Getting some interest from a company in this area, how bad is it and where would you recommend living if this is a great opportunity?
Greenwood, MS question...
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What are your priorities?
Examples given:
Being Paid
Quality of Life
Social Life
Education for kids
(I don’t live there but it has a better than expected social life and Fan and Johnnys is a great place to eat)
Examples given:
Being Paid
Quality of Life
Social Life
Education for kids
(I don’t live there but it has a better than expected social life and Fan and Johnnys is a great place to eat)
The burbs of Gwood are nice. Try Itta Bena.
I hear the hot sun there is brutal
I think there is a man near Itta Bena that will pay you $10 to sing into a can
Houses cheap comparatively but live in the country if you can. Nothing there to do. You'll have to send kids to private school. Great hunting. They do have a few good restaurants. Two bars that are decent depending on your age. Good people there
Kids are out the house, getting paid is next, I hate people, quality of life is a plus.
It’s not as bad as Greenville but it’s bad enough. I’d live out in the country somewhere.
Unless you're from the delta/small town MS, I wouldn't recommend living in Greenwood, nothing to do, small, high poverty, terrible public schools. If you take it and want to live in the nearest town to Mayberry you can get in 2025, Carrollton is what you want. Small town, three restaurants, no bars, extremely safe, kids can walk up and down the street all day and night and likely average private school (which is likely one of the least expressive you'll find). Church attendance is nearly mandatory.
Speaking of floods, Rising Tide is a great book on the 1927 Mississippi River flood. It’s amazing how much that one event shaped this country and not just the areas along the river.
One thing that counters the Nothing to Do chorus, the Hush Puppy Music Coop is pretty doggone cool…
They’ve had some really good musicians perform the past few months
Greenwood itself is pretty much a pre-Hometown Laurel of Leflore and Carroll counties.
If you find a place you like that’s a half hour away, then you can do that if you like.
But if you check out the area and feel like you’d be miserable, then the quality of life ain’t for you unless that place in Greenwood pays like MSU does for NIL transfers… **
They’ve had some really good musicians perform the past few months
Greenwood itself is pretty much a pre-Hometown Laurel of Leflore and Carroll counties.
If you find a place you like that’s a half hour away, then you can do that if you like.
But if you check out the area and feel like you’d be miserable, then the quality of life ain’t for you unless that place in Greenwood pays like MSU does for NIL transfers… **
I have family in Greenville and every time I go see them it’s more and more depressing. Never seen anything like it. Rampant poverty and disregard everywhere. Just a sad sad existence.
I think Greenwood is much more dead than pre Hometown Laurel ever was. Laurel was never a bad town to live in & had 3 good county schools.
Good book. Read it over the course of 3 round trip flights and a beach vacation
You can add Clarksdale too. Just really sad.
An awesome book. I can’t imagine hearing the roar after if broke through at Mounds Landing. You can go and still see where the crevasse was.
There is a reason they keep having to expand Bennie Thompson’s district. All the people are moving out of it.
Yeah but Laurel also had the “Downtown Mall” and the Bridge to Nowhere & couldn’t figure out for years what to do with its downtown area… that said Sawmill Square has the Corn Dog 7…
Just wait until Bennie becomes Mississippi’s only congressman… **
(brain drain on line one…)
Man, that government project killed downtown Laurel. Still never eaten at Corn Dog 7. But think I may try the new one.
If I remember correctly it was said that you could go from Greenwood Ms to Monroe La by boat. That boggles the mind.
My dad still lives there but my brother isn't mayor anymore, I might make it back to a game sometime. Left in 1988 and swore I'd never move back.
Leflore county has highest car tags the state. Town is slowly dying. If you take a job there, buy a house in Carroll county and drive 20 minutes to work. I lived there most of my life before moving to Starkville. Worked at Viking for almost 10 years. Left a month before they laid off a 1/4 of the work force. Now that it's been sold I have no idea how they're doing.
I think you're thinking about the Crystal Grill. Pretty sure Webster's is still open. If they're closed, too, then damn.
You're going to have to embrace the country. I'd also do Carrollton as well, and just build your bubble. Put in a pool, go watch MSU sports. Nothing else to do unless you like hunting.
It's probably gonna suck.
It's probably gonna suck.
Keep a tallboy in ya hand and you'll be fine.
If your brother is Ed, he lived right across the street from us for a spell. I remember when he built that house.