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Most likely yoursMillenials and GenZ are flocking to Mississippi
A recent study shows that Mississippi has attracted 12,000 more residents than it lost in 2022. The pandemic opened up the floodgates of interstate mobility, which reached a decade-high in 2022 with approximately 8.2 million people on the move. That has meant an influx for certain states and an...
I moved back when I was 34 after years of exploring because of grand kids not knowing grandparents and haven't regretted it at all. I was making more $$ before but the much lower cost of housing and insurance alone make up a lot of that. Besides that, my kids (and me and my wife) have known the extended family well especially grandparents and now our grand kids know their great grandparents. Everybody's priorities are different but some things money can't buy and the sight of my mom holding my granddaughter (her great granddaughter) and talking to her and telling her she hopes that she isn't as wild and crazy as I was is priceless....
Compare western Carolina(I went to summer camp in the 70’s outside ashville) to Mississippi from the river to I55.
We got screwed on topography. No beach (coast instead), no mountains, no deep clear lakes. An Oak Mountain and Smith Lake in the Jxn Metro would make a huge difference.
Screwed BAD.
Beware those CA people. Politics aside, they’ll make OM people seem humble and modest. Spoken by a man surrounded by those people fleeing from the craziness happening in their former state.
you would be shocked with the number of people, especially Europeans, who travel 61 from Memphis to New Orleans and stay in the Delta a couple of days as a music pilgrimage
Oh I know, and that’s good. But it’s just not as big of a needle mover as the beach, deep/picturesque lakes or the mountains. And of course, we don’t have a big city like Memphis or New Orleans for city attractions.
Staying in Natchez for work a few months ago seemed like close to half the hotel was taken up by a seniors tour group from England.
Mississippi could use more diversity in thinking.
Maybe not shocked, but yes there are Europeans and/or Yankees in Yazoo Pass or Ground Zero (Clarksdale) every time I go ( a couple times per year). Actually about 10-15 years ago, it wasn't uncommon to see tour buses come through. I noticed any in a while though.
Also, if we had any type of competent leader in Central, MS (especially Jxn), he/she would throw a fit until a casino was built on the banks of the Pearl near the stack. A Beau Rivage type casino not an Isle of Debris type casino.
That would be ok I guess but a casino just isn’t going to move the needle very much.
Agree - most of the country is near one these days. And if you're not and do have to travel, you're probably just gonna go to Vegas.
Eh, let the Coast have the casinos. So much better infrastructure there, and combined with the water, actually forms a good pairing.
Yeah possibly but not California majority mind set.
Glad to hear that Desoto is still having success, and attracting out-of-staters. Certainly good consolation type thing for the state, even if it all does revolve around an out-of-state city. Mississippi will take whatever it can get.
If you talk to anyone from Nashville or East Tennessee they would gladly give up everything west of Jackson Tennessee
Yeah I don't really feel like I live in TN to be honest. West TN is culturally far closer to central and north MS than middle and east TN. If the TN state government could get rid of it, I'm sure they would.
Yep I always figured the outer ring suburbs around job center cities would benefit most from telework. Close enough to come into the office 2-3 times a week if needed.
I think you didn’t correctly interpret my comment. Unless you mean that Mississippi needs to be less humble, more self-centered, and snooty/hoity-toity. In my interactions, they bring the Real House Wives-mentality to life. Everything the world mocks rich, white people for they exhibit. Brattish and self-involved. But hey, you may like that. It is everything OM x1k.
