Let’s talk about something that sounds like a typo in today’s housing market: affordable rent that won’t require you to sell a kidney or start a side hustle selling homemade candles on Etsy.
Conway, South Carolina, sits just inland from Myrtle Beach, quietly minding its own business while tourists zoom past on Highway 501, completely unaware they’re missing one of the state’s best-kept secrets.
This charming town of roughly 25,000 people offers something increasingly rare in America: the ability to actually afford where you live without eating ramen noodles for every meal or having seventeen roommates.
While your friends in Charleston are paying mortgage-sized rent for a studio apartment with a “cozy” kitchen (translation: you can touch the stove and refrigerator simultaneously), Conway residents are living their best lives with rent that sounds like it’s from a different decade…