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Old 11-23-2014, 09:32 AM
 
Location: Newington Connecticut
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We are a retired couple young at heart who want to get out of the snow and cold winters of CT. We love to eat out and hear great jazz. Looking for a condo with no stairs. We arent religious, won't be going to church. We definatley want to be in the south. How are the summer weathers? How many months is it hot and humid? Any info would be great!
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Old 11-23-2014, 02:01 PM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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I think you're going to LOVE it!
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Old 11-23-2014, 03:02 PM
 
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For jazz, New Orleans is just over an hour's drive from Biloxi. Typically the weather drops below 80 degrees at the beginning of October, with winter (January) average daily high temps around 60 degrees. From there temps begin rising back over 80 degrees in mid-May. (I like to go to the Coast the first week that temps rise above 70 degrees and that's usually April 1.) The super-hot period with 95-degree days (some weeks) usually kicks in in late July and runs through late-August.

Condos in Biloxi and Gulfport are a great deal. You can get in an extremely nice building with a water view (e.g. The Legacy, Beau View) for about $250k. There are many good restaurants on the Coast!

The quaint areas of the Coast are Ocean Springs, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Bay St. Louis and Waveland - all quite beautiful. In the middle are Biloxi and Gulfport which have a more city and commercial feel. Diamondhead is a city that started as a golf course community with its own yacht club and marina.

Depending on your price point, some of the nicest residential-oriented condos I've seen are called Pass Marianne...in the town of Pass Christian (pronounced using a French sound Pass "Chris-chan" or Pass "Chris-ti-anne". These condos are located near the Pass Christian marina and yacht club. This is a town of elegant seaside mansions.

I think of all those areas, I would recommend looking in the Pass Christian, Bay St Louis, Diamondhead region (the western coast) which is quieter, extremely picturesque, and a quick hour's drive to New Orleans.
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Old 11-23-2014, 03:55 PM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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I think you're going to LOVE it!
You usually hear that unless you're Catholic or Baptist, you won't fit in, in Biloxi. And it's true that a huge proportion of Mississippi Coast/South Louisiana folk are still pretty much like the fervor-filled devotees in Angel Heart. But I went to your profile page, and see that you're 'Agnostic/Atheist'. I think this designation will put you squarely within the third group who are happy on the Coast. And Beautiful Biloxi is very close to New Orleans, which has lots of non-religious folks, too!

In fact, the sort of over-the-top religion ( New Bethany | NOLA.com ) for which the region is famed ( Crazy Christian, Marguerite's Friends on Trading Spouses - YouTube ) ends up sending a fair number of people into varying forms of disbelief. These people fill the casinos, meander through Louisiana's and Florida's nearby nudist camps, and generally form a solid consumer base for various area entertainments and indulgences. You'll see them over lunch, exhibiting that damaged flair which comes from Histrionic Personality Disorder grounded in childhood abuse ( http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/na...anted=all&_r=0 ).

Summer lasts for five months, and the heat can can be problematic ten months of the year, depending on which 'front' is blowing through at that moment. There will be days in January, when you'll need air conditioning in the car. Humidity is significant every month except October. October through February are pretty close to perfect, weather-wise. It's easy to have flowers blooming year-round.

New Orleans has fabulous Jazz - real Dixieland/Hot Jazz, rather than insipid 'Smooth Jazz' - and is not far away. The casinos offer good food for cheap, and New Orleans is known for having fabulous food (at least by Midwestern standards). I see that on your profile page, you capitalized 'STRAIGHT'. Well, with a lot of military based there, and lots of enthusiastic Catholics and Baptists, you'll find lots of other people who capitalize 'STRAIGHT' (and who sometimes feel called-upon to enforce their worldview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Palazzo).

The New Orleans area is known for having the largest Sicilian population off the island (in much the same way that Quebec has the largest French population outside France). The resemblance of New Orleans' "French" Quarter to the streets off the Piazza Quattro Canti in Old Palermo is not accidental. Mississippi's Gulf Coast is an extension of the New Orleans area. My own 'Real Daddy' was Sicilian, and met my mother when she was working under his protection at the lovely old Tivoli Hotel ( http://wateringplaces.danellis.net/0de355c0.jpg ). So, while my Haute WASP friends' mothers were donning hoopskirts and hosting at Rosalie ( http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...f27e1deeca.jpg ), my own mom was also slipping into something lacy, and hosting at Tivoli!

Conveniently between once-wealthy Mobile, Alabama, and once-wealthy New Orleans, Mississippi's Gulf Coast was a perfect place for businessmen from those cities to date working girls. (Biloxi's being in another state meant that if there were 'complications', those businessmen would not have their names posted in their hometown papers, nor their arrest records recorded within their own states-of-residence) And many was the upstanding Jackson bidnisman who would motor down from the Capitol City, to avail himself of their charms. I'm sure that if Fancy Rae Baker had been a real person ( Reba McEntire - Fancy - YouTube ), when her momma was admonishing her to "be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy...", the girl would have been on her way to a hotel in Biloxi or Gulfport. The industry still thrives, and provides much entertainment and many jobs.

Aside from church conventions, the area does have some spectacular multi-day events, such as Spring Break and Scrapin' the Coast. You might wish to take those events into account, when scheduling your out-of-town trips. The former event sees bubbly teens converging at water's edge, for a scene straight out of Beach Blanket Bingo! Black College Spring Break 2013 pt1 - YouTube As you can see, many of these bubbly teens have brought their kids Spring-Breakin', too! So, Straight Family Values are very prominently a feature of this event!

The latter event draws elite car cognoscenti from everywhere! Scrapin' The Coast 2013 - YouTube Most notable among the featured thrills is 'Hair-flipping'. All the menfolk seem to be very manly, so again, this event is a Straight Family Values Extravaganza!

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Old 11-23-2014, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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The New Orleans area is known for having the largest Sicilian population off the island !
Really? More than Milan? Buenos Aires? NYC?
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Old 11-24-2014, 05:35 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA/Lk Hopatcong NJ
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You usually hear that unless you're Catholic or Baptist, you won't fit in, in Biloxi.

Gloria are you saying if I relocate to Biloxi, as we have been looking, I'll be run out of town for being Catholic?

Sheesh this is 2014 not 1814
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Old 11-24-2014, 09:55 AM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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You usually hear that unless you're Catholic or Baptist, you won't fit in, in Biloxi.

Gloria are you saying if I relocate to Biloxi, as we have been looking, I'll be run out of town for being Catholic?

Sheesh this is 2014 not 1814
Well actually, people don't get "run out of town" for not fitting-in: not in Mississippi, anyway. Where did that assumption come from? Where you're from, is that the usual consequence of not fitting-in? In Mississippi, people are far too busy worrying about being raped/robbed/bludgeoned/murdered by meth addicts and under-served youths, to be running people out of town simply because they don't fit-in.

I'm quite puzzled, since the assumptions underlying your question seem based upon things completely the opposite of what I wrote.

To clarify, Catholicism is the dominant religion on the coast, although Baptists may, by a slight margin, outnumber Catholics. The two groups do seem to intermarry quite a lot, apparently producing people who look about like the exceedingly righteous and hunky Representative Palazzo, to whose Wikipedia page I linked. He's Roman Catholic, as will be pretty much everybody who's anybody on the Coast.

No, you won't be "run out of town". You'll be 'in luck'.
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Old 11-24-2014, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Johns Island
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You usually hear that unless you're Catholic or Baptist, you won't fit in, in Biloxi.

Gloria are you saying if I relocate to Biloxi, as we have been looking, I'll be run out of town for being Catholic?

Sheesh this is 2014 not 1814
If you allow a single poster to impact your decision, then you will be unhappy. I would caution you to check the history of anyone you choose to listen to...
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Old 11-24-2014, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA/Lk Hopatcong NJ
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If you allow a single poster to impact your decision, then you will be unhappy. I would caution you to check the history of anyone you choose to listen to...
No, it wouldn't impact my decision by any stretch. When I read it wasn't sure to be bemused or alarmed...lol
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Old 11-24-2014, 04:45 PM
 
Location: Deep 13
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Jazz, not religious, like to eat out, don't like the cold....

We need a little more than that. What would be an ideal day/week/weekend for you? Any hobbies? Nudists? Square dancing? Pets? Jazz & food - what types?

It can get humid here (CA native, been here for two years), but it's not killer because of the Gulf breezes.
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