Sweet Home Alabama
Why would anyone live in Alabama? Don’t all Alabama citizens sound like Forrest Gump and live in trailer parks? This author may have a different view.
My husband grew up in Florida and I grew up in Mississippi. We met in Georgia when we were both “early middle-aged,” and shortly thereafter, we retired and moved to Alabama. We are often asked why the heck we moved to Alabama--and the word Alabama is usually prefaced by adjectives such as “backwoods” or “God-forsaken” or “redneck.”
We moved to Alabama because we wanted to retire near good friends who live nearby. Additionally, Alabama has almost non-existent property tax, and retirees don’t pay state income tax on pensions or Social Security.
Alabama is good to the veterans of the military as well, and we moved to a town with a beautiful state veterans’ home. When my husband was in uniform, he said that he was unable to buy his own cup of coffee anywhere in the state because a patriotic Alabamian always bought it for him.
We also chose Alabama because my husband had an airplane (had being the operative word), and we wanted to find a place that had a good small airport with fuel. We were looking for a generally conservative state where Christianity was still the primary religion (86% of adult Alabamians are Christian). And we found all of these things, and more, in Sweet Home Alabama.…READ MORE…
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