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re: Depressing Small Southern Cities
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:39 pm to Professor Boudin
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:39 pm to Professor Boudin
quote:
Bastrop, LA
Closure of the paper mill killed that town.
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:45 pm to Midtiger farm
Mine appraised in 2017 for $4,100/ac and this is in northern morehouse parish.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:46 pm to KemoSabe65
Baker Louisiana is pathetic
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:52 pm to stickly
quote:
you, but I bet that you have some resources that make your ability to be a farmer easier/simpler/more efficient than some dude that has 30 acres in BFE. Stop acting like your reality is the universal truth. It's disingenuous.
I’m disingenuous? You’re the one who came in here stating bs about factory farming, family farms going away , farmland price decreases being the cause of rural towns dying, and someone farming 1000 acres with no employees
Are farms way more efficient now? Yes
Family farms aren’t going away - the family is just farming more acres now
Most Farmland in good areas is in production and the price of it has been on the increase
Many rural towns are dying but in most of America it has no correlation with the price of land around that town
Farmers still have plenty of employees especially in the south, they just have to get them from another country and it’s not cheap labor either
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:54 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I really haven't traveled the south that extensively but Montgomery was remarkably depressing. I lived there for a year. I've moved a lot and usually find things to like about most places... but holy shite Montgomery sucks balls. Not a single redeeming quality.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:12 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
If you think Athens is depressing here's a few others around Alabama for you to check out:
Wadley
Ranburne
Woodland
Sweet Water
Uniontown
Repton
Linden
Vinemont
Brewton
Etc, etc, etc
Wadley
Ranburne
Woodland
Sweet Water
Uniontown
Repton
Linden
Vinemont
Brewton
Etc, etc, etc
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:15 pm to Midtiger farm
quote:
Farmers still have plenty of employees especially in the south, they just have to get them from another country and it’s not cheap labor either
If there was a better argument to substantiate my point I couldn’t have found it. Thanks for proving to everyone that small farming is dead.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:29 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:
Orange blows but at least Beaumont has the plants. Beaumont is basically lake Charles without the casinos. Not exactly heaven but you can find work there
Yeah, in that area I'd say that Port Arthur fits the criteria more than Beaumont or even Orange.
Downtown Port Arthur:
Then:
Now:
Sad.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:33 pm to kingbob
I have to agree with you about Donaldsonville. I once thought that D'ville was the welfare capitol of Louisiana. Many of the people over there are content receiving welfare.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:38 pm to Picayuner
quote:
It's all over the country. Old school buildings with great character but all the factories moved to China in the last 40 years. You can thank your Republican and Democratic politicians that sold us out for cheap labor for their K-street pals. I tell you what movement would get ME into the streets. The forensic accounting of every politician over the last 40 years, complete investigation into money received and the corporations that paid them off. The family members that recieved jobs and professors that recieve "grants" from foreign countries. It's enough to make you puke !
Well said. . .
On the smaller town side, I would add all the sweetheart deals to make sure local gentry get to sell their property to any prospective new business. So, any green space inside the city limits is continually bulldozed for cheap chain businesses while all the previous development is left to become a run down eyesore since this creates 2 or 3 times more retail space than the town actually needs.
Nothing but quick money grab for a few with no foresight to the town's future.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:50 pm to SCLibertarian
quote:
Gaffney, SC
Union SC says hold my beer.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:53 pm to stickly
quote:
If there was a better argument to substantiate my point I couldn’t have found it. Thanks for proving to everyone that small farming is dead.
What do you consider small? The avg farm size in the US is 500ac and what if Americans were willing to do those farm jobs and all the money stayed in the local economy instead of being shipped to Mexico or South Africa
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:54 pm to HempHead
Exactly! My In Laws Back in the day lived in Midfield and it used to be a fine area.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:58 pm to Jiggy Moondust
quote:ive had to travel to both of these fine metropolis for work in the last couple of years.
Gaffney, SC
Union SC says hold my beer.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there are some towns alone the SC, NC border up in the sand hills area that are completely lost to time. I swear I ran into several blockbuster movie rental stores that were thriving. I didn’t know they existed past the late 90s.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:06 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Was driving back on a road trip today with my daughters. We were passing through Pine Bluff, Arkansas right around lunch time and decided to find a good BBQ joint. Daughter found one online; none of us knowing anything about the area.
While we were driving there, we saw a lot of abandoned buildings and such around the immediate area and the place looked sketchy, so we decided to scratch that place. I got the bright idea that we should head to downtown Pine Bluff and find a restaurant that would be serving all the downtown workers. What a mistake that was! What was supposedly "downtown" was just a few buildings left, quite a few RUINS of buildings; really not much of a downtown at all with NO ONE visible.
The whole place was very depressing to see.
While we were driving there, we saw a lot of abandoned buildings and such around the immediate area and the place looked sketchy, so we decided to scratch that place. I got the bright idea that we should head to downtown Pine Bluff and find a restaurant that would be serving all the downtown workers. What a mistake that was! What was supposedly "downtown" was just a few buildings left, quite a few RUINS of buildings; really not much of a downtown at all with NO ONE visible.
The whole place was very depressing to see.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:28 pm to HempHead
quote:
There are no nice places south of Birmingham/Tuscaloosa except for Baldwin and Mobile Counties.
You know better than this friend. A cabin on the cahaba river surrounded by 100 year old live oaks and hickory trees, well that sounds nice to me.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:30 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Coming back
Covid and work from home is working
Covid and work from home is working
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:33 pm to BowlJackson
I mean Athens is at least developed. You just named a bunch of communities out in the boonies with a population less than 8k. Uniontown is a 1A high school and a bunch of catfish farms and that’s all it ever has been. Any town that size is going to be depressing
You taking shite on Brewton but you wouldn’t have started at TR Miller
You taking shite on Brewton but you wouldn’t have started at TR Miller
This post was edited on 6/22/20 at 11:35 pm
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:34 pm to UCFACTS4LIFE
quote:
Every town in marshall county is a shithole except for Arab
Uh, Guntersville? Might be the prettiest lake in the state with a cool state park and good restaurants.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:38 pm to BowlJackson
the answer to this question for Alabama has to be any of the small cities in center and southwest Alabama, south of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.
Demopolis
Uniontown
Linden
Livingston
Selma
York
The list goes on. That part of the state might as well be third world. I lived in Linden for a summer while I worked in Demopolis. The levels of poverty and sadness were off the chart.
Demopolis
Uniontown
Linden
Livingston
Selma
York
The list goes on. That part of the state might as well be third world. I lived in Linden for a summer while I worked in Demopolis. The levels of poverty and sadness were off the chart.
This post was edited on 6/22/20 at 11:39 pm
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