Response to Gay life and any life in Charleston
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8/7/2007
Charleston like many other southern cities is a very conservative, white,
good ol boy's city.
If you are open, enjoy meeting people from other countries, economic groups, with diverse cultural backgrounds (including the gay scene.) Charleston will not be for you. People are very closed and closed minded.
Take this from a northerner who has lived in Charleston and Savannah for seven years. Don't let the beautiful architecture suck you in because the beauty is only facade deep. You will find that it is next to impossible to meet people with any sort or desire to expand their horizons. Whether they are the very rich or not these people meet and travel the world with an ( I am better than you attitude because they are American, white and from the south.)
You will find that if you do meet others who are intelligent and open, their general stay time is about 2 years and then they return to where they find others again who love life in an all encompassing way.
I wish that it was different.
Who is your daddy and what you do is basically your passport into the supper clubs and if you can afford to buy a large house, the invites to the large house party membership will come rolling in.
Sorry to tell you all this. I just wouldn't waste my time. There are incredible cities in the US that celebrate life and this isn't one of them.
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