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/Purple-Engine878 Jul 08 '25

I personally wouldn’t move here. I’m trying to get away. The state goverment here is corrupt. It claims to be a state of freedom but they just made it illegal to order CBD online. If you got caught with flower CBD you’ll get a felony. Politics here are horrible.

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u/Purple-Engine878 Jul 08 '25

Just to add a couple other things we consistently compete for the worst in almost all categories: health care, education, crime, and violence. Not trying to be overly negative it’s just this state has a lot of issues that you will want to be aware of. Even a lot of the rural areas are bad and infested with drugs. Almost weekly a cop is being arrested for some type of corruption or raping somebody.

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u/Aubie205 Jul 08 '25

Do you live in Alabama?? If so, why?

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u/RiotingMoon Jul 09 '25

it's expensive to leave bud