Posted: 3/2/2010 9:38:20 PM EDT
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Hey guys.
I'm 25 and currently living in NY now, Things are getting real expensive here and NY laws are awful. What is a nice area to move where home prices aren't crazy, and stores aren't a 1 hour drive? Is it possible to live in a somewhat populated area and still have a home on a nice piece of land? I'd like to start a life and could see my self in south carolina. Sorry for all the questions, but would like a few towns to start researching. |
| It sounds like the Greenville/Spartanburg area might be a good fit. It's not cheap by any means but probably more affordable than what you're used too. Don't expect to make the same salary down here either, the pay scale will be substantially lower than up north as well. The job market here is tough so I'd try to have a job before I committed to a move. |
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I just moved from the PNW to the Lexington area.
Housing is cheap here, decent houses are available at $50/ft, $70/ft gets you a luxurious or new home with brick siding in a nice neighborhood. Land is plentiful and reasonably cheap but soils seem to be quite poor. I looked at a nice 7 acre place with an older 2500ft house, pool, and large horse barn, fenced and cross fenced, asking was $225K. You don't have to get very far from shopping and such to have reasonably priced land. Taxes are reasonably low, everything is cheap here, speed limits are high enough you don't have to speed to keep from getting blown off the road like is usually the case up north, there are churches EVERYWHERE, they keep knocking on my door too, seems they're all looking for members, which isn't a huge problem but it's different, blue laws here too. I'd never actually seen a "Donk" in person before I moved here and I've seen like six in two months, there's a lot of good and a lot of bad cultural stuff to adjust to down here. OTOH, thanks to chain franchises and national media America pretty much all looks the same other than geography, it isn't all that different here from WA, people are people you know? People are friendly but it seems like half the population here is from other places, lots of people doing the same thing you're contemplating. There's clearly good reason the area is popular, it's quite nice for the cost of living. There's some depressed areas in Columbia, the closer you get to Lake Murray the nicer stuff looks and the more expensive stuff gets, you can buy housing SUPER cheap in some of the more rundown areas but I doubt you'd want to. Don't know much about the rest of the state, this is where my job was so it's the only place I really looked, but Lexington is a good bet if you can find work, lots of companies seem to be moving here but the job market is still tight. |
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I moved down to NC from NY. I like it a lot. I was shocked at how expensive supermarkets/grocery stores are here. You pay yearly property tax on vehicles(not sure for SC). Still, not too shabby since houses and taxes are a lot cheaper here. Just make sure you have a job BEFORE you move. That is, unless you independently wealthy.
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i'm 25 & live in charleston. pretty expensive near downtown, but fairly cheap in the outskirts zipcode 29414 (west ashley) or 29445 (goose creek). i'm on James Island (29412) & it's really expensive but i love being near the beach & downtown so it's worth it for me. definitely no trap shooting in my back yard tho, only bb gun or bow. my buddy has some nice land in McClellanville, SC but it's the boonies about 1hr from any real stores. we ride dirtbikes & hunt out there.
you could also look into Awendaw/Mount Pleasant area but prices get much higher the closer to Mt. P & downtown u get. also John's Island has some cheap prices & is real close to downtown. there's million dollar homes & trailer parks over there. you can guess who has deep water lots, lol. if you don't like humidity & salt air rusting all your tools & vehicles, you might prefer the upstate though. best of luck |
