With the advent of these new laws, "the Northerners" have infiltrated into political arena and are changing the way of life that was once South Carolina.
As a native southerner, now a resident of Florida I find this interesting. Maybe what's going on up there is part of a greater cultural clash. It's well known down here that more and more retirees from the Northeast are now retiring to the GA, SC, and NC coastal areas and mountains instead of FL for a variety of reasons,, mostly economic. There has also been a significant number of those same retirees that have left FL over the last five years or so, cashing in on the once superheated but now defunct housing market, and moved up there with a wheelbarrow full of money.
I'm not trying to re-start the Civil War, but when I first arrived in FL I was amazed at the attitudes of the locals. The "locals" being retirees from the NE. I should point out that local census data proves that over 3/4 of the residents of Palm Beach County, FL, just to the south of me, are not from FL and about 68% of them are from NJ, NY and CT. These older folks are not terribly friendly or welcoming, to say the least. Not at all what I was accustomed to coming from NC.
True story: When we moved into our house in NC, the neighborhood kids brought home-baked cookies as the furniture was being unloaded, and two days later we were at our neighbor's house for a welcome to the neighborhood cookout with everyone from that end of the street. When we moved to FL, nobody said a word to us for two months and then we got a letter threatening us with legal action if we didn't pressure-clean the roof in the next 30 days. Very different culture, alright.
I could tell a lot of stories. And the rules and ordinances aren't even family friendly (children), much less condusive to somewhat noisy recreation by adults. They like things picture perfect and perfectly silent. And everyone will be expected to think that's a good idea. Having lived through some of their objections to (IMO) the slightest issue, like a toy left outside overnight, a weed in the yard. Can't park a pickup truck in the driveway. I've even fielded complaints about kids shooting baskets in their own driveway--too noisy, they say. They tried to ban basketball goals from the neighborhood as a result. I can easily imagine how they would react to a lot of motorcyles at one time.
On the upside, more families and younger folks seem to be slowly arriving, and more of the older folks are leaving. I'ts slow, but appreciable. Thank goodness.
Not trying to offend anyone with all this, just making an observation. Certainly not all northeasterners fit this description. I have a good friend back in Atlanta who grew up in NYC so I asked him about all this and he laughed. He sympathized and said it took him a while to adjust to
friendly people in the South. I just can't figure out how someone can retire wealthy enough to buy a nice place down here and then drive around in a Jaguar with nothing but free time, yet be so mean and carry a sense of unfulfilled self-entitlement. I would think they'd be blissfully happy, but nooooo.
But back to the Myrtle Beach situation, if the town is truly gaining northeastern retirees, prepare for very rigid rules that they will refer to as "bringing civilization and culture to the uneducated".
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