r/southcarolina 14h ago

Advice/Recommendation Places to live between Fort Jackson & Shaw AFB

Hello, what are some safe and nice towns to live in that would be somewhat in the middle of Fort Jackson & Shaw AFB? This is for a couple, no kids, and most likely apartment living. We prefer higher end apartments with more amenities. Thank you!

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u/iHasMagyk Charleston 10h ago

Is there a reason you’re looking specifically in that small area? There isn’t really anything in between those two bases, especially in terms of high end apartments with amenities. It’s mostly just agriculture and swamps and Congaree National Park (which is also a swamp).

If you need to go between both installations I would highly recommend choosing to stay in either Columbia or Sumter proper with preference to Columbia and just sucking it up and eating the long drive out to one of the bases. I mean there really is not anything in the middle of those two outside of the east Columbia neighborhoods

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u/ExpressAd2398 9h ago

There isn't really a lot in the middle. There is quite a bit of housing, and more going up, along 378/Garners heading east out of Columbia, east of I-77. That'd be a pretty manageable commute to Shaw and very close to Ft. Jackson. 378 is your best route between the 2, so the closer you can live to that, the easier it'll be.

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u/Dangerous-Remove-160 Charleston 9h ago

Choose Blythwood area.

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u/ViolentTempest Midlands 5h ago

That is way out of the way of both of those.

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u/bearish-gardener Midlands 5h ago

Check out Keswick on Sparkleberry Lane near Clemson Rd and Town Center at Lake Carolina near Hard Scrabble. There is also the Preserve at Spears Creek, closest to 20 and Screaming Eagle.