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Alabama......
pwillie
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Sweet Home, though it is not my home, it does have Locust Fork, and that makes up for a lot.
Awwww....you are too sweet!
I worry one day people will figure out how really nice Alabama is....the white sugar sand beaches, waterfalls, large spacious parks with hiking trails, kayaking, bike trails, every kind of racing known to man for you speed freaks, shopping areas with top name outlets at prices WAY cheaper than in the "gouge me" states without the gun fire in the background, people that wave and make eye contact with you and SMILE because 90% of the populous are NICE people. I'd rather NOT be a tourist area and keep all of this to ourselves.
The people I meet at work are all pretty nice to but then they are pretty much all tourist or here on business. The only thing I hate about them is how they put their dirty dishes in the plastic tub. They lay down a plate and then put their silverware on top of the plate and then the repetition continues. [:D][:D]
I worry one day people will figure out how really nice Alabama is....the white sugar sand beaches, waterfalls, large spacious parks with hiking trails, kayaking, bike trails, every kind of racing known to man for you speed freaks, shopping areas with top name outlets at prices WAY cheaper than in the "gouge me" states without the gun fire in the background, people that wave and make eye contact with you and SMILE because 90% of the populous are NICE people. I'd rather NOT be a tourist area and keep all of this to ourselves.
But it does have one thing I cannot live with. Humidity.
I worry one day people will figure out how really nice Alabama is....the white sugar sand beaches, waterfalls, large spacious parks with hiking trails, kayaking, bike trails, every kind of racing known to man for you speed freaks, shopping areas with top name outlets at prices WAY cheaper than in the "gouge me" states without the gun fire in the background, people that wave and make eye contact with you and SMILE because 90% of the populous are NICE people. I'd rather NOT be a tourist area and keep all of this to ourselves.
Stop telling them. HUSH.
Fort Morgan is still the Gulf Shores I enjoyed as a young boy in the 60's. The yankees have driven the prices up to STUPID levels though. Houses on my parents street in Fairhope now average over $1.5 mil...
The yankees have driven the prices up to STUPID levels though. Houses on my parents street in Fairhope now average over $1.5 mil...
The first time I visited Destin, FL was in 1962, actually a section just east of Destin they called Emerald Beach, there was only an RV park and a fishing pier on that stretch of beach for as far as you could see. No motels or houses any where. I went with my Uncle on a fishing trip and we stayed in a travel trailer at that RV park. He had read about it and we couldn't believe how white the sand was and how clear the water was. It was the most beautiful beach I've ever been on even to this day.
Land was cheap. The government was practically giving land away at $14 an acre in order to get people to homestead the area.
The next time I went back was in the late 80s over 25 years later and I didn't recognize the place it was so built up. The cheapest piece of property I could find that was near that area was at Blue Mountain Beach and it was $85,000 for a postage stamp size piece of property across the road from the beach. I would bet that same piece of property has more than tripled since then.
I wish I had spent the approx. $300 bucks I paid for a motorcycle that summer of 1962 on land instead of the motorcycle. I could have bought over 21 acres of land for that price. [:0] Of course for homesteading you have to live on the land for a period of time and back then there were very few roads and no utilities so it wasn't something people were beating a path to the panhandle for.