What is the weather like in the Charlotte and neighboring areas (including the nearest parts of S.C.)? Does it get hot and muggy a lot in the summer or is it milder? I have found Florida to be too hot and humid in the summer and Pennsylvania is too cold in the winter. I am thinking that the piedmont area of SC or NC would be in-between and be more to my liking but I have only been to NC and SC on brief visits.
Since I’m originally from PA, and my folks are in Florida, I feel qualified to answer that!
Yes it gets hot and humid in NC in the summer. But growing up outside of Philly, I don’t the the humidity is as bad here in the afternoons as it was there growing up. Humidity seems to have an inverse relationship with the temperature so, when it’s getting hot in the afternoon, the air is drying out. Of course, when evening settles in, it goes the other way.
That said, it is NO WHERE near as bad as summers in Florida, where you just can’t escape the heat AND humidity from mid-May through September.
In Charlotte, we’re 2 hours from the mountains (about the same as Philly ‘burbs to the Poconos), and about 3.5 hours to the beach (about the same as to the Jersey shore - if you count the traffic!).
We get all 4 seasons, but winters are generally tolerable. When we DO get snow or ice, it rarely hangs around more than a couple days.