Property in SC?
 

If one was going to buy some acerage in SC and build a nice little house in the middle of nowhere. What's a good area? I would want something that I can get electricity into, maybe a stream or two through the property.

Thanks.

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Off the beaten path, and places that I could live

Oconee county (or pickens) for the mountain areas, or Landrum near NC

Abbeville area, near Lake Russell, further down.

Between Beaufort and walterboro for coast -

Bunch of nowhere's in between.

Really hard to say - Don't know your preferences, and "in the middle of nowhere" means different things to different people.

If you actually want the most isolated areas, I don't know the actual statistics - much of that is in the lowlands between Columbia and the Beach.

Unless you really like the coastal areas, the areas near the mountains are more pleasant and closer to various interesting things, plus generally closer to hospitals, facilities, easier to travel to Charlotte, Atlanta, etc.

The three main population regions are Columbia, Charleston, Greenville-Spartanburg.

I am probably prejudiced towards the upstate -

Generally, you could probably find what you are looking for in one of the upstate rural areas in periphereal areas along the borders with Ga or NC,

real isolation and could also be -possibly great falls, or somewhere between I-385 and I- 26 in the triangle formed where they come together -

Lots of little pockets of isolation still

Too many to actually enumerate

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I was scouting the area just east of Augusta, the small City of Aiken and south down along the Savanna River to the now decomissioned nuclear bomb building site. (still lots of bad stuff , though I didn't see and mutants)

They had specialty work there at the site, and the area was growing quite rapidly.

Lots of northerners moving in.

I wasn't impressed, though some folks were friendly.(my laptop crapped out and got it repaired quickly and reasonably in Aiken)

Generally the area is real poor, what mountain man said.

m

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stay away from Orangeburg,

the area S.E. of Aiken, towards Beaufort....

lowlands, pretty desolate.

could get land fairly cheap through that area

a lot of minorities through there.

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I was stationed at Myrtle Beach in the late eighties and I thought the taxes were atrocious in SC. I remember getting a tax bill the last year I was there wherein the state figured my house was worth $xx,xxx so they deduced that I had $x,xxx worth of furniture, and tried to tax me for the unknown contents. That is what I remember about SC.

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Nahh 29.2% from recent census. More hispanics are coming in.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45000.html

Western North Carolina is beautiful and one of the areas you lowest in minority population that you will find in the southeast. However, is being discovered and prices going up - east tennesse and Kentucky are generally very, very good.


IN SC minorities are essentially concentrated in the Urban/Metro areas - most of the upstate rural and many of the central rural areas are not.

The lowlands become more and more heavily minority the closer you get to the coast - to the the point that many rural coastal counties are majority black. This offsets the upstate and central rural areas to balance out to that 29% average.

Western north carolina has approximately 10% black in Buncombe county (Asheville) which is by far the highest minority % in roughly a dozen western NC comprising that whole corner of the state.

The man did ask about SC - if he had said in that region - I would say that Western NC is one of the most beatiful places I have visited and I could easily live there, would live there if it were not for family reasons.

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http://www.afmrealestate.com/Propert...e.cfm?state=SC

I was looking at this site. Any counties there look decent?

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From Columbia south and east to the coast has a large minority population.
Northwestern SC is very European in racial mix.
I live in the upstate.
Just 20 years ago, you could buy rural acreage for 800-1200/acre.
Now it in the 4-5K range.

Peace
TLM

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I looked it over, I would stay away from most of those counties, Union isn't so bad, You can see most of those are sold already.

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Here is a website with better tracts of land, most in fairly remote areas
but not neccessarily in the middle of nowhere.
http://www.metcalfland.com/asp/largetracts.asp

God's Peace
TLM

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I live and work in Jasper County being a dispalced Long Island native. I moved here in 1988 and bought 35 acres and built my home here it's a great place to live with a mild climate, abundant rainfall, lots of trees and fresh air. I'm surrounded by what they call "plantations". These were "old money" northerners who came down here from the turn of the century until WW11 and bought large tracts to use as hunting preserves. Pressure is building as this area is beginning to develop as the northerners(boomers) wanting to come to the sun belt are thinking twice about Florida and all the bad news from the hurricanes of late. Real Estate prices are rising here as there is no housing market crisis here because no bubble was ever here. You can still find land close to intrinsic value but that will not last much longer IMO.

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I have many fond memories of northwest SC. Ceasar's Head and Table Rock state parks are absolutely gorgeous. If I remember correctly, all of the land up there has some sort of water running over, through, or out of it! If I was going to locate in SC it would be in Pickens or upper Greenville counties.

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Whatever you do don't buy in middle Tn. Its horrible.


Just kidding, I am trying to keep it all to myself. I just bought in middle tn and its a great place. The most friendly people you would ever meet.

NOOB