they're hillbillies wrote:
The obesity, racism, horrible weather, ugly landscape and third world economy isn't what makes Alabama such a nasty place. It is the overwhelming stupidity of the people. There is no reason at all to keep Alabama and the other welfare sucking, America hating, Jesus hating states in the Union. Get rid of them.
Wow! He said it, not me!
SweetHomeAlabama wrote:
How many states does the average LetsRunner hate? It never occurred to me to hate another state in my entire 87 years of life.
LRC has opened your eyes. Let the hatin' begin!
Crow-Magnon wrote:
SweetHomeAlabama wrote:
How many states does the average LetsRunner hate? It never occurred to me to hate another state in my entire 87 years of life.
LRC has opened your eyes. Let the hatin' begin!
It never occurred to me to hate another state until I moved to Alabama. I've lived in other southern states and liked them, but Alabama was awful in its own way. It's a beautiful place and we met some great people, but it's systematically screwed up from the top political offices on down to the local school board. It's like giving people the middle finger as often and in as many ways as possible has been written into the state constitution.
SweetHomeAlabama wrote:
How many states does the average LetsRunner hate? It never occurred to me to hate another state in my entire 87 years of life.
Hate is a strong word. I don't "hate" any state. There are just some I won't ever live in voluntarily. This thread is titled "Why you should never live in Alabama". Well, some people here have given their reasons. Mine is centered around too much racism. Unfortunately Alabama doesn't have a good track record there and so, I'm not about to want to live there. Anyone who defends Alabama with regard to racism just doesn't believe racism exists anywhere. Unfortunately it exists everywhere, but there are places in this country where people are not progressing as quickly as they should, and Alabama is one of those places.
Truth be told, my state of Ohio doesn't fare much better. Ohio does have more liberal safe havens though than Alabama does, but I'm not about to defend Ohio and I do not plan to retire here.
KudzuRunner wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
I see you have a soft spot for Alabama. That happens sometimes. Did you ever live there? Just curious. I won't excoriate you no matter what you say there. I agree that Gulf Shores is a nice place to take a vacation. HOWEVER, as I said before, there are just too many racist redneck people with backwards thinking there for me to ever want to live there or spend much time there. Just too many hateful people...again, that doesn't mean they all are...just means too many are.
No, I've been living in the state just to the West for 19 years, and enjoying it mightily. As an ex-NYer, I'm quite familiar with life in both places--metro East Coast, Deep South--and I'm also well aware that many people who crack on the South not only haven't lived there but haven't even visited there. Those who do visit, in my view, are often surprised, and pleased. "The South" and "Alabama," as things, aren't just one thing. There are many micro-regions, many oases. Birmingham, too, has its bohos, its great restaurants, its weekend activities. Even a minute's worth of research will make this apparent:
Sure, there's a steep gradient once you leave the metro regions and head into the hills. Getting your ears blown out at Talladega isn't everybody's idea of a great time--although you'll suddenly understand what NASCAR is all about in a way that watching a race on TV doesn't begin to communicate.
As for the race thing, raised by one Af-Am poster: black people have been flooding back INTO the South for two or three decades now. Reverse migration is a major thing.
Asheville, NC is in the mountain South. Great town. I had a friend who taught for years at the U. of Montevallo, which is art of greater Birmingham. He ended up moving on, but life was sweet and he enjoyed it--and he was an Ivy grad with many metro tastes.
As for the "too many racist redneck people with backward thinking": sh-t, you can find that in south Boston, in Queens, in parts of Philly and Baltimore. I consider myself exquisitely attentive to overt manifestations of racism--not because I'm a SJW, just because I intensely dislike people who broadcast such attitudes. I've lived, worked, and traveled in the South with my mixed family (wife & son)--including half a dozen vacations in and through Alabama. If things were so horrendous down here, you would think we'd have to be constantly on guard, ready for the next slight. The truth is, we have never been overtly disrespected. Trust me, I'm looking for it! Hasn't happened.
So I'm skeptical of those who haven't lived in the Deep South and perhaps haven't ever set foot in Mississippi or Alabama telling me how bad things are. I know the statistics; statistics don't tell you much about the actual texture of day-to-day life. Nor does the news, which jumps on specific kinds of easily digestible stories, because they monetize well, and leaves the rest alone.
Ok. I appreciate the answer. People get defensive about where they live. I get that you don't live in Alabama, but you are in the deep south, so you are a bit defensive regionally. I understand.
Asheville, NC is a liberal haven in a conservative state, and I would absolutely consider retiring there. Even though in Georgia, I was once refused service because I was in a van that had Ohio license plates and the guy at the diner said they don't serve Yankees, I would absolutely live in Atlanta, but no where else in that state. I would never live in Alabama or your state or Arkansas or Texas. If push came to shove, I would consider living in Austin, TX, but that state has gone off the deep end lately politically, so right now it is a no.
wejo wrote:
I guy who emails me all the time complaining about threads we do and don't remove says there are too many threads about California now and we wouldn't leave up a thread about Alabama.
There was no reason to have 2 threads up on San Francisco being a terrible place so I removed one.
But I want him to feel welcome. Post away why you should never live in Alabama. We've got 52 weeks a year should we have a state each week? Then throw in DC and Puerto Rico?
Do we need a pro state thread too or should the pro and con threads be the same?
Post away, why no one should ever live in Alabama.
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I think the pro and con threads should be together. Pro Alabama: You'd have great college football teams.
Related to Alabama, I met a woman a few weeks ago. She said she was from Alabama and Georgia. I introduced her to someone else as being from Alabama and she said I should say Georgia. Like she was self conscious about saying she was from Alabama. I said she shouldn't be.
Isnt there already a thread on haiti? Just plug in Alabami and you have same results.
People think the south is racist only because they constantly prove it with they way they vote politically and the issues they support. When did NY or Mi finally get the rebel flag down? Hmm?
I lived there for 5 years, its a different world. Trapped in the 1950s. Last in everything I always say. Poverty, education, health, but first in conservative "values".
Any state that does not adopt the liberal critical race theory, white man shaming, trans/bi, liberal agenda is seen as racist/backwards by virtuous liberal northerners these days?
Two words y'all, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Checkmate.
I'm of the opinion that every state has livable cities/towns for your personal taste. I'm a democrat living in a liberal city in a red state, and I love it here.
People hating on red/blue states is comical. Try having an actual personality?
flyingfrog wrote:
Any state that does not adopt the liberal critical race theory, white man shaming, trans/bi, liberal agenda is seen as racist/backwards by virtuous liberal northerners these days?
That, and the fact that the deep south has a rich history of racism, poverty, poor health, and poor education. Other than that you are right, we are so bias. Maybe yall can get you some Virtu?
There is no amount of scorn or ridicule that is too much for California. The place is in rapid decline and quickly becoming like a 3rd world country.
In 25 years or so there will nothing left in California but the ultra rich and the homeless and the state government is completely to blame.
bigmig19 wrote:
That, and the fact that the deep south has a rich history of racism, poverty, poor health, and poor education. Other than that you are right, we are so bias. Maybe yall can get you some Virtu?
Yes, because the South was the only place where there was segregation, etc. Remind me again, what city did Jesse Owens have trouble finding a hotel that would let him stay in when he returned from Berlin?
Alabama was voted as having the friendliest, nicest people in America...
I live in an overwhelmingly liberal/artsy town in NM and there are more A-holes and nasty people in this place than any place I have ever lived, and I've lived all over country. Michigan, illinois,, Texas, Penn., Hawaii, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida.
Mods: please delete this thread
The quickest way to end this is:
If you live in Alabama you are probably poor and lower educated.
Meanwhile California is make more millionaires than any other state, with an economy that is building the high tech future.
No one wants to live in Alabama. You live there because your parents were poor. They live there because theirs were also.
You can't even get a U-Haul out of California, they're all taken...Mostly going to Texas, the land of the future...
Flagpole wrote:
SweetHomeAlabama wrote:
How many states does the average LetsRunner hate? It never occurred to me to hate another state in my entire 87 years of life.
Hate is a strong word. I don't "hate" any state. There are just some I won't ever live in voluntarily. This thread is titled "Why you should never live in Alabama". Well, some people here have given their reasons. Mine is centered around too much racism. Unfortunately Alabama doesn't have a good track record there and so, I'm not about to want to live there. Anyone who defends Alabama with regard to racism just doesn't believe racism exists anywhere. Unfortunately it exists everywhere, but there are places in this country where people are not progressing as quickly as they should, and Alabama is one of those places.
Truth be told, my state of Ohio doesn't fare much better. Ohio does have more liberal safe havens though than Alabama does, but I'm not about to defend Ohio and I do not plan to retire here.
You can tell it's a "liberal safe haven" because there's human sh*t everywhere and the fat chicks all have purple hair.
Liberals are morons wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
Hate is a strong word. I don't "hate" any state. There are just some I won't ever live in voluntarily. This thread is titled "Why you should never live in Alabama". Well, some people here have given their reasons. Mine is centered around too much racism. Unfortunately Alabama doesn't have a good track record there and so, I'm not about to want to live there. Anyone who defends Alabama with regard to racism just doesn't believe racism exists anywhere. Unfortunately it exists everywhere, but there are places in this country where people are not progressing as quickly as they should, and Alabama is one of those places.
Truth be told, my state of Ohio doesn't fare much better. Ohio does have more liberal safe havens though than Alabama does, but I'm not about to defend Ohio and I do not plan to retire here.
You can tell it's a "liberal safe haven" because there's human sh*t everywhere and the fat chicks all have purple hair.
Human sh*t everywhere? Um...ok. Fat chicks span the political spectrum though, brother.
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