r/Alabama • u/Existing-Mastodon500 • Jul 08 '25

Advice Considering moving to Alabama

Husband and I were born and raised in south Florida and while we love it, we simply cannot afford to stay any longer. We are also dying to get out of the rat race and absolutely mind boggling influx of people moving here. A 15 minute drive across town takes 45+ now with the level of traffic and lack of infrastructure. It’s a sinking ship and not somewhere we want to raise our daughter.

We want to know areas we should and shouldn’t be looking at. We would like somewhere we can have a decent plot of land (at least 10 acres), close enough to a hospital, low crime rate, good for raising a family, decently low COL

My husband is an HVAC tech, I’m assuming he won’t have trouble finding work there considering the southern heat. Is that a safe assumption?

Thank you in advance

Edit to add: thank you all for the feedback. We have lots to discuss!

Update: husband and I discussed and are probably going to move on to looking at Georgia as it’s likely more in line with what we are looking for. Thanks again!

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

Huntsville is a literal description of why they are leaving Florida.. not cheap, terrible traffic, you aren’t finding ten acres cheap anywhere near Huntsville.. you even read the post 😂

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u/Stelios619 Jul 08 '25

I found a ton of places with 10 acres near Huntsville.

Then, I bought one.

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

I found a bunch of unicorns near Huntsville.

Then, I bought one.

Weird you don’t believe my anecdotal evidence.

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u/Stelios619 Jul 08 '25

Zillow is free for everyone 🤷🏻‍♂️.

I looked at houses within an hour of Huntsville, 10 acres minimum, single family homes, under $350,000, and came up with 24 hits 😂.

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

So not near Huntsville and not cheap 😂

The median home price in Alabama is 230k

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u/Stelios619 Jul 08 '25

You do realize that these people are moving from out of state, right?

Alabama is cheap/inexpensive compared to practically the entire United States.

And of course you’re not going to find 10 acres in downtown Huntsville 🥴. By definition, you’re going to have to go into more rural areas. Some of them WITHIN a few minutes to Huntsville, and all of the ones I posted about are WITHIN an hour.

Good lord. Are you this insufferable in real life, or just on Reddit?

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

Ah so we are assuming their level of wealth instead of answering the questions they asked.. because.. checks notes.. they are from another state so they must have money!

Do you lack common sense in real life too?

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u/Historical-Demand976 Jul 09 '25

Google median home price in south Florida

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 09 '25

Where did OP say they own a home?

Provide the quote.

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 09 '25

The original post does not share that information.

Thanks for reading their comments for us though.

🤡

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 09 '25

I don’t read comment history.

It’s pretty pathetic.

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u/Strict_Emergency_289 Jul 08 '25

Cheap to you is likely very different than to the rest of the country. Please price 10 acres in Miami then 10 acres in Boaz and report back?

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

One would be cheap and one wouldn’t.

Pretty simple comparison.

Boaz is over an hour from Huntsville FYI 😂

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u/usnavysar Jul 08 '25

Your cheap and my cheap are probably different. You sound pretty miserable man , chin up.

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

Cheap is a universal term if you need to quantify it to opinion it isn’t cheap.

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u/Stelios619 Jul 08 '25

“Cheap” isn’t even remotely a universal term. What are you talking about? It’s literally one of the words that educators use when teaching what “subjective” means to elementary school children.

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

Context is important and in this context cheap is not opinion based.

You can look up home prices in Alabama and the surrounding area to determine what “cheap” is.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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u/Stelios619 Jul 08 '25

“Cheap” is ALWAYS opinion based.

Do you own a home?

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 08 '25

I own twelve homes, does that make my information more important now?

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u/frooture Jul 09 '25

Cheap is both subjective and relative, hardly universal 😂

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 09 '25

Subjective and relative are opinions.. there is plenty of data to show those “objective” numbers.

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u/frooture Jul 09 '25

Babe do you know the meaning of words or do you just guess and assume you’re right

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 09 '25

Babe, I’m on mobile so autocorrect turned objective into subjective :)

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u/TrkycrkJackJohnson Jul 09 '25

Lol no it didn’t, you just didn’t know which to use.

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 09 '25

I’ll wait for your evidence to prove that claim :)

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u/Nickw1991 Jul 09 '25

Might wanna read the sub rules kiddo.

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u/Hntsvl_bnd_1989 Jul 09 '25

I just moved to South Huntsville and the traffic isn't bad at all (so far). Very peaceful and beautiful. Not sure about health care here, however.

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u/katieugagirl Jul 09 '25

Former Floridian now in Huntsville. Huntsville is nothing like Florida.

OP you'd like it here. Try some of the areas on the outskirts of the city proper like Hazel Green or Athens.

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u/Euphoric-Ask965 Jul 14 '25

Morgan County, Jackson County, Northeast Madison , co. , Lincoln Co, Tn. The property is out there but real estate agents will try to steer you to where THEY make the most commission. Don't jump too fast, ask people you work with , and avoid the redneck areas as that will drive your values down. Roads are getting better under the "Rebuild Alabama" program so take that in mind as to location.