Not this girl. On a serious note, I took myself “off the market” about 4 years ago.
I am going the way Jesus said to for single women and widows.
I SO don’t belong in this society....or perhaps just this state.
I decided on South Carolina (was thinking Texas). Now trying to formulate a plan to get there.
A fine state, South Carolina is, although we North Carolinians have had our differences with them over the centuries.
The Low Country is nice for a visit or even a second home, but for a full time residence I’d prefer the Upstate myself. The so-called “hot belt” of the Low Country and Midlands is little known outside the Carolinas and Georgia, you’d have to live through a summer in it to understand. Daytime high temps consistently right at or above a hundred degrees with very high humidity, it’s brutal. You escape that Upstate.
One of the nicer small communities in the foothills or even on into the beginnings of mountainous, near NC and GA, can be quite nice, mild climate, little snowfall but they can and do get it occasionally, waterfalls and lakes galore.
For your city needs, Greenville is nice enough and would have much of what you’d want from a city, fairly close by but it’s smallish. Two hours would have you in Charlotte, much larger. Three or so, Atlanta, larger still.
But, you’d be blissfully shut off from all that if you wanted or needed to be.
One thing to consider, though, would be proximity to Asheville, NC. It’s a beautiful small city, growing, very artsy verging upon Bohemian if you get my drift. It’s drawn counterculture and leftist types by the drove and it’s influence is spreading, turning historically Republican NC mountain counties blue. I love the place, don’t mind hippies at all, but being subject to their politics would not be something I would enjoy.