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With us planning on retiring in the area, I subscribed to a few local news websites. I read the other "crime" posts in this forum. It seems that over the past two months there has been quite a few shootings and a lot of crime.....is this average or is the crime in the increase?
We are looking outside of Myrtle Beach....with 30 minutes or so.
With us planning on retiring in the area, I subscribed to a few local news websites. I read the other "crime" posts in this forum. It seems that over the past two months there has been quite a few shootings and a lot of crime.....is this average or is the crime in the increase?
We are looking outside of Myrtle Beach....with 30 minutes or so.
Thank you.
I sure hope not, once we sell our house in Ladson SC, we are looking at a subdivision off of 22 and 905. This is roughly 10 miles out from N. Myrtle Beach towards Conway.
Sheesh, yes crime is horrible and no one wants in in their neighborhood. That being said I recently moved here from Long Island and crime is no different here from where I came from. Mass graves found in Gilgo Beach on Long Island, mass grave found in Brentwood Long Island, Bank robberies all over Long Island, woman found stabbed to death in St James home. These are several of the headlines we typically have seen in Newsday on Long Island. Yes it sucks but sadly it is everywhere.
Can you escape this? Maybe, but in large towns such as this it will happen sooner or later. That doesn't mean we should ignore it but seriously it's everywhere.
I agree, MB is not what it was 20 years ago. We were there last weekend and the later it gets, the worse it got. There were bluelights, etc. every night and not because of the Country Music Fest. N MB is much better and Ocean Drive has just as much to offer for nightlife, bars, restaurants, etc. Much more laid back and not as commercialized. We were in NMB for New Years, no issues at all.
OP, I would hope your retirement is fully thought out and visit area in all seasons and study the crime statistics and review news of the area. The crime in Horry County is getting rampant and goverment officials who keep getting reelected seem not do anything about it and only want the media to broadcast their rose color glass vision
This past weekend multiple shootings occurred in Myrtle Beach and multiple shootings (one was a drive by) this weekend in Conway. Another shooting again in Myrtle Beach a block up 27th ave tonight.
A few weeks ago a woman was robbed walking the beach. (Even though I cant understand why someone walking the beach had 20k worth of jewelry and $300 cash) on her.
I been following a downtown business owner FB page for years and his home has been broken in several times.
Myrtle Beach could have so much potential but leaders of the city and county refuse to take action, heck many of crimes I mention and there is more the suspects have not been found.
Search Google News whatever location like Myrtle Beach robbery or other crime and the results are sad.
Myrtle Beach needs to be bullseye for major slow moving CAt 5 hurricane and maybe crime could also be cleaned up.
There is a video clip of one of the shootings taken by a tourist from their hotel that is circulating. I am thankful and surprised that no one was killed...The shooter fired wildly into the crowd with zero regard for who he could hit as motorists hit the gas. He then allegedly car jacked someone to get away....smh
Is one of the problems that the clientele of some of the older, more marginal motels in the area of Ocean Blvd within about a mile or so from the boardwalk has changed from being tourists on a budget (i.e. college students, working class people just wanting to relax with a modest vacation) to more transient housing for a much more unstable/unsavory population (i.e. people addicted to "hard" drugs, hardened criminals, prostitutes, etc.) that rent "by the week" motels more typical of those in non-resort areas?
Some of those motels looked a little rough years ago, but instead of renovating when they started to look that way, just continued to deteriorate, perhaps were bought out by new owners who were increasingly inept when it came to managing them, and it seems as if their clientele has deteriorated along with them. Do people agree that this is the case, at least in that area?
I remember that particular area of Myrtle Beach close to downtown and the old Pavilion used to be seedy even a few decades ago, but that was mainly from "rowdy" behavior (drunks acting loudly, shooting off fireworks, etc.) that could be expected in a resort area, but not violent and criminal activities being commonly in the news today.
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