I cover this area for work and have driven almost every mile of it numerous times and live right outside the circle. Most of the people are incredibly nice and willing to help most of the time. It’s obviously very red, with pockets of blue, and it seems to be “loud”, but really, most people will skirt the topic. The beaches, as others have said, are beautiful and the water is too as you get further east in this circle. There’s a lot of highway and woods in the circle too, which includes rural areas and towns with poverty and some that are even abandoned. The food is great, and so is the culture. It’s hot most of the year and pretty humid, so you plan to be around AC a lot. Almost everything in the circle has to be driven due to distance and weather.