We ended the evening trying to go to New Moon off Maybank. It doesn't exist anymore. So we went to Marias, a little Mexican spot next to where it used to be. After a couple Margaronas on top of everything else today, I'm spent.
Its still there. It's just the loophole now. One owner bought the other one out, changed the name and added sushi permanently to the menu. I like marias Loophole is still all the same clientele and workers. Shit my pops was probably there
Arkadin and other Charleston TMBers can you tell me where the real barbecue is? My parents like Melvin's.
Melvins isn't bad for what it is at all Hometeam is the best around imo. Smoky oak is good, when John Lewis opens his place in a couple of months that's going to be awesome
did almost this exact thing on Saturday - ended up anchoring on the north end of Edisto near Botany Bay Edmund's Oast on sunday was great, fresh charceuterie board is where it's at. also had a whole fried black sea bass which was done really well. sauce was a little too salty but it didn't ruin anything for me. that place has a tremendous set up. will definitely be back.
i can think of two reasons to live in charleston: 1. is to have a house on the water somewhere, or on Sullivan's Island or Folly Beach, or have your own boatslip. 2. is to have a house downtown, to enjoy all the cool shit that is downtown neither one of those things are achievable with the sort of pay that Charleston employers offer. I just had an offer of $52,000 for a software developer job with the city of Charleston. That's a joke. It's about half of what you'd earn in Raleigh or Charlotte.
like where? seems to me that if you're going to live in James Island or Mt Pleasant, and not on the water, you might as well live in Charlotte, Columbia, or Raleigh. you get all the traffic and shitty infrastructure of Charleston without any of the aforementioned perks. (Water access / downtown bars and restaurants) I mean, keep in mind I say this as someone who wants to move to Charleston, but is extremely jaded about the practicality of living around a bunch of rich yankees.
there is water access everywhere you are 10 min from downtown there are good bars and restaurants that arent on the peninsula
Mount pleasant has awesome places to hang out. I can be downtown in 10-15 minutes if I want, at the beach in 10 and to a boat ramp in less than either of those. Or on a dock, or any other number of badass places to hang out
"10 min" my ass it takes 10 minutes just to find a parking spot downtown that's like these people who move to Wilmington thinking its "5 minutes to the beach." Maybe in a fucking helicopter. in reality they sit in traffic for 20 minutes , and spend another 10 minutes looking for parking that costs $3 / hour. Drink a few beers and get a DUI from the cops on the way home. It's all a myth. You either live in the cool spot, or you're just another chump, sitting in traffic, fighting the crowds of SUV's. And in Charleston, the cool places to live are way beyond the price range of people who didn't inherit somethng major.
leroi has no idea what he's doing. Please move to Raleigh and tell the Ohioans how great it is there.
As someone who moved here two years ago i would beg to differ. Living in Mt Pleasant you can be at the beach in 10-15 minutes or downtown in 10-15 minutes or on your boat in 5-10 minutes. Sure you need to plan and can end up sitting in traffic if you dont. But show me another place where that is not true (edit: that is halfway decent. Sure there are places where you can get there quicker but they arent going to have the amount of shit to do as there is in Charleston. Comparing Charleston to Columbia?
if money is no object, Charleston is the obvious choice but for those of us who didn't inherit daddy's money, other factors come into play. Mainly the fact that the median home sales price in Columbia is $145k, vs. $240k for Charleston (and that includes North Charleston, Summerville, etc). Oh, and the median sales price for a home in Mount Pleasant is $335,000. Are all of y'all doctors or something? How do you afford that?
Do you even understand the geography of Charleston? Downtown is more often than not a longer trip to get on the water and the beach
yes, i'm aware that downtown does not have convenient/affordable water access. that number actually under-estimates the severity of the situation. Y'all are talking about living in Mount Pleasant, like that's normal, when the median price is about $350k
Also - Check out the Charleston Digital Corridor. Software development should be a desirable position in Charleston as there are a lot of software firms that have started here in the last 5-10 years. Government jobs have never been know as well paying.
their website lists 6 companies 1 of which is google's data center in berkeley county calling that a "Digital Corridor" is rather ambitious. The only two companies I know of are Blackbaud and Benefitfocus, both of which are run by a bunch of MBA's, not engineers. based on what i'm looking at, once you get below about $250k, your options get really shitty really quickly.
You are pretty bad at google. I'll give you a head start and list a couple. But if you want to get out of the $52k salary range you are gonna have to try harder than that. Boomtown Blue Acorn And here is a much more comprhensive list. http://www.charlestonworks.com/
a. i'm already well out of the $52k range here in wilmington. i'm just telling you what dogshit they were offering me. b. i've applied at boomtown, didn't hear back. I know several ppl who work there. They do pay well, but they seem to hire more hot female salespeople than actual tech people. c. i've heard of blue acorn, it is a garden variety web design firm. Glassdoor says their median salary for a "PHP Developer" is $53,740. A. I would gouge out my eyeballs before I coded in PHP, and B. That is half of what you'd make anywhere else.
How does someone apply to work a city government job then act some sort of shocked the pay isn't high?
By comparing Charleston city salaries to other city salaries. It's not rocket science. Government jobs always post salary ranges, private companies don't. It provides you a good baseline for what the salaries are like in an area. For the same job, Wake County pays in the mid 70's. Charmeck pays in the 80's. Richland County pays in the 70's. Just because you work for muni gov't doesn't mean you are required to get screwed.
You're the one moving there. You know as they say, if you don't have dad's trust fund, Cleveland is the place for you