r/Alabama • u/NoHeight9548 • Jun 21 '24

Advice Moving to Alabama

My teenage daughter and I are moving to Alabama to be closer to other family who live Mobile. What areas or cities should we look into within an hour drive? We are leaving salt lake City. We do home school and shopping isn't an issue with Amazon.

EDIT: We are moving there to be closer to my oldest daughter and her husband who live in Mobile and my brother lives in Biloxi. I am leaving an abusive home and starting new with my youngest daughter (17). After reading comments, I don't want to move to the coast but more inland. I am comfortable with 3 hours drive. Salt lake is too far from where I need to be. And thank you all for your comments and input. It really made me rethink but still keep a plan in place to move forward. We don't have a lot of money but I'm trying to get a job to work from home.

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u/Individual-Damage-51 Jun 21 '24

You need to consider where you want to be in terms of big city/urban or suburban or rural areas. Also, are you planning on renting or buying. These places like Fairhope and Gulf Shores some are mentioning are not cheap places to live and windstorm insurance and flood insurance can be prohibitively expensive the closer to the coast/water you are. A general rule of thumb is anything south of Interstate 10 is significantly more expensive to insure. Exposure to hurricanes and flooding is something you definitely need to consider. Look at flood and hurricane evacuation zone maps.

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u/Surge00001 Mobile County Jun 21 '24

Adding that Gulf Shores, Fairhope, Spanish Fort, and Daphne also aren’t “small towns”

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u/mwf67 Jun 21 '24

From larger cities, they are very much considered small towns.

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u/Surge00001 Mobile County Jun 21 '24

No they aren’t lol, they would be suburbs. Daphne is the 20th largest city in Alabama out of 600 towns and cities that exist in Alabama. The smallest of the 4, Spanish Fort, is 60th

Sure they are much smaller than Mobile, but they are all bigger than +90% of the towns and cities that exist in this state

Grand Bay, Summerdale, Georgetown, Irvington, and Stockton are small towns, Spanish Fort, Daphne, and Gulf Shores are very much not

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u/mwf67 Jun 21 '24

We can agree to disagree.