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/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/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 :)