Is Mississippi really that bad? (Pearl, Ridgeland: high school, property taxes, live in)

[OliveyBranchy]

what does obesity have to do with how nice a state is to live in???? maybe you should consider, crime/schools/roads/taxes/affordability you know non-pretentious stuff

[MSGRUNDY]

Originally Posted by alligatorboy

i have heard a lot of bad things about mississippi, and i wanted to know if some of these things are true. According to morgan quitno, mississippi is the least livable state in the u.s., based on 44 categories. Not to offend anyone, but mississippi is number one in poverty. Not that the whole state should be considered bad because of this. Someone has to be number one. Mississippi is also number one in having the most overweight and obese people. Again, not that this should make mississippi a bad state.
Obesity is becoming a problem all over the country, not just in mississippi.
I would really like to hear some positive things about living in mississippi.

you can not belive everything you hear or most of what u see. I was born in laurel,miss and all i have are great happy thoughts about growing up there. The only thing i did not
like was the riding on the bus,we had to ride in the back,well they did i always walked where i had to go i would not get on a bus then or now if i had to ride in the back.I LOVE MY HOME

[j760]

Originally Posted by OliveyBranchy

what does obesity have to do with how nice a state is to live in???? maybe you should consider, crime/schools/roads/taxes/affordability you know non-pretentious stuff

I guess some people look at it as a sign that a state as a whole is unhealthy and promotes unhealthy lifestyles. I agree with you though, and ultimately each individual is responsible for their own health regardless of where they live. A state with a lot of obese people isn't any less of a place to live as anywhere else, and if someone really doesn't want to move somewhere based upon a high obese population, or wants to move away from somewhere because of that, then chances are they are going to find problems wherever they go.

[Huckleberry3911948]

the most polite the most beautiful hearted people i have ever known (& i have been around). they owed me nothing they were there for me since i could toddle, despite an unhappy childhood and less than ideal grow up period they were always there for me. i just kept going back over and over. its my 2nd home. constancy stability, your name is mississippi.
thank you family of mississippi. and just over the border from my family thank you memphis.
ps did you say fat and ugly?? you have not seen the women of my family have you.
beauty is not just body, it is also character
where do you think we get our military from, san francisco?????
honor duty fidelity.

[veganwriter]

All this talk about that Confederate Flag ... justifying it by saying, "It's our heritage."

I'm black and it's my "heritage" too ... a despicable part of my "heritage" and if you don't know that it's a blood-dripping insult by now, then water from the river "Denial" flows thick through your blood.

My mother was born and raised in Hazlehurst, Miss. She got out when she was in her late teens, but she had good and bad to say about it. They took me down there on a trip when I was 12. All the Jim Crow signs were up:

• WHITES ONLY
• WHITE WATER
• Colored Water

heck ... I thought the signs meant that the water was different flavors!

This is 2008. We're living in a threshold of change. Yet some people haven't had an original thought since their grandparents sat them on their knee and taught them "the way things R".

Germans have a heritage that includes the Nazi Flag. You don't see them flying that blood dripped flag of theirs in front of so many houses, do you? And only 6 -to- 11 million people were murdered and tortured to death under that flag ... whereas millions ... at least three times that many were killed coming during the 400 years of the Middle Passage alone! (That's not counting all the lynchings, beatings, murders, and drownings.)

See ... the sad thing is that this is a spiritual issue. If God is a Spirit of Love, then that bloody flag of the confederacy is a symbol of hate. All the theologians I know agree that hatred is a "Satan" ... a corrosive spirit that ushers one or more of the 7 Deadly Sins into each life that attaches to it.

Back there in '65, they took me out to a field and showed me this huge fire place. That was all that was left of Grand Pa Tillman's huge home. Story goes that he was the only man black or white in that area that owned a sawmill and a cotton gin. Had a little town called, "Tillman Town." Night riders got jealous and burned him up.

Stories in truck stops all over the country speak that if a black person moves into "the wrong area" today, he'll still get his house burned down.

Satan in the stubborn, "stiff necks" of people who REFUSE to look at themselves, yet Oxycotin, Crack, Heroin, Alcoholism, child abuse, sexual abuse, strip bars, pornography, and gambling are more respected than something like, "Buddhism." ((chuckle))

You know why they keep talking about obesity? There's an old saying I heard in the Military: "A lazy gut is a sign of a lazy mind."

I personally don't see WHY white people want to continue doing all this to themselves.

Now, on the other hand, things have changed. Race relations have improved in some parts better than they are in California or ... Minnesota.

But the problems in Mississippi are no different than the problems in New York. Darkness and evil have run amuck everywhere. It's just plain sad to see human beings still trying to justify it. And there's MORE than enough to go around.

All that beautiful land ... and people won't move in to help improve conditions because some lazy minded bubba, with flag waving, is going into the pulpit this Sunday, too afraid to live the life of Jesus rather than to preach some "safe" portion of it. Sad.

And you know who will fly it highest? The more miserable a person is, the higher he'll fly his ignorant flag of hate. Sad thing to see. CRAZY thing to witness.

Suggested Reading: "People of The Lie" by M. Scott Peck.

[Scotslass]

I have a question, since visiting Tupelo, Amory, Aberdeen, Houston and Okolona, Miss.

Which towns are the best you have lived in/visited? I heard Oxford, Tupelo, Hattiesburg and Hernando were the nicest places which had more prospects, lower crime/poverty, good family atmosphere and good for young professionals.

I obviously didn't think Okolona and Amory were my cup of tea, they're more retirement areas for oldies, im far from old

But I was just wondering, i'd love to visit more of MS. We're hoping to go back deer hunting next year.

[southms]

Originally Posted by alligatorboy

Today I was looking at something about 3 Doors Down, and I saw that they are from Escatawpa, Mississippi. How do you pronounce the name of this city?

It's pronouced S-ca-taw-puh. It's an Indian name.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by veganwriter

All this talk about that Confederate Flag ... justifying it by saying, "It's our heritage."

I'm black and it's my "heritage" too ... a despicable part of my "heritage" and if you don't know that it's a blood-dripping insult by now, then water from the river "Denial" flows thick through your blood.

My mother was born and raised in Hazlehurst, Miss. She got out when she was in her late teens, but she had good and bad to say about it. They took me down there on a trip when I was 12. All the Jim Crow signs were up:

• WHITES ONLY
• WHITE WATER
• Colored Water

heck ... I thought the signs meant that the water was different flavors!

This is 2008. We're living in a threshold of change. Yet some people haven't had an original thought since their grandparents sat them on their knee and taught them "the way things R".

Germans have a heritage that includes the Nazi Flag. You don't see them flying that blood dripped flag of theirs in front of so many houses, do you? And only 6 -to- 11 million people were murdered and tortured to death under that flag ... whereas millions ... at least three times that many were killed coming during the 400 years of the Middle Passage alone! (That's not counting all the lynchings, beatings, murders, and drownings.)

See ... the sad thing is that this is a spiritual issue. If God is a Spirit of Love, then that bloody flag of the confederacy is a symbol of hate. All the theologians I know agree that hatred is a "Satan" ... a corrosive spirit that ushers one or more of the 7 Deadly Sins into each life that attaches to it.

Back there in '65, they took me out to a field and showed me this huge fire place. That was all that was left of Grand Pa Tillman's huge home. Story goes that he was the only man black or white in that area that owned a sawmill and a cotton gin. Had a little town called, "Tillman Town." Night riders got jealous and burned him up.

Stories in truck stops all over the country speak that if a black person moves into "the wrong area" today, he'll still get his house burned down.

Satan in the stubborn, "stiff necks" of people who REFUSE to look at themselves, yet Oxycotin, Crack, Heroin, Alcoholism, child abuse, sexual abuse, strip bars, pornography, and gambling are more respected than something like, "Buddhism." ((chuckle))

You know why they keep talking about obesity? There's an old saying I heard in the Military: "A lazy gut is a sign of a lazy mind."

I personally don't see WHY white people want to continue doing all this to themselves.

Now, on the other hand, things have changed. Race relations have improved in some parts better than they are in California or ... Minnesota.

But the problems in Mississippi are no different than the problems in New York. Darkness and evil have run amuck everywhere. It's just plain sad to see human beings still trying to justify it. And there's MORE than enough to go around.

All that beautiful land ... and people won't move in to help improve conditions because some lazy minded bubba, with flag waving, is going into the pulpit this Sunday, too afraid to live the life of Jesus rather than to preach some "safe" portion of it. Sad.

And you know who will fly it highest? The more miserable a person is, the higher he'll fly his ignorant flag of hate. Sad thing to see. CRAZY thing to witness.

Suggested Reading: "People of The Lie" by M. Scott Peck.

Nobody wants to hear your ranting . Keep it in Berkeley.

[shamrockrover]

Originally Posted by veganwriter

All this talk about that Confederate Flag ... justifying it by saying, "It's our heritage."

I'm black and it's my "heritage" too ... a despicable part of my "heritage" and if you don't know that it's a blood-dripping insult by now, then water from the river "Denial" flows thick through your blood.

My mother was born and raised in Hazlehurst, Miss. She got out when she was in her late teens, but she had good and bad to say about it. They took me down there on a trip when I was 12. All the Jim Crow signs were up:

• WHITES ONLY
• WHITE WATER
• Colored Water

heck ... I thought the signs meant that the water was different flavors!

This is 2008. We're living in a threshold of change. Yet some people haven't had an original thought since their grandparents sat them on their knee and taught them "the way things R".

Germans have a heritage that includes the Nazi Flag. You don't see them flying that blood dripped flag of theirs in front of so many houses, do you? And only 6 -to- 11 million people were murdered and tortured to death under that flag ... whereas millions ... at least three times that many were killed coming during the 400 years of the Middle Passage alone! (That's not counting all the lynchings, beatings, murders, and drownings.)

See ... the sad thing is that this is a spiritual issue. If God is a Spirit of Love, then that bloody flag of the confederacy is a symbol of hate. All the theologians I know agree that hatred is a "Satan" ... a corrosive spirit that ushers one or more of the 7 Deadly Sins into each life that attaches to it.

Back there in '65, they took me out to a field and showed me this huge fire place. That was all that was left of Grand Pa Tillman's huge home. Story goes that he was the only man black or white in that area that owned a sawmill and a cotton gin. Had a little town called, "Tillman Town." Night riders got jealous and burned him up.

Stories in truck stops all over the country speak that if a black person moves into "the wrong area" today, he'll still get his house burned down.

Satan in the stubborn, "stiff necks" of people who REFUSE to look at themselves, yet Oxycotin, Crack, Heroin, Alcoholism, child abuse, sexual abuse, strip bars, pornography, and gambling are more respected than something like, "Buddhism." ((chuckle))

You know why they keep talking about obesity? There's an old saying I heard in the Military: "A lazy gut is a sign of a lazy mind."

I personally don't see WHY white people want to continue doing all this to themselves.

Now, on the other hand, things have changed. Race relations have improved in some parts better than they are in California or ... Minnesota.

But the problems in Mississippi are no different than the problems in New York. Darkness and evil have run amuck everywhere. It's just plain sad to see human beings still trying to justify it. And there's MORE than enough to go around.

All that beautiful land ... and people won't move in to help improve conditions because some lazy minded bubba, with flag waving, is going into the pulpit this Sunday, too afraid to live the life of Jesus rather than to preach some "safe" portion of it. Sad.

And you know who will fly it highest? The more miserable a person is, the higher he'll fly his ignorant flag of hate. Sad thing to see. CRAZY thing to witness.

Suggested Reading: "People of The Lie" by M. Scott Peck.

"veganwriter"...yeah, an unbiased, straight down the middle opinion is definitely going to come from a username like that.

Bubba sends his regards. Now go away, there's tofu to be eaten.

[Laiinie]

Well, I can say from my experience so far that MS is a great place to live. I moved from TX and I was surprised at how nice everyone is. I'm not dissing my home state but everyone that I have met has been so sweet. Even going to restaurants the employee's are so much nicer. The scenery is beautiful and I have no problem with the weather since I lived on the gulf coast of TX. It's also so much easier to get your tags and license for you car not to mention cheaper. I know it's a bad habit but cigarettes are so much cheaper here instead of paying $44 a carton in TX I now pay half of that! I'm so glad I moved here. I enjoy it very much!