Wisconsin too Madison Mississippi (Jackson, Clinton: for sale, 2014, rent)

[ELEGANTDESIGN]

I'm looking forward too relocating too Madison Ms. I have plans to move in 2014. I'm looking to move in a new home. I was told that its a lot of new homes in new sub. Can someone help me with some names and numbers of a Realtor. Thank you

[brickpatio]

homesearch.jacksonrealtor.com lists all the houses for sale and gives the selection of realtors also.

You can't go wrong anywhere in Madison, so all you should have to do is enter your price points and make your selection.

[GrandviewGloria]

Madison is closely watched for Mortgage Fraud. Private individuals monitor these situations, and report them to the appropriate authorities. Anyone suspicious can expect to have their activities monitored by private individuals 24/7. The town is full of retired government ops from various branches of surveillance/enforcement, as well as elite active members of those organizations.

The most powerful people in the state live there, including top level mafiosi who are not about to tolerate anyone who threatens their property values. They have access to people at the highest levels of government, and can get things done.

Just driving through town with a loud muffler is enough for several people to put that vehicle's license number on a list (I hear there are several lists, all of them private/secret). Eventually, the VIN number of the offender's vehicle(s) will go into various databases. So.... Bubba Ray Dumbley drives his tricked-out truck with the "performance muffler" through Madison. His name goes onto a secret list. A little later, he decides to go, with sound system "thumpin", down Grandview Boulevard, while hauling his ample main squeeze, Tawnya Destini Hicklely, to the movies. VIN Number is noted, by a sweet little lady who is retired from military intelligence, while his truck is parked. He shortly is fired from his job, for reasons which are unclear. Then, for reasons which are unclear, he cannot get another job. Eventually, finding himself unemployable, he....

Madison is not a place to move to, for people who don't know how to behave. Just be forewarned. A lot of people who move there wish someone had warned them.

Plenty of people move to Madison County, and quickly move back to Jackson, when they and their children have been arrested a time or two. This includes plenty of rich white people with rotten kids. People have been arrested in Madison, just for using obscene words.

Madison's schools are extremely difficult, by Mississippi standards (harder than most private schools in the state, in fact), and aggressive behavior is not tolerated.

[John Ryder]

Gloria is right Madison is kind of uptight and bourgeois, that is the core, but like everything else it isnt 100% just about that.

[ELEGANTDESIGN]

Thank you very much for the information. Maybe I will look into Brandon, Canton, Clinton and Ridgeland. I need to near Childrens Hospital in Jackson.

[brickpatio]

Elegant, the other areas you have listed are nice also. But keep in mind that on this board you should take a lot of the comments with a grain of salt. There are so many gross generalizations and usually people only get interested if something is negative. That said, Madison and the adjacent Gluckstadt area to the north and Ridgeland to the south combined probably have 60,000 people or more. So there are many different options, from lakeside homes to cluster homes on smaller lots to homes on large wooded lots to just regular subdivisions.

The Children's Hospital is actually a very central location and easy to get to from just about anywhere in the metro area. The Reservoir area (the Rankin County side of the Reservoir and adjacent areas along Lakeland Drive) is thriving and overall very new. The city of Brandon is also a nice area, with the difference being that it's a real town in its own right, with some historic neighborhoods, brand-new subdivisions and a little bit of everything in between. Brandon is a very good area. It has all the normal shopping (e.g. Kroger, Wal Mart, Home Depot) but not as many restaurants yet. That said, Flowood is just 10 minutes north along Lakeland Drive, which is now packed with suburban developments.

If you have something in mind that you are looking for, maybe we can help steer you in a particular direction.

[JacksonPanther]

Originally Posted by ELEGANTDESIGN

Thank you very much for the information. Maybe I will look into Brandon, Canton, Clinton and Ridgeland. I need to near Childrens Hospital in Jackson.

Really? You let one posting from our resident gadfly completely steer you away from the town you are/were interested in?

The vast majority of people in Madison work in Jackson, either for government or at one of the hospitals - as seen by the traffice headed from Jackson each evening. Those facilities are in no way going to fire someone because an old lady heard a loud muffler driving near the movie theater. You guys actually believe this crap?

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

According to GG, Madison makes Peyton Place look good.

[GrandviewGloria]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

According to GG, Madison makes Peyton Place look good.

Actually, Jackson was more of a Peyton Place (back during the glory days of Fashionable Northeast Jackson). Madison is more like Stepford (The Remake). There are even a bunch of men with scummy-looking but perfectly-restored Seventies Muscle Cars. However, I'm told that if the collectors had current tags on all their Rolls Royces, Madison would have more Rolls Royces per capita than Hong Kong, which is the official World Champion in that regard. And someone was laughing about driving some visiting dignitary around Madison, who, in an astonished tone, remarked, "Do you realize that we've passed two Lamborghinis in the last fifteen minutes? There is serious money in this town."

However, Madison is much more perfect than Stepford, in that the men are just as stunning as the women. You don't see gelatinous cigar-smoking zhlubs like in Stepford. It's not just the well-toned executives and pumped-up developers/contractors/home builders, whom one generally expects to be beautiful: the Fire Department is calendar-worthy (especially one muscular one with a huge moustache, who used to leave me absolutely breathless when I'd spot him... Although, I was equally gasping for air at the sight of another Madison fireman, who was packing so much muscle, he could barely walk).

But that's to be expected, in a town with the world's most gorgeous grocery store, gas stations that remind me of pavilions in really nice parks of the Victorian era (we went to a function at New Orleans' City Park, once, in a columned pavilion. Everybody was remarking how beautiful it was, and why couldn't they build like that, today? And I was thinking, "Well... I get to gas-up my Cayenne in a pavilion like this, back in Madison. Just part of my everyday life." ), the world's prettiest this, the world's prettiest that... I mean, in a town where even the drugstore is sitting on a base of real Verde Marble, would you expect anything less than firemen who were straight out of a calendar?

Madison people have private heliports, private barns for their 'copters, private jets at the little airport, and private gyms in their homes, so that they can meet with their Trainers, without having to "...go out in public..." When they do come out of seclusion, they're likely to be in shorts and flip flops, and in their 'anonymous' car (a white Lexus SUV, generally...)...and Strawberry Cafe can, at times, be wall-to-wall millionaires... all "incognito". Yes, it sounds like a bunch of movie stars. And some of the first estates out that way belonged to Mississippi-born stars. When a movie is made in the area, those types rent properties in and around Madison. Some own homes there. But mostly, the big properties are home to people who used to "work in Jackson", but now telecommute to their business interests, or fly out, via the little airport. The Internet and various live-feed capabilities make it easier to run things from your study at home, than it is to physically schlep hither, thither, and yon. Nobody knows when you've selected the camera aimed at their work station, or are secretly watching activity on the company's 'cloud'.

Madison's a dream world, like in the movie. But just like in Stepford, if someone steps out of line, powerful/unseen/secret forces - representing 'parallel power structures' - are watching them and... sooner or later...

It's Heaven on Earth, for people who can keep up, and who don't misbehave. But otherwise....

Yes. People keep to themselves. They have big responsibilities, and have a lot on their minds. Nobody I know in Madison wants there to be "a scene", or for there to be "something to do", or for the town to have a "nightlife". Their calendars are over-scheduled as it is.

Anyway, for people who are not superachievers/workaholics/multimillionaires/powerbrokers/Mensa-worthy/hyperintellectuals, there are plenty of other nearby communities which offer wonderful ways of life. Most people live elsewhere, and hop over to Madison, for shopping, etc. It's so pretty, going there for a couple of hours is like taking a micro vacation.

[todd00]

How do you know about all this so up close and personal? All these secret lists, retired government ops and mafiosi personnel. How much of this is fact one can back up with proof and how much rumors, gossip and opinion. You don't live there and every post you make is running down the state. So people might want to do their own research before deciding for or against an area.