10 Reasons To Love Southern Hospitality
Strand Security Is Celebrating 10 Years in Business!
While 2020 has been a weird year for all of us, we are still grateful for a tenth anniversary year.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we’ve been blogging all year in a series we call ‘10 reasons to love‘. As this is month ten, this is the tenth installment of a 12-month series!
Interested in reading any of the other articles in the series?
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
Let’s get started with October’s edition!
10 Reasons To Love Southern Hospitality
1 Southern Porches
The weather is so fine we can spend hour upon hours on our porches. Our friends and family join us as we sit and watch neighbors mow the lawn, kids play outside and friends walk their dog. Everyone wave and time just seems to stand still. If you are lucky, you’ll be invited on the porch to have a glass of iced tea!
2 South Carolina Sweet Tea
Nothing says South Carolina like sweet tea. It’s a staple in all southern homes and visitors are offered a tall glass of cold, refreshing sweet tea. Don’t confuse sweet tea with hot tea or *gasp* ask for unsweetened tea! Drink is sweet, like the people of this state!
3 Southern Families, Southern Hospitality
When you are home, you are family. When you are brought into a home as a stranger or a friend, you leave as family! Southern families embrace their visitors and will make you feel oh so special!
4 Sweet Conversation
While the sounds of southern voices might seem sweet, don’t be fooled by ‘Bless her Heart’. Expect rich conversations, gentle scolding and strong opinions about God, country and freedom.
5 Southern Manners and Politeness
While Southerns might have a different opinion than you do, they will wrap it all up in a nice and polite package! They will stay calm cool and collected. Etiquette dictates they keep their cool and stay polite no matter what, offering southern hospitality even if you agree to disagree. They’ll Bless you Heart, and will remain polite.
6 Southern Foods
Southern foods are rich in tradition, and butter! Southern foods are plentiful and delicious. They include okra, greens, Fried Chicken, black-eye peas, hush puppies and BBQ.
7 Home Cooking
While we love our K & W and Cracker Barrel there is no substitute for home cooked meals! Getting invited to Thanksgiving Dinner or Christmas means getting double, triple of all your favorite sides and desserts as southern cooks go all out to please their families.
8 Southern Charm
Living in the south means you understand southern charm. Sweet Meemaws who love and spoil their grandkids, ladies who sat through hours of cotillion to learn not only the right etiquette, but also how to charm just about anyone, anywhere at any time!
9 Charity
People in the south take care of their own, and then some! They share what they have, no matter how little with those less fortunate. Charity is learned in Sunday school classes, in the home and is continued at work! Many adults are involved in charitable organizations making the lives of other southerns just a bit better.
10 Southern Tradition
The south, and of course South Carolina is steeped in tradition. If you live here, you know! High school football games are huge. Homecoming is better in South Carolina than anywhere else. Tradition seeps into every aspect of life in the south.
LOVE. LIVE. SOUTH CAROLINA
Strand Security has been serving the people of the Myrtle Beach area, including all of Horry County and Georgetown County for over 10 years! We live where we work. We love Southern Hospitality and have been the recipient of many wonderful home cooked meals, lovely traditions and great conversations.
We serve the Grand Strand with pride!
Let us know how we can help you with your security and safety needs, now and into 2021!
Top 5 Reasons To Live on the Grand Strand
‘We Love Myrtle Beach!’
How often we hear this from our visitors? Oh my, all the time!
Do you hear the same thing about the Grand Strand?
We hear this from people on vacation who visit the Grand Strand and fall in love with our beaches, our way of life and the laid back attitude found in and around town.
However, living in a place you vacation is a totally different thing than visiting, as we all know.
Case in point; New York City is a great place to visit as a tourist, but how many of us really want to go live in Manhattan where the cost of living is high, traffic is crazy and one of the few places to go play outdoors is in Central Park?
We love our Grand Strand for all that it is and all that it offers.
Are you ready to make a move?
Want To Move To The Grand Strand?
If you are someone who is considering, or is ready, to move to the Grand Strand, or you know someone who is contemplating making this move, this article is for y’all!
The U.S. Census Bureau says the Myrtle Beach metro area is the second fastest growing area, by percentage, in the country.
Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau show from 2010 to 2018, the Myrtle Beach metro area grew nearly 28% and from 2017 to 2018 the area grew 3.8%.
According to Kruea, 1,400 people per month are moving to the metro area.
Read more about growth on the Grand Strand here.
In this article, we will give you five reasons you too should become a Grand Strand resident and move to the beach; the best beach in South Carolina, hands down.
Here are our Top 5 Reasons To Live on the Grand Strand
1. Weather
Depending on where you are coming from, the weather can’t be beat! If you are contemplating a move here from ‘the north’, South Carolina and the Grand Strand will offer you sun, sun and more sun and very little, if any, snow and ice. Certainly not enough snow to have to own a snow shovel or a windshield scraper.
Locally we joke that we have a short Spring and almost immediately move from winter to summer and that’s no lie. Springtime is glorious and our weather is why millions of golfers descend on our town in the springtime (and the fall) to play on our beautifully maintained golf courses. A forecast of sun, decent temperatures, and low humidity make for a perfect golf paradise.
Summers are hot and humid, but all homes and businesses have central AC and we have pools and the beach! The Grand Strand sports 60+ miles of beach and thousands of pools!
If you love to play golf, swim and outdoor living, come live on the Grand Strand. We enjoy the outdoors all four seasons!
2. Beaches
Have we mentioned our beaches yet?
They are beautiful, plentiful and diverse. If you like busy beaches with activities like parasailing and banana boating, try our Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach beaches. If you want nature and the beach, try the beaches at our two State Parks; Myrtle Beach State Park and Huntington Beach State Park. If you like more secluded beaches, visit The Point in Pawleys Island or Cherry Grove beach. Fishing can be done on all beaches and from many piers.
The beach offers great family entertainment; how about enjoying the beach year around?
Come move to the Grand Strand.
3. Entertainment
If neither the beaches nor the weather has convinced you of a fun lifestyle, maybe the entertainment options will.
Broadway at the Beach, Barefoot Landing, Tanger Outlets, Market Common, you name the type of entertainment, we have it.
Go Karts, Science Center, Aquarium, Putt-Putt, Bowling, Rides, Wheels, Games, Movies, and much much more! Anytime you want to get off the beach, come to town to have fun.
4. Housing Market
Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand are still growing and growing. New infrastructures, new hospitals, new schools, new restaurants, shopping malls, and new entertainment; in the nearly 10 years we’ve lived and worked here at Strand Security, we’ve seen lots of growth and change!
There is lots of new construction.
The housing market is great for buyers – homes are still affordable and there are many new neighborhoods popping up.
5. Cost of Living
If nothing else will entice you to make the move to our beautiful area, the low cost of living on the Grand Strand should do it! Compared to other states, our cost of living expenses are lower than most and there are plenty of jobs to be had for those who are skilled and willing to work.
Property taxes are low and we have one of the best merit-based scholarship systems for college-bound students in the USA. If you have children, this alone could make a move to the Grand Strand attractive.
What is Not To Love About the Grand Strand?
We absolutely love where we live and work, play and relax and we know you will too!
Come join us permanently and when you do buy a home, let us know how we may help make your move safer and more secure.
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