Huntsville ranks 15th for the Nation's Fastest Growing City! (Birmingham: how much, transfer)

[Sarges Dad]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

Huntsville is country and is kind of boring. What can we do to help change that because we always complain about how boring it is?

I do not want it to change. I left the suburbs if Chicago when I got out of High School in 1980....I did not like the changes I saw there. Huntsville and North Alabama is a decent place to raise a family. As far as what will happen if Obama hits Huntsville hard...Look back to Huntsville in 1980...NO JOBS.

[Keeper]

Originally Posted by Sarges Dad

I do not want it to change. I left the suburbs if Chicago when I got out of High School in 1980....I did not like the changes I saw there. Huntsville and North Alabama is a decent place to raise a family. As far as what will happen if Obama hits Huntsville hard...Look back to Huntsville in 1980...NO JOBS.

When they had a RIF in 1970.. many ppl lost their jobs and their homes. H'ville will never be Atlanta 'thank goodness'.

Check out Mobile that area is booming now the new steel plant is hiring and a new call center coming to town

[A&M Bulldawg]

Actually Huntsville's metro is growing faster than Atlanta's metro. Huntsville gains about 10,000 people annually, while, last year, Atlanta gained about 115,000 people. Huntsville grew about 2.58% while Atlanta grew about 2.1%.

Originally Posted by Sarges Dad

I do not want it to change. I left the suburbs if Chicago when I got out of High School in 1980....I did not like the changes I saw there. Huntsville and North Alabama is a decent place to raise a family. As far as what will happen if Obama hits Huntsville hard...Look back to Huntsville in 1980...NO JOBS.

Why don't you want Huntsville to become a fun place? This is why Alabama is the way that it is because its people hate to see change. People, that's the only way Huntsville is going to progress, if it changes. You don't stay a baby forever; someday you have to change into an adult, although your parnets don't want you to. Look at the other thousands of people who want Huntsville to become a fun place to live, play, and work. Huntsville needs its younger population to keep the city young. It's alright if Huntsville holds on to its country roots, but being country and boring is a big NONO! Huntsville needs to be one or the other or both! Please encourage and want change for a city that has a big future.

[friday13]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

People, that's the only way Huntsville is going to progress, if it changes. You don't stay a baby forever; someday you have to change into an adult,

yep, and then you die.

[djmaxwell]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

Look at the other thousands of people who want Huntsville to become a fun place to live, play, and work.

Huntsville already is a fun place to live, play, and work. Why ruin it?

[A&M Bulldawg]

Originally Posted by djmaxwell

Huntsville already is a fun place to live, play, and work. Why ruin it?

See I don't know when you guys are being funny! Alot of us complain that Huntsville is boring. People need to "ruin" it and make it a fun place. Huntsville didn't gain 5,000+ people for nothing, besides work and a good lifestyle!

[djmaxwell]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

See I don't know when you guys are being funny! Alot of us complain that Huntsville is boring. People need to "ruin" it and make it a fun place. Huntsville didn't gain 5,000+ people for nothing, besides work and a good lifestyle!

I'm not being funny. Maybe the people who complain need to move on. I moved here from a big city because of what it offers. I don't want it to be anything other than what it is. I didn't move to Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham, etc. I moved to Huntsville. If it doesn't have what you want then find some place that does. You will never make Hunstville some other city.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

make it a fun place.

What might be three or four things that you think could be added to make it a fun place? (Besides more strip joints and swingers clubs.)

[cpg35223]

I think it's great that Huntsville is enjoying growth. It's a cool town, and I spend time there doing business. You should enjoy it.

That being said, I think a worry among Huntsville residents should be the lack of dimension to the growth. Because Huntsville, despite its growth, remains a government town. If there are severe retrenchments in the military or the space program, then what happens?

The previous paragraph is NOT a slam. Being in Birmingham, I know that its dependence on the steel industry nearly destroyed the town in both the Great Depression and the late 70s. Only when a number of other industries emerged in Birmingham did it really start enjoying a stable economy, a fact that's represented in the overall income growth of the region and the population.

So my question is this. To perpetuate this growth, how can Huntsville attract a wider array of industry to ensure that it doesn't suffer badly in the face of government cutbacks?

[friday13]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

See I don't know when you guys are being funny! Alot of us complain that Huntsville is boring. People need to "ruin" it and make it a fun place. Huntsville didn't gain 5,000+ people for nothing, besides work and a good lifestyle!

You have to understand once and for all you cannot have it all! Be happy with what you have, and work with what you have.

When my kids want a zoo fix, we go to Nasville, Birmingham, Chattannooga (although a sorryful compared to first two), that should do it for a while.

Aquarium? Done. Chattannooga, Atlanta.

Children's museum? Done, too. Sci-quest, Chattannooga, Birmingham.

Space&Rocket. Hsv has it.

Riverboat? Check. Southern Belle Chattannooga.

State parks and nature reserves. Quite a few around: Cathedral Caverns, Noccalula Falls, Wheeler, Monte Sano, Hays, Green Mtn, Rainbow Mtn.

Art scene? Present.

Circus? yes, it's still coming to town.

Water fun? Point Mallard.

Fishing, hunting? Aplenty.

Shopping and Dining? Upscale, downscale, midscale- got that too.

Movie theaters, Theater theaters? can't say inexistent.

Parks, playgrounds, sports courts and grounds, pools- not too shabby.

(Night) clubs and bars? How many is enough for you?

What else you want that you cannot find within a reasonable driving distance (Atlanta, Brimingham, Nashville)? Oceanview, Smithsonian, Yankees Stadium, Statue of Liberty, Philly Museum of Art, Disneyland, Graceland, Neverland?
As I said you cannot have it all, or at the scale others have it, because Huntsville is not NY, Chicago, LA, Houston, Miami etc.
So stop ruining for the rest of us with daily whining and sense of cultural and entertainment "VOID" you put out there relentlessly. It won't cut, we're happy with what we have which is about enough.

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

Huntsville didn't gain 5,000+ people for nothing, besides work and a good lifestyle!

Basically it did, those people made a CHOICE: to leave behind LA, Chicago, Denver and come down and LIVE in BORING Huntsville. -Charles, back me up here. This kid is hopeless.