Prodigal Son

[Dayman]

For our out of staters a ? Did you all live and leave the promise land? Just wondering I moved here from another state about 8 years ago and love this place. Have lived both the low country life and upstate, took vacation in my youth in myrtle beach with the folks. Other members born and bred locals or transplants. I will say I did have and awesome youth in the mountains of Kentucky, and still visit my birth lands.

 

[Avtomat-Acolyte]

Originally from SC but lived in a few other states.

SC is my preference, mostly because I prefer my state government to be traditionally anti-federalist.

 

[Midnight Raver]

I was born up here behind the Iron Fishnet in Moscowchusetts. I think I belong down there...

or the North Pole. Either way, it's GOT to be better than Moscowchusetts.

 

[Tigerstripe]

i was born and raised in Spartanburg.

the best part is it was the best time to be a youth. meaning as a kid there werent the fears, crime and threats to children parents have now. maybe people just werent as stupid then. im 59 now. my father bought me a winchester semi auto 22 when i was about 10. they were good people and my mother taught school for 33 years so i got some extra smarts from her. my Dad had a stroke and was home bound for the next 10 years and died when i was 20. all the time i was in charge of his 9 shot 22 revolver and snubnose 32. plus a bb gun and bow and arrows that i used uneventfully all around the neighborhood eariler than 10, maybe 7. so i wouldnt have wanted to be anywhere else.

i didnt get to shoot much but from 10 i was trusted with them. sometimes , when i could buy bullets, cheap 22s were 24 cents a box of 50, i would get to go to a couple of uncles places and shoot or hunt, alone. so ive been a firearms enthusiast for a long time.

thats not the way it is now or even 30 years ago.

after a marrage, birth of my son and divorce i met Grace, moved to the woods where i found i should have been long before. trees are fantastic.

you did ask for a life story, right?

 

[Tedge]

I was born in Germany. Dad was in the army, so we moved around a lot. When I was 15 my parents split and we moved here since it's where my grandma lived and we needed a place to stay. I like it here and have no plans of moving.

 

[beerman]

Born in Minnesota, grew up in Wisconsin, lived in the beautiful UP of Michigan for about 8 years, then moved here for work. My wife and I have been here for about a year and a half. I love it so far, especially the lack of snow.

 

[rotarymike]

I was born in Delaware, and rectified that situation as soon as I was legally able. First came to SC in 1995 as my initial duty station in the USAF. Came back to the lowcountry for grad school in 2008, but I had been pulling reserve drill down here since 2000.

Lived in DE, MD, MS, TX, NC, SC, and Japan. Of all those, I miss Japan.

I got sick of NC after several years. Trying to appear to be the California of the East Coast but still a good-ole-boy state like SC. The dichotomy was hard to deal with in terms of jobs and politics. Their recent politics have seemed to be the 'let's fsck over women children and small business owners" variety so I guess I moved just in time - there is one of each in my home.

SC is very much a good-ole-boy state but they're up front about it and unapologetic. I can work with that, just like the Japanese uchi/soto thing.

Still like the NC outer banks better than SC's coastal area... reminds me of where I grew up in DE, but without actually being in DE. I do miss running through the marsh and swamp without worrying about gators, but compared to everything else...

 

[Oliver2w1]

Born in KY. Lived inTX, NM, ID, IN, VA, Japan, Guam, and Italy. PCS'd to SC in 09 and found the home I'd been looken for. Bought a house, found a great church and we're raising a son and a daughter in the midlands. We still go back to Louisville to see family from time to time but SC is our home.

 

[Chili]

I'm from SC. my mom's family came to SC in 1679. I guess one could call me a local.

 

[kg4kpg]

Came here in 06 after my last deployment to let my wife be close to her family, but I'm from Texas and prefer it there. I like some things about SC and it is a good, gun-friendly state, but I've never paid taxes like I do here...and we live in Berkeley County, which has better tax rates than the surrounding counties I believe. The Charleston metro can't keep up with the growth so it just more and more crowded. Texas isn't perfect, no place is, so eventually I'll convince her to go back. Hopefully before a giant earthquake, tsunami, or hurricane wipe it off the map. :mrgreen:

 

[fordnut]

Well...I am what is called a Damn Yankee....I came here from central Illinois and never went back.

I grew up in Cold Weather and hated it.

Of course I haven't been here too long....only around 35 or 36 years.

This is home to me. I can't see me being anywhere else.

Steve

 

[Midnight Raver]

And I am truly envious, I wish I could get out of here.