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re: Huntsville ----- thoughts on the city and surrounding area
Posted on 11/13/20 at 8:23 pm to Bamatab
Posted on 11/13/20 at 8:23 pm to Bamatab
I was born in Huntsville and I've never moved. I love it here and pray that my daughters stay close when they finish college. I'm on the south end of Huntsville. Good schools in my area. Madison and Hampton Cove areas are booming with new neighborhoods. South Huntsville is almost out of acreage for newer neighborhoods. We are squeezed between Green Mountain, Redstone Arsenal, and the Tennessee River.
Like most cities, crime is low in some areas and high in others. I would recommend living in Southeast Huntsville. Traffic isn't that bad except for morning and evening rush hours. Memorial Parkway (highway 231) runs south to north. I565 cuts through Huntsville running east to west. Once you learn which roads to take during rush hours it's not that bad.
Economy is good here. Redstone Arsenal, which includes Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA) feeds a lot of contractor jobs. The occasional housing bubbles usually don't impact this area much.
Can you provide the name of the street of your daughter's potential job?
I'll help you out with any questions you may have.
Like most cities, crime is low in some areas and high in others. I would recommend living in Southeast Huntsville. Traffic isn't that bad except for morning and evening rush hours. Memorial Parkway (highway 231) runs south to north. I565 cuts through Huntsville running east to west. Once you learn which roads to take during rush hours it's not that bad.
Economy is good here. Redstone Arsenal, which includes Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA) feeds a lot of contractor jobs. The occasional housing bubbles usually don't impact this area much.
Can you provide the name of the street of your daughter's potential job?
I'll help you out with any questions you may have.
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Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:08 pm to TidalSurge1
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It's still booming (as a NASA Center)
Interestingly enough, titusville, fl has sucked and always will suck. Despite the launches happening there. I promise crime catches up to opportunity
Posted on 11/13/20 at 11:44 pm to MoarKilometers
This is great info. I am planning on moving there myself next summer. I grew up near Anniston/Gadsden and left in the 80s when I enlisted. Retired in 2012 and I’ve been in South Carolina ever since. Kids are graduating HS and I really want to get back to Alabama. I was hoping to find a house close to Monte Sano state park. Anyone know what kind of area is around there?
Posted on 11/14/20 at 5:03 am to Alfie Solomons
i have memories of huntsville. huntsville hospital and dr kendall black's office. many weeks in the hospital and many hours in dr black's office.
i only mention this because this thread led me to look up dr black to see how he was doing. sadly dr black passed away in 2019, a month before his 80th birthday. even after 50 some odd years, i still remember you with great respect. RIP Dr Kendall Black
i only mention this because this thread led me to look up dr black to see how he was doing. sadly dr black passed away in 2019, a month before his 80th birthday. even after 50 some odd years, i still remember you with great respect. RIP Dr Kendall Black
Posted on 11/14/20 at 7:31 am to crimsontater
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i only mention this because this thread led me to look up dr black to see how he was doing. sadly dr black passed away in 2019, a month before his 80th birthday. even after 50 some odd years, i still remember you with great respect. RIP Dr Kendall Black
Are you old enough to remember Cowboy Johnny Evans?
Posted on 11/14/20 at 10:00 am to JustGetItRight
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Like everyone else said, you have to try really hard to find reasons not to like that part of the state.
I attended UAH from Fall 2012 to Spring 2018 to earn my degrees. I stayed an additional year working in Huntsville. From my experience, the Huntsville metro is a great place for people with families, close true friends, or who are looking to start a family soon. The Huntsville metro wasn't a great place to be without strong relationships, whether they be platonic, familial, or romantic.
Has the metro made great strides in entertainment and social options for people that don't have a tight knit circle of friends or family members, or a serious romantic relationship?
Posted on 11/14/20 at 11:31 am to bamameister
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Are you old enough to remember Cowboy Johnny Evans?
that name doesn't ring a bell. i remember dr blacks x-ray guy's first name tho.
Posted on 11/14/20 at 11:53 am to crimsontater
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i have memories of huntsville. huntsville hospital and dr kendall black's office. many weeks in the hospital and many hours in dr black's office.
i only mention this because this thread led me to look up dr black to see how he was doing. sadly dr black passed away in 2019, a month before his 80th birthday. even after 50 some odd years, i still remember you with great respect. RIP Dr Kendall Black
I was pretty close with Dr. Black, his wife and their 2 young kids. He was the doctor for my HS FB team (Grissom) and treated my career-ending neck injury. I was also a lifeguard and swim team coach at nearby Valley-Hill Country Club, taught both of his kids how to swim, then coached and occasionally baby sat for them. He was super intelligent and a cool guy. He always had a cold Michelobe and frozen mug ready for me when I went to his home. RIP, Doc!
This post was edited on 11/15/20 at 5:36 pm
Posted on 11/14/20 at 11:57 am to bamameister
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Are you old enough to remember Cowboy Johnny Evans?
I attended a pal's birthday party on Cowboy Johnny Evans' TV show for kids (early 1960s).This post was edited on 11/14/20 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 11/14/20 at 2:53 pm to Downburst
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Has the metro made great strides in entertainment and social options for people that don't have a tight knit circle of friends or family members, or a serious romantic relationship?
I don't know about "great strides", but they have made strides. There's a lot of money that has been invested in the downtown area to help grow the bar and restaurant scene there. There has also been outdoor/indoor places like Campus 805 (which has Yellowhammer brewery & Straight to Ale brewery on either side with eateries, axe throwing, live music and other stuff in-between), Stovehouse (which has bars, eateries, and outdoor venue for live music), and other breweries that have popped up. They even have a comedy club now that actually has fairly famous comedians that roll through from time to time.
Don't get me wrong, Huntsville is still geared toward families and professionals, but they are creating more stuff for younger, single people to do.
Posted on 11/14/20 at 8:23 pm to TidalSurge1
I was pretty close with Dr. Black
even tho he done and was involved in a lot of great things. i was actually a first for him. he performed a type of surgery on my legs that he had never done before. i have no doubt it kept me up and walking far longer than had it not been done. forever grateful to the good dr.
even tho he done and was involved in a lot of great things. i was actually a first for him. he performed a type of surgery on my legs that he had never done before. i have no doubt it kept me up and walking far longer than had it not been done. forever grateful to the good dr.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 6:11 am to TidalSurge1
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I attended a pal's birthday party on Cowboy Johnny Evans' TV show for kids (early 1960s).
That's the guy. He was a fixture for decades on afternoon kids' shows and did a lot of fundraising for the city. He and others would turn up at the theater downtown when some of the Disney/kid stuff was showing. I believe he also had a western store down by GC Murphy in the old Parkway Mall for a time. That Huntsville was a much different place back when rockets shook the ground.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 6:43 am to bamameister
In the summer, kids got in matinee movies downtown for 6 RC Cola bottle caps and got a trio of RC, popcorn and candy for a quarter. Moms would drop off carloads of kids, go shopping, then hunt 'em in a wild sugar-buzzing herd out front. This post was edited on 11/15/20 at 8:48 am
Posted on 11/15/20 at 7:20 am to TidalSurge1
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In the summer, kids got in matinee movies downtown for 6 RC Cola bottle caps and got a trio of RC, popcorn and candy for a quarter. Moms would drop off carloads of kids, go shopping, then find 'em in the wild sugar-buzzing herd out front.
I hear you, we got dropped off some ourselves. Sounds corny now, but they had some serious yo-yo contest on the stage during the intermission of doubleheaders. And after the show kids would be slinging those things all over the place.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 11:48 am to bamameister
i grew up on the north end of sand mountain. our tv stations were out of chattanooga. there was a kids tv show called the bob brandy show. it had bob, his wife ingrid and rebel the horse. our class got to be on the show once. it was bigtime for us country bumpkins. then they came to our little school and the entire school was involved. great times!
Posted on 11/15/20 at 12:36 pm to crimsontater
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i grew up on the north end of sand mountain. our tv stations were out of chattanooga. there was a kids tv show called the bob brandy show. it had bob, his wife ingrid and rebel the horse. our class got to be on the show once. it was bigtime for us country bumpkins. then they came to our little school and the entire school was involved. great times!
You definitely had the elevation to get out. Noccalula Falls to Little River Canyon and Sequoyah Caverns, near Fort Payne. It's beautiful and I can remember some cool things to do all the way to Chattanooga and the Great Smoky Mts. Really the whole Tennesee Valley is the best part of the state for my taste. It's what I miss most about moving from North Alabama.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 1:46 pm to LC412000
My kids live there. Stay out of north Huntsville. Many folks live in Hampton Cove area (over the mountain) and Jones Valley around Grissom High School. West of town toward Madison is booming. Downtown historic district is nice too.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 2:34 pm to bamameister
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You definitely had the elevation to get out. Noccalula Falls to Little River Canyon and Sequoyah Caverns, near Fort Payne. It's beautiful and I can remember some cool things to do all the way to Chattanooga and the Great Smoky Mts. Really the whole Tennesee Valley is the best part of the state for my taste. It's what I miss most about moving from North Alabama.
The grand parents of my BF (like bro's) growing up were from Ft. Payne (owned FP Bank and property on LR Canyon) and S. Pittsburg (owned Jacobs Bank in Scottsboro and properties in the Monteagle SS Assembly). GF in Ft Payne had sold life insurance to many people on Sand and Lookout Mtns. Chuck's other GF was well known on S Cumberland Mtn. So Chuck and I got to hunt & fish all over those mtns. and the canyon. His parents and mine also had rolling hills cattle farms near Elkton, Tn (1970s) so we hunted & fished up there a lot too. Then Chuck lived in Gainsville, Ga when I lived in Atlanta (80s & 90s), so we explored, hunted and trout fished all over the N Ga Mtns Nat'l Forests. Good times!
Sidenote: Chuck (extreme outdoorsman) moved to Bozeman, MT in '92 and I lived in downtown Chicago (92-93), so I'd "escape" to ski, explore, fish & hunt with him out there -- spectacular!!! Moved back to Atlanta '93-97, then to St. Pete Beach, FL, then to Ft. Walton Beach in 2010.
This post was edited on 11/15/20 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 11/15/20 at 3:40 pm to KingOfTheWorld
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My kids live there. Stay out of north Huntsville. Many folks live in Hampton Cove area (over the mountain) and Jones Valley around Grissom High School. West of town toward Madison is booming. Downtown historic district is nice too.
I keep reading stay out of North Huntsville. Where do you consider North Huntsville? And why should it be avoided? I’m planning on moving there next summer and I know nothing about the area. Just looking at it on a map I’d Have picked a spot as close to the foot of the mountains on the north east side of town near a land trust trail head. Is that a bad move?
Posted on 11/15/20 at 3:54 pm to Alfie Solomons
I prefer the eastern (mountains) side over western Madison Co. It's more scenic.
This post was edited on 11/15/20 at 3:57 pm
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