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Posted on 12/27/17 at 2:35 pm to uagrad97
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Any advice on Gulf coast living
Bradenton, Fl, for starters, Gulf Shores/Orange Beach were cool places at one time, a few decades ago, now they are the epitome of red neck, trashiness, and lowest of low rent tourism, but at least they have tons of shitty places to dine at, it's the Carnival Cruise Lines of the gulf coast
Posted on 12/27/17 at 3:55 pm to Paul Allen
I’d rather Perdido Key area or Pensacola. There’s more to do there. GS and Orange Beach are nice but too small.
Lower taxes too
Lower taxes too
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:18 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Prayers sent to your kids. I've never known a kid that was homechooled to not be weird or go absolutely bat shite once they get to college. In a few years your kids are going to be 4 year RAs or do a lot of coke.
Have a friend whose grandchildren are homeschooled - 3 of them are already in college, on full schollys and knocking it out of the park.
And then there’s Tim Tebow who’s doing pretty well as a homeschooled...
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:23 pm to highpockets
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Advice: living in Gulf Shores/Orange Beach... by highpockets I’d rather Perdido Key area or Pensacola. There’s more to do there. GS and Orange Beach are nice but too small. Lower taxes too
Know how I know you know nothing about baldwin county?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:23 pm to uagrad97
Live in Fairhope
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Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:30 pm to uagrad97
Just moved to Naples and Holy Shite this place is extremely white!!!
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:55 pm to uagrad97
Moved to Orange Beach with a couple buddies at the beginning of summer in '93 and lived there through the summer of '94. We rented a home that stood on the same piece of property that the Orange Beach Post Office is now sitting on. It was an awesome place to live and we all have some great memories of living there. We had jobs cleaning pools at various condos,hotels,and private homes on Ono Island which allowed us to be off work everyday by noon so we had plenty of time to hit the beach before heading to the Flora-Bama each night! Orange Beach and Gulf Shores has grown so much bigger since then. It's so commercialized now it saddens me when I think about how amazing and laid back it was in the early '90s.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:21 pm to OGJangalang
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It's so commercialized now it saddens me when I think about how amazing and laid back it was in the early '90s.
+1 on that. It went to shite after the Lambert's/Phoenix X crowd took over. Flora-Bama is shite now too.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:34 pm to samson73103
quote:Tebow seems very weird and socially awkward to me. Nice guy though
Tim Tebow
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:56 pm to OGJangalang
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It's so commercialized now it saddens me when I think about how amazing and laid back it was in the early '90s.
It looked like this when I was a kid. The go-cart track and kiddy rides were located at the main intersection across from the public beach.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:58 pm to Houma Sapien
Flora Bama in the early '90s was pretty much a dive bar on the beach. Used to have to walk through the little package liquor store to get into the bar. It was a rowdy crowd and a very cool atmosphere. Lots of locals, bikers, and hard drinkers but it was always a good time. I also loved hanging out a Papa Rocco's in Gulf Shores. They had live music, cold beer, and their Hot Shucks Oysters were Delicious!
Posted on 12/27/17 at 8:01 pm to weadjust
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weadjust
It's changed a lil bit since then.
People complain about traffic now but I remember when that 2 lane road from 10 was bumper to bumper and you got stuck behind somebody pulling a camper!
Posted on 12/27/17 at 8:06 pm to weadjust
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It looked like this when I was a kid. The go-cart track and kiddy rides were located at the main intersection across from the public beach
I remember the go cart track and the rides,they also had a putt putt golf place back then. There was a restaurant back then across from the track called Coconut Willie's. Back then The Hangout was nothing more than some pool tables and cigarette machine. My parents owned a condo at The Plantation on Fort Morgan Road back in the '80s and we'd go into Gulf Shores to eat and hang out a lot of nights. It was a great place to be a teenager at in the summer.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 8:53 pm to uagrad97
Fairhope area is great and a few people I know who live in foley area love it. One guy has a small house close to the kids schools and a beach house that they live in on weekends.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 8:54 pm to uagrad97
I’m not going through the 4 pages nor do I know your budget. But based on the school location I’d be looking at something in Bon Secour or Magnolia Springs. Maybe even Josephine on the bay if you can swing it.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 8:55 pm to uagrad97
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living in Gulf Shores/Orange Beach...
You call that livin?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 9:06 pm to Houma Sapien
It is gone and sadly will never be the same. I remember the old gulf shores motel at the T, the Keg when it was 24/7 and on and on. Before the pink t-shirt wearing, salt life decal crowd and hordes of Texans completely took over.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 9:13 pm to Clark W Griswold
I'm going to throw my bias towards Fairhope once again as I went from pre-school to graduating from Fairhope High.
It's one of, if not the best public schools in Baldwin County. I'd rate a "new" Spanish Fort high school up there too. The OP has his mind set on a private school in Gulf Shores for his child. He will hate his life living in Gulf Shores because of traffic and tourism from March-September. Just my humble opinion
It's one of, if not the best public schools in Baldwin County. I'd rate a "new" Spanish Fort high school up there too. The OP has his mind set on a private school in Gulf Shores for his child. He will hate his life living in Gulf Shores because of traffic and tourism from March-September. Just my humble opinion
Posted on 12/27/17 at 9:20 pm to Golfer
quote:We have a house (river side) on the Magnolia River very close to the cold hole, which few if any on this board will know where that is or the significance. The lot itself is worth stupid money
or Magnolia Springs
Magnolia Springs is better than anything Foley has to offer and much quieter
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