Congrats on your move. We fled northern CA 4 years ago and settled in upstate SC, near the Blue Ridge Mts. We love it here....lots of mts and lakes in our region. Everything is so green compared to that awful brownness in our prior region of CA. Housing/taxes/ etc is very affordable.
We are seeing a lot of people moving in from NJ, NY and Penn. They call in to talk radio and complain about a lot of things they dislike in the South ( like “too many churches”). I fear that they are starting to turn this state purple. Some locals are getting fed up and moving to the lake regions. This year we have also seen an influx from Florida-people who came to our area said they got sick of all the traffic issues in the Florida regions they lived it.
Be safe on your travels. It was quite a feat for us to get here, as we brought 11 animals with us! We all made it safely.
Very sorry to hear that South Carolina is under assault from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. South Carolina is not a populous state, just 5 million people. It would not take many years of New England liberals flooding the state to flip it like Virginia did, and Virginia had over 8 million people. I do NOT want to see South Carolina go blue in my lifetime. No siree bob, I do not.