THIS PLACE IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

Charleston is The Place.
Boeing is building.
The US Navy has more of a presence than EVER. As they say here, there are more Navy people here now than when the Navy was here.(Yogi did not say that) SPAWAR the acronym for Space and Navy Warfare Systems Command is growing and hiring and subcontracting at the highest levels. The typical swabbie at SPAWAR has an electrical engineering degree and does chemistry experiments on weekends.(No wonder we don't have any high level sports teams)
Clemson University has received a $100million grant to research, test and develop wind turbines.
All of these organizations will attract high tech support companies and suppliers. SPAWAR still contracts with 95% of it's engineering firms and suppliers out of state.
All of these companies will have employees who needs services which will require additional employees such as school teachers, firemen,store clerks etc.
In addition to this growth, the Port of Charleston is growing again and is one of the few East Coast Ports which can naturally accomodate the large, deep draft container ships which are being built to go through the new Panama Canal which will open in 2014. When this happens, goods will come directly from SE Asia to the East Coast rather than off load and ship cross country from California. There are 11 million sq. ft. of distribution space under planning and construction to accomodate the anticipated increase in volume.
The Medical University of South Carolina is growing and doing significant Bio-tech experiments which is giving birth to another industry.
A visit to Charleston is on every travelers short list.
The Wando High principal was named National Principal of the year.
For fun we have the beaches and creeks,world class dining and arts and politicians who are constantly getting into trouble.
We are a Right to Work State.
It has snowed five times in over thirty years.
I asked a vacationer why they did not move here. Answer was that they like a change of seasons.