Best Place To Live In South Carolina

I love Charleston!

My ex is in Murrells (sp?) Inlet....seems to like it there.

Check out my adopted hometown Aiken, SC...just two hours from Atlanta and one hour from Columbia, SC...small town atmosphere...pretty little downtown...The Willcox Inn was voted one of the best small hotels in the country....it's also quite cosmoplitan for a small town - there is one over 55 community, I believe and several beautiful golf course communities. If you want a smaller town, you can't go wrong with Aiken.

City of Aiken Tourism Division

visitorscenter@cityofaikensc.gov

1-888-AikenSC or 803-293-7846

Our Partners:

www.downtownaiken.com

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www.tbredcountry.org

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www.sciway.net/city/aiken.html

www.ecalendaraiken.com

Aiken is very popular with retirees...it also has good medical facilities, and is very close to Augusta, GA, home of 4 major hospitals and a medical college. North Augusta, SC is a good place to live (it's where I grew up). Easy access to all of those medical facilites, shopping, etc.

If you want "acreage", you might try Edgefield County, where I currently live. Wouldn't necessarily recommend the medical facilities but we are within easy striking distance of both the Aiken hospital and Augusta, GA medical complexes. You would want to be (I think) in the area between North Augusta and the town of Edgefield.

Our climate here is pretty good, though it can get hot/humid in the summer. We get occasional snow--the most ever was 14 inches and that was in 1973! Usually it's 3 inches or less. Even more rarely we get an ice storm...but we did have a doozy of one last year.

Two-three hours driving north or south gets you to the mountains or the beach.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

We lived in a few SC locations for years. I would stick to the coastal communities or the larger cities, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charleston. Many small towns in SC feel very remote and different in many ways, may be too much of a cultural difference coming from Mass.

Bluffton area, outside of Hilton Head.