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So I moved to Hattiesburg, MS

FSUSarah

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It's been almost 2 weeks and we finally got internet at the house. So far I'm underwhelmed. Deeper into SEC country. Crazy traffic.

Luckily football season is upon us!

Hope everyone is well!
 
I take it may be work related? Do you like it there?

Yeah my husband got back into his old line of work and is out at Camp Shelby. It's in theory, a smaller town than Savannah, but the sprawl of businesses is pretty bad. Where we are renting is right in the thick of things and it's crazy busy. I was looking for slower pace.

So have you actually mowed the lawn?

Haha no! My dad did the back yard while he was still out visiting! Left the front for the husband to do?
 
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Oh gosh yes. Beer only sold in grocery stores I think. And the selection is limited. Lots of Abita beers though. Wine and liquor at a separate store and prices are steeper.
 
I went to Camp Shelby a couple of times in the Guard, what a dumpster fire of a town. My condolences. How far of a drive is it from Tallahassee for games?

At least you're not too far from Nola or the coast. They have a good food culture down there, that is about all I can say for it.
 
Yes Nola is close! Have good friends that are excited for us to visit. I think Tally is a little over 4 hours.

Please tell me of food culture because so far it is any chain USA.
 
Please tell me of food culture because so far it is any chain USA.
Well coming from Savannah to MS is probably a let down food wise, but you probably have Whataburger and Raising Canes nearby now!
 
Yes Nola is close! Have good friends that are excited for us to visit. I think Tally is a little over 4 hours.

Please tell me of food culture because so far it is any chain USA.

I mean in peoples houses. Try to organize some key swapping parties, you know, meet your neighbors.
 
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Oh gosh yes. Beer only sold in grocery stores I think. And the selection is limited.
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Sarah, I live in Gulfport and it is just over 300 miles to Tallahassee on the interstate.

Your best bet is hwy 98 east to Mobile, I-65 south, to I-10 east. I bet your looking at a drive if 5 to 5.5 hours at best plus the loss of an hour crossing into the eastern time zone.

Learn the detour around the I-10 tunnel in Mobile could save a lot of time.
 
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I've made the trip to Hattiesburg a couple of times for ball games. You're doing good if you can make it in a lttle over four hours. It is a good haul.
Back in the day we used to play So Miss pretty regular. And while yes you are in the middle of sec territory Hattiesburg has a good football IQ and a lot of folks there resent the sec and their we're too good to play the likes of So Miss mentality.
 
Spent one night in a hotel in Hattiesburg, while heading from the mountains to New Orleans. Entire town looked like a hellhole, with our particular hotel being the center of the hellhole. Wife made me drag a dresser in front of the door (no, I am not kidding). The lack of sleep was a good warmup for the weekend on Bourbon
 
I was just in Hattiesburg last weekend to visit some of my wife's extended family. But yeah.....since most of my Mississippi experience was Biloxi and Gulfport which is a little bit more... sophisticated?..... cosmopolitan?... .neither really works I guess integrated and not as rednecky, so I was a little shocked at how Hattiesburg matched almost exactly my stereotypical image of Mississippi. My wife's relatives are quite well to do in a fantastic neighborhood but there ya go...two giant F350 or whatever jacked up ten foot tall with giant Confederate battle flags flying on the back of the trailer.

But yeah, the food must suck there. Everyone and I mean everyone Raved about Newks as if it was a five star restaurant. Newks!!!
 
I'm going to Hattiesburg on Monday and Tuesday to work at Southern Miss and William Carey University. Have to stay the night on Monday night. Not looking forward to it.

Is the traffic really that bad though? It's such a small town. How is that possible?

Oh, and according to Googlemaps, it's a 5-hour drive to Tallahassee.
 
Please give us a comparison of the rednecks between MS/ Hattiesburg and Savannah/ east GA.... When I moved from Tallahassee to north GA I noticed the rednecks up here were much more "red".
 
Please give us a comparison of the rednecks between MS/ Hattiesburg and Savannah/ east GA.... When I moved from Tallahassee to north GA I noticed the rednecks up here were much more "red".

Not even close imo. I visit Savannah fairly often as I've got my own aunts, uncles and cousins there so we usually go for St Pattys Day and one other time a year to do stuff in the area or over in Charleston. Meanwhile I've only been to Hattiesburg twice (once for a wedding and once for a large family get together), so I admit I know far more about Savannah and the rest of the "Low Country" than I do Hattiesburg and the rest of interior Mississippi.

But Savannah is much nicer with lots of great parks and great restaurants whether it's five star cuisine or low level chicken fingers. Hattiesburg really had nothing. I asked my extended inlaws where to eat and what to do and they just laughed and said there was nothing. Being relatively well to do, they spend most of their weekends in a condo in Pensacola/Perdido Key and over in New Orleans where they own a vacation home.
 
I'm going to Hattiesburg on Monday and Tuesday to work at Southern Miss and William Carey University. Have to stay the night on Monday night. Not looking forward to it.

Is the traffic really that bad though? It's such a small town. How is that possible?

Oh, and according to Googlemaps, it's a 5-hour drive to Tallahassee.

The main road US98/Hardy St runs all the way from downtown to way out to West Hattiesburg/Oak Grove area. Lots of traffic lights and at one point 6-8 lanes of road. There is always a lot of cars at all times of day.

Please give us a comparison of the rednecks between MS/ Hattiesburg and Savannah/ east GA.... When I moved from Tallahassee to north GA I noticed the rednecks up here were much more "red".

Well the other day while I was in carpool to pick up the kid from school I came across a local talk radio show that had spent the last hour debating on whether one should use corn to attract deers for hunting.

The surrounding areas/counties of Savannah can be pretty bad too. Both have trucks with Confedarate flags flying in the beds.
 
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Condolences.

I wouldn't wish ANYTHING Mississippi even on a Gator, let alone the vaunted home of both Wendell and Berlin and countless other Ladners (not to mention Sauciers and other sundry Cajunass surnames), beloved long leaf pines, sweet tea, Love It or Leave It, mud flaps, crushed oytstershell driveways, only 69 miles (really) from the hallowed Rockpile, shopping centers with not one BUT TWO tattoo parlors and three fried oyster poyboy grasepits per anchorless shopping center (if you can't count on Gawdamned Ingles, Winn(fckin')Dixie, Korean IGAs, or Piggly WIGGLY for Chissakes, Damned REBEL flags, pickups with gun racks, trailer parks, the true plural of y'all ` it ain't youse guys or all y'all, Lupe, and now, Brett, Favre (remember the season opener in 1989? - Brett does), cold watermelon, 'Southen" (you'll learn), Phi Delts in retro Weejuns, money orders, over 300 Bubbas and a comparable number of lapsed debutantes, the Grisham novel about Greater H'Burg - a MUST read, interesting but always cordial, sort of, racial relations, Tallahasse with nowhere NEAR the humidity, a remarkable absence of top shelf Mercedes and not a single Ghibli in the county, mosquitos, two motels with ice machines, cesspools, double named rednecks, only miles to sunny downtown Gulport and a hop, skip and a jump to The Bo on Highway 90 (but close enough to 1-10), a home away from home for the renowned Litterial Green and several Barkums, the world's largest banana terminal conveniently ensconced close to world's largest MANMADE beach, etc.

But that's just a guess. I have a working knowledge of everywhere, everything and everybody, as you doubtless know after your attempt at luring me to an illicit (is there any other kind?) assignation at the TALLAHASSEE 'RAT mit der colour televisiones.

In Jameis Veritas.
 
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So come on...I need ONE place to eat dinner there. There has to be one worthwhile spot....perhaps a Cajun or Creole joint?
 
So come on...I need ONE place to eat dinner there. There has to be one worthwhile spot....perhaps a Cajun or Creole joint?
Look for a hole in the wall joint. Maybe soul food... There is good food everywhere, but it isn't always easy to find. H-burg is one spot I never have been through.
Hang in there Sarah. You will get your groove on.
 
We've only eaten out once...the first night we were here and it was a Bdubs haha.

I've asked my wife to text her wealthy aunt and see what her suggestions are. But as I said...we ate at Newks the one meal we ate out last weekend and they were raving about it....so I wouldn't hold out much hope.
 
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Go to Biloxi and gamble as often as possible so maybe you'll win some money and be able to get out of there. They don't even have hockey in that state! How will you watch the Carolina Hurricane?!?!??!
 
One of my good friends is from there and currently splits her time between Hattiesburg and the beach. She and her dad are real estate developers who have some nice projects in that area such as Big Bay Lake and Canebrake Country Club. She's probably not your typical Mississippi girl unless there are more Harvard Business School graduates than I would have thought.
 
Go to Biloxi and gamble as often as possible so maybe you'll win some money and be able to get out of there. They don't even have hockey in that state! How will you watch the Carolina Hurricane?!?!??!

We're actually hoping to make it to Nola this weekend!

As for hockey, I don't know. I don't think we'll get FS Carolinas here haha
 
It's been almost 2 weeks and we finally got internet at the house. So far I'm underwhelmed. Deeper into SEC country. Crazy traffic.

Luckily football season is upon us!

Hope everyone is well!

I live in the Burg Sarah. What part of Hattiesburg you in? Yeah, traffic on 98 is horrible.
 
I went to Camp Shelby a couple of times in the Guard, what a dumpster fire of a town. My condolences. How far of a drive is it from Tallahassee for games?

At least you're not too far from Nola or the coast. They have a good food culture down there, that is about all I can say for it.


Hattiesburg isn't that bad depending where you live.
 
Yes Nola is close! Have good friends that are excited for us to visit. I think Tally is a little over 4 hours.

Please tell me of food culture because so far it is any chain USA.

Crescent City Grill is delish. Located on Hardy st just west of USM.
 
Spent one night in a hotel in Hattiesburg, while heading from the mountains to New Orleans. Entire town looked like a hellhole, with our particular hotel being the center of the hellhole. Wife made me drag a dresser in front of the door (no, I am not kidding). The lack of sleep was a good warmup for the weekend on Bourbon

What part of Hattiesburg? Surely not on Hwy 98? What were you close to?
 
I was just in Hattiesburg last weekend to visit some of my wife's extended family. But yeah.....since most of my Mississippi experience was Biloxi and Gulfport which is a little bit more... sophisticated?..... cosmopolitan?... .neither really works I guess integrated and not as rednecky, so I was a little shocked at how Hattiesburg matched almost exactly my stereotypical image of Mississippi. My wife's relatives are quite well to do in a fantastic neighborhood but there ya go...two giant F350 or whatever jacked up ten foot tall with giant Confederate battle flags flying on the back of the trailer.

But yeah, the food must suck there. Everyone and I mean everyone Raved about Newks as if it was a five star restaurant. Newks!!!

Newks is a sandwich/salad restaurant. Don't know why everyone raved about it. If your looking for good grub in the Burg, Crescent City is a very good restaurant.
 
So come on...I need ONE place to eat dinner there. There has to be one worthwhile spot....perhaps a Cajun or Creole joint?

Crescent City Grill located about 1/4 mile west of University of Southern Mississippi. Its a Nawlins style restaurant with good daily specials.
 
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