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re: What small town in the south is the most Mayberry-like place?

Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:28 am to
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
13461 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:28 am to
Westhaven in Franklin, TN

It's a bubble 45 minutes south of Nashville that is unreal (and unreal expensive)

https://westhaventn.com/

Everyone takes golf carts to the grocery store and to drop kids off at school. It's like Seaside, FL but with great schools, no tourists, and not near a beach.
This post was edited on 9/20/22 at 9:30 am
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
73856 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:29 am to
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most Mayberry-like

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In terms of the physical makeup of the town

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Mt. Airy, North Carolina


Literally



congratulations, you've solved the decades long baffling mystery of what town the Andy Griffith show was based on
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
25365 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:30 am to
Even Mayberry had a "back of town".
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
25365 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:31 am to
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It's a bubble 45 minutes south of Nashville that is unreal (and unreal expensive)


Nice area.

Everyone knows everyone in Mayberry. It's not a nice suburb outside of a big city. It's a more isolated small town with its own little economy.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
16212 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:32 am to
I haven't been there in tears, but downtown Natchez, MS. always had a nice little hometown feel about it.
Posted by Seen
Member since Aug 2022
1127 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:32 am to
Ruston

Grew up there, government housing being built all over. Crime has gone up quite a bit from what I hear. I moved out 25 years ago
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
95409 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:33 am to
Franklin, Tn and it ain’t close. Especially if you go at Christmas
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
73856 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:33 am to
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I haven't been there in tears


it would bring you to tears now baw
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
13461 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:33 am to
This is less of a suburb and more of a Truman Show bubble (which is seaside).

They have school, stores, doctors, dentists, etc. It’s a bubble within a bubble and is really far away from Nashville.

Posted by Potchafa
Avoyelles
Member since Jul 2016
3219 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:36 am to
Bordelonville, LA
Born and raised there. If anyone's knows about it, they should agree.
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
7521 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:37 am to
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Franklin, Tn and it ain’t close.


Franklin is too rich to be Mayberry. Winchester is a better choice as mentioned above.
Posted by RedPop4
Santiago de Compostela
Member since Jan 2005
14410 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:37 am to
Yep. My aunt was from there, well, the post office was in Bordelonville, not their farm.
Posted by BhamBlazeDog
Birmingham
Member since Aug 2018
3768 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:39 am to
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I haven't been there in tears, but downtown Natchez, MS. always had a nice little hometown feel about it.



It still does, was there back in April. It's sad was happened to the downtown areas in the delta though, there was some serious potential there.
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
95409 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:40 am to
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Franklin is too rich to be Mayberry. Winchester is a better choice as mentioned above.
People were loaded in Mayberry from family money

Barney was a small town cop and this was his beautiful craftsman house

This post was edited on 9/20/22 at 9:42 am
Posted by Mufassa
Member since Aug 2012
1664 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:43 am to
Covington
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98190 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:43 am to
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Oxford, MS. I swear .. it's like freaking Mayberry.


If Mayberry was full of pharmacists and insurance agents who like to imagine wearing khakis and a button up shirt in the Grove turns them into some kind of plantation high society.
Posted by LSU Grad Alabama Fan
369 Cardboard Box Lane
Member since Nov 2019
10247 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:44 am to
Cullman, Alabama
Posted by TigerGman
Center of the Universe
Member since Sep 2006
11222 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:46 am to
Starkville
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
140462 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:47 am to
Chesterfield SC
Posted by BhamBlazeDog
Birmingham
Member since Aug 2018
3768 posts
Posted on 9/20/22 at 9:48 am to
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Starkville



I know this was a joke, but it's not honestly far off, especially the downtown & cotton district areas.
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