[PortCity]

You know what I take that back I can speak for the state as a whole.The entire state has culture evem though it may vary between regions but we have culture and there is nothing generic about it.It is authentic !!

[writerwife]

You had better like the heat. The summers are very hot and humid.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by writerwife

You had better like the heat. The summers are very hot and humid.

Personally, I think the winters are worse than the summers, though I've only been in AL two years. At least in summer people are out swimming, playing golf, cycling, mowing their lawns, etc. This past winter was pretty bad (according to the locals). Cloudy and rainy just about every day.

[Bluesmama]

Originally Posted by Charles

Jobs
Good schools
No traffic
Friendly people

Sounds almost like the perfect place.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by Charles

Personally, I think the winters are worse than the summers, though I've only been in AL two years. At least in summer people are out swimming, playing golf, cycling, mowing their lawns, etc. This past winter was pretty bad (according to the locals). Cloudy and rainy just about every day.

I think our winters are perfect (at least in south AL), cold enough to feel like winter but not so cold that you're forced to stay inside.

And yeah, this past winter was wetter than normal.

[chj]

Originally Posted by Charles

Personally, I think the winters are worse than the summers, though I've only been in AL two years. At least in summer people are out swimming, playing golf, cycling, mowing their lawns, etc. This past winter was pretty bad (according to the locals). Cloudy and rainy just about every day.

I hate alabama's summers. If I could I would go north for the summer and stay in alabama for the winter.

[marmac]

This Minnesotan might just start doing that in the near future ( Alabama for Nov-April and Minnesota May-Oct )

[writerwife]

Originally Posted by Charles

Personally, I think the winters are worse than the summers, though I've only been in AL two years. At least in summer people are out swimming, playing golf, cycling, mowing their lawns, etc. This past winter was pretty bad (according to the locals). Cloudy and rainy just about every day.

Well, the winters aren't much better for sure. I do miss a good, hearty, winter (I then visit my daughter in MN). Winters are gray and muddy for the most part (here in N. Ala). Occasionally there is a good snow (Maybe once every 10 yrs) but usually it's ice. But...I'll take the winter over the summer any day. I really cannot take the heat or the bugs.
Taking a walk thru the woods in the summer is risky. It is very snaky and full of ticks. Most of the time, the woods aren't like where I grew up...nice to walk thru... down here it's full of underbrush and not so easy to walk through.
This past winter was actually colder than usual (or at least, for a longer duration) and last summer was one of the mildest ones I've experienced here in about 30 yrs.

However, having said all of that, I am now an assimilated southerner. My values have changed since those of my childhood having grown up a few mere miles from the peoples republic of Massachusetts and I'm sure it's a combination of aging and my surroundings (I was here before the big influx of yanks) and I wouldn't change that for anything.
To live in a city in Alabama is a very different experience than living in rural Alabama (particularly for someone from up north or the west coast). The charm of understanding what a "hose pipe" is, or what a warstusus (Wasp) is ...is lost in the cities. But anywhere, rural or city...can you get a coke. A 7up coke, a Dr. Pepper coke, an orange coke...and the list goes on. lol.

The Alabama coast would be a very different experience from being in the mountainous northern regions.

I expect that it doesn't take as much getting used to as it once did some years back. The world has gotten smaller.

I would love to take the New England weather and bring it here.

[mimpdaddy]

Originally Posted by writerwife

Well, the winters aren't much better for sure. I do miss a good, hearty, winter (I then visit my daughter in MN). Winters are gray and muddy for the most part (here in N. Ala). Occasionally there is a good snow (Maybe once every 10 yrs) but usually it's ice. But...I'll take the winter over the summer any day. I really cannot take the heat or the bugs.
Taking a walk thru the woods in the summer is risky. It is very snaky and full of ticks. Most of the time, the woods aren't like where I grew up...nice to walk thru... down here it's full of underbrush and not so easy to walk through.
This past winter was actually colder than usual (or at least, for a longer duration) and last summer was one of the mildest ones I've experienced here in about 30 yrs.

However, having said all of that, I am now an assimilated southerner. My values have changed since those of my childhood having grown up a few mere miles from the peoples republic of Massachusetts and I'm sure it's a combination of aging and my surroundings (I was here before the big influx of yanks) and I wouldn't change that for anything.
To live in a city in Alabama is a very different experience than living in rural Alabama (particularly for someone from up north or the west coast). The charm of understanding what a "hose pipe" is, or what a warstusus (Wasp) is ...is lost in the cities. But anywhere, rural or city...can you get a coke. A 7up coke, a Dr. Pepper coke, an orange coke...and the list goes on. lol.

The Alabama coast would be a very different experience from being in the mountainous northern regions.

I expect that it doesn't take as much getting used to as it once did some years back. The world has gotten smaller.

I would love to take the New England weather and bring it here.

Winters are cold here in Huntsville. I grew up in south-central Alabama and I have never experience a winter like the most recent one. Northern Alabama has the worst of Alabama's winters. I spent time chicago and I love the winters there, I feel like if it's going to get really cold, why not snow(enough to stay).

[Azalea City Man]

I can speak for weather in coastal Alabama. Fall and winter are amazing. Spring is nice, although extremely short. Summers are insane.