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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in Alabama for several years as an adult.

The cost of living is amazing. I would have stayed but the work opportunities weren’t great, and I can’t stand the evangelical-Trump
Cult and general racism. Social circles are still very closed because there just aren’t a lot of people living there who didn’t grow up there and while they’ll be very nice to you, you are never really included and trusted to be more than surface level friendship. Their lives very much revolve around church, relatives, and friends from college. Who you are related to and where you go to church matters more than anything . It does not even matter if you’re rich or NE Blueblood.  It will be harder to make deep friendships because you are not “from there”. The need to conform was extremely hard for me to understand, impossible for me to embrace, and made assimilation difficult.

The racism is awful and the crime was bad. It’s the only place I’ve lived where in a UMC neighborhood, we had stray bullets hit a house.  The gorgeous, historic neighborhoods are dying because people are tired of being burglarized and robbed. We narrowly avoided an attempted robbery ourselves in our neighborhood of homes that would be the equivalent of $1.8 million in the DC suburbs.

It was hard to find doctors who either took your insurance or were taking new patients.

I understand why people who have always lived there love it. But I can see why people who grew up elsewhere don’t like it. While I was there, I heard of some couples who moved there with high hopes for retirement since it seemed like a nice city with a great cost of living. They left in less than two years. 
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All if this is accurate, but things can and will change if/when jobs come…because new people will follow. You need urban areas to become more transient in order for new ideas to fuel progress. It’s happening in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, and it can happen elsewhere (albeit on a smaller scale). [/quote]

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