Visited Port St. Joe a few years ago. Nice little place. Not sure if I could live there. They calim to be a drinking town with a fishing problem and it shows. Have been in the Savannah area all my life. The gnats suck and you do not get used to them but they are not nearly as bad as they were when I was younger for some reason. I actually live south of Savannah now (no desire to live in the city anymore) in Richmond Hill and it's a great community. I live across the street from deep water and we have a community boat ramp. There is a larger ramp about 10 minutes away. Between here and Brunswick is nice but I agree, I would not want to live in Brunswick. From my coastal adventures in SC, GA and FL, the lower end waterfront areas can be a little sketchy and the more populated areas are more expensive and densely populated. I'd opt for less people and deal with a bit of the sketchy element. Shellman's Bluff and Colonel's Island just south of me are still pretty unspoiled and affordable. If you love the coast you'll put up with the drawbacks. There will be negatives no matter where you end up.
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Seeking advice for a move to the coast...
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You move anywhere near the beach-just make really sure you scope it out real good during the winter....
I lived in Vero beach for a little over a year. It was beautiful and I enjoyed it during the summer...... Once fall came and those idiot snowbirds started showing up, I wanted out ASAP. Snowbirds from the Midwest are pretty normal. The kind form NY NJ and Boston will make you insane. Complete assholes. Very few of them are worth a flying ****.
A large percentage of people up that way just love to be the turd in the punch bowl. They go through their whole lives that way-and even in retirement they get out of bed in the a.m. with the goal of pissing off every single person they come in contact with.
Snowbirds. Really look at the number and lineage of whatever snowbirds come there.
I lived in Vero beach for a little over a year. It was beautiful and I enjoyed it during the summer...... Once fall came and those idiot snowbirds started showing up, I wanted out ASAP. Snowbirds from the Midwest are pretty normal. The kind form NY NJ and Boston will make you insane. Complete assholes. Very few of them are worth a flying ****.
A large percentage of people up that way just love to be the turd in the punch bowl. They go through their whole lives that way-and even in retirement they get out of bed in the a.m. with the goal of pissing off every single person they come in contact with.
Snowbirds. Really look at the number and lineage of whatever snowbirds come there.
We left Oak Island in the mid-80s, and Wrightsville Beach in 1994. You are right, there really were not a lot of boat lifts. We had a long community dock, but no lifts, although a number of nearby Marinas did (and still do) offer them. If you look at the Oak Island area, Intracoastal Realty allows you to easily sort the water access and boating properties by price, and provides great maps via this link: http://www.intracoastalrealty.com/boating-real-estate.aspx
The Oak Island area has great seafood, too, much like the Gulf Coast, but the beaches don't compare, except for the ones that pump sand in (like Wrightsville Beach). We last visited about five years ago and was pleased to see that they had finally constructed a second bridge for ingress/egress to and from the island. When we lived there, during hurricane season, I often was concerned about only having a single bridge for getting off the island. The closest "international" airport is in Wilmington (about 30 minutes or so away) with better flights into/out of Myrtle Beach, SC, about an hour away. Leaving the area was the biggest "mistake" we ever made in all of our travels, according to my three sons, as they absolutely loved the beach/salt life. Good luck in your pursuit.
I used to live in Myrtle Beach. And it's not very different than North Myrtle Beach. It's not like it used to be its getting crowded and the summer time traffic seems to be there year round now. I wouldn't move back.
Forget the coast. All the locals have been taxed off their properties and it's just rich a-holes and a-list movie types.
Find a place on a small lake in the North Georgia mountains where there are still down-to-earth locals, then you can be (in comparison) the rich a-hole.
Find a place on a small lake in the North Georgia mountains where there are still down-to-earth locals, then you can be (in comparison) the rich a-hole.
Ha! yeah, sounds like it may not be the place. Especially since someone above said it was a "drinking town with a fishing problem"
I lived for 7 years on Hilton Head Island.....it was great in the fall and winter and early spring and sucked once the tourists took over. You will have the same issues in Myrtle or in fact anywhere in FL. If you want quiet, try Fripp Island. We had a home there when I was in my early teens and at that time in my life I found it to be slow and boring (as a teen). Now I think I would like it.
Yeah, I'm with you on the mountain lake but my wife's not having any... If my decision, I would buy on Chatuge in Hiawassee. Or even Notely in Blairsville. But that would be only 30-50 minutes from our property already in Fannin. I'm not interested in giving up that property and my wife has a good point that it's kind of stupid to have another place that close. I could live there full-time and just rent a boat slip up on the lake but the boss has her heart set on the beach. She let me have my Mountain spot so now it's her turn.
Options along the Ga and SC coast (Edisto, Fripp, Beaufort, St Mary's) in our price range look to be the marsh properties on tidal creek. Prime sand gnat territory for sure. I don't remember them being bad down around Panama City but I didn't visit down there all the time like my wife. Are they a problem along the Gulf?
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