[Wil Ferch]

Yeah, I guess Texas can work too.....once visited Tyler area that was surprisingly "green".... nice area.

For all these areas, we need to consider this other point that maybe I didn't stress. I'm selling a home in Buffalo ( on a nationwide basis, at a low price)...so I cannot "cash out" and go to a considerably higher home price area...even if other cost of living aspects are good. People coming *to* Buffalo often make out like bandits on this point....where they sell (say) a California home for $3MM and can get a comparable home here for maybe 1/10 the cost. Going in the other direction like I am, on the home-to-home comparison..... is a killer. Going further, I pay $10,000 / yr in property taxes here in NYS...and the smaller place I have in mind in SC has property taxes of maybe $600-$900/yr. Yet the home prices are fairly comparable between these SC areas and suburbs of Buffalo...odd. Also newer construction in SC.

To keep this thread on topic....I will certainly entertain other areas....but as a first pass or core question to get some answers to.... would love to hear from some of the SC folks for the areas I mention, to compare and contrast some of the towns mentioned. That said, no problem talking about other areas...who knows, there may be expanded interest in this topic question, from other people's perspective and their areas of interest.