Waterboy wrote: “I’ve got one foot out the door after 6 years here. Thinking about Charlotte, NC area”

I left SD a couple of years ago and now live 90 miles south/southwest
of Charlotte in the Greenville, SC area. Take a look at the Greenville/Spartanburg area before you make a hard decision. The weather here is a little better than Charlotte because we’re very close to the mountains. It does get hot during July & August but the majority of the year offers very pleasant weather. I don’t work anymore but there is a healthy, vibrant economy. Greenville/Spartanburg and Charlotte did not have the ridiculous run-up in house prices that SD and the other bubble markets had so prices are pretty stable. You can buy an exceptionally nice home here for $225k-up and not have a neighbor living 10 feet away.