(11-11-2019 08:24 AM)dfarr Wrote:  

(11-11-2019 08:18 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(11-11-2019 07:56 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(11-11-2019 07:31 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(11-10-2019 10:46 PM)JRsec Wrote:  CB's home state consists of Jefferson County. If it ain't in downtown Birmingham it ain't home. Every state has its armpit and its bunghole. West Montgomery is the Bunghole. Downtown Birmingham is the armpit.
The rest of the state has its attributes!

From Joe wheeler to mentone to gulf shores. We need a wall around Jefferson county. Montgumpery needs to start over

I enjoyed Montgomery as a kid, and still have family and friends there. I also have family in Huntsville and really enjoy that area. But my favorite part is Gulf Shores, particularly the OBA.

Montgomery is good if you are old money. Everyone is leaving for Auburn and Prattville.

Auburn is about to have to split into 2 high schools it’s gotten so big because of folks who live there but drive the 40 minutes to Montgomery for work. I know several people who do this because in order to go to a decent high school in Montgomery you either have to be smart enough for the magnet school or pay for a private school. I moved away from Montgomery in 1994 and it was already trending that way back then.

And as one who lives in Auburn, I can say that the rapid growth is killing the appeal that brings people here. Gone is the quaint and scenic downtown area which is being replaced with 5 story ugly as homemade sin apartment buildings, gone is the ease of movement around the city and it has been replaced with gridlock twice a day and sometimes at lunch, and gone is the ability to get services when needed whether that's a plumber, electrician, a physician, etc.

What has come to Auburn are rude city people who lack the neighborliness of the long time residents, even ruder me first Yankees who transfer to the school to teach, and we are even importing crime from Macon county because the state subsidizes housing for them here in hopes they will find jobs.

It's going to be like Seattle after a while. Seattle was a really nice city until the damn Californians started moving there in numbers.

I'll be interested to see how the division of the High School goes.

The only good thing to come of this is the ridiculous inflation of my home value. The damned lot minus the structure would sell for $250,000,000 so of course property taxes are steadily rising too.

I'm sorry but I loved Auburn the way it was before another 8,000 students from Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Montgomery were added and before every open field was turned into a damned parking garage and every 100 year old lovely home with character was torn down for a damned Walgreens or CVS and the local BBQ places were replaced by crappy chain food.

It just feels like there is no great place left to go where migrating idiots from the cities can't reach you and screw up your lives.