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I hope the humid heat and termites scare more people from moving here. When it takes 40-50 minutes to drive 9 miles to work, the population is to great for the area.
As a native, because im used to the pollen, heat and bugs... What I'm not used to is the traffic. Ive been to major cities that developed their infrastructure to handle the amount of people/ tourists. Thats basically impossible here so if you dont work from home, i wouldn't dare live in Summerville/ Goose Creek and work mt pleasant/ west ashley. Used to take 25 min, now over an hour +. Live next to where you work which could be very expensive. If you're a bartender, server... good luck. You won't be able to afford where you make "decent money" so you'll essentially be sitting in a ton of traffic. Really that goes for anyone.
Yep, I have to say that I agree with you. Though, I do know some high-end restaurant servers who make a good living and only live maybe 15-20 mins from work (for example work downtown and live on James Island, or live and work in Mt Pleasant). It just really depends on your living situation, like if you're single and want to live alone vs. a dual-income household or roommates or living with family. Thank you so much for watching and sharing your local perspective!
@@LifeinCharlestonSouthCarolina Well, I'll piggy back off your comment and say that Charleston is becoming a modern day St Thomas VI. So if you have problems and are looking to escape to meet new people or saw this city on southern charm and need roommates and shit... 95% you'll move back to wherever you're from.
@@certifiedUFOpilot I've never even seen Southern Charm, haha! But yeah, that will always be the case if you're running from problems and looking for an escape, no matter where it is. Thanks for watching!
The nicest people I've met here are not native to this area. I've lived here for 40 yrs. Traffic is horrible because of rapid development. The bug issues are real!
I have been here 10 years. I wish my husband woukd have told me about the traffic. I have never lived in a city of this size and population that only has ONE HIGHWAY! I understand one of the reasons is because it's on a peninsula. And for Charleston to be such a huge tourist destination, shopping and entertainment sucks here. No real mall. No zoo, waterpark, or amusement park. Music artist don't come here for concerts. And when they do, it's a week night. Parking downtown and at the beaches is the worst. But being just a few hours from ATL, Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham, Jacksonville, Orlando and Savannah means that zoos, shopping, concerts, and such are not too far away.
Well, technically we have 3 "highways" - 26, 526, and 17. But yes, they all get busy! The Mt Pleasant Town Centre and the Tanger Outlets in North Charleston are the best outdoor malls. The indoor malls are half empty given the decline of in-person retail shopping vs. online. There are some small county waterparks for the kids and Magnolia Gardens has a petting zoo. I think we get a lot of great concerts here personally with some big names! I've never had a problem parking downtown in the garages. I agree that beach parking can be bad at high times. Thanks for watching!
Try LA for a few years and then you'll feel like you're living in the country here. Traffic is mild compared and the downtown here is an actual walkable Europeanish downtown... meaning it's a real downtown like towns all over were before the1970's, until Walmart decimated them in most places. One of the few great downtowns in America... that's why it's always rated top place to visit. Take that away and there is still a beach. Take that away and there's still no blizzards. Regarding traffic again... I routinely drive 50-100 miles a day in zero traffic. Just don't go from the inner part to the outer parts like Summerville at 4:30pm. If you are going from the outer parts like Summerville to the inner parts including Mt Pleasant/West Ashley at that time there is really no traffic to speak of. I do it pretty much every day. Anyone crying traffic has to be from the sticks. They've definitely never lived where there is MAJOR traffic. They also must be getting on the exact wrong road at the exact wrong time. I can drive from Mt Pleasant to downtown and back multiple times a day with zero traffic basically ever.
The "CHARM" quotient has all but totally DISAPPEARED here. It's more like a hustling and bustling perpetual city wide construction project which also encompasses all surrounding areas. Can you say the word TRAFFIC??????? There are no "good times" to leave your house to avoid it, so don't get any ideas in your head along those lines either. P.S. The ocean temperature in the summer here maintains a steady 85 degrees or more.
I relocated from the Chicago suburbs to the Tricounty region in July 1986 a year after vacationing the prior Spring. I was absolutely shocked at the heat and humidity which took me around 4 years to acclimate to the weather. Your video is 💯accurate information for anyone thinking about relocating to this area. Kudos for giving out accurate information. Several of my neighbors and I share a pond in our backyard and we do have an alligator that we have affectionately named “Wallie”.
Thank you Magda! Yes, the heat here is no joke, but you're right - you definitely get used to it! 😎 I am so pleased to hear that you think this information will be useful to others. I really appreciate you watching and commenting! What part of Charleston do you call home?
@@LifeinCharlestonSouthCarolina I have lived in Summerville, Charleston and currently in Stono Ferry. I love Stono Ferry because it’s quiet, isolated and has amenities.
Enjoy spending 2 hours in traffic too and from work everyday. You better live right next to where you work. Also you could buy a 500,000 dollar house next to a run down gang area. Your realtor is not allowed to mention this
My son was stationed in Goose Creek. They had short, well-fed alligators on grounds. Personnel had a tendency to feed them. Regarding humidity, he said he would get tired of working on his vehicle and having to stop to wring the sweat out of his shirt. It doesn't take long to get soaked in humidity, if you are active outside. He loved Charleston, particularly all the restaurants with great, local food, but he was more than ready to leave when it was time to go.
Thanks for watching! Yikes, feeding alligators is NOT a good practice! 😬Yep, any outside work in the summer is pretty brutal. Luckily the majority of the year, it's pretty perfect!
I moved from CT to Southern SC and I'll take 90 over 10 any day lol. Also VERY little cloudy and rainy days are a massive improvement over the NE area, that can see rain for days sometimes.
i really wanted to love this place. i stayed for a week and was honestly very disappointed. very big homeless problem, and definitely wouldn’t feel safe walking the streets at night. some parts are run down, dirty, and if you make one wrong turn you’ll end up in a bad area. outside of king street and the battery it feels like ur average poor neighborhood. the history is interesting, and its nice to be close to beaches, but definitely not enough for me to come back
Hello, I'm very sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy your time here. Like any city, you do need to be more aware and mindful of certain streets/areas. The battery is filled with historic, multi-million dollar homes, so I am surprised to hear that it gave off the impression it did. Downtown is very different than the other areas, so hopefully you were able to explore other parts as well. Thanks for watching!
I grew up here. It gets over 100 degrees??? Duh!!!! It’s hot. Always has been always will be. It floods, it’s well below sea level. If you buy a home you might need flood insurance if you can get it. This is all elementary science and geography 101. BTW a CL 100 is mandatory if you are getting a loan.
CL-100s are only required for VA and FHA loans; they're optional for conventional loans. Flood insurance is required for all properties with financing unless it's an X flood zone.
Stay the hell out of SC period! There's a house everywhere I look now. The places I use to hunt, fish, ride bikes climb trees and have fun in general are all developments now. The traffic sucks. I have a foreign accent in my own hometown! Go somewhere else please!!
Im disliking this video because the title was click baity and misleading. The title says AVOID MOVING TO SC but in the video she says SC is great and is not discouraging people from moving here. Also, the ten reasons where also extremely obvious generic and obvious like it's hot or there's hurricanes.
Actually, the title is "Avoid Moving to Charleston SC - Unless You Can Deal With These 10 Facts" and then I give facts, some of which are good, some of which aren't, and some of which are personal preferences that just depends on individual preferences. Many people have found this video helpful. Sorry you didn't.
@@LifeinCharlestonSouthCarolina Oh okay that's different than just simply AVOID MOVING TO SC. I must have missed reading that last part on the thumbnail. Sorry. I was a good video all and all. I live in SC btw.
@@electron2601 Thank you :) I'm sure some of the things I say in the video are more obvious, but people are thinking about moving here from all over the country and the world, so I'm spelling it out for them. Thanks for watching!
Camn someone do doordash or uber eats. Whta is the scope and future of home delivery from restaurants. Is it worth to deliver via doordash or uber eats in these narrow streets/roads
It is nice for an October visit. Unbearably hot from May thru September. It's the buckle of the bible belt. Its STILL very very racist and there are pockets of KKK. Rent for a decent one bedroom apartment will be $1200. If you have to ask the cost of a home, you cant afford it. It's stuck in the past and far from progressive even though there's a massive influx of people moving here. Did i mention that it's unbearably hot and humid to the point that it's exhausting to breathe? The pockets of neighborhood walkability mentioned are absolutely overpriced? Again, you cant afford to live here. Mount Pleasant, where i used to live, is laughingly called Mount Plastic, unless you live there and need to shop at Trader Joe's and Whole Paycheck. I've made mistakes in life, as we all have. The biggest was moving here and thinking i would be embraced by the quaint Southern hospitality. You won't be. You're, unless you are 4th generation Charlestonian, going to be referred to as "from off," meaning you're an outsider and will never be a part of. Don't be fooled by the "Bless your heart." It's not a blessing. It's a snide snarky Southern insult.
Same can be said of Savannah, GA. Moved from NJ You n 1994, but left 15 years ago. The traffic is brutal. The noise downtown is brutal. The humidity and bugs are brutal. The smell of the paper mill might still be brutal.
This was one of the first videos I ever filmed and I didn't know what I was doing LOL. I actually have to look off to the side when I film in order to look into the lens on the iphone so it's hard to get used to. If you watch a more recent video, you'll see that I've improved and look into the camera now. :)
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I grew up in the Charleston area in the 70s & 80s. The traffic has absolutely EXPLODED.
Yeah, it's definitely grown exponentially since then! Though I can't think of anywhere that hasn't gotten more congested in the last 40 years.
I can name one. Tampa Sarasota area.
I thought Tampa was also one of the fastest growing and appreciating markets?
I hope the humid heat and termites scare more people from moving here. When it takes 40-50 minutes to drive 9 miles to work, the population is to great for the area.
As a native, because im used to the pollen, heat and bugs... What I'm not used to is the traffic. Ive been to major cities that developed their infrastructure to handle the amount of people/ tourists. Thats basically impossible here so if you dont work from home, i wouldn't dare live in Summerville/ Goose Creek and work mt pleasant/ west ashley. Used to take 25 min, now over an hour +. Live next to where you work which could be very expensive. If you're a bartender, server... good luck. You won't be able to afford where you make "decent money" so you'll essentially be sitting in a ton of traffic. Really that goes for anyone.
Yep, I have to say that I agree with you. Though, I do know some high-end restaurant servers who make a good living and only live maybe 15-20 mins from work (for example work downtown and live on James Island, or live and work in Mt Pleasant). It just really depends on your living situation, like if you're single and want to live alone vs. a dual-income household or roommates or living with family. Thank you so much for watching and sharing your local perspective!
@@LifeinCharlestonSouthCarolina Well, I'll piggy back off your comment and say that Charleston is becoming a modern day St Thomas VI. So if you have problems and are looking to escape to meet new people or saw this city on southern charm and need roommates and shit... 95% you'll move back to wherever you're from.
@@certifiedUFOpilot I've never even seen Southern Charm, haha! But yeah, that will always be the case if you're running from problems and looking for an escape, no matter where it is. Thanks for watching!
avoid this area because it looks like baltimore. Honestly I was shocked how dirty south Carolina really is.
The nicest people I've met here are not native to this area. I've lived here for 40 yrs. Traffic is horrible because of rapid development. The bug issues are real!
You don`t exactly sound like a native.10 years? You just got here. We have too many Yankee-Yuppies here already!
There's that charming Southern hospitality! Bless your heart, Bubba❤
I never claimed to be a native. I'm from Virginia so am not a Yankee or a Yuppie.
I have been here 10 years. I wish my husband woukd have told me about the traffic. I have never lived in a city of this size and population that only has ONE HIGHWAY! I understand one of the reasons is because it's on a peninsula. And for Charleston to be such a huge tourist destination, shopping and entertainment sucks here. No real mall. No zoo, waterpark, or amusement park. Music artist don't come here for concerts. And when they do, it's a week night. Parking downtown and at the beaches is the worst. But being just a few hours from ATL, Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham, Jacksonville, Orlando and Savannah means that zoos, shopping, concerts, and such are not too far away.
Well, technically we have 3 "highways" - 26, 526, and 17. But yes, they all get busy! The Mt Pleasant Town Centre and the Tanger Outlets in North Charleston are the best outdoor malls. The indoor malls are half empty given the decline of in-person retail shopping vs. online. There are some small county waterparks for the kids and Magnolia Gardens has a petting zoo. I think we get a lot of great concerts here personally with some big names! I've never had a problem parking downtown in the garages. I agree that beach parking can be bad at high times. Thanks for watching!
@@LifeinCharlestonSouthCarolina 526 and 17 are not real highways. I'm talking about like 85, 95, 40, 57.
Try LA for a few years and then you'll feel like you're living in the country here. Traffic is mild compared and the downtown here is an actual walkable Europeanish downtown... meaning it's a real downtown like towns all over were before the1970's, until Walmart decimated them in most places. One of the few great downtowns in America... that's why it's always rated top place to visit. Take that away and there is still a beach. Take that away and there's still no blizzards. Regarding traffic again... I routinely drive 50-100 miles a day in zero traffic. Just don't go from the inner part to the outer parts like Summerville at 4:30pm. If you are going from the outer parts like Summerville to the inner parts including Mt Pleasant/West Ashley at that time there is really no traffic to speak of. I do it pretty much every day. Anyone crying traffic has to be from the sticks. They've definitely never lived where there is MAJOR traffic. They also must be getting on the exact wrong road at the exact wrong time. I can drive from Mt Pleasant to downtown and back multiple times a day with zero traffic basically ever.
Thank you so much for sharing your perspective! Everything in life is relative.
Really good points about living in Charleston, SC!! Thx for sharing
You're welcome! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Locals hate outsiders and are very angry about the situation with traffic, schools, and rising prices.
The "CHARM" quotient has all but totally DISAPPEARED here. It's more like a hustling and bustling perpetual city wide construction project which also encompasses all surrounding areas. Can you say the word TRAFFIC??????? There are no "good times" to leave your house to avoid it, so don't get any ideas in your head along those lines either. P.S. The ocean temperature in the summer here maintains a steady 85 degrees or more.
I relocated from the Chicago suburbs to the Tricounty region in July 1986 a year after vacationing the prior Spring. I was absolutely shocked at the heat and humidity which took me around 4 years to acclimate to the weather. Your video is 💯accurate information for anyone thinking about relocating to this area. Kudos for giving out accurate information. Several of my neighbors and I share a pond in our backyard and we do have an alligator that we have affectionately named “Wallie”.
Thank you Magda! Yes, the heat here is no joke, but you're right - you definitely get used to it! 😎
I am so pleased to hear that you think this information will be useful to others. I really appreciate you watching and commenting! What part of Charleston do you call home?
@@LifeinCharlestonSouthCarolina I have lived in Summerville, Charleston and currently in Stono Ferry. I love Stono Ferry because it’s quiet, isolated and has amenities.
@@MagdaD0118 It's beautiful there! So wonderful to hear that you found somewhere you love. 😃
Enjoy spending 2 hours in traffic too and from work everyday. You better live right next to where you work. Also you could buy a 500,000 dollar house next to a run down gang area. Your realtor is not allowed to mention this
Traffic is bad. It’s crowded.
Don't do it. It's overcrowded and too expensive.
100% do not recommend moving to Charleston.
Don't, way to many people in a small area, congestion, high costs, please don't move there!
Thank you sooo very much for all of the information on your video!! Very much appreciate your brutal honesty!!! Thank you!!
You’re welcome! Thanks so much for watching! Hopefully it wasn’t too brutal LOL 😂 but I try to be as honest as possible!
My son was stationed in Goose Creek. They had short, well-fed alligators on grounds. Personnel had a tendency to feed them.
Regarding humidity, he said he would get tired of working on his vehicle and having to stop to wring the sweat out of his shirt. It doesn't take long to get soaked in humidity, if you are active outside. He loved Charleston, particularly all the restaurants with great, local food, but he was more than ready to leave when it was time to go.
Thanks for watching! Yikes, feeding alligators is NOT a good practice! 😬Yep, any outside work in the summer is pretty brutal. Luckily the majority of the year, it's pretty perfect!
Mold will eat through wood after a while also. And yes, I lived in Georgia, where there are similar issues.
If it goes untreated, yes, it can get out of control. Usually, you find it before it gets that bad!
I moved from CT to Southern SC and I'll take 90 over 10 any day lol. Also VERY little cloudy and rainy days are a massive improvement over the NE area, that can see rain for days sometimes.
LOL, I couldn't agree more! I don't know how I'd live without the sunshine. It seems much easier to deal with heat than snow!
i really wanted to love this place. i stayed for a week and was honestly very disappointed. very big homeless problem, and definitely wouldn’t feel safe walking the streets at night. some parts are run down, dirty, and if you make one wrong turn you’ll end up in a bad area. outside of king street and the battery it feels like ur average poor neighborhood. the history is interesting, and its nice to be close to beaches, but definitely not enough for me to come back
Hello, I'm very sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy your time here. Like any city, you do need to be more aware and mindful of certain streets/areas. The battery is filled with historic, multi-million dollar homes, so I am surprised to hear that it gave off the impression it did. Downtown is very different than the other areas, so hopefully you were able to explore other parts as well. Thanks for watching!
Have you been to any other city in the U.S.? I’ve walked the streets of Charleston at night many times and never had a problem.
This comment was written 20 years ago. Just forgot to post it until now.
Good. Stay put. Don't move here. NO vacancy
I grew up here. It gets over 100 degrees??? Duh!!!! It’s hot. Always has been always will be. It floods, it’s well below sea level. If you buy a home you might need flood insurance if you can get it. This is all elementary science and geography 101. BTW a CL 100 is mandatory if you are getting a loan.
CL-100s are only required for VA and FHA loans; they're optional for conventional loans. Flood insurance is required for all properties with financing unless it's an X flood zone.
Stay the hell out of SC period! There's a house everywhere I look now. The places I use to hunt, fish, ride bikes climb trees and have fun in general are all developments now. The traffic sucks. I have a foreign accent in my own hometown! Go somewhere else please!!
My family has been going to Kiawah since it opened in 1976. The Charleston area is our home away from home. Have always loved it.
That's wonderful Douglas! Kiawah is absolutely gorgeous. It's easy to feel at home here in Charleston! Thank you for watching.
We're full. Go somewhere else.
Im disliking this video because the title was click baity and misleading. The title says AVOID MOVING TO SC but in the video she says SC is great and is not discouraging people from moving here. Also, the ten reasons where also extremely obvious generic and obvious like it's hot or there's hurricanes.
Actually, the title is "Avoid Moving to Charleston SC - Unless You Can Deal With These 10 Facts" and then I give facts, some of which are good, some of which aren't, and some of which are personal preferences that just depends on individual preferences. Many people have found this video helpful. Sorry you didn't.
@@LifeinCharlestonSouthCarolina Oh okay that's different than just simply AVOID MOVING TO SC. I must have missed reading that last part on the thumbnail. Sorry. I was a good video all and all. I live in SC btw.
@@electron2601 Thank you :) I'm sure some of the things I say in the video are more obvious, but people are thinking about moving here from all over the country and the world, so I'm spelling it out for them. Thanks for watching!
Extremely over crowded. Don't come to hot with mosquitos.
Nothing about the flooding and beach erosion?😮
I mention hurricanes which goes hand in hand with the flooding and erosion.
If all the Charleston women are like her, I am on the way.
This myth that Charleston is the “best city in the world/country” hasn’t been even remotely accurate in over 15 years now.
Camn someone do doordash or uber eats. Whta is the scope and future of home delivery from restaurants.
Is it worth to deliver via doordash or uber eats in these narrow streets/roads
Yes, we have Door Dash and Uber Eats. I can't personally speak to the potential earnings.
Nats don’t bit. The regurgitate acid on your skin. Best thing to do is stay away from
AVOID USING CLICKBAITY THUMBNAILS!
I don't find it clickbaity and put a ton of thought, time, and energy into my videos so that they are genuine and as helpful as possible.
It is nice for an October visit. Unbearably hot from May thru September. It's the buckle of the bible belt. Its STILL very very racist and there are pockets of KKK. Rent for a decent one bedroom apartment will be $1200. If you have to ask the cost of a home, you cant afford it. It's stuck in the past and far from progressive even though there's a massive influx of people moving here. Did i mention that it's unbearably hot and humid to the point that it's exhausting to breathe? The pockets of neighborhood walkability mentioned are absolutely overpriced? Again, you cant afford to live here. Mount Pleasant, where i used to live, is laughingly called Mount Plastic, unless you live there and need to shop at Trader Joe's and Whole Paycheck.
I've made mistakes in life, as we all have. The biggest was moving here and thinking i would be embraced by the quaint Southern hospitality. You won't be. You're, unless you are 4th generation Charlestonian, going to be referred to as "from off," meaning you're an outsider and will never be a part of.
Don't be fooled by the "Bless your heart." It's not a blessing. It's a snide snarky Southern insult.
Having lived here for 11 years, I've never heard of any KKK activity here or the term "from off"...
I'm gonna guess that you are a Pisces.
No... Scorpio 🦂♏😀
Same can be said of Savannah, GA. Moved from NJ You n 1994, but left 15 years ago. The traffic is brutal. The noise downtown is brutal. The humidity and bugs are brutal. The smell of the paper mill might still be brutal.
Yeah, most of what I go over in this video could apply to many parts of the southeast! Our paper mill recently shut down here.
You’re not looking straight into the camera. Its bizarre to watch a video and see the person speaking looking to the side. Just sayin’.
This was one of the first videos I ever filmed and I didn't know what I was doing LOL. I actually have to look off to the side when I film in order to look into the lens on the iphone so it's hard to get used to. If you watch a more recent video, you'll see that I've improved and look into the camera now. :)