Buckle Up - More Coming

[Highstrung]

I know you know a lot of well established people in Camden, why did the city and county council allow for all these deep pocket slab house developers to come in and buy land that I honestly never thought would get bought up? I watched a road that I live on now literally go from a low traffic area to a stupid high traffic area in a matter of 5 yrs. I know that city and county council members cant tell land owners what to do and not do but. You know as well as I do that Camden grew way too fast for our infrastructure. Went to greener pastures the other day and every single person/group in there was obviously not from the south. I hear and see more fire trucks and blue lights now than ever. Never saw homelessness when I got here now, there is always someone sitting or walking around.

There was really nothing on the books to stop it. Both got caught unprepared in my opinion. Planning and zoning has to go by what they have, plans weren't put into place because we were growing too fast. Then the city tightens up, they're going to be sued. My personal beliefs is if you don't like it, buy it. Some are people with money, selling to others with money, to make more money. In my mind if it's legal, and you can stomach it, whatever. I knew the first couple of the houses built on your street in the 80s.

The city and the county are realing them in. In my opinion the county kind of made a weak move stopping everything, election year. I believe they'll end up being sued by a phone conversation I had last week. It needs to be responsible, and planned. We have a lack of affordable housing.. I'm not a hundred percent of how to answer it. Everything to me has changed, and has been a little tedious in my new position. After I retired last year, too young, I got bored. I took over as the executive director for Habitat for Humanity in Kershaw County.. building a house in the city, just isn't as much fun as it use to be. I'm finding that out now, we have third party inspectors. So I've dealt with city officials, and theyr'e helping. I'm not in it for profit.

The homeless problem is real. Before I began again in nonprofits around here my opinions on the problems and solutions of it were different. They're here, some get tickets out, some are folks that really can't afford it anymore. I don't have any answers, but I'm sure I'm going to be hearing a bunch over the next month or so.

Crime is up a little.. I used to know a bunch of the older causes.. it seems nowadays more is coming from transplants.

The entire thing, growth, has changed all of my plans.. I was happy to move out into the country, it's ruined now. I've got new school traffic to deal with and hundreds of new houses built or being built around me. I'll be back insulated a little from it all.. with a 30 second drive to my golf course, five minutes to the swamp, and five minutes to my office. I go to the Springdale area only for Masa.. and get my truck washed every so often in the morning.

[Calibogue]

Bluffton has gotten f'd up!
Traffic on any given day from Bluffton to Savannah and or Beaufort is bumper to bumper.
95 is a total shit show these days and should have been widened a decade ago.
I love the Low Country and doubt I could ever leave this slice of Heaven we live in but I've thought about it a lot!
The boat traffic in Bluffton is nuts too.....last month there were boats everywhere and people in the water on every piece of sand they could occupy.
And, meanwhile there are locally grown RE agents promoting it like they didn't grow up here....WTF is wrong with these people?

[scquackaddict]

Money it’s all about money. The damn people that tell me it’s great for me because my house goes up and now the farm is worth who knows what. I don’t want the money. I want the mills back in Gtown and the farm the way it was 30 years ago before Charlotte expansion swallowed it up. I need a lot of things yankee money isn’t one of them.

[LabLuvR]

I said on her 20 years ago, nothing good would come from increased development. I got laughed at and ridiculed. Now here it is more crime, more taxes, more habitat, destruction, and on and on. Looks like as usual old lab was right again.

[smitch320]

Bluffton has gotten f'd up!
Traffic on any given day from Bluffton to Savannah and or Beaufort is bumper to bumper.
95 is a total shit show these days and should have been widened a decade ago.
I love the Low Country and doubt I could ever leave this slice of Heaven we live in but I've thought about it a lot!
The boat traffic in Bluffton is nuts too.....last month there were boats everywhere and people in the water on every piece of sand they could occupy.
And, meanwhile there are locally grown RE agents promoting it like they didn't grow up here....WTF is wrong with these people?

I got to get from around Bluffton! Awful…

[DRDUCK]

Bitch all you want but it's to late. I saw it happen at Lake Lure 35 years ago. Place was pristine and nobody around in the winter. I got pissed and went to Murray and got a private place on the lake. Now it has happened here. Our place is still pretty private and not for sale.

[whistlinwingswilly]

I get messages daily about selling property. Yesterday I called the guy a carpetbagger and he took exception to it.

I’d love to hear his response to that. Most actual carpetbaggers I’ve engaged with don’t understand the meaning of the term, let alone comprehend that it’s a pejorative.

[Palmetto Bug]

Anyone who has ever built a new house on an empty lot is culpable. Of course the scale is different with developers but every new house on a cleared lot has contributed to the loss of rural country.

[Saltydog235]

Money it’s all about money. The damn people that tell me it’s great for me because my house goes up and now the farm is worth who knows what. I don’t want the money. I want the mills back in Gtown and the farm the way it was 30 years ago before Charlotte expansion swallowed it up. I need a lot of things yankee money isn’t one of them.

The mills aren't coming back, neither is industry unless it is in the county out towards Andrews and that's probably not going to happen with the lack of infrastructure. Gtown is going to be the next Beaufort/Bluffton/Mt. P/Wilmington and there's not a dang thing anyone can do about it other than elect leadership that will steer it towards something tasteful and well thought out. You aren't going to get that with the ones that were elected recently nor the current county council. Once RMT starts selling off their holdings DR Horton, Lennar, Ryan etc are going to gobble up everything and start throwing up their junk all over and they'll buy the leadership they want to pass whatever they want to do. It's already started with the little junk houses over by the airport. I'm buying every lot I can in certain places that are moving.

[Southernduck]

SC is pretty much a lost cause. We sold our soul 25 years ago, we are just now seeing the chickens come home to roost.

I am fortunate that I live on acreage and am surrounded by a lot of my wife's family land that will not be developed anytime soon but our way of life is gone. I guess the only constant is change but dammit I am not looking for this kind of change.

[huntinghagen#12]

I moved out of SC about 7 or 8 years ago now. Every time I go back to the upstate (about 6 or so times a year) there's multiple new developments or land being prepped for future ones. Boone has the same issues, except compounded due to App State. We don't get cookie cutter neighborhoods, we get apartment complexes. I'm 15 minutes from downtown in a rural area, I don't think it will make it to me while my kids are still in school since most of the generational farms around me aren't for sale for any price (for the moment) ... if development starts encroaching on us after my kids are out of the house, my house will be sold and I'll find something in the middle of no where. Probably BFE Tennessee or Virginia. There are only a few places I'd consider moving back to in SC, but I'm afraid all of the options of today will be developed in my lifetime.

[JABIII]

there's not a dang thing anyone can do about it other than elect leadership that will steer it towards something tasteful and well thought out. You aren't going to get that with the ones that were elected recently nor the current county council.

That won't work either. They just get bought. Look no further than Utah and the unified citizens that went against Kevin O'Leary's 40,000 acre data center. The council voted for it anyway. It's hopeless and there is nowhere to run...

[murraywader]

That won't work either. They just get bought. Look no further than Utah and the unified citizens that went against Kevin O'Leary's 40,000 acre data center. The council voted for it anyway. It's hopeless and there is nowhere to run...

Yeah you will see some hippie violence from that. I am glad to be way uphill and upriver from that mess.

The town we bought in is basically one huge conservation easement.

[Duck cutter]

I get messages daily about selling property. Yesterday I called the guy a carpetbagger and he took exception to it.

Several years ago our church was going through the book Exodus on Sunday mornings. Our pastor does a pretty good job of explaining the backstory on the different passages and comparing them to current events to help make things relatable. This particular Sunday he’d decided to share some statistics about the amount of people that were leaving different states up north and moving to SC. There is a verse in Exodus where it talks about being kind to foreign residents. The pastor decided to reference that verse as part of his illustration and then decided to point to where I sit and said “ and we should be kind to all the new people moving to South Carolina, isn’t that right, Michael?” Before he could continue on I loudly said “ I wish they’d all go back to where they came from”.

Half of the congregation gasped, half laughed, and my mother slapped me from two pews over.
The pastor stammered as he stroked to begin his next sentence and finally said “ Yall don’t pay him any attention, he appears to be extra crotchety today” and he continued on.

It’s worth mentioning that he hadn’t asked me a question in the middle of a sermon since

[centurian]

I get a picture of my house and a cash offer for immediate sale almost weekly.

[3 1/2" MAGUM]

Welcome to Blythewood

Saw where the county is going to vote on two tracts with 600+ new homes near Bwood Rd. Crazy.

[DRDUCK]

Batesburg to Lexington on Hwy. 1 is a shocker. Townhouse's and a shit load of them. Rawls farm will be a thing of the past I am afraid. People don't even think about where they going to get fresh produce from. Be suprised how many think the produce section

[JABIII]

Yeah you will see some hippie violence from that. I am glad to be way uphill and upriver from that mess.

The town we bought in is basically one huge conservation easement.

Half of Charleston is clamoring to break the conservation easements on Middleton, Boone Hall, and Magnolia. They only want 7,000 acres. Today....

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/char...ic-plantations

[Southernduck]

Half of Charleston is clamoring to break the conservation easements on Middleton, Boone Hall, and Magnolia. They only want 7,000 acres. Today....

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/char...ic-plantations

I think the CE's will be broken at some point but that one I ain't too worried about. I think half might be a stretch unless you just mean half of Line St (circa 2000 when Wendell was running the street)

[reeltight]

Where would you go? SC is tough to beat, and I have lived all over.

are you kidding me, anywhere. We will start with the number one criteria, lowest population density, followed by cost of living, taxes and quality of life.

AK, WY, MT, ND, SD, NM, ID, NE, KS....take your pick from a low pop and overall general quality of life for an outdoorsmen.

Take out the general population from Nashville metro area of TN and it ranks up there with the best of the best. Yes I know people are moving there to. I get it.

What am I leaving that i can't get there, beach sand in my crack or a 70 mile ride the the gulf stream...okay. I'd leave that for the TN river system any day of the week. I can always vacation to get my salt life fix any time.