This is my first week at my new job and I’m a bit too busy to write a lot, so here is a small listicle. (That’s a terrible word and I apologise for using it. It won’t happen again.)
1) South Carolina is, apparently, in the top three of the slowest-talking states; but at the same time, one of the most talkative. This means that conversations take a very long time. Difficult when you are used to conversations being over in seconds.
2) South Carolina is also the most courteous state in the Union. For example, drivers don’t hoot. Ever. Charleston was voted the “Friendliest City in the World” in both 2013 and 2014.
3) The largest private employer in the state is WalMart, and the favourite fast food is Denny’s.
4) Charleston is at high risk for a “damaging” earthquake in the next 50 years, according to USGS. This makes it one of the three most risky areas in the contiguous USA, along with the Kentucky/Tennessee/Arkansas/Missouri intersection and of course the entire West Coast. I didn’t discover this until after we’d planned to move here.
5) The Gershwins’ folk opera, Porgy and Bess, was set in Charleston. Gershwin was staying nearby, on Folly Island, when he wrote some of the music.
South of the Mason-Dixon line 
can you find some interesting facts and define “busy” ?
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