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re: Arkansas vs Gulf Coast MS
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:40 pm to _Hurricane_
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:40 pm to _Hurricane_
NWA is awesome if you like the outdoors. The bottom half of Arkansas is similar to north La. The gulf coast of Mississippi is much nicer than the rest of Mississippi. So do you prefer hills, lakes and tornados or beaches, saltwater and hurricanes?
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:41 pm to sta4ever
NW Arkansas/SW Missouri vs East of Mobile bay gulf coast is a better debate
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:42 pm to armsdealer
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Little rock is just as shitty as BR. NW Arkansas is nicer than MS gulf coast, I don't do snow+mountains so I would prefer MS gulf coast. A summer in the Ozarks is amazing.
LR is much better than BR. Its not even close.
Like 90% of the crime in Little Rock is contained south of 630.
The suburbs are much better, Maumelle, Bryant, Benton, Cabot > Denham, Prarieville, Central, Port Allen
Plus they passed the Learns act. Allows for public school choice or a stipend regardless of income to use towards private school education
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:48 pm to WaydownSouth
Little Rock sits right where the state starts getting pretty as you move SE to NW. It’s a decent metro.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:05 pm to beaverfever
Hot Springs is a cool place to visit as well.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:13 pm to RohanGonzales
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Baldwin COunty AL better than both
This I travel to OS and the MS Gulf Coast daily and live in Baldwin Co… without question the MS Gulf Coast is an absolute shite hole by comparison. One simple test…travel down 90 between Biloxi and Pascagoula, you’ll see 1000 homeless, nary a one in Daphne or Fairhope.
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 10:14 pm
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:24 pm to specchaser
Grew up and lived around Gulfport for the first 25ish years of my life.
Have lived in MO for the last 8 or so and travel throughout northern Arkansas a ton for work.
This is accurate:
Also, do you want four seasons or summer and Christmas?
There are a lot of the rural Ozarks that still look and feel like it's the 1980's, which I like. The Coast feels like a rat race.
Have lived in MO for the last 8 or so and travel throughout northern Arkansas a ton for work.
This is accurate:
quote:
do you prefer hills, lakes and tornados or beaches, saltwater and hurricanes?
Also, do you want four seasons or summer and Christmas?
There are a lot of the rural Ozarks that still look and feel like it's the 1980's, which I like. The Coast feels like a rat race.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:26 pm to notiger1997
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But can we even consider what Arkansas has as mountains?
About as much as you can consider the ms coast "beaches"
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:29 pm to _Hurricane_
quote:Ocean Springs has a cute area for a few blocks, but it isn't much.
I’d choose Ocean Springs, MS over anything in Arkansas
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:31 pm to SmokeOnTheBayou
Apples and oranges. And I’ve spent much time in both.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:32 pm to Jake88
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Ocean Springs has a cute area for a few blocks, but it isn't much.
I do really enjoy Ocean Springs, but that is correct. Its like 2-3 blocks of cool little stuff.
Hot Springs wins the battle of the Springs.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:37 pm to Jake88
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Ocean Springs has a cute area for a few blocks, but it isn't much.
My grandma was from Ocean Springs, I get they've made the downtown nice but the place seems overrated to me.
Tatonut is tGOAT though.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:56 pm to SmokeOnTheBayou
Google map Mountain View AR and draw a circle out about 60 miles and anywhere within that circle is absolutely HOE. Beautiful country, great people and a fantastic area to visit. You can't expand the circle any further even though you miss some fantastic places because it would take in Little Rock and Memphs....sorry.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:03 pm to notiger1997
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But can we even consider what Arkansas has as mountains?
To be fair, can we consider what the MS Gulf Coast has as beaches?
Posted on 2/5/26 at 5:34 am to SmokeOnTheBayou
I too had your perspective of Arkansas a couple of years ago. My wife (no pics) and I went on a three week R/V trip to six spots across Arkansas. I was blown away by the diverse geography and the natural beauty. Believe it or not, one nice aspect was that the vast majority of the towns you go thru are small. It is almost like going back in time to the 1960s or 1970s. A very enjoyable experience.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 5:42 am to UltimaParadox
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NW Arkansas
Cities are trash but when you get to the county, it's a whole new world of goodness NW Arkansas. That's where the real folks live.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 5:44 am to SmokeOnTheBayou
It amazes me how clueless people from SLA are about the rest of the world. This thread is a perfect example.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 6:23 am to MobileJosh
I will take Winters in on the MS Gulf Coast and Summers in the Ozarks
Posted on 2/5/26 at 6:33 am to Shreve Perry
Except you don’t have to worry about a hurricane wiping out your entire existence
Posted on 2/5/26 at 6:40 am to SmokeOnTheBayou
Arkansas
When we were teenagers we took a canoe and a friend of mine dad's 9.8hp Mercury Tiller Outboard on it to the Buffalo River.
All the losers could only go down river but we were going both directions drankin, laughing and cutting up.
When we got done the rocks had grinded the prop to nothing and his dad put foots in asses, good times
When we were teenagers we took a canoe and a friend of mine dad's 9.8hp Mercury Tiller Outboard on it to the Buffalo River.
All the losers could only go down river but we were going both directions drankin, laughing and cutting up.
When we got done the rocks had grinded the prop to nothing and his dad put foots in asses, good times
This post was edited on 2/5/26 at 6:42 am
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