Jackson Richardson (Football, Missouri Baptist University) grew up in Myrtle Beach. HelloNation asks student athletes one question about the place that raised them and records the answer on camera. This is Jackson Richardson’s, in full.
The question
What makes your community a great place to raise a family?
The answer, as recorded
Transcript. What follows is a transcript of the video above, in Jackson Richardson’s own words. It has not been rewritten, and no part of it was drafted for them.
Hey guys, Jackson Richardson here from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I attend Missouri Baptist University for football and what makes this place so great to raise a family is not only that it's one of the fastest growing cities in America, but just the fact that it's so close-knit, so such a great environment to live in. You can walk five minutes to the beach from down where I live and you can also walk five minutes that way and have a great place to hunt. So many fresh local foods here that you can buy from a farmer's market that people grow all the time, such as fruits, vegetables, and sometimes game. Not only that, but the job opportunity, the job market here is just so amazing and always construction going on, always new restaurants and new businesses opening up here because it's such a growing city. But the fact that we're able to, I'm still able to know everybody by name, know my streets and know the people that live on my street, almost all of them. We all hang out all the time. I still know many people from high school that I still hang out with. I still encounter all the time, maybe at the gym or the beach or the river, sometimes fishing, sometimes hunting. We do all types of things. But the biggest reason that I would raise my family here is because it's such a calm and peaceful environment. Sometimes these big cities are just constantly going and non-stop, non-stop, but everything is just so friendly here, so slowed down and such a great place to live if you want to raise your family. So I would 110% recommend this place to raise a family, not only for the jobs, for the environment, for the peacefulness, but just being here is just such, such a blessing. Thank you guys.
Recorded by HelloNation as part of its athlete voices program and published by Hello Newswire, HelloNation’s good news newswire. The words are the speaker’s own.
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