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Family Road Trip: The Golf Paradise

As previously noted, we chose our Bluffton, South Carolina to take advantage of an opportunity to stay very inexpensively at a golf resort community there. This former one-horse town has expanded drastically in the past decade thanks to its proximity to Hilton Head. With that island now mostly built out, Bluffton benefits from the demand for continued expansion. Like Hilton Head, Bluffton apparently adopted many of the same development restrictions imposed upon Hilton Head. According to a recent article in the [i]Island Packet[/i], the Island incorporated as a town only 25 years ago. Since then, it has enacted and enforced some pretty extreme restrictions on its growth and the design of its development. Take a drive around, for instance, and you'll quickly see that signage is all but invisible.

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