[HeartofFlorida]

Originally Posted by flyboytampabay

Two Egg

LMAO, I forgot about Two Egg. I remember my reaction the first time I heard it. My thought was "is that a restaurant". When I found out it was an actual place, my next thought was "are you f***in serious".

[chickenoodle99]

Destin for sure. Although our population is a little larger around 15k there is a big "stepford" presence here, very much a good ole boy system and most people know everything about every body.

Some of the towns mentioned are more country and not at all "stepford" types. Sandestin could also work.

[psychorase]

Originally Posted by chickenoodle99

Destin for sure. Although our population is a little larger around 15k there is a big "stepford" presence here, very much a good ole boy system and most people know everything about every body.

Destin sounds awesome for this. Are there any threads or the like about that culture in it?

[sware2cod]

Originally Posted by HeartofFlorida

Having lived in Tallahasse, these two areas immediately came to mind:

Bristol
Wewahitchka (Wewa for short)

Wewa is the opposite of stepford like. It's too rural and country to be have a fake cookie-cutter subdivision, country club type of atmosphere. It's the opposite of that.

[sware2cod]

Originally Posted by flyboytampabay

Sopchoppy

Way too rural/woodsy to be considered 'stepford like'.

[1insider]

Yep, Destin is the perfect example of a small panhandle town. Andy and Barney have everything under control and Floyd still charges $2 for a high and tight.

[beachmouse]

Destin is essentially an affluent suburb of Ft. Walton Beach, no matter how much the Destin crowd wants to spin it otherwise. Saw Seaside also mentioned but about 95% of the houses there are vacation rentals.

I would go for Chipley, which is a pretty classic Southern small town with surprisingly awesome architecture.

[chickenoodle99]

That's silliness. Last time I checked Destin was it's own city, with defined city limits. It's the same distance to Ft. Walton from where you live, so are you guys essentially the same? The only reason we have to bus over there for high school is because our population isn't large enough to get the money needed for advanced/AP high school classes.

[beachmouse]

And Niceville-Bluewater Bay-Valparaiso are just the north-northeast parts of the ring around the bay suburbs of Ft. Walton Beach. As for the 'Destin High School' issue, it goes beyond A.P. classes and what is considered to be a basic head count for a school to be financially sustainable and Destin proper is never going to hit that number under current Florida tax & school boundary rules. The numbers aren't going to work for a 500 student public high school in the south part of the county when there is excess capacity nearby already.

The only way you ever get the scenario to work is if is, a) when the last big Niceville development north of the new Publix get built, it overcrowds Niceville HS in such a way b) that Choctaw HS can't handle the student overflow and c) you get the Bluewater-Seminole-parts of East Niceville area to buy into getting zoned out of Niceville HS, something they'd fight tooth and nail under current conditions r and d) that would be 15-20 years down the road anyways and I'm not sure where you would put a a high school unless Peter Bos is willing to cough up more land or they're willing to carve space out of the airport.

[chickenoodle99]

Originally Posted by beachmouse

And Niceville-Bluewater Bay-Valparaiso are just the north-northeast parts of the ring around the bay suburbs of Ft. Walton Beach. As for the 'Destin High School' issue, it goes beyond A.P. classes and what is considered to be a basic head count for a school to be financially sustainable and Destin proper is never going to hit that number under current Florida tax & school boundary rules. The numbers aren't going to work for a 500 student public high school in the south part of the county when there is excess capacity nearby already.

The only way you ever get the scenario to work is if is, a) when the last big Niceville development north of the new Publix get built, it overcrowds Niceville HS in such a way b) that Choctaw HS can't handle the student overflow and c) you get the Bluewater-Seminole-parts of East Niceville area to buy into getting zoned out of Niceville HS, something they'd fight tooth and nail under current conditions r and d) that would be 15-20 years down the road anyways and I'm not sure where you would put a a high school unless Peter Bos is willing to cough up more land or they're willing to carve space out of the airport.

I get what you're saying now, I was thinking you were meaning something else, I apologize for that. I recently had a conversation with someone who said something really nasty about freeport and niceville (he lives in freeport) and I just looked at him with my mouth open a little. I have many friends in niceville and a couple in freeport, he was the first person I had ever heard that from. There's so much small town BS around here. We came from Arizona years ago and Tucson is just as big as panama city to navarre and upwards towards free port. That would all be 1 big city in a different state. The only thing we're lacking is proper roads to travel between the places in a quicker fashion.

Some parents are suggesting we turn the old theater off Main street into a high school. I would still bus my kids out. Niceville high is also saying they're cutting waivers because of the numbers they have moving into their district. That number will rise when summer hits and PCS season is here. It's rare that people actually request to leave because they're so happy in the area, but they still keep shipping in the new guys. My husband just got orders from Hurlburt to Eglin so we could retire in FL.