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People come to visit and then figure out how to live here. It happens a lot. That's what my friends do. Charleston/Mount Pleasant was barely affected by the recession. Huge housing boon and infrastructure expansion to meet the population increase. Theres two sides to that story as it continues to happen. Mount P was a sleepy, hip, Bohemian island town 15 ys ago. I left for ten ys and so much has changed. Its more modern but the zoning board diligently fights to keep much of the old Southern Charm. Back in the day it was considered rude not to say "hey!" to a complete stranger passing by or in the grocery store. When walking or bicycling in the old village it still isn't uncommon to have people in cars wave at you. A little less common as so many transplants are not aware of these unspoken customs. Even with all these changes I never want to leave. I've made a considerable amount more money elsewhere but I put a pretty high price tag on all this stuff.That said I'd love to hear about where the rest of you folks live; especially places I've not been to. Might make for some light Friday discussion.
Quote from: tonypep on August 08, 2014, 06:16:38 AMPeople come to visit and then figure out how to live here. It happens a lot. That's what my friends do. Charleston/Mount Pleasant was barely affected by the recession. Huge housing boon and infrastructure expansion to meet the population increase. Theres two sides to that story as it continues to happen. Mount P was a sleepy, hip, Bohemian island town 15 ys ago. I left for ten ys and so much has changed. Its more modern but the zoning board diligently fights to keep much of the old Southern Charm. Back in the day it was considered rude not to say "hey!" to a complete stranger passing by or in the grocery store. When walking or bicycling in the old village it still isn't uncommon to have people in cars wave at you. A little less common as so many transplants are not aware of these unspoken customs. Even with all these changes I never want to leave. I've made a considerable amount more money elsewhere but I put a pretty high price tag on all this stuff.That said I'd love to hear about where the rest of you folks live; especially places I've not been to. Might make for some light Friday discussion.Most of your post sounds like Western Canada, we've weathered the recession very nicely. The Olympics helped a bit, so did a healthy resource based economy, although that comes with it's environmental drawbacks.I live in the Okanagan Valley, BC Canada, medium winters, better than central US for sure, and great summers, lots of beaches, orchards and a booming wine industry, in Fact USA Today just named us the second best wine area to visit in the world, the Valley is 5 large lakes in a chain with small towns (100000 - 5000people) scattered on their shores.ps: that lake has 10lb+ LM Bass, 5lb+ Smallmouth, good Trout and we now have great Sockeye Salmon fishing in-season just South of there...Mmmm.. Sockeye...This is my sleepy little berg, Summerland, BC:my shop is right at the base of the mountain in the middle, on the right hand side.We're a tourist destination for most of Western Canada, but with retirement being the #2 industry most of the year, it makes for some interesting business combinations.For the Fishermen, we get lot's of this:which leads to lots of this:Ps: I'm still choked I didn't get down to SC. next time!
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