[HotHunt]

My wife and I retired to the country in the south to get out of the big metropolitan city we lived in in Phoenix. To get away from the traffic, congestion, crime, fast pace. Southern living is great. Slow and easy going.

But I once asked my wife when we first got married 40 years ago, when we went to visit her parents in the lowcountry, Pawleys Island, SC, why everyone moved so slow. She said that with the heat and humidity in the summer, you would "die" if you moved too fast. After living here, nothing could be truer. I do miss the dry heat of Arizona.

[Russ]

I have been going to Pawleys Island since 1967 and the changes to the area over that time has made it much less desirable. The development, traffic, commercialization and invasion from the north has ruined the tranquility that once was the norm. We still go there but only in the “off seasons” of October through April. Georgetown and Brookgreen Gardens are our two favorite places...