[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Threestep

Cost of living - do your homework. Atlanta is considerably lower then BHam.
New Yorkers/Floridians - folks have to make a living and go where the jobs are

Kennesaw State is in Metro Atlanta, isn't it?

How could the cost of living be higher in Birmingham? I figured Alabama would have a lower cost of living than Georgia. Atlanta is a major league city with alot of stuff going on there. I don't know anything about Birmingham other than its dubious past and the steel mills going away. How could the cost of living be higher in Birmingham than Atlanta? What would the factor be?

Kennesaw is part of metro Atlanta.

[Threestep2]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

How could the cost of living be higher in Birmingham? I figured Alabama would have a lower cost of living than Georgia. Atlanta is a major league city with alot of stuff going on there. I don't know anything about Birmingham other than its dubious past and the steel mills going away. How could the cost of living be higher in Birmingham than Atlanta? What would the factor be?

Kennesaw is part of metro Atlanta.

On a serious note - Have you noticed that all of your posts are secondary information or assumptions?

Go to a grocery store in Atlanta and to one in Birmingham. That is one comparison. Then move on to housing ...

Which steel mills are going away?

[hrtofdixiechk]

Originally Posted by pennquaker09

Personally, I feel like conservatives try to dictate how people should live based on how they live.

Strange comment based on your name? just sayin'...

[pennquaker09]

Originally Posted by hrtofdixiechk

Strange comment based on your name? just sayin'...

I went to the University of Pennsylvania for grad school and our mascot is a Quaker, thus pennquaker.

My comment had nothing to do with my screen name.

[MiamiRob]

anyways back to the original premise of the OP. How in anyway is Alabama even on it's way to becoming the next Florida? The entire Tri county metro area of Miami alone has 1 million more people than the entire state of Alabama. The states are vastly different culturally and demographic wise except for perhaps the panhandle.
When I made those comments about religion I just remember that politician or judge who had a slab of the 10 Commandments in a Alabama Courthouse. I know it's the Bible belt but what about seperation of church & state?
Anyways Florida has never really been a true Southern state except for the northern parts that border Alabama & Georgia.To us Jacksonville might as well cross the border and become part of Georgia! Then again you should hear what they say about Miami & south Florida!All in all as to the OP's concern I don't think he has to worry about Alabama losing it's "Southerness" or becoming the next Florida.

[hrtofdixiechk]

Originally Posted by pennquaker09

I went to the University of Pennsylvania for grad school and our mascot is a Quaker, thus pennquaker.

My comment had nothing to do with my screen name.

Just thought it was ironic. No harm meant.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by MiamiRob

Anyways Florida has never really been a true Southern state except for the northern parts that border Alabama & Georgia.

Maybe not in our lifetime, but at one time it was. Read up on your Florida history. There is a reason the capital is in north FL and there is a reason the oldest cities are in north FL. Miami barely existed 100 years ago because south FL was uninhabitable.

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

Maybe not in our lifetime, but at one time it was. Read up on your Florida history. There is a reason the capital is in north FL and there is a reason the oldest cities are in north FL. Miami barely existed 100 years ago because south FL was uninhabitable.

That thanks to Henry Flagler for extending the Florida East Coast Railway to Miami/ Biscayne Bay.

I think even then North Florida was similar to South Georgia & Alabama and the further south in Florida you got, it was either uninhabited or more spanish oriented... just as it is today, more or less (except for the uninhabited part, northern transplants & refugees from Caribbean countries changed all that). I mean, look at the Little Havana community in Miami. Everything there is written in espanol except for the street signs. Its great!

...and on THAT note, Alabama need not worry. It is eons away from ever getting to that point. For that matter, the Florida Panhandle is, too.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by WanderingImport

I mean, look at the Little Havana community in Miami. Everything there is written in espanol except for the street signs. Its great!

Why is that great?

It's the exact opposite in Pensacola, many streets have Spanish names because of it's Spanish colonial history, but English is certainly the common language.

[PortCity]

^^^ I agree.