posts are several years old- what happened to the container port construction?
Ash
I'll be looking to get a retirememt cottage or small land to build one in southport. Would anyone living there please tell me if it is safe for a single senior lady to live there by herself? I'm thinking of driving down from upstate NY and want to find out if Memorial day week would be a good time to visit and explore the area. Most of these posts are several years old- what happened to the container port construction?
Ash
You might want to start another thread. I am an older woman and I would feel perfectly safe living by myself in Southport. There are many reasonably priced resale homes and condos, so you don't really have to build from scratch. If fact, with the decline in real estate values since 2007, resales are a better deal than new homes.
Regarding the container port, I'll just quote a Wikipedia article: "In his March 27, 2013 presentation of "The Future of NC Ports", Jeff Miles, acting executive director of the N.C. State Ports Authority, put into words the authority’s current approach to competing with other East Coast ports. “Charleston, Norfolk and Savannah today are just behemoth container operators,” he said. “Engaging in an arms race with those guys is a prescription for a serious loss. We just can’t go toe-to-toe with them today.”[6]
I am assuming the port is on hold because it would not be cost-competititve.
Used to teach in the Southport area. If your kids are not fishing and going to the beach, there is not a lot to do, and with that comes a lot of bad things. Though not noticeable and not in the public eye, the idle middle schoolers and high schoolers often succumbed to less than desirable activity. It is not a lot worse than anywhere else, but it is not nirvana.
Example: one middle schooler told me she had spent most of the weekend riding a mechanical bull in front of a bar, I think on Oak Island, while men kept throwing buckets of water on her. Several girls in class, stated "Yeah, we have done that, too!"
You might want to start another thread. I am an older woman and I would feel perfectly safe living by myself in Southport. There are many reasonably priced resale homes and condos, so you don't really have to build from scratch. If fact, with the decline in real estate values since 2007, resales are a better deal than new homes.
Regarding the container port, I'll just quote a Wikipedia article: "In his March 27, 2013 presentation of "The Future of NC Ports", Jeff Miles, acting executive director of the N.C. State Ports Authority, put into words the authority’s current approach to competing with other East Coast ports. “Charleston, Norfolk and Savannah today are just behemoth container operators,” he said. “Engaging in an arms race with those guys is a prescription for a serious loss. We just can’t go toe-to-toe with them today.”[6]
I am assuming the port is on hold because it would not be cost-competititve.
The Port still owns the property but there is no plan to develop it right now. IMO, its immaterial if they did develop it, because it would be an automated port and wouldn't require that many jobs. I think that and the fact that infrastructure is not in place (its not really in place in Wilmington either) to get trucks in and out of that area are the big problems. Miles quote solidifies that the ports are looking in other directions for business and not going down the automated (container) route right now. It may eventually be an expanded area for raw materials.
Southport is a safe area...as much as any area is truly safe.
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