Okay, so as I stated in my previous thread, my fiance and I are getting married in July, and are looking to relocate to South Carolina from Kansas City. We'll be 22 next summer, and as such, fairly poor. She'll graduate with an elementary education degree next May, and I'll graduate with a journalism degree, so we're not going to be CEOs or anything.
We've been looking at the Greenville area, but I'm worried that it will be too similar to where we currently live. I love the looks of it, but at the same time, I kind of want to be closer to the coast (maybe within an hour/hour and a half).
Can anybody recommend an area within about that distance of the coast that would be somewhat affordable? One thing that concerns me, along with housing costs, would be hurricane insurance. I suppose there's not much I could do to avoid this, but this isn't something we have to deal with here in the midwest, so I don't know what to expect.
I'd also like to be somewhat close to a larger city. The two places I've lived in my life had populations of 115,000 and 150,000, so I definitely don't want to move out to the middle of nowhere. At the same time, I don't want to live next door to a crack house and worry about robberies and murders.
Basically, I guess I want it all.
We're going to try to visit Greenville in February, and I'm looking for recommendations on places closer to the coast we can visit while we're out there. Thank you very much for any help.
Steve