$24k for rush at Alabama??!!

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Some people don't seem to realize why some areas, like AL, are super cheap and why other areas are super expensive.

Living in a cheap city with a public education system in the bottom 10 is nothing to brag about.

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Alabama has a 76% acceptance rate, lol.

Except for the small cohort of NMF kids who take their free ride, these are not brain trusts. Of course they're headed for southern 'burbs, in states that depend on blue-state largesse for their survival. Housing is cheap due to far lower demand to live there.

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The Greek system in the SEC, particularly in the Deep South states, is one of the most lucrative networks you can plug into. Joining a top-tier sorority at Alabama puts you at the front of the line to date and potentially marry the fraternity men who will be running the banks, law firms, and investment firms in 5-10 years in cities like Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, etc.

It's a swanky and rarefied world, and becoming a part of it often starts on bid night freshman year.

But why would anyone want to live in these cities?

The inability for anyone to admit that areas of the South are nice is kind of mind boggling. I live in DC and love it. But Charlotte, Atlanta, Huntsville, the research triangle, Nashville are just as good if not better. Beautiful homes, incredible shopping and restaurants, thriving and diverse culturally (esp. Atlanta), burgeoning industries across the board - govt to tech to finance to creative, and some have really strong academic medical centers as well. Artistically, there are still pockets of affordability that are attracting creative types and creative industry.
I can't even buy deodorant at CVS without getting "let into" the shelves. Quality of life here has dropped pretty dramatically in the past twenty years.
Take the blinders off and put any of these cities up against a dying NE or Mid-Atlantic city (I'm sorry Baltimore) and you can see that there is a clear set of winners. The SE is trending with the young people and with industry. You like to remind the South that they lost the Confederate war, which is true, and they should stop celebrating. Well, I could say the same for the small minded, NE, liberal intellectual elites. Your moment is over.

They voted in a moron that literally tried to change scientific data with a sharpie. That is really disturbing and backwards. anti-science fools.

DP. Not in the cities, they didn’t. At least not in Charlotte, Atlanta or Nashville. And at least some of your neighbors also voted for the moron.

Enjoy. I have spent plenty of time in Florida and I don't want to raise my family down in the south. But you go ahead.

It’s fine if you don’t. People have different preferences and that’s ok. More than ok, it’s necessary. We can’t all live in one place.

But just know that making wide sweeping generalizations about everyone who lives in a pretty large swath of the country makes you sound every bit of the provincial, close-minded individual that you likely assume southerners are.

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Anonymous wrote:People who have never lived in the South might snicker at this, but this is a very smart investment, certainly a better one than spending $50k a year for a private or out of state school outside of the T30 or so.

The Greek system in the SEC, particularly in the Deep South states, is one of the most lucrative networks you can plug into. Joining a top-tier sorority at Alabama puts you at the front of the line to date and potentially marry the fraternity men who will be running the banks, law firms, and investment firms in 5-10 years in cities like Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, etc.

Just take a drive from one of those cities to 30A one Friday afternoon. You'll find yourself in a caravan of Bimmers and Cybertrucks occupied by young, attractive, successful couples and their well-behaved children. These were the fraternity men and sorority dimes of top-tier SEC houses in the 2010s, and the kids will likely pledge the same house in the 2030s.

It's a swanky and rarefied world, and becoming a part of it often starts on bid night freshman year.

Cybertrucks are not swanky.

And it’s spelled Beemer.

down there its pronounced bimmer

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You are describing such a small and inconsequential life. The richest person in all of Alabama doesn’t even make the top 1000 in the US…there are literally 20 kids younger than 30 from top 20 schools that are worth more than that guy and he’s the richest.

Why would someone want to go to Alabama, go through all this just to end up at the “best investment firm in Mobile, Birmingham or Montgomery” when they could pick any number of schools and end up at Goldman or Blackstone or any number of firms in NYC that are literally a 1000x bigger.

Lol, as a born and raised 7th generation Alabamian, a 4th generation Ivy League graduate, a person who has lived all over the United States (Boston, New York, Chicago), has worked on Wall Street, and who now chooses to live again in Birmingham (yes, Mountain Brook) where I was born, I am always amused to see Yankees and morons talking so much bullshit smack about this state I dearly love.

Go ahead, think whatever nonsense you want about the good life in the Deep South. By all means, ignore the hordes of Northerners flooding down here every year. You don’t know what you’re missing. And going to an SEC school? Yes, you’re right, it only leads to dead end jobs like being the CEO of the world’s most valuable company.

As we say down here, “Well bless your heart.”

Jensen did not go to an SEC school.

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Anonymous wrote:What are we doing here?? Insanity.

https://people.com/how-much-it-really-costs-to-participate-in-bama-rush-11789705

There is a reason Alabama ranks at the bottom of education

Anyone who sends a kid there is not bright.

+1. American priorities. So dumb