Hilton Head - retirement goal

Consolation
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:49:16 +0000

Port Royal Plantation is completely residential, and, as I said, doesn’t allow short term rentals. I don’t think there are any condos, per se, but they did allow a few “patio houses,” which are attached 2-story houses with their own small private yards. It is on the beach, the access is direct, and the beach is enormous. It tends to be quieter than the places where a lot of renters are coming and going. My parents made good friends there. (My dog loved the beach. )

http://www.dunesrealestategroup.com/port-royal-plantation.php

I believe you would definitely have to drive to any shopping you needed to do, though.

I think that renting and exploring the island–and some of the communities on the mainland that are also on the intracoastal–more fully is a good plan. I think that you will find that the realtors tend to hype the places that either have a lot of traffic or are in the process of being built up, for obvious reasons. Hence the “featured communities” in one of your links.

The two major reasons my parents decided to move off the island were the hurricane evacuations, which are a multi-day process involving huge traffic jams and travelling hundreds of miles, and their feeling that the island was getting overcrowded and there was too much hub-bub and traffic once they left their plantation sanctuary.

BTW, in CT one pays property tax on cars. In ME, the cost of registration depends on the value of the car, which is essentially the same thing. And your current property taxes are low!