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re: Where to live: Southeast US
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:16 am to ronricks
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:16 am to ronricks
If you mean Hot Springs…..Arkansas? Odd choice.
It’s VERY touristy & downtown is a mix of old run down buildings/hotels from yesteryear & some shops/restaurants. It’s pretty around the town, especially if you live on one of the lakes, but the town itself kinda sucks.
It’s VERY touristy & downtown is a mix of old run down buildings/hotels from yesteryear & some shops/restaurants. It’s pretty around the town, especially if you live on one of the lakes, but the town itself kinda sucks.
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:33 am to BlackenedOut
Got a link? We missed out on our last two offers. One in Sanibel and one on Captiva. Looking to buy another home and give the kids our house in Madeira Beach. My family sold their homestead back when Charlie hit and I’ve tried to buy it back a few times to be on the island again. Wife wants to buy the She Sells Seashells store and become mayor I just want to live the Tomlinson life in the Doc Ford novels. 
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:43 am to Yeti_Chaser
Charleston is full. Too many northeast transplants and it’s not even the same city it was 4 years ago. Long term staple restaurants are closing up shop due to increased rent and these Ny/NJ investor groups are coming in and buying and changing the locations to the newest “faux inspired bs” restaurants that will fail within a year. It’s still a great city with a lot to offer for being so small, but it’s on its way to becoming another dull city overrun with chain stores and over commercialization. Nevermind the growing traffic and parking issues. Local leaders have done nothing to improve the infrastructure with the heavy influx of folks.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:52 am to Paul Allen
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Greenville, SC
Terrible place. Highly overrated. The downtown stinks. They are always closing main st for festivals and events where everyone in town comes in and it is so crowded. Too many people drinking and having fun. The people are terrible and can’t drive. Home prices are too high, schools are bad. You sometimes have beggars off Woodruff Rd that you have to look at while sitting in the traffic light off 385. Only one Michelin starred restaurant. There is only Publix and Lowe’s grocery stores. Mountains are ugly and too close. There are so many other nice places like Asheville, Charleston, Atlanta, Columbia, and Charlotte that are within a few hours drive you could live and visit Greenville when you feel like slummin it.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 8:56 am to metallica81788
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Nowhere worth living is cheap within an hour radius of Charleston so I'd rule that out
Fify. Summerville, North Charleston, goose creek, way out west Ashley, Hanahan, John’s island are all affordable.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:00 am to AlextheBodacious
quote:North Charleston west Ashley and John’s island are your best bets. John’s Island is awesome in that it still super country but you’re essentially stuck if there is an accident on the bridge.
Fify. Summerville, North Charleston, goose creek, way out west Ashley, Hanahan, John’s island are all affordable.
Summerville is
no one considers them Charleston but every resident will tell you they live in Charleston. It’s the equivalent of moving to Long Island but saying you live in Manhattan. Traffic is absolutely brutal for the folks who commute down from there. You’re sort of inbetween this nothingness stretch between Charleston and Columbia. 
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:01 am to TheePalmetto
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Is full. Try elsewhere. Outside of the state of South Carolina is best.
That's because you had half of New Jersey move to South Carolina.
Right before I moved, I counted the number of Jersey plates in the parking garage where I worked....22 was my record.
Hell I was with the wife at a resort at the base of Arenal in Costa Rica and met a couple in the process of moving from Jersey to South Carolina.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:02 am to Centinel
quote:them and Philly man, it’s insane. The Philly transplants are the most obnoxious and at least 90% of them that I’ve encountered live up to the stereotype too. They’ll tell you how great Philly is and you ask them why they moved then and it’s crickets
Hell I was with the wife at a resort at the base of Arenal in Costa Rica and met a couple in the process of moving from Jersey to South Carolina.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 9:03 am
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:07 am to jscrims
I see what you did there.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:07 am to Yeti_Chaser
Bunkie
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:20 am to UnluckyTiger
This is also happening in Northwest Arkansas.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:22 am to Yeti_Chaser
I’m telling everyone stay away from Northeast Tennessee. We are full from the New York, Illinois, California invasion post-Covid. Driven up our house market in costs x400% vs 2018-19 in some cases
Unless you believe in Antifa, local taxes going to reparations and communist viewpoints, stay away from Asheville proper.
Surrounding areas like Hendersonville and Weaverville, Black Mountain, etc al, are great and not as riddled with homeless, daily protests and dope needles. And they need sensible people moving in to balance out the LA/SF/NYC folks moving in and trying to sway the NC vote.
Unless you believe in Antifa, local taxes going to reparations and communist viewpoints, stay away from Asheville proper.
Surrounding areas like Hendersonville and Weaverville, Black Mountain, etc al, are great and not as riddled with homeless, daily protests and dope needles. And they need sensible people moving in to balance out the LA/SF/NYC folks moving in and trying to sway the NC vote.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:42 am to NoBoDawg
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If you mean Hot Springs…..Arkansas? Odd choice.
It’s VERY touristy & downtown is a mix of old run down buildings/hotels from yesteryear & some shops/restaurants. It’s pretty around the town, especially if you live on one of the lakes, but the town itself kinda sucks.
The west side reminds me of Minden in all the worst ways.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 9:43 am
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:15 am to Hog Zealot
Not on market currently but on the short term market for this season as wait to figure out what’s going on in real estate. Located in Beachview Estates.
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:29 am to Bama and Beer
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Fairhope, AL
This is what came to my mind.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:35 am to UnluckyTiger
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North Charleston west Ashley and John’s island are your best bets.
The home prices on John's Island have gone crazy over the past few years. It's pretty out there though but you have the same issues as Summerville if you have to commute (as you noted).
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:35 am to UnluckyTiger
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Charleston is full. Too many northeast transplants and it’s not even the same city it was 4 years ago. Long term staple restaurants are closing up shop due to increased rent and these Ny/NJ investor groups are coming in and buying and changing the locations to the newest “faux inspired bs” restaurants that will fail within a year. It’s still a great city with a lot to offer for being so small, but it’s on its way to becoming another dull city overrun with chain stores and over commercialization. Nevermind the growing traffic and parking issues. Local leaders have done nothing to improve the infrastructure with the heavy influx of folks.
raleigh area is the same way. cool when we moved here, talking about our next move more and more lately
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:36 am to Centinel
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Right before I moved, I counted the number of Jersey plates in the parking garage where I worked....22 was my record.
If they still have Jersey plates there's hope they're just visiting.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:37 am to Yeti_Chaser
I'd look somewhere btw Savannah and Hilton Head.
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