Reviews & Comments
Southport, NC
Beautiful place -
9/2/2013I found the other reviews interesting stating that the housing market is priced high. This is very subjective and based on what they've looked at. We live in NJ and are looking to move to Southport for retirement. We visited Southport in August and spent a day with a realtor looking at homes.
Just to give comparisons.. our 2000sq ft home in NJ is about $400,000 and in Southport is under $200,000. Our property taxes are almost $9,000 a year compared to about $1,200 in Southport. To us, housing is VERY inexpensive in Southport.
The town is very quaint and I compare their downtown to Mayberry. We liked that there are no chain restaurants such as Fridays, Applebees, and such throughout the town, and the places we ate were excellent (Fishy Fishy and Live Oak Cafe).
The town does basically shut down at 9PM, so if you're looking for night life, then this isn't the town for you, or drive to Wilmington. We are excited to find the right place for us, relax and enjoy the ocean which is about 5 miles away! Love it!