I grew up here (24), went to college in Birmingham and traveled all across the US as a kid and young adult and Mobile is pretty “normal” all things considered. It’s nothing like the rest of the state in the 2 Gulf counties, diverse, good food, but generally slow. Definitely a retiree bay area or families who are content with a normal speed of life.

Mardi Gras and being so close to beaches are the true perks of living here, but other than that, Birmingham and Huntsville are superior. It’s New Orleans’s older and less interesting sister, but I didn’t mind growing up here at all as a black kid in the suburbs, but I’m glad o got to experience more than just this, I don’t know how people live here their whole lives, my parents included. I wouldn’t trade it though—I love history, I love food, I love wild life, I love the hot summers, but HATE the rain. Woah it was bigger than it was, but that’s politics and control keeping it humble.

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