People live there because it's paradise in a lot of places. I just don't think that a lot of people can really appreciate what it means to quality of life to live in a place where 225'ish+ days a year it's sunny, mild, and low humidity.

There are a lot of things that are nice about other places, like lost cost of living and low population. But, nothing compares to almost perfect weather almost all the year. It makes everything else better.

I'd cut off one to two of my legs with a plastic dinner knife to back to Silicon Valley and away from South Carolina. I've been back here 4 years and I loath every day pretty much, and those are the good days. There's no fall here, and not much of a spring. It's basically too hot or too cold. That makes everything else on a daily basis suck.