Myrtle Beach was taken over by Progressives quite a few years ago. I moved there in 1976 and stayed until 1987. Although we frequently vacationed in the area, It was not until we moved back down in 2010 that I realized how badly the leadership of that community had messed it up for the average citizen. We moved to West Texas in 2013 and have been in Western Kentucky since 2015 with no desire to hit that beach again.
The rule seems to be that once a place reaches a certain level of attractiveness people pour in from other areas until they destroy what brought them there in the first place. I grew up within a hundred and twenty miles of Myrtle Beach and I recall when it was a great place to go. In 1972 I began working as a tech rep on offset printing equipment and copiers and I was in Myrtle at least once a week for ten years on business. In ‘72 I spoke to a lady who worked at the Caravelle Motor Inn who was nearing retirement age. She told me that she recalled when the land on the ocean side of Hwy. 74 sold for ONE dollar per acre! She said the only catch was that if you wanted the highway frontage you had to buy the land all the way to the surf because the ocean frontage was considered “worthless”! My, my, how things do change. Now that same land is worth a fortune but I never go there because you have to go through too great a mass of urban sprawl and wall to wall people to get to the water.
Didn’t Yogi Berra say something about some restaurant or something like, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” I’m with Yogi.