SC has three primary regions, Low Country includes the coast. Some amazing history and very old architecture, live oaks draped with spanish moss, palm trees and palmettoes, very Gone With The Wind. If you can afford to reside where there is an ocean breeze it’s great, if you can’t it’s oppressive, as far as climate. Swampy, humid, bugs.
Palmetto Bugs look like giant cockroaches that fly. They can be aggressive, standing up on their hind legs, splaying their wings out and hissing at you if you’re trying to swat them or shoo them away. They’ll also aim for your face when flying at you. I’m not that squeamish abput bugs but those things freak me out, lol, it’s as if God crossed a cockroach with a PO’ed praying mantis.
Midlands would be as the name implies, middle of the state, with the state capital Columbia located within it. More elevated than the Low Country, slightly hilly, but much of it still hot, the presence of palmettoes tells you whether you’re still in the hot belt microclimate or not.
Upstate is furthest inland, tucked up by NC and GA, west and parallel to north of Charlotte. It includes rolling Piedmont, foothills and even somewhat mountainous terrain. It has the mildest climate, no palmettoes or palmetto bugs, lol. It would be like a warmer version of Upstate NY without the politics or the taxes.
That’s what I’m talking about. West and north of the I-85 corridor. Some of it is pretty remote, you’d never know there was a city of any kind within a hundred miles. But, there is, for the airport if nothing else.
Thank you so much for the info. I ran into those palmetto bugs in FL. CANNOT live with them. I grew up in the Bronx w/ cockroaches, water bugs & rats. I’ve had enough (that was only 10 years).
I HATE bugs, all of them. Here on Long Island, we have to deal w/ spiders for most of the year (ughhhhh), and when winter comes, crickets.
“It includes rolling Piedmont, foothills and even somewhat mountainous terrain. It has the mildest climate, no palmettoes or palmetto bugs, lol. It would be like a warmer version of Upstate NY without the politics or the taxes.”
Sounds like a great place to start! Again, thank you for the info.