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re: Depressing Small Southern Cities
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:24 pm to Yewkindewit
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:24 pm to Yewkindewit
I'm familiar with Bessemer. It's sad, really. You can tell it used to be a really nice place - the downtown and adjacent neighborhoods are full of houses that would be awesome if they were kept up or renovated. Same goes for Midfield or Fairfield.
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:26 pm to USMEagles
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Dothan, AL
Have you been to Enterprise Alabama? Well I have, stopped in at the boll weevil bar and had a couple beers. Then I had a bite at the bell weevil diner, then I spent the night at the boll weevil inn..... I'm not shitting y'all one bit! Should have named the town boll weevil Alabama to go with the big boll weevil statue that is in town.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:27 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Driving through Athens, AL and an overwhelming sense of depression overcame me.
You must have missed the new high school.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:29 pm to lsu711
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You must have missed the new high school.
Shithole!
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:30 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Philip Rivers is from there
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:30 pm to HempHead
Damn. That is a nice school.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:31 pm to 14caratgoldjones
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the Blackbelt region of Alabama has been hit extremely hard. I live in Selma
The Black Belt is a lost cause brother and you live in the epicenter of that shithole. Time to cut your losses and GTFO.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:32 pm to stickly
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Damn. That is a nice school.
We have a poor and dilapidated college, too.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:32 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Leesville
Longest year of my life was the 3 months I spent in Leesville.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:36 pm to HempHead
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Same goes for Midfield or Fairfield.
I drive through Wylam and Ensley occasionally going to visit my wife's aunt.
Wylam has a little downtown/main street type of area that you can tell was probably pretty quaint 60 years ago. Just about everything is boarded up now. It's definitely depressing and also not that safest area to be in
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:36 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Rodney, MS
And to think that it was only 3 votes away from being the State Capital.
Once the Mississippi changed course that town dried up fast. Now all that’s left is a ghost town from the Great Depression era
And to think that it was only 3 votes away from being the State Capital.
Once the Mississippi changed course that town dried up fast. Now all that’s left is a ghost town from the Great Depression era
This post was edited on 6/22/20 at 2:39 pm
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:38 pm to fallguy_1978
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Wylam has a little downtown/main street type of area that you can tell was probably pretty quaint 60 years ago. Just about everything is boarded up now. It's definitely depressing and also not that safest area to be in
The only businesses you see in these areas are liquor stores, pawn shops, beauty salons, car washes, payday loans, tax preparation, and shady looking daycare centers.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:39 pm to truthbetold
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Pine Bluff
war zone is a good descriptor for pine bluff.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:40 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Driving through Athens, AL and an overwhelming sense of depression overcame me. Buildings are completely dilapidated and falling apart. You can see the 1970’s shopping centers where the heyday is long since past.
Take a ride to Donaldsonville, LA. Was once The State Capitol and is still the Ascension Parish Seat......heyday was in the ‘50’s......it’s now a rotting, stinking shithole.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:41 pm to HempHead
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Lauderdale-Limestone-Madison-Morgan aren't too bad. Marshall is hit or miss (Guntersville is awesome). Colbert, Lawrence, Walker, Winston, Cullman, et. al are mostly pretty depressing.
You left off all the great deals on meth you can get in Jackson County
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:41 pm to HempHead
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The only businesses you see in these areas are liquor stores, pawn shops, beauty salons, car washes, payday loans, tax preparation, and shady looking daycare centers.
I've been to 47 of the 50 states and all of them have shithole areas and nice ones. It's not exclusive to the South although our shitty areas are pretty bad.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:44 pm to Centinel
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You left off all the great deals on meth you can get in Jackson County
I've never really been anywhere other than Scottsboro. Otherwise, I just go to the Paint Rock/Walls of Jericho. Beautiful country. If Huntsville continues to expand and the Huntsville-Athens-Decatur triangle consolidates, I think there is money to be made in developing the westernmost reaches of Jackson Co.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:14 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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I mean, you spent much time in rural Illinois lately? Or rural Michigan?
yes, actually. On average they’re much much nicer than rural Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama
No, they aren't. Rural Illinois is a shithole. Same for much of rural Ohio, rural Indiana, rural Michigan, et al. They may have been nicer 30 or 50 years ago. No longer.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:26 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
With the combined rise in work from home and expanding logistics of home delivery, what would it take to revitalize some of these areas? Are we about to see another surge of population into suburb and further away from large metro areas?
With 100k-200k in equity you could pickup some unique and still livable real estate for cheap and remodel the spaces for residential. Imagine picking up an old 5k sq ft building and remodeling it for residential use.
With 100k-200k in equity you could pickup some unique and still livable real estate for cheap and remodel the spaces for residential. Imagine picking up an old 5k sq ft building and remodeling it for residential use.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:41 pm to stickly
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Open up Realtor.com and look at what was once very valuable farmland around Lumberton, NC or any of the other *remote and newly insignificant* parts of the country. Here are a few examples:
70 acres for $140k
123 acres for$225k
298 acres for $349k
It's a pretty area with good farmland but it is no longer important because it is not on an interstate and the economics of farming have changed so radically that the opportunity to make a living is unappealing.
Nice local anecdotal evidence
The avg value of US cropland has almost doubled since 2005
Pasture land has moved from $740/ac to $1400/ac
Look up farmland prices in Iowa, Illinois, Ark, LA, Miss Delta areas, or California and see what the price per acre in these areas are.
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