We moved from Chicago to a laid-back remote island in the South you can only get to by boat. We love it so far.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nicolle, 45, and Michael Downing, 53, about their move from Chicago, Illinois, to the Haig Point neighborhood on Daufuskie Island, a 10-square-mile, mostly car-free community off the coast of South Carolina near Hilton Head and the Georgia border.
Most Daufuskie Island residents leave their cars on Hilton Head and instead traverse the island by golf cart.We've come to Daufuskie Island five or six times before we decided to move. One thing Mike and I always said was we want to be by the water. We want to see the water — it's a sense of peace, a sense of calmness.
Nicolle and I were in Charleston on a trip, and we came down to visit him, and we got a chance to see the island.Mike and I would always come and say,"We want to move here." And then we'd go home and say,"We can't move and leave everything here." We have two ways to get to the island. There's a ferry that's part of our dues with Haig Point that goes back and forth every hour. It takes about a half hour.But then we also have a water taxi, which is a smaller boat that takes us right to the harbor town at Hilton Head. And that's only a 5-minute boat ride.The water taxi is free for children under 18, and for adults it's $6 each for the first two adults.We were thinking about the cost of the water taxis.
Getting to the airport takes a lot longer. In Chicago we were about 25 minutes from O'Hare, and here typically you have to take a 30-minute boat and you have to plan to drive an hour to Savannah, and you have to coordinate to make sure your flights aren't too late or you'll have to try to schedule the water taxi. So it's just more coordination on that end.Another thing that we do miss is we had a big group of friends and family back in Chicago. That's the hardest part.
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