re: Everyone is moving to SEC Country

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Baldwin County is larger in size than Delaware. As crime gets worse in Mobile,
the population empties into Baldwin County as well as Yankee transplants. The infrastructure is way behind and local governments are in the pockets of developers. Once the family obligations are over, we are leaving.

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Delaware is 2,489 sq miles (of land area) while Baldwin County is 1,590 sq miles (of land area). Did you mean to say Baldwin Co is larger than Rhode Island instead? It is larger than Rhode Island btw but nearly 900 sq miles smaller than Delaware.

A relatively small part of Baldwin's growth is people moving in from Mobile but the vast majority of the growth is from outside the area, the majority being retirees especially from other parts of Alabama as well as retirees and families from Mississippi and Louisiana and even a few from the Atlanta area as well. There are also a lot of retirees from Midwest Rust Belt states like Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Minnesota moving to the area.

Personally speaking, most friends and acquaintances from my home town in west central Alabama (which sadly is dying btw) whose parents are retiring mostly retire to either Baldwin County, the Auburn/Opelika area, or the Tuscaloosa area in that order by numbers of people. The remaining few leaving my hometown are retiring or moving to either a lake house on Lake Martin or to the Florida panhandle (Destin/30 A area)

Living in Fairhope I've met quite a few people who have moved there in the last 5 to 10 years from Mississippi, Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and even a wealthy couple (wife originally from England and husband originally from Florida) who lived for years in both South Florida and California who love the laid back smaller town feel of the area.

I agree that local governments on the Eastern Shore are way too beholden to developers and the infrastructure (especially roads) aren't keeping up with the growth. There's still a ton of undeveloped land available in Baldwin County for growth but it will require the cities of Daphne, Fairhope, Spanish Fort, and Foley and eventually the cities of Loxley, Robertsdale, Summerdale, Elberta, etc to build new schools, expand roads, etc and most importantly have smart, well thought out master plans for growth to keep up to avoid the entire county becoming a hodge podge of random subdivisions with serious traffic issues

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We like to say gfy to extra special dumbasses such as yourself when you're passing through.

Oh and Lake Murray, Jocasse, Kiawah, Lake Thurmond, Pawleys Island, Fripp Island, John's Island, Sea Brook, Edisto, Rock Hill, Lexington, Greenville, Santee, Aiken, Little Creek, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., .... and so on and so forth and the list goes on and on and on you ignorant jealous pathetic little bitch.

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I don't care for the SC Coast (lived in Charleston for nearly 2 years) or Columbia BUT the upstate is FANTASTIC and the North Augusta / Aiken area is equally fantastic. Beaufort is alright but its fast becoming Hilton Head. Folks have discovered South Carolina for certain. Good bad or indifferent Most of South Carolina is a great place to call home...even the coast is great for most people....I did not care for the yankees but that's just me....I'd feel the same way about south Florida if the fishing wasn't so damned good.

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STL would be another Chicago if that were the case.

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I would hate to be a top 5 city nationally /s

Another thing the dumb dumbs did was prioritize the steamboat business which was in decline over the railroads. Bold moves, Cotton !

Weird brag. These are states I’ll avoid, so thank you for pointing them out for us.

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Florida’s shift to the right is almost entirely from Fed up Northerners who moved South.

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Isn’t it ironic that everyone on this forum is okay with Florida shifting hard right over the years bc people are moving there, but it’s okay bc they vote red. Nobody here is bitching about it either …. Weird.

55,000 of those 56,000 in Alabama moved to Baldwin County. Foley, Gulf Shores. We have a rental house in Foley. I barely recognize it from 5 years ago. DR Horton building houses as fast they can, usually a couple of days per.

Who?.. There is more OU fans in Texas than there is TCU, Texas Tech or Baylor fans.

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Michigan might be the worst run State over the last 50 years. Texas and Michigan had the same population in 1960. TodayTexas has 3x their population of 30,000,000.

Unbelievable Blue mismanagement.

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Surprisingly beautiful state, though. It's a shame.

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FL and MI basically had the same population in 1980 (9 million). Now FL is over 21 million and MI is only around 10 million.

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That's about when Michigan started to fall apart. Similarly with Pennsylvania recently and Ohio before it.

I don't think it's all weather. I'd rather be up in the Michigan lakes in July than Florida, and Florida probably wouldn't be my first choice for winter since it doesn't even get cool most of the time.

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Who?.. There is more OU fans in Texas than there is TCU, Texas Tech or Baylor fans.

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Big 12’s UCF has more students than UF, FSU, and Miami.

Texas Tech has more peeps than UTA.

Oklahoma and Oklahoma St l, eh both have similar amounts so I split the state for both sec and big 12.

Arizona is big 12 country.

Everybody is moving to big 12 country.