Flight from Jackson
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No I wouldn't
Crime is not the only reason Jackson is a shitbox. There are a list of reasons why. Crime is just part of it.
Crime is not the only reason Jackson is a shitbox. There are a list of reasons why. Crime is just part of it.
The list if reasons leads to city leadership, which is **** because too many good people left Jackson because....Bracky. Well, because crime. I think it all goes back to crime.
Work right across the street from the Whole Foods
at highland bluff north. 2 cars where broken into yesterday in broad daylight. One guy had a gun stolen from his truck and don't know what they got from the other. I can't tell you the last time I have seen a policeman on patrol around this area, when its not the Holiday season.
at highland bluff north. 2 cars where broken into yesterday in broad daylight. One guy had a gun stolen from his truck and don't know what they got from the other. I can't tell you the last time I have seen a policeman on patrol around this area, when its not the Holiday season.
You are correct the difference isn't the judges it's the ineptitude of the JPD and the DA and assistant DA's in Hinds CO.
I know several judges and they are not the problem...
Is the issue cost of living in the city vs surrounding area?
Or is it that you cant send the kids to public schools for them to not be idiots or get hurt so private school it is, which cost $?
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that.
I live and work near your place of employment, and I see cops on a near constant basis. It usually takes less than a few minutes for cops to start circling my neighborhood if I report a suspicious vehicle.
Also, no cop will ever admit this, but they want you to call in anything you see, especially in NEJ. It gives them license to pull over any vehicle that may fit the description.
I live and work near your place of employment, and I see cops on a near constant basis. It usually takes less than a few minutes for cops to start circling my neighborhood if I report a suspicious vehicle.
Also, no cop will ever admit this, but they want you to call in anything you see, especially in NEJ. It gives them license to pull over any vehicle that may fit the description.
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The Promenade in D'Iberville disagrees with this statement. It is a shopping complex at the NW corner of the I-10/I-110 interchange with 700,000 SF of retail space including big box retail. The same developers are starting another similar complex at the SW corner of 10/110 that will be almost as large. MDOT is redoing the 10/110 interchange as well as adding interchanges to I-10 at two local roads each side of 110 to accommodate all the current and future traffic to these areas.
Thank you for validating my earlier post. I hate to be the one to say this but pull your head out of your ***.
Bourbon street > Ferish street
Plus better..... Everything (zoo, restaurants, museums, parks).
I think people who live in Jxn have forgotten how it feels to feel safe. I was out of town with a banker friend of mine last year, who was worried about leaving his family alone in N/E Jxn. Said his wife doesn't like it when he is out of town not that his oldest son is in college. His conversation with her sounded like someone talking to a love one in Bosnia. "Honey, just turn on the alarm system and make sure the shotgun is loaded, shoot first and ask questions later." And they live in Eastover. I was thinking the whole time, **** my wife will probably forget to lock the door and we don't even know how to turn our alarm on. Mayor Mary is a crazy ***** but i sure do like living in Madison.
Madison certainly has its advantages. I simply prefer Jackson. I live 3 minutes from where I work, and less than 5 minutes from any place I would like to get something to eat/drink/be entertained. I like being able to get in the car with my wife, make the two minute ride down to Fondren, laugh at the hipsters (couldn't think of a worse place to be a hipster than Jackson, MS. Give it up, Mr. Costello.), have a beer or three with some friends, then mosey back to the house.
One advantage I have is that we have lived in some pretty shady places where the threat of intrusion was much greater. I think that really tempered my wife from any irrational fear. This is true even though we've already been broken into during the middle of the day. The suspects were students at JA, by the way.
One advantage I have is that we have lived in some pretty shady places where the threat of intrusion was much greater. I think that really tempered my wife from any irrational fear. This is true even though we've already been broken into during the middle of the day. The suspects were students at JA, by the way.
Terrible public schools, lack of anything resembling culture, no really good place to go and have a good time, lack of people under the age of 30 who don't have kids, ****** job opportunities, ****** opportunities to advance in the marketplaces that are available, it's not close to the beach, it's not close to the mountains, there really isn't a damn thing to do outside, where's the nice part of town?, no good pro teams to watch, there's not even a decent movie theater in the city limits. ****, name a good sports bar in Jackson. I dare you. You want me to keep going? If NEJ was crime free, Jackson would still be a shitbox.
So are those two chains actually closing those stores and relocating, or just adding the Flowood locations??
Noooo. Eastover has nothing on the north side of the reservoir for nicest neighborhoods. When I was 10 Eastover was the place but it has been eclipsed by just about half the neighborhoods in Lake Caroline/Reservoir area.
Does anyone one remember the "Christmas in Eastover" song they used to play on Miss 103 20 years or so ago. It lost its chic soon after
Does anyone one remember the "Christmas in Eastover" song they used to play on Miss 103 20 years or so ago. It lost its chic soon after
Jackson is America's little Detroit.
Look at Jackson's demographics, and city leaders,...TOO FAR GONE, it won't be brought back. It was a great town in the 40's, 50's and 60's, and still had a chance in the 80's. However, no one had any foresight or plan to save it from it's impending doom. Since the early 2000's they've made an effort to save it, but they waited too late. Jackson is very much like an animal that has become functionally extinct.
Look at Jackson's demographics, and city leaders,...TOO FAR GONE, it won't be brought back. It was a great town in the 40's, 50's and 60's, and still had a chance in the 80's. However, no one had any foresight or plan to save it from it's impending doom. Since the early 2000's they've made an effort to save it, but they waited too late. Jackson is very much like an animal that has become functionally extinct.
That's because no other town had anything to compare with Jackson up until the 70's. Cross gates in Brandon was the first planned community in the state and that signaled Jackson's downfall. As soon as people realized they didn't have to stay in Jxn to have nice places to shop and eat. I remember when Jxn built Metrocenter and that place was better than Disneyland to a kid from the country. Jxn's strict alcohol and shopping laws were too much to overcome. In a lot of wYs the old money is responsible as well for the cities demise. The First Baptist crowd fighting tooth and nail to keep Sunday shopping and alcohol sales out of their city led to the rise of Ridgeland and North Park. North Park led to the rise of Madison and it was over for Jxn.
all the cool bars I used to go too are far gone too. Jxn used to have a good nightlife twenty years ago. Katmandu's, Dutch Bar, Inez's, Cherokee's, Town and County Saloon and my all time favorite The Dock. All gone. The only two places left with any history are Hal and Mal's and Scrooges.
all the cool bars I used to go too are far gone too. Jxn used to have a good nightlife twenty years ago. Katmandu's, Dutch Bar, Inez's, Cherokee's, Town and County Saloon and my all time favorite The Dock. All gone. The only two places left with any history are Hal and Mal's and Scrooges.
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You are correct. I remember all of those bars. Flight has happened in nearly all cities, many similar towns made efforts to reinvigorate their downtown core earlier than Jackson did. They have reaped the rewards of their forward thinking with different levels of success. I wish Jackson had done that when it was still useful to do so.
You pretty well nailed it. I spent many years in Jackson, moving 3 different times. Sent my kids to private schools because you really don't have a choice if you want your kids to have a decent education. Moved to North Carolina where they have great public schools in most of the State.
D'Iberville is a nice area. I live in Gautier and it's nice too. To be honest, Ocean Springs is probably the best city to live in on the coast. Especially if you live within walking distance of the downtown area with restaurants, parks, beach, etc. If I had millions, I'd move to Pass Christian and buy one of the mansions on Scenic overlooking the Sound.
"Nicer" is a subjective term, but those high end Jackson neighborhoods are going to have higher per capita incomes.
Because the wife's residency will probably take us elsewhere. Plus, I don't want to live in Jackson my whole life. I'll defend it, sure, as I sit here comfortably safe in my Belhaven home, but I do want to life other places (Seattle, Portland, Charleston).
The year after I graduated from State I lived near downtown St. Louis in a nice area called Lafayette Square. It's similar to Belhaven with it's history and old homes, except the houses are much more expensive. I feel much safer here than I did there.
The year after I graduated from State I lived near downtown St. Louis in a nice area called Lafayette Square. It's similar to Belhaven with it's history and old homes, except the houses are much more expensive. I feel much safer here than I did there.
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FormerlyHLReb pretty much nailed it. Keep fooling yourself, though. I guess it's "cool".
FormerlyHLReb pretty much nailed it. Keep fooling yourself, though. I guess it's "cool".
There is definitely a whole lot of money in Eastover......probably more money than any other neighborhood in the state, due to the Lampton family alone. But it is nowhere close to the nicest neighborhood in the state. If you brought someone in from out of state that had no bias and tried to tell them that Eastover was nicer than Bridgewater, Johnstone, or a number of other neighborhoods, they would think you were on drugs.
Hopefully a city's quality of life will not be determined by the condition of it's roads, the murder rate, and number of boil-water notices issued per year.
Jackson has its fair share of problems, like any decent-sized city with burbs springing up around it, but I think its biggest problem for the last 25 years or so has been lack of strong leadership. Bernie Ebbers actually wanted to build a new high rise downtown for Worldcom's pre-meltdown HQ. What he got from the city was a lot of pushback and foot-dragging about zoning and building variances, so he took his football home and went to Clinton. Same deal with Trustmark Park: the planners initially thought about putting it downtown, like in Memphis, but the city gave it a cool reception when they should've offered to do whatever it took to get the park built.
I live in Madison, but we're not Jackson-haters. The wife and I have both worked downtown, she still does, and our kids are in daycare there. Five years ago when we were in the market for a bigger house, all options were on the table, and we looked in Belhaven, NE Jxn, Ridgeland, the Rez and Madison. What it finally boiled down to was value for your $$. As a cheap bastard, I know I'm going to have to pay property taxes and buy car tags no matter where we live, so the question for me was how good of a value for my money would I get from those places? In terms of good roads, utilities, schools and police/fire protection, Jackson can't match the other places. The biggest/only pro we saw to Belhaven was the character of houses and the neighborhood - you can get nice, old hardwood floors, mouldings, etc in some houses there that would cost a ton in new/er construction. But that was about it.
I live in Madison, but we're not Jackson-haters. The wife and I have both worked downtown, she still does, and our kids are in daycare there. Five years ago when we were in the market for a bigger house, all options were on the table, and we looked in Belhaven, NE Jxn, Ridgeland, the Rez and Madison. What it finally boiled down to was value for your $$. As a cheap bastard, I know I'm going to have to pay property taxes and buy car tags no matter where we live, so the question for me was how good of a value for my money would I get from those places? In terms of good roads, utilities, schools and police/fire protection, Jackson can't match the other places. The biggest/only pro we saw to Belhaven was the character of houses and the neighborhood - you can get nice, old hardwood floors, mouldings, etc in some houses there that would cost a ton in new/er construction. But that was about it.
Just depends on what you like. If you like new construction, no doubt any neighborhoods with 500K homes would blow them out of the water. If you like a developed neighborhood with older homes, Eastover would be your cup of tea.
Jackson is not a decent-sized city. Also, I don't understand the fascination with lower taxes. I simply don't pay that much in taxes per year, and with the money I save on gas, I considered the tax issue a wash.
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