From age 4 to 14 I lived here... I am 22 now and n
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2/19/2007
When I was younger I never enjoyed living here. I moved when I was 14. I have visited a few times since and nothing has changed.
There is horrible racism, and black people there do not do much to help their case. The crime is horrible; my sisters house was broken into at Christmas and all of the presents and valuble goods in the house were stolen. The educational system is a joke. In high school, the teachers were unable to control a class of 16-24 kids. In younger classes, I found they moved way too slowly, I learned more at home with my mom and the discovery channel than most classes in middle school to junior high. The education in Walterboro has set my standard of what is not acceptable for my kids to grow up with.
The weather is atrocious. Hot and humid all year. There is always condensation on the windows from the muggy atmosphere. You take a shower and you feel sweaty and dirty by the time you dry. Most of the water stinks like swamp, too.
Granted, it is cheap to live here... but you get paid next to nothing and quite frankly, for cost of living, you get what you pay for. I live in Califonia now and cost of living is easily quadrupled and I would not go back there for anything.
For public transit, there is none.
The people that live here know if you are not from here... you will always be viewed as an outsider if you don't speak "stupid" with a thick accent. And, dreaming for something better, you will be viewed as crazy. No one has any aspirations for something better in this depressing hell hole. Most people that move here get stuck here, my advice is to never come here.
Jamie | San Jose, CA