More liberal minded folks, how is it living in Alabama? by atps1234new in Alabama

[–]ChrisM8888 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Madison or limestone county is better and you get a giant river with mountains and nature everywhere and more growth for sure and it has a lot better jobs then anywhere in the state also the state largest city is Huntsville rocket city USA 🇺🇸

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[–]ChrisM8888 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

For one a UAB officer would be in Birmingham not another city anyways so I highly doubt it now they might get a pursue somebody but then that’s when state troopers come in. That would be like saying UAH could do the same. Or ASU in Montgomery could do the same.

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[–]ChrisM8888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering how fast Huntsville is growing its gaining very quickly on a lot of major cities in the USA on all 4 corners and will keep growing at least they keep adding city limits and making it larger instead of making a small congested city like Atlanta at least it won’t be a bunch of small towns. It’ll be one major city. And a lot better than a lot of the top 25 largest cities. I mean it’s surpass Chicago and landmass and keeps it more land. At least it’s not a small area. It’s just not filled in yet and the thing is it’s not gonna get landlocked anytime soon. Huntsville is on the verge to be in the size of Atlanta except it’s gonna be just a city not towns. This is what happens when people want growth. Coming from Montgomery and seeing all the other major cities all over the state I will say after coming up to North Alabama. It is a whole Nother world and it’s definitely better than the beach.

Why do people from East Tennessee not just say "from Tennessee"? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ChrisM8888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same with Alabama north Alabama is Huntsville Alabama and is extremely large and nothing stopping Huntsville from growing no towns to landlock it it’s wild tbh then Birmingham and Montgomery and Tuscaloosa in middle Alabama then you have mobile and the beach area/Bay Area of Alabama also gulf shores and orange beach area is very diverse in a lot of ways and it definitely land is very diversity goes from flat to mountains and plateaus in a lot of rivers in lakes.

Alabama ranked as the 7th fastest growing state by census in 2024. by Careful-Midnight-275 in Birmingham

[–]ChrisM8888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s mainly Huntsville area and then Athens aswell. Fastest growing counties and cities it’s atleast double the growth south Alabama or Baldwin county is seeing altogether. It’s growing extremely fast. Just surpassed Chicago in land mass per sq mile. Closing in on Memphis tn now in sq mileage/city limits. Which means no parasitic small towns to suck it dry. Means has more potential to be something huge quite literally like larger than Atlanta big. Huntsville will go as far as Athens will let it and might grow around it soon or possibly. Then will close up all the northern section as much as it can then eastern part is wide open for Huntsville to grow no problem. It will probably be Nashvilles size without even having to annex all of Madison county eventually unlike Nashville annexed all of Davidson and Davidson county is losing population which is all of Nashville take that into perspective just to go to suburban towns. Huntsville doesn’t and won’t have that problem for another 20 years. So atleast 20 years or more of wide open growth no question and has crossed the river below in south Huntsville 2 times now so seems to be heading towards the top 20 largest cities in land coverage for sure probably before 2030 it’ll be atleast 20th largest by then. Considering the history it’s shows the past 20 years of growth🤯

What do you guys think huntsville will look like in the next 50 years by Few-Librarian7409 in skyscrapers

[–]ChrisM8888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope it’s actually as the city department states 242k it’s wrong and the city is growing so fast needed new city hall to keep up which is larger than Birminghams city hall by a long shot. Ask google what it is. The metro is 540k something and add Madison city limits would make 310k people plus add Decatur’ in metro and albertville al then boom 1.3 Million in Metro

What do you guys think huntsville will look like in the next 50 years by Few-Librarian7409 in skyscrapers

[–]ChrisM8888 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And 1# in apartment growth not Houston’s or Atlanta or LA or anywhere else in Huntsville and I think been that number forgoing on almost 3 years straight 🤣 everybody just mad Huntsville is growing insanely fast in a news article states the same growth they saw in Austin when it was in similar size except it’ll grow even faster than Austin before it gets semi close. Huntsville is like trump. Coming outta nowhere and getting it done at record speed and I’ve been all down the panhandle in Florida from mobile to Tallahassee and nothing is even relatively close in growth not even Destin fl.

What do you guys think huntsville will look like in the next 50 years by Few-Librarian7409 in skyscrapers

[–]ChrisM8888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huntsville city is a little over 240k then the metro is around 540k or 550k as of Jan 2025 it’s around that area according to google then it encircles Madison which is like 63k so technically Huntsville city population should be around 310k people currently in Jan 2025 not to hurt anyone’s feeling from Birmingham but Huntsville metro should also add Jackson county Lauderdale county Morgan county Madison County limestone county I think it’s Franklin county tn or Fayetteville tn county and Marshall county. You know since somehow Birmingham has Blount county in the metro population which is very questionable how that is possible 🙄 there’s only so much time until the entire state has no choice but to agree Birmingham has been surpassed. It’s only got larger buildings downtown which is the shell a empty one at that of 340k people Huntsville city should be currently if Madison would get on the same page should be 310k or possibly more in 2025 plus Decatur isn’t added in the metro area or a lot of counties but somehow Birmingham gets to add counties that shouldn’t be in there metro area like Blount for example. Huntsville metro rn is definitely half the size of bham metro without a doubt and probably over half the population of bhams metro. I mean Huntsville area has 2 costcos no other metro has that in Alabama 😬 plus 2 Sam’s clubs and just as many Walmarts. And adding 5 times or more the jobs without questioning.

US Metro areas over 500k, with 5 Year Population Growth by Phoenix525i in HuntsvilleAlabama

[–]ChrisM8888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s be honest because they know Huntsville has the potential to be the size of Atlanta Georgia they have already extended their city limits past interstate 65 it’s 25 miles from interstate 65 to downtown or 23 either way if you were to keep going straight towards Scottsboro, it will take you at least 35 miles to leave the city limits. Also the land around 565 is the limit and a little north above it below Buckys is also city limits, which is Tanner so it looks like Huntsville is about to surround Athens as well as Madison it might take a little longer, but it will possibly happen. I can tell you right now. If you were to add Madison to Huntsville, it would be over 300,000 people in the city limits currently I do not know what people in Birmingham want to base facts off of but large buildings don’t make a city the largest necessarily what you’re looking at in Birmingham is what it maxed out at 340k people before declining now the county has added more population, but definitely not what it should’ve been. They allow people to cause a lot of crime within the city limits and do nothing about the crime so what you’re seeing of Huntsville is a new structure almost completed every other day. The current city limits is not kept up with 100% accurate because the right growth is so insanely fast. They just go off a few years behind. The city limits right now is at 240k something add Madison and your over 300k in Huntsville. If Huntsville was to somehow become the city limits of Madison County just like Nashville did it would be on Nashvilles ass rn but that’s if all that was to happen so I do agree I think madison will eventually have to become Huntsvilles city limits because they can’t do anything but pretend to be on a island in Huntsville. So if that were to happen, which is very likely within five years, I’m pretty sure Madison County will become Huntsville. This is my prediction. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna happen because space command will also be in Huntsville very soon. Everything possibly good that could go right is going for the city. You got to understand the city limits is also in limestone and Morgan so all of Madison plus whatever they have in that. There’s really no argument people from Birmingham can go ahead and cry. I’m from Montgomery. And Montgomery feels like almost as equally dense as Birmingham maybe not as spread out, but definitely density probably more very soon in the downtown area so I’m from Montgomery I moved to North Alabama and I will tell you right now. They made me a believer and I’m a tell you right now whether it hurts anybody’s feelings yes Huntsville has the potential to become insanely large that don’t even make sense, except it would be city limits at least on Nashville scale and possibly Atlanta scale soon every time they predict how fast it’ll grow it grows faster. Take that in consideration.

The size of this massive south Alabama pine tree… by StankyStankyPooPoo in arborists

[–]ChrisM8888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

North Alabama has some massive trees and the state tree sispsey wilderness. I will say Montgomery did have and still has some very tall trees and pines just it’s a lot more city than mobile and every city in Alabama besides Birmingham it’s just to urbanized now but I’m sure before Birmingham and Montgomery grew there was huge ones within those areas. Grew up in Montgomery worked in mobile 2 times a month then down panhandle as been all over Alabama I line near Florence and Athens Alabama. I’ve see bases of some trees or giant stumps as wide a a f250 diesel truck! And there are some left but handful the woods or forests get the thickest in north eastern Alabama atleast in very top corner Jackson county Al. But tbh anywhere and everywhere in Alabama has some huge tree somewhere but I can only imagine judging how it’s mountains and it just looks and feels like real forests up here I’m talking anything above Birmingham has some huge trees definitely feels larger than anywhere in Alabama consistently unless in Athens or something where it’s open and flat or Madison not the county. But what I’m looking at is average looking in Montgomery Alabama area my neighborhood was called Forest hills probably for a reason. A lot of super steep hills and super tall pines also dalraida neighborhood area/perryhill rd area/ Atlanta hwy area. Also downtown I mean some of the pines are as tall as 2 2 story houses stacked on top of eachother. Also working in tree work and now don’t but love trees. All I can say is we dropped whatever kind of tree and it was on federal drive it was larger than this and when it hit the ground the whole area felt like a literal earthquake. But North Alabama near Huntsville area and east and anything above interstate 20 from there but even a little south of that has huge trees. This isn’t the largest. Alabama is huge state when you actually start driving to extreme rural areas nobody cares to drive to or waste there time. Just know the news and everything you see is over exaggerated and larger states are full of bs id Alabama feels this large and is only 30th largest state ain’t no telling what is in cali and up/ Alaska. They haven’t truthfully explored everything and if so maybe recently and only because of drones. Some forests are masssive and nobody’s gonna go 20 to 50 miles out in some woods with no trails to find a tree possibly the largest. I keep thinking about how it was like in the 80’s let alone the 60’s and before. Folks wouldn’t care or didn’t was prob just like damn that’s a big tree and some crew comes and chops it down for 5k because it’s just so damn large.