“Welcome to town! So, what are you spending the $300 a month on?”
“A voter registration drive. Funding campaigns for Democrats running in local races. Starting a local ACLU chapter.”
" . . . "
“Hmmm?”
“We’ll give you $7,000 to move out.”
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This Deep South town will pay you $6,000 to move there
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What is the state of broadband for this town?
(What the regulatory hurdles for another CLEC if current offerings are insufficient?)
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The landscape has been shifting enough in the last few years I figured if I didn’t check someone would respond with “Ackchyually…it’s legal now”.
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I’ve eaten nachos on the Natchez!
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Smells of local politicians accommodating some realtors.
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I also poked around. Found this from the city’s “Renewal Radio” stream and without knowing what happened and having friends going to FB jail for calling people out on their BS, this cracked me up. They’re obviously committed to diversity, and I think the Mayor is sincere, so I sure wonder what happened here (what I’m referencing will be said within the first minute below):
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Fun fact, Olu Dara is Nas’s father and he recorded this album at his son’s insistence.
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Two tenured positions are a compelling reason to stay here… but they feel less compelling by the day.
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In Adams County (where Natchez is the single city), 56% of the presidential votes were Democratic. This is probably related to the fact that 54% of Natchez is African-American.
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The “I’ll pay for dinner if you go on a date with me” theory of small-town governance.
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I heard you can sell your tenure for immortality + interest but you have to keep the terms of the interest super duper secret.
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Same. Same. Currently trying to buy a house in the Bay Area. Well. The outskirts at this point.
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On the plus side, there’s a great trail to walk out of the place on.
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Yes, yes YES! If your hard fought pension is in the balance, stay as long as you can, that pension will be everything when you pull the plug. My Dear Wife and I are well pensioned and that makes life going forward a tad easier. Still her last few years have taken a toll on my Dearest. I faired better with the superior asshole I had to deal with, she had to pull the politicizing out often to keep her place in the scheme of things. But here we are, snug and tight in our retirement home, I wish the same for all. It’s hard work, but this system, you’ve got’a work that system to your advantage.
May the Winters days ahead great us all with promising plans for the future.
Papasan
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Now that I’ve got to working remote, and Mrs. Bobo absolutely hates being a emergency/crit care specialist, we’d love to ditch CA, and move to a nicer cheaper part of the Southwest.
But we’ve also got elderly parents that are pretty dependent on the medical network that they currently enjoy, and would not be able to move with us. Unfortunately that’s got us stuck here.
That being said, I have to imagine that Natchez probably wouldn’t be the best match for us…
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Google suggests that this little town has a pretty decent selection of restaurants and a “steampunk coffee roaster”. I’ve definitely seen worse places to live.
I’m pretty sure that they’ll make up the grant in property taxes after a few years.
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Buyer beware. While there are a few progressive areas to be found in the south, and Natchez ain’t one of them, I think you will find that unless you are born and raised, the southern mentality will grind. you. down.
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For some reason discourse read this as an empty post, as if “FTFY” style quote posts aren’t a thing, so that’s why this is here
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Adams County (of which Natchez is the seat) leans pretty heavily Democratic. It’s a majority Black county.
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