Love my state!

[18IsTheMan]

Just returned from a week at Murrell's Inlet. Being born and raised in SC, it always feels great to return home. I was born and raised in the midlands, left the state for a bit, returned to the upstate for college and then migrated to the low country for a few years after graduate school. It's been 12 years now since I lived in SC, but it's still my state and always will be.

Maryland is a toilet and it makes me sad that my kids will be Marylanders.

 

[Gamecock Jacque]

Maryland is a toilet and it makes me sad that my kids will be Marylanders.

Should have moved to Texas.

 

[PrestonyteParrot]

SC has some of the best beaches in the country without a doubt. (Myrtle excluded)
With the influx of escapees from the north it won't take long to transform our beautiful state into an unrecognizable cesspool.
Greenville is being overrun with ''visitors'' who never leave and it's beginning to look like Charlotte with all the downtown condos (yuk).
SC needs a wall of its own!

 

[Atlanta Cock]

SC has some of the best beaches in the country without a doubt. (Myrtle excluded)
With the influx of escapees from the north it won't take long to transform our beautiful state into an unrecognizable cesspool.
Greenville is being overrun with ''visitors'' who never leave and it's beginning to look like Charlotte with all the downtown condos (yuk).
SC needs a wall of its own!

I've become a gulf coast guy. The sand and the water are more beautiful than anywhere else.

 

[Atlanta Cock]

SC has some of the best beaches in the country without a doubt. (Myrtle excluded)
With the influx of escapees from the north it won't take long to transform our beautiful state into an unrecognizable cesspool.
Greenville is being overrun with ''visitors'' who never leave and it's beginning to look like Charlotte with all the downtown condos (yuk).
SC needs a wall of its own!

I've become in gulf coast guy. The sand and the water are more beautiful than anywhere else.

 

[18IsTheMan]

SC has some of the best beaches in the country without a doubt. (Myrtle excluded)
With the influx of escapees from the north it won't take long to transform our beautiful state into an unrecognizable cesspool.
Greenville is being overrun with ''visitors'' who never leave and it's beginning to look like Charlotte with all the downtown condos (yuk).
SC needs a wall of its own!

Agree on the transplants coming into the state. Charleston lost all it's charm for me because of that.

 

[Thunderstick]

I've become a gulf coast guy. The sand and the water are more beautiful than anywhere else.

I've lived on the gulf coast (Florida) for 22 years and like everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line we are being infiltrated by crude, rude, sloppy, overbearing northerners constantly complaining about the lack of good pizza and Chinese food.

 

[KingWard]

I've become a gulf coast guy. The sand and the water are more beautiful than anywhere else.

I've visited the Gulf Coast 42 out of past 43 years (I think that's correct). Just got back about 10 days ago.

 

[PrestonyteParrot]

I've become a gulf coast guy. The sand and the water are more beautiful than anywhere else.

It is beautiful beach and water on the gulf, but the soft sand is not made for biking. This is why I love SC beaches.
When at the beach I spend a lot of my time on the bike.

 

[Thunderstick]

I've visited the Gulf Coast 42 out of past 43 years (I think that's correct). Just got back about 10 days ago.

Where?

 

[KingWard]

Where?

Tampa Bay Area. Always someplace between St. Pete Beach and Clearwater Beach, usually close to Madeira Beach.

 

[JoelKL65]

I've lived on the gulf coast (Florida) for 22 years and like everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line we are being infiltrated by crude, rude, sloppy, overbearing northerners constantly complaining about the lack of good pizza and Chinese food.

Well they can always go back where they came from.

 

[KingWard]

I've lived on the gulf coast (Florida) for 22 years and like everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line we are being infiltrated by crude, rude, sloppy, overbearing northerners constantly complaining about the lack of good pizza and Chinese food.

In that regard, the Florida panhandle is probably the best place to be - still very Southernized.

 

[Thunderstick]

Tampa Bay Area. Always someplace between St. Pete Beach and Clearwater Beach, usually close to Madeira Beach.

Sounds like Largo (between Clearwater and St. Pete). I used to live on Davis Island -- a really cool little escape from the downtown Dale Mabry Tampa traffic.

 

[Thunderstick]

Well they can always go back where they came from.

Yes they can. However, they don't.

 

[Gradstudent]

returned to the upstate for college

What school did you go to in the upstate? Just curious

 

[ScWildthing61]

Just returned from a week at Murrell's Inlet. Being born and raised in SC, it always feels great to return home. I was born and raised in the midlands, left the state for a bit, returned to the upstate for college and then migrated to the low country for a few years after graduate school. It's been 12 years now since I lived in SC, but it's still my state and always will be.

Maryland is a toilet and it makes me sad that my kids will be Marylanders.

Haven't lived in South Carolina since 2000, visiting Myrtle Beach in July and using it as a weeklong base while my family and I visit some different parts of the state. I have the misfortune of my kid growing up to be a Virginia kid, I swear this place is the allergy capital of the world, how anyone breathes here is beyond me! I do have plans going forward to get my kid to games in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama etc. I'm trying to see if I can get him to a game in every SEC stadium and to see the campuses of the various schools, I want him to see there's more out there than just Virginia.

 

[ScWildthing61]

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Well they can always go back where they came from.

They narcissistically think we just looovvvveee having them around!

 

[gamecock stock]

I've lived in South Carolina all my life. I already have my burial plot with my name and date of birth on it. Just need to fill in one more date. I must admit that it was surreal when I first saw it.

 

[18IsTheMan]

What school did you go to in the upstate? Just curious

Gotta be honest here…busted.

Bob Jones University for undergrad

Clemson University for grad school: Hey, I didn’t base my academic decisions on football. I went where my undergrad profs had connections and to the place with the stronger program. As I see it, they paid for a Gamecock fan’s MS and PhD, so joke’s on them.

From there I went to MUSC for postdoctoral work.

 

[Gradstudent]

,I didn’t base my academic decisions on football.

I believe most South Carolina fans who attended the University did not base their decision on the football program, either, LOL.

I went to the business school, undergrad and MBA at USC, and it has served me well. We had a overall losing record during my time,

 

[gamecock stock]

I believe most South Carolina fans who attended the University did not base their decision on the football program, either, LOL.

I went to the business school, undergrad and MBA at USC, and it has served me well.

Bachelor degree and Master (MPA) degree @USC.

 

[Gradstudent]

Bachelor degree and Master (MPA) degree @USC.

Makes sense you seem intelligent!

 

[gamecock stock]

Makes sense you seem intelligent!

Thank you.

 

[KingWard]

Sounds like Largo (between Clearwater and St. Pete). I used to live on Davis Island -- a really cool little escape from the downtown Dale Mabry Tampa traffic.

Well, Largo is mainland. Once at the beaches, about the only time I go mainland is to watch the Rays in St. Petersburg or to eat at Leverock's, just on the mainland side of the St. Pete Beach causeway on Pasadena Ave.

 

[Forkcock]

Agree on the transplants coming into the state. Charleston lost all it's charm for me because of that.

True. Mt. Pleasant used to have a small town feel. It’s unreal now.