Is Mississippi Fat, Ugly, and Stupid? (Jackson, Lucedale: closing, minimum wage, to live)

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by blueman_fan1

Wow I didn't know this thread was here! hehehehe..Any way before I start...I do need boxes, Large ones and medium and yes I may need help packing. ANOTHER view from another YANKEE who is stuck here!!! YES STUPIDITY reigns here in the rural areas! Schools want to teach kids to be stupid! They like to stick there noses so far up your @#$ just to know about you! The businesses ARE VERY crooked!! Walmart is an exception!! Fat is a common thing here! I see why...Not enough work!! Lets eat at McDonalds kids or hardies mama don't feel like cooking cuz its to hot! Sweats are sexy for the fat ones LOL!! Chew is the southerns bubblegum! DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking ownly of the Southern most parts! Northern Mississippi sounds alot nicer and smarter!

I hear that Oxford,MS is kind of nice.

[auntbee]

Originally Posted by blueman_fan1

Wow I didn't know this thread was here! hehehehe..Any way before I start...I do need boxes, Large ones and medium and yes I may need help packing. ANOTHER view from another YANKEE who is stuck here!!! YES STUPIDITY reigns here in the rural areas! Schools want to teach kids to be stupid! They like to stick there noses so far up your @#$ just to know about you! The businesses ARE VERY crooked!! Walmart is an exception!! Fat is a common thing here! I see why...Not enough work!! Lets eat at McDonalds kids or hardies mama don't feel like cooking cuz its to hot! Sweats are sexy for the fat ones LOL!! Chew is the southerns bubblegum! DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking ownly of the Southern most parts! Northern Mississippi sounds alot nicer and smarter!

Anybody who is that unhappy here really needs to move out of the state entirely. I hope you find another state that makes you happier.

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by Senor Boogie Woogie

Mississippi has different areas that are different demographically and geographically. I consider myself a Mississippian because I went to college there and lived and worked in several other places.

There is the Delta region by the Mississippi River. The poorest part of the poorest state in the country. Really, not much has changed here except for the casinos, which has made an impact. Still, cotton is king, even in 2009. All of these counties have a high black population, probably upwards to greater than 70% black in some areas. a lot of these families, black and white have been there for generations, literally since before the civil war in most cases. There are even Chinese Americans who have lived there forever (imagine Mao Zedong speaking southern with an Ole Miss hat on) and have kept their community alive.

I was a casino dealer in Tunica County Mississippi, working for various properties including the Horseshoe, what was the Grand, and the old Harrah's (the pink building next to Sam's Town). Most people who work in the casinos do not live in Tunica, but commute from Southhaven, Memphis, or other towns in the Delta. There was even one guy who drove all the way from Oxford to work. The casinos there are pretty interesting and it is fun to go there and see all the freaky people. The Gold strike casino's hotel tower is the tallest building in Mississippi.

In some ways, I like the Delta. Great food there, catfish, bbq, soul food, southern cooking. Yes, people are fat in Mississippi because our food is so good. I will say for someone who is not from there, you might be bored to death. Clarksdale is an OK sized town. Someone on this board was saying to stay the hell out of Greenville.

I went to college at the University of Mississippi. Didn't really care for the school or the town. In the summer, Oxford is a ghost town. I guess if your idea of fun is to be in a town with 10,000 plus transient college kids roaming about,(kids driving BMW's with Greatful Dead stickers on the back windoww, puke.) it might be the place for you. The countryside is actually pretty, especially when you go east towards Ponotoc and places thereof. I knew someone who lived in Booneville Mississippi, which is close to the northeast corner of the state. Unlike the Delta, this area is mostly white, it reminded me more of Middle Tennessee than Mississippi. Tupelo is supposedly a nice town.

Don't know much about the Mississippi Gulf Coast, except that the beaches aren't that great. I liked Biloxi the time I was there and even tried to get work in one of the casinos there, but it did not pan out so to speak and then Katrina came and changed the dynamic of the place. I will say that the day I was looking for a job, (at Winn's Beau Rivage, the bastids!) was one of the HOTTEST, HUMID, sweaty, awful days ever. It was actual torture to be out in the sun. Must have been 100 F with over 80% humidity. To steal a line from Matthew broderick "It's Africa hot down there!"

Lived in Jackson, Mississippi for awhile. Jackson is not that bad, more or less stay east of State St (Hwy 51) and you will be OK. Clinton, Madison, and the other suburbs are pretty decent. There is the Ross Barnett Resovior if you are into boating or fishing. i worked in Vicksburg for a while, but commuted from Jackson. I like V-burg, but it was kind of a dumpy, poor town whose best days seem to have been behind it. However, it wasn't that bad of a place, and I thought about getting a place there. Didn't happen.

Never really been to Starkville or Hattiesburg except for passing through. Stopped at the Meridian bus station going to Alabama once. There is an Indian ran casino called "Silverstar" outside Philidelphia.

Still, Mississippi is so poor that someone who makes 10 bucks an hour is middle class in most of the state. That wont change anytime soon.

wow, so @ my $32/hr I'd be a millionaire? where can i sign up?

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by Mary Hadley

There are a lot of ignorant people in Mississippi, but there are a lot of ignorant people ALL over. Some people just choose to be this way. There are also a lot of fat people, but fat does not mean UGLY!

to each his/her own...i do not find fat attractive at all.

[ahnraleigh]

Pardon my observation... but I do notice a lot of the same people continuing to make the same subtle and not so subtle points about how negative Mississippi is. Just to put things in perspective, as an outside reader this behavior is quite transparent in showing insecurity.

Ask yourself, "Why would someone feel the need to degrade others (Especially a group of people)"? The answer isn't a secret, it makes them feel better about themselves and/or their situation. Please try to take that into consideration while dealing with negativity on this forum in the future.

[jxndean]

Originally Posted by ahnraleigh

Pardon my observation... but I do notice a lot of the same people continuing to make the same subtle and not so subtle points about how negative Mississippi is. Just to put things in perspective, as an outside reader this behavior is quite transparent in showing insecurity.

Ask yourself, "Why would someone feel the need to degrade others (Especially a group of people)"? The answer isn't a secret, it makes them feel better about themselves and/or their situation. Please try to take that into consideration while dealing with negativity on this forum in the future.

I completly agree with ahnraleigh. If you hate Mississippi thats fine...just don't come on these threads saying negative things about how stupid and fat "EVERYONE" is here and how much it sucks...voice you opinion...but just do it in a somewhat respective manner. We don't go on the NY or CA threads and bash how crowded, over taxed, and liberal these places are...why do the same to us?

I myself do not like Mississippi that much and plan on moving to CA when I graduate college...I don't come on these threads and wallow in negativity though. If you don't like it here then move...very simple.

[DaniMae1]

Its not that I am insecure, Its just the fact of everthing I've heard about this place is totally opposite! And it @#~$#! me off when told one thing and its another! This place is one big dissapointment! The people escpecially! Pardon me but yes there are a few people that I have met here that are decent folks, unfortunately they are the minority and it sucks that the other pretty much ruins it for everyone else! And yes it is how I said it here in Lucedale! You know your probably right outside of these little so called towns is probably alot better! Need to vent some how, I'd rather vent on here then out in town, probably get into a whole lot of trouble! Yes they do act STUPID and yes the majority are FAT not phat! Ugly especially when chewing and running there mouths. I've never been in a place where I have seen so much BS as I have seen down here! I've lived in Ohio which is alot of rural and its not anything like this! I've also lived in the city and once again not anything like this! Hey I'm glad that the few that have chose to live down here have found a nice place to live..I must be one of the unfortunate few that get the opposite and I just call it as I see it!

[jxndean]

Originally Posted by DaniMae1

Its not that I am insecure, Its just the fact of everthing I've heard about this place is totally opposite! And it @#~$#! me off when told one thing and its another! This place is one big dissapointment! The people escpecially! Pardon me but yes there are a few people that I have met here that are decent folks, unfortunately they are the minority and it sucks that the other pretty much ruins it for everyone else! And yes it is how I said it here in Lucedale! You know your probably right outside of these little so called towns is probably alot better! Need to vent some how, I'd rather vent on here then out in town, probably get into a whole lot of trouble! Yes they do act STUPID and yes the majority are FAT not phat! Ugly especially when chewing and running there mouths. I've never been in a place where I have seen so much BS as I have seen down here! I've lived in Ohio which is alot of rural and its not anything like this! I've also lived in the city and once again not anything like this! Hey I'm glad that the few that have chose to live down here have found a nice place to live..I must be one of the unfortunate few that get the opposite and I just call it as I see it!

I can understand you frustration. It had to be a huge cultural shock moving from NY to MS.

Have you tried Ocean Springs, Biloxi, or Gulfport? I've been to Lucedale and it really is an armpit. Ha. People down on the coast have always been known to be very open minded and laid back, so making friends should come easy when you move to the right city. Ocean Springs is a very progressive place with a good amount of different activites going on. You might want to check that out.
City of Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Best of luck to you! Hang in there.

[mccarley]

Originally Posted by jxndean

I can understand you frustration. It had to be a huge cultural shock moving from NY to MS.

Have you tried Ocean Springs,City of Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

I feel sure he will dislike Ocean Springs. He doesn't need to waste his time going there. Best to move on back to ohio. Delta has flights leaving everyday.

[Claude Wilson]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

to each his/her own...i do not find fat attractive at all.

And I don't find "2 inches" attractive, but did anybody down here
make you feel bad about it?

No.

We waited til you were gone to do our giggling.

And for the record, I'm from California and a size 6.

I live in Missisippi and I see all types of "Gorgeous" people
---skinny ones, fat ones, black & white & red---every day
of the week.

Mississippi has some of the most beautiful people I have ever
seen anywhere and I've been here less than a year.

You're just a Negative Northrop.