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South Carlolina Any Information O)n The State

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I have been living in Connecticut all my life. I am 100% T/P service connected. My wife and my daughter are have discussions with me about selling our home in Connecticut and moving in or around Beufort, South Carolina. Are there any brothers and/or sisters out there who know the area, or are aware of the quality of the VA services and South Carolina state services. Thanks Michael

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Michael:

Welcome to Hadit. I am a Texan and know very little about East Coast States

Veterans deserve real choice for their health care.

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I have been living in Connecticut all my life. I am 100% T/P service connected. My wife and my daughter are have discussions with me about selling our home in Connecticut and moving in or around Beufort, South Carolina. Are there any brothers and/or sisters out there who know the area, or are aware of the quality of the VA services and South Carolina state services. Thanks Michael

Yes for 100% veterans South Carolina is a great state to live in, but for that matter so is Georgia they have similar vet benefits for totally disabled vets. I pay no property taxes you can own any price home on no more than one acre and one house on it free they don't count my pool house as seperate buldings and we get 2 disabled license plates if you own more than 2 vehicles you will have to pay regular taxes and plate fees

I live about 15 minutes from Fort Jackson in Columbia, I however do NOT use Dorn VA I have been treated at Augusta VA since 1997 and I get excellent care there, when I moved to Columbia I attempted to try and move my medical care to Dorn, it only took me a few visits to stop that idea and decide to keep my care at Augusta and drive there, I have an excellent psychiatrist, cardiologist and PCP, so it was a no brainer, why transfer to a VAMC that was driving me crazy and whining about the expense of caring for veterans when about an hour away I had better care than I had thru doctors I chose from my federal BC/BS when I worked at the Post Office.

South Carolina will also pay for my son to go to any state college free tuition even at USC Clemson Citadel etc he still has to apply and get accepted but then his chapter 35 benefits will actually pay for his books and leave him some money for gas, car and insurance if he doesn't go to a school within driving distance from either my house or my ex wife's then we will have housing costs but I really think he can pick a school within driving distance

http://www.govoepp.state.sc.us/va/mission.html

The coast is expensive and insurance due to hurricanes is really high I pay less than 1000 a year on a 200,000 home in Columbia. The beach is about a 3 hour drive from here. They just opened a new national cemetary here at Fort Jackson, so I know where I am getting buried. It's about a 3 hour drive to the mountains in NC and the Cherokee reservation casinos and the Smoky Mountains it's a great place to go great in the fall

Check out Georgia they have similar tax breaks for 100% vets

100% SC P&T PTSD 100% CAD 10% Hypertension and A&A = SMC L, SSD
a disabled American veteran certified lol
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

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Florida has pretty good state benefits for vets. They are building a new VA hospital in Orlando. The trouble with Florida is that there are just too many retired military and vets for the system to handle at the VA.

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If your State government does not believe in regulation your Insurance rates are going to be high. Everything in Texas that has been deregulated for competition to give the consumer lower rates went from low to highest in the Nation. Funny how that works.

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In Florida which is a non-regulation state you have to get down on your knees to get home owners insurance. I don't know about medical since I get mine through the federal government. Car insurance is expensive. Let's face it. Insurance companies are just about getting money and not paying claims. That is how they make a profit. If left to their own devices only 20 year olds in perfect health could buy health insurance. The insurance companies would never have to pay any claims and would invest all their earnings in selling credit default swaps, gold bricks or Indonesian junk bonds.

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"South Carlolina Any Information O)n The State"

Well, yeah. It's south of North Carolina. duh...... :D

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

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