I agree that a lot of things so far seem to balance out. I've lived in quite a few towns. Mobile is by far the largest. Opportunities and options in the area outweigh fighting traffic and other issues.
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Boring,not very friendly,no side walks ,not good on public transit,not growing in new companies ect , weather changes a lot in one day crazy ,roll tide this and that blah blah,schools sucks
We called Jeff once as we are thinking of moving to Mobile and he is awesome. Terrific guy, very knowledgeable about the real estate and business. Thanks Jeff!
Personally, coming from Las Vegas, I’ve been in Mobile for almost a year (thanks Jeff!) crime is 0 compared to Vegas, community is a 10+ in Mobile, people are warm and welcoming. I do have to say though, people speed up cottage hill like nascar drivers. Other than that, I have 0 complaints. Im in love with the weather, community and the people!
The thing i loved about Mobile was you could go 1or 2 hours one way in be in the panhandle or go the other in your in Biloxi Mississippi or New Orleans Louisiana which i did often the thing i didn't like was the humidity in the summer they were brutal other then that i am proud to say i lived in Mobile and i will always have love for the city.
Thanks for the videos, could you cover the cost of wind and flood insurance for us Yankees that dont have this type of insurance because of lack of hurricanes in good old, cold Wisconsin? It seems less expensive to live there but all that can be erased with added insurance costs.
I just got your email and will get you some details on that tomorrow. So much will depend on the proximity to the water, but I will say this: the vast majority of homes in our area do not require flood insurance, which is a shock to many people.
Last year on my way to New Orleans ( 🚙from tampa Bay) I stayed overnight in ( lovely hotel) mobile… had a dinner ….in AM walked in downtown ☕️ 🚶♂️🚶♂️And love it have to come for 3-4 days
People just leave massive trash on the side of the roads! Broken down cars just stay in the same place, becoming part of the landscape with foliage over it, totally blocking the emergency lanes. Dear gods I hate Mobile.
From Birmingham, lived in Mobile 7 years and loved it. Crime was not an issue for me at all. Lived in midtown, Meadowbrook neighborhood near to airport Blvd.
Lived in 8 states so far (Boston, MA, Cincinnati, OH, Marietta, GA, Bellevue, WA, Mountain View, CA, Tampa, FL, Kansas City, KS and Northern Kentucky. Considering moving to the eastern side of Mobile (Fairhope-ish area), with some acreage, hopefully husband gets a job at DHS (I am in IT working from home), that area looks so nice, private schools seems to be also good. Never even for a second though that AL can attract my attention 😅 fingers crossed
That sounds great! Yes, so many great areas in Mobile as well as the eastern shore. I probably drove 200 miles on the eastern shore over the last few days, so many great properties. Please let me know if I can help you when the time is right. Thank you for the comment.
Good God Guy. Pick a place to live! I've lived at the same location for 53 years (In Fairhooe) - Ok, I was elsewhere in the Military, but this was home.
I live in mobile, been here my whole life born and raised, mobile is getting a top golf, but we really need a aquarium the perfect location would have been on mobile river where the maritime museum is, yes I know dauphin island has the sea lab but we need a aquarium, before Gulfport aquarium was built we would have to take our funds to New Orleans or even the Georgia aquarium if the kids want to go to the aquarium we would have to drive to N.O, Gulfport or Atlanta
Yes, an aquarium would be great! Hopefully soon! I’m looking forward to top golf, not sure how often I will go, but it will be fun to try it at least once!
Well I’ve read everyone’s complaints. I have lived in west Mobile 23 years. It is a beautiful area to live I’ve never experienced any of the things mentioned in these comments. But’ I don’t really know much outside of west Mobile area except to visit Or maybe business so I can’t confirm the allegations. The West Mobile that Jeff is showing/ revealing he is absolutely correct Beautiful area Beautiful homes. As for as crime I don’t know what others are viewing but it is happening everywhere all over the world. Mobile, Al is nothing in comparison… All I can say is come visit for yourselves get you apartment, rent you a house or bed and breakfast for a while judge for yourself. I love West Mobile, Al ❤ No place else I rather be..
Hi I grew up in Mobile in the 1970s, my teenage years and the early 80s my early 20s. Have you read the book "Alligators and Me, My Life in Alabama 1968"? By Molly Milner about the experiences of her and her Lutheran pastor husband in the late 1960s
I hate the humidity, the sticky hot summers. I hate how people cant drive in a normal speed going through the tunnel. Well, today the weather was pretty nice when I was going for my very painful MRI at USA hospital today. Don't get me wrong. The doctor, and nurses there were pleasant, and professional. I was already in pain going into to it. Dang arm is still soar as heck! Getting that MRI was such a negative experience that I hope I dont have to go through again. I almost panic when I was in that machine. I had to close my eyes, and breath slowly. Luckily I'm not too claustrophobic which got me through it. That aside the weather was nice, and I wish it was like that all year round.
I never was able to drive through the godforsaken tunnel ONCE without someone revving their engine and cutting around me like a psychopath. Every single fucking time. Like people are trying to kill you and themselves in that tunnel. Like it's a short distance, can we not just drive normally in the tunnel for ONCE?? I believe local morons deliberately use the tunnel as a drag strip or something. It's so dangerous and stupid. Mobile sucks so much dick. So very much.
I totally agree, but most people would not click that title. It’s all about getting attention so they will listen to the whole video to hear what my true feelings are.
We have the most corrupt school system in the state in my opinion thats one of the things ive always disliked about Mobile you really cant get a quality education for your children as far as South Alabama and University of Mobile fantastic colleges
mobille is great,with alot of history and so much potential...mobileleaders should not sit still over being bypassed by huntsville,and even montgomery..
I've visited many cities I will say mobile is better no bias you know when it's nice because you here out of Towner's trying bash the city in hopes that it fails but as we can see nobody's moving so it don't work, and also if you come here on any kind of offensive motives yes you will run into or be a victim of crime it's simple that's valid in any city
That your opinion I have been here all my life and haven't had anything happen in years because I dont hang with the negative energy I'm just saying that anywhere you go to be honest
Mobile has the potential to be a good city 🌆 but it's biggest cons are the schools and the job market we have aerospace shipping and healthcare which are great industries and decent careers but we have limited training facilities to help the existing population that can't afford college our may not be a perfect fit I would like to see a more diverse job market better education programs especially for children with learning disabilities I personally feel like Alabama and the public school system failed me and fail so many others that are disadvantaged
@@marchilton8855 there are a lot of improvements that could be made in education, but after talking with the mayor a few weeks ago, and hearing him, describe a few things, it gave me great encouragement for the future.
Most of the things that I could mention, that are bad, would quickly be followed up with what I believe is the solution, which is what I was going for in this video. Our city is certainly not perfect, and it has a lot of ways to improve, but I believe it is a city with much potential and I wanted to focus on that.
@@livinginmobile i agree,but maybe thats it. No one tries to and the corruption goes on,but i can understand not wanting to be a nail. The nail that sticks out, gets hammered.
Just a suggestion, buddy. If I were you, I would not put in the title. Things that I don't like about mobile Alabama. Because you're trying to SELL property . . not trying to push people away. So I would reword it if I were you.😅
I am from Birmingham, Alabama and I made the horrid mistake of accepting a job offer and moving to Mobile in 2016. Everyone I knew warned me NOT TO GO. They knew. I knew I had made a mistake only a few weeks into moving there. I moved back out of Mobile after little more than 1 year - what a nightmarish shit hole. Mobile is incredibly stuck up yet also it's sketchy as all hell. They DO NOT want outsiders moving there. They are hostile to anyone who isn't from there - no shit. I am from Alabama, but people were openly rude because I was from elsewhere in the state. What a bougie yet impoverished, stinking ass city. It stinks literally because of the bay and the pollution and the heat. It literally fucking reeks. Also that disgusting bay? It's where 99% of all American slaves were brought in chains on ships into America during the slave trade. That's Mobile's history and why it exists. It was the slave auction capitol of the country. All the slave ships from Africa to America came into that cursed bay. It's haunted perhaps. Maybe that's why Mobile sucks so god damned hard. The city to this day is incredibly stratified by race. I've never seen a place so segregat3d or openly racist, and I am from Alabama. Oh also Mobile is the fattest city in the country, next to New Orleans, just obese Karens sweating everywhere and shoving fried food in their gullet. The worst road / intersection designs I have ever seen. Worst traffic I've ever encountered. The bridge is backed up across the bay every single fucking day. The ENTIRE downtown rush hour flow of traffic has to fit into only TWO LANES of interstate with a sharp ass turn after the tunnel = you will never get to work on time once, ever, ever, if you need to cross the bridge. Crime, rude ass stuck up people, seriously fucking rude ass people, conservative Christian assholes, hateful retrograde attitudes about everything. It was like being back in the 80's in the worst way. People just smoke cigarettes everywhere. The weather is 110% humidity. It's hot and miserable as balls, then the winters are FAR colder than you could ever imagine. Far colder than in the mountains in the north of the state where I am from. Zero public transit, zero, you'd better have your own car you are utterly fucked. Better not need anything or you are fucked. Better not be gay or not a Christian or people will be douche bags to your face. Broken down cars all over the sides of the road taking up what should be the emergency lane, the broken down cars just stay in the same place. They just stay there. There is no infrastructure or public commons or sense of community at all. It is a conservative baby boomer's wet dream. It's Trump country and you can tell by how forlorn and miserable a place it is. There's more wrong with it, but I want to just forget Mobile. If you aren't a racist ass boomer who chain smokes and says the n word, I wouldn't even drive through Mobile. What an abject shit hole.
You know that Black people and other poc live in Mobile. There is a lesbian bar owned by black lesbian married couple. I don’t know what’s wrong with you but Mobile is changing. Yeah they’re going to be some not so good people but it’s you who are drawing them in due to your nasty energy. Like attracts like.
I hate to agree with you. We're hoping to just collect our retirement and never see this place again when we do. It's truly awful, though there are buttholes in every corner of the world. A lot of people try to defend this city, because it's their home, but I've never felt the need to. I wish my family and job weren't tied to this place.
@@neonshark337 I agree. It really could be and should be a much better city. It has to do with the fact that criticism is so roundly ignored & vehemently rejected by the locals. The people there don't want things to be better, they don't want to modernize. They are even rude to someone like me moving there from the north of the state! They don't want people from Huntsville or Birmingham moving down there! It's the same state, even. How would they act to a real foreigner from overseas?? Their attitude is truly stuck in the Jim Crow era, in the George Wallace era. The problem is the jingoistic attitude of the people. Not all of them, but most of them. It's as if Mobile sucks by design. It's the stubbornness of the people. Mobile genuinely has potential to be a great place, that's what makes it so annoying.
What do you hate about Mobile Alabama?
I agree that a lot of things so far seem to balance out. I've lived in quite a few towns. Mobile is by far the largest. Opportunities and options in the area outweigh fighting traffic and other issues.
I hate I'm still in Minnesota
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Hate that I didn't move here 10 years ago......... Hi Jeff!
Boring,not very friendly,no side walks ,not good on public transit,not growing in new companies ect , weather changes a lot in one day crazy ,roll tide this and that blah blah,schools sucks
We called Jeff once as we are thinking of moving to Mobile and he is awesome. Terrific guy, very knowledgeable about the real estate and business. Thanks Jeff!
Thank you! I truly enjoy when the phone rings from someone new with questions about Mobile. It’s an honor to help others. Thank you so much!
Personally, coming from Las Vegas, I’ve been in Mobile for almost a year (thanks Jeff!) crime is 0 compared to Vegas, community is a 10+ in Mobile, people are warm and welcoming. I do have to say though, people speed up cottage hill like nascar drivers. Other than that, I have 0 complaints. Im in love with the weather, community and the people!
It's great to hear this perspective from someone who has moved here from out of town. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hello, I am about to move to Mobile to rent. I’ve lived in Vegas my whole life so seeing your comment really made me feel at ease. Thank you
Your videos are extremely helpful. Looking forward to moving in Mobile from Great white North 🇨🇦
Thank you so much! Please reach out when you are ready to start the process. I would love to help in any way I can.
The thing i loved about Mobile was you could go 1or 2 hours one way in be in the panhandle or go the other in your in Biloxi Mississippi or New Orleans Louisiana which i did often the thing i didn't like was the humidity in the summer they were brutal other then that i am proud to say i lived in Mobile and i will always have love for the city.
Yes, the humidity can be brutal! But yes, we are centrally. Located to several great places.
Mileage Mike has a lit if uodates about the National infrastructure, especially in the Southern States.
Thanks for the videos, could you cover the cost of wind and flood insurance for us Yankees that dont have this type of insurance because of lack of hurricanes in good old, cold Wisconsin? It seems less expensive to live there but all that can be erased with added insurance costs.
I just got your email and will get you some details on that tomorrow. So much will depend on the proximity to the water, but I will say this: the vast majority of homes in our area do not require flood insurance, which is a shock to many people.
Last year on my way to New Orleans ( 🚙from tampa Bay) I stayed overnight in ( lovely hotel) mobile… had a dinner ….in AM walked in downtown ☕️ 🚶♂️🚶♂️And love it have to come for 3-4 days
That is so great to hear!
Been to Big Cities, Mobile still livable at practical means.Compare to Houston, NOLA, Atlanta and L.A.No complaint.
Litter. People love to dump tires and furniture and it will sit for months before someone picks it up.
I didn’t think about that, but I can totally see where that is sometimes a problem. Great point.
People just leave massive trash on the side of the roads! Broken down cars just stay in the same place, becoming part of the landscape with foliage over it, totally blocking the emergency lanes. Dear gods I hate Mobile.
Mobile is my dream. I really wanna visit this city 🌆
Come on!!
you really don’t it’s trash.
I like your accent. If that's the Alabama accent, that's a plus. And the southern friendliness.
Ha. Yep! We all talk with a slight southern accent.
ive lived in midtown and every other day there was shootings plus the family dollar constantly getting robbed.
Love supporting local! Great video!
Yes, local is the way to go!
If you know the Bay Way bridge is going to be congested, why not go through Bankhead tunnel and just take the cause.?
That’s typically what I do.
Birthplace, 1962.....Providence Hospital ...Lived on Gorgas Street ......Many memories of the bay.....Moved away in 1965.
From Birmingham, lived in Mobile 7 years and loved it. Crime was not an issue for me at all. Lived in midtown, Meadowbrook neighborhood near to airport Blvd.
Lived in 8 states so far (Boston, MA, Cincinnati, OH, Marietta, GA, Bellevue, WA, Mountain View, CA, Tampa, FL, Kansas City, KS and Northern Kentucky. Considering moving to the eastern side of Mobile (Fairhope-ish area), with some acreage, hopefully husband gets a job at DHS (I am in IT working from home), that area looks so nice, private schools seems to be also good. Never even for a second though that AL can attract my attention 😅 fingers crossed
That sounds great! Yes, so many great areas in Mobile as well as the eastern shore. I probably drove 200 miles on the eastern shore over the last few days, so many great properties. Please let me know if I can help you when the time is right. Thank you for the comment.
Good God Guy. Pick a place to live! I've lived at the same location for 53 years (In Fairhooe) - Ok, I was elsewhere in the Military, but this was home.
@@whomigazone i’ve lived in Mobile for 50 years. I love it!
I live in mobile, been here my whole life born and raised, mobile is getting a top golf, but we really need a aquarium the perfect location would have been on mobile river where the maritime museum is, yes I know dauphin island has the sea lab but we need a aquarium, before Gulfport aquarium was built we would have to take our funds to New Orleans or even the Georgia aquarium if the kids want to go to the aquarium we would have to drive to N.O, Gulfport or Atlanta
Yes, an aquarium would be great! Hopefully soon! I’m looking forward to top golf, not sure how often I will go, but it will be fun to try it at least once!
@@livinginmobile same here
Well I’ve read everyone’s complaints. I have lived in west Mobile 23 years. It is a beautiful area to live I’ve never experienced any of the things mentioned in these comments. But’ I don’t really know much outside of west Mobile area except to visit Or maybe business so I can’t confirm the allegations. The West Mobile that Jeff is showing/ revealing he is absolutely correct Beautiful area Beautiful homes. As for as crime I don’t know what others are viewing but it is happening everywhere all over the world. Mobile, Al is nothing in comparison… All I can say is come visit for yourselves get you apartment, rent you a house or bed and breakfast for a while judge for yourself. I love West Mobile, Al ❤ No place else I rather be..
When is hurricane seasons???
The average hurricane season starts June 1 and runs through November 30, but its statistical peak is on September 10.
Hi I grew up in Mobile in the 1970s, my teenage years and the early 80s my early 20s. Have you read the book "Alligators and Me, My Life in Alabama 1968"? By Molly Milner about the experiences of her and her Lutheran pastor husband in the late 1960s
I've heard of this book but have never read it. Thank you for the suggestion.
PDQ wasn't well supported here in the Phoenix metro area either.
I am still grieving!
I hate the humidity, the sticky hot summers. I hate how people cant drive in a normal speed going through the tunnel. Well, today the weather was pretty nice when I was going for my very painful MRI at USA hospital today. Don't get me wrong. The doctor, and nurses there were pleasant, and professional. I was already in pain going into to it. Dang arm is still soar as heck! Getting that MRI was such a negative experience that I hope I dont have to go through again. I almost panic when I was in that machine. I had to close my eyes, and breath slowly. Luckily I'm not too claustrophobic which got me through it. That aside the weather was nice, and I wish it was like that all year round.
I never was able to drive through the godforsaken tunnel ONCE without someone revving their engine and cutting around me like a psychopath. Every single fucking time. Like people are trying to kill you and themselves in that tunnel. Like it's a short distance, can we not just drive normally in the tunnel for ONCE?? I believe local morons deliberately use the tunnel as a drag strip or something. It's so dangerous and stupid. Mobile sucks so much dick. So very much.
Love From India 🇮🇳❤️
Should say dislike instead of hate
I totally agree, but most people would not click that title. It’s all about getting attention so they will listen to the whole video to hear what my true feelings are.
We have the most corrupt school system in the state in my opinion thats one of the things ive always disliked about Mobile you really cant get a quality education for your children as far as South Alabama and University of Mobile fantastic colleges
? How is shady acres RV Park an Amazon mobile area bout to move that area
mobille is great,with alot of history and so much potential...mobileleaders should not sit still over being bypassed by huntsville,and even montgomery..
You are correct. I was talking with the mayor a couple of weeks ago about this exact thing. They are working hard to stay on top!
Born there. Left asap.
What about tornadoes???
There are no Tormados there
i live in gulf shores and the mobile area, generally mobile feels pretty rich and snobby and has been like that for years
It’s interesting to hear you say that. I appreciate your perspective.
No that's fairhope!!!!
nope its both!@@tinyablake1593
no.@@tinyablake1593
I've visited many cities I will say mobile is better no bias you know when it's nice because you here out of Towner's trying bash the city in hopes that it fails but as we can see nobody's moving so it don't work, and also if you come here on any kind of offensive motives yes you will run into or be a victim of crime it's simple that's valid in any city
Crime is only presented to ppl into that lifestyle if your not involved you have no worries
You make a very good point. Something to consider for sure.
That is not how crime works.
That your opinion I have been here all my life and haven't had anything happen in years because I dont hang with the negative energy I'm just saying that anywhere you go to be honest
Mobile has the potential to be a good city 🌆 but it's biggest cons are the schools and the job market we have aerospace shipping and healthcare which are great industries and decent careers but we have limited training facilities to help the existing population that can't afford college our may not be a perfect fit I would like to see a more diverse job market better education programs especially for children with learning disabilities I personally feel like Alabama and the public school system failed me and fail so many others that are disadvantaged
@@marchilton8855 there are a lot of improvements that could be made in education, but after talking with the mayor a few weeks ago, and hearing him, describe a few things, it gave me great encouragement for the future.
So much to go over,you either dont know mobile that well or are disingenuous.
Most of the things that I could mention, that are bad, would quickly be followed up with what I believe is the solution, which is what I was going for in this video. Our city is certainly not perfect, and it has a lot of ways to improve, but I believe it is a city with much potential and I wanted to focus on that.
@@livinginmobile i agree,but maybe thats it. No one tries to and the corruption goes on,but i can understand not wanting to be a nail. The nail that sticks out, gets hammered.
Tornados floods occasional hurricanes power outages and more tornadoes you Snake oil salesman
Just a suggestion, buddy. If I were you, I would not put in the title. Things that I don't like about mobile Alabama. Because you're trying to SELL property .
. not trying to push people away. So I would reword it if I were you.😅
I am from Birmingham, Alabama and I made the horrid mistake of accepting a job offer and moving to Mobile in 2016. Everyone I knew warned me NOT TO GO. They knew. I knew I had made a mistake only a few weeks into moving there. I moved back out of Mobile after little more than 1 year - what a nightmarish shit hole. Mobile is incredibly stuck up yet also it's sketchy as all hell. They DO NOT want outsiders moving there. They are hostile to anyone who isn't from there - no shit. I am from Alabama, but people were openly rude because I was from elsewhere in the state. What a bougie yet impoverished, stinking ass city. It stinks literally because of the bay and the pollution and the heat. It literally fucking reeks. Also that disgusting bay? It's where 99% of all American slaves were brought in chains on ships into America during the slave trade. That's Mobile's history and why it exists. It was the slave auction capitol of the country. All the slave ships from Africa to America came into that cursed bay. It's haunted perhaps. Maybe that's why Mobile sucks so god damned hard. The city to this day is incredibly stratified by race. I've never seen a place so segregat3d or openly racist, and I am from Alabama. Oh also Mobile is the fattest city in the country, next to New Orleans, just obese Karens sweating everywhere and shoving fried food in their gullet. The worst road / intersection designs I have ever seen. Worst traffic I've ever encountered. The bridge is backed up across the bay every single fucking day. The ENTIRE downtown rush hour flow of traffic has to fit into only TWO LANES of interstate with a sharp ass turn after the tunnel = you will never get to work on time once, ever, ever, if you need to cross the bridge. Crime, rude ass stuck up people, seriously fucking rude ass people, conservative Christian assholes, hateful retrograde attitudes about everything. It was like being back in the 80's in the worst way. People just smoke cigarettes everywhere. The weather is 110% humidity. It's hot and miserable as balls, then the winters are FAR colder than you could ever imagine. Far colder than in the mountains in the north of the state where I am from. Zero public transit, zero, you'd better have your own car you are utterly fucked. Better not need anything or you are fucked. Better not be gay or not a Christian or people will be douche bags to your face. Broken down cars all over the sides of the road taking up what should be the emergency lane, the broken down cars just stay in the same place. They just stay there. There is no infrastructure or public commons or sense of community at all. It is a conservative baby boomer's wet dream. It's Trump country and you can tell by how forlorn and miserable a place it is. There's more wrong with it, but I want to just forget Mobile. If you aren't a racist ass boomer who chain smokes and says the n word, I wouldn't even drive through Mobile. What an abject shit hole.
you sound like an angry liberal, relax and take it easy, you have only 1 life to live so try and be happy, maybe smile once in a while.....
You must be fun at parties and have tons of friends!
You know that Black people and other poc live in Mobile. There is a lesbian bar owned by black lesbian married couple. I don’t know what’s wrong with you but Mobile is changing. Yeah they’re going to be some not so good people but it’s you who are drawing them in due to your nasty energy. Like attracts like.
I hate to agree with you. We're hoping to just collect our retirement and never see this place again when we do. It's truly awful, though there are buttholes in every corner of the world. A lot of people try to defend this city, because it's their home, but I've never felt the need to. I wish my family and job weren't tied to this place.
@@neonshark337 I agree. It really could be and should be a much better city. It has to do with the fact that criticism is so roundly ignored & vehemently rejected by the locals. The people there don't want things to be better, they don't want to modernize. They are even rude to someone like me moving there from the north of the state! They don't want people from Huntsville or Birmingham moving down there! It's the same state, even. How would they act to a real foreigner from overseas?? Their attitude is truly stuck in the Jim Crow era, in the George Wallace era. The problem is the jingoistic attitude of the people. Not all of them, but most of them. It's as if Mobile sucks by design. It's the stubbornness of the people. Mobile genuinely has potential to be a great place, that's what makes it so annoying.