South Carolina. State with the highest % of people living in trailer homes in the union. Ranked 49 out of 50 in education... Thanks Mississippi.
Moved over here in my teens. Always meant to move elsewhere but work and wife has kept me anchored here. Finally my wife is getting not just open but full on supportive of leaving SC so next time I change job it could be elsewhere. I'd like to angle for Australia next... Got a good job though that I like now though so won't be moving anytime soon.
My wife has just been training on a course in Yoga for surfers in San Clemente, CA. There was somebody there from Myrtle Beach area, SC. She seemed pretty ordinary, I had this image of South Carolina being full of Rednecks, but maybe like lots of states, the coastal areas are a bit more cosmopolitan ? Even in CA, you can find some Bubbas in the backwaters.
I'll be heading back from the coastal retreat within the next hour, but I thought I'd use this rare window to chec I knew you'd bite at that one! I'll chalk up another "owning," although I do feel a tad guilty, as though I've just nicked a load of sweets off a mentally defective kid. Still, they all count.
I thought this exclusive coastal retreat didn't have any internet access ? Don't tell us, you've been up to that posh hotel in your Merc AMG just to not get wound up about me eh ?
Some parts of South Carolina are really nice. I lived in Greenville near the mountains for a long time and loved it. Very cosmopolitan and cultural there. I live in the centre of the state now and it is nowhere near as nice. Rude people. Shameful poverty next door to wealth. Very inequal. Derelict buildings all over the place. Poorly planned streets. Terrible traffic. Nowhere near as nice as the foothills were. There are some nice areas along the coast. Funny enough, I wouldn't call myrtle beach one of them. It's about as redneck central as it gets. That said most populated areas have nice parts and bad parts but large stretches of rural South Carolina is poor and uneducated. There are rednecks all over the state but there are nice parts. Greenville is an excellent city and there are some really nice parts on the Southern half of our coastline: Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort are all wonderful coastal cities.
The coastal retreat has not internet access, but it's okay a couple of miles out. There are a couple of places where I can grab access, if I need/want to. The main reason I head out to that place, though, is to get away from the world and to relax.
One of the things that always struck me about the US is the stark inequality of wealth and poverty. In places like Ventura / Ojia, CA there are million dollar mansions and abundance all around, and homeless cart people with their worldly belongings parked up outside Vons or Walmart. I lived in NYC for 6 months a few years ago and I would often see people on the subway who had just lost their jobs, still wearing the office suit, begging for a few dollars to pay for medication etc, because with their job, they had lost their health care insurance, scary stuff.
If it helps you get through the day, PIXIE, you believe whatever you need to. Just because you desparately want something not to be true, doesn't mean that it isn't true.
I couldn't really give a **** either way about your fantasies, I just know you're a bullshitter. You've tripped yourself up too many times on here for it not to be obvious
I'm sure you've heard the expression "wrong side of the tracks"... I know places where this expression is literally true. On one side of the "tracks" is oppulance and on the other poverty. Both sides within eyesight of each other. You mentioned living in NYC. I was there recently on conference and wanted to find Tom's restaurant that was shown as the diner on Seinfeld before going back to airport. I accidentally got on an express train instead of a local and overshot my exit by a few blocks. Upper Manhattan doesn't look far from Harlem on the map but the atmosphere quickly changed. I felt very self conscious wearing dressy clothes getting off the train in Harlem. Instead of walking to the restaurant or taking a local back a station I just got on the bus back to the airport.
