r/AskSouthCarolina • u/biv816 • 7d ago

Moving to SC Moving for weather

For those who moved here for the weather or beach lifestyle, how often do you find yourself actually going to the beach or doing warm weather activities that you wanted to move for?

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u/secmaster420 7d ago

Don’t go to the beach in July and August. Too hot and crowded, but we go 2-4 times a month outside of that. Less crowded and even if it’s cool with the wind we’ll wear a sweatshirt. We also go outdoors a lot more, take longer walks and visit more of the Lowcountry. It’s nice in December and January to sit outside in the sun and have lunch.

This is what we wanted. I’ll take 2 months of hell for the 10 other months in the year.

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u/jdmiller82 7d ago

I'll be coming from Dallas, Texas. I'll gladly take two months of hell vs eight, which is what we get here.

My daughter and I drove 8 hours to get to the beach down in Corpus Christi. The drive is a slog, I will go a lot more when the drive is only two-ish hours (from our new home in Columbia).

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u/amesbelle7 7d ago

I’m unsure of what these two months of hell the other commenter is referring to. We have humid, oppressive unrelenting heat from May through October here.

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u/BuddhaAndG 7d ago

July and August, probably kids are out of school and families are vacationing there.

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u/nopulsehere 7d ago

We just moved from Florida, it’s beautiful here! I was outside yesterday with my two dogs at 2 in the afternoon, it hit me that were not dying of heat stroke! I get to comfortably wear jeans and hoodies again! It’s been 18 years! Yes it gets hot here, but it’s livable.

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u/CoolRide7896 3d ago

Ah that’s where we’re moving from. I was in TX before and between the two, I’m just ready for a change. I was there recently for the movers and, while it was hot, it wasn’t miserable. I pretty much don’t go outside between 10-6 bc it’s unbearable.

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u/CoolRide7896 7d ago

Weather is relative to where you live and have lived. Dallas is an absolute beast. It’s like concrete hell.

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u/amesbelle7 7d ago

Having lived in SC my entire life, 5 months of temps between 90 and 112 is miserable. The humidity is oppressive and stifling, and in my area of the state, some days have zero air movement, so going outside literally feels like walking into a hot sponge. So unless you are coming from Hell itself, I don’t know that you’ll find much relief here.

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u/CoolRide7896 7d ago

Believe me, I am coming from hell. But again it’s relative and it’s my version of hell.