city limits - 8/6/2013

Live within anniston city limits in my grandparents old house. Neighborhood has housing projects twoo blocks away. Primary residents are African American. Lot of houses are in bad need of repair. No one bothers us even though we are some of only few caucasian neighbors around.

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nice cost of living - 8/26/2009

Anniston is your typical small, rural alabama town. Last I heard the city was around 20,000 or so; the whole of calhoun county around 100,000. Cost of living is low, important to a retired guy like me. For 100,00 or so you can get a nice middle class house in a nice middle class area. Push towards $225,000 to 250,000 you get one of those McMansion on an acre or more. Property taxes are about $400 per $100,000 of value. The Army shut down Fort McClellan in 1995, the local ecomomy really got whacked with that and is still trying to recover. There is some light to medium industry and agriculture (tree farms) is big. We still do have the Army depot too. Anniston is surrounded by national forests, state parks, and wildlife refuges. Lake Logan Martin is 25 min. away, Lake Wedowee about 40, with others within an hours drive. There are 6 golf courses within a 30-40 min. drive. Birmingham is about 1 hour away, Atlanta about 90 min. drive. Jacksonville State Univ. is 15 miles north and Gadsden State in in the city. Public schools are problematic at best. Most people that can afford it do private schools or home school. It seems that almost every church sponsors its own private school. Of my friends and aquaintances that have school age kids, I'd say 15-20% do that rather than utilize the public system. Small town politics is pretty much the same all over I'd say. Lots of ego trips, the "good ole' boy" system is thuroughly entrenched here. The atmosphere is heavily christian conservative/republican. Viewpoints can be narrow and minds tend to stay closed. When change occurs, it usually happens with a lot of kicking and screaming. Welcome to my world ;)

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Anniston/Oxford Area - 4/18/2007

I've been in the area for a couple of years and overall the area is not that bad. The city of Oxford is growing and many new businesses have recently opened (Target, Olive Garden, TJMAX, LaneBryant, Old Navy, Longhorn, BestBuy) - that really improved the area. For a young person there is not much to offer in the area. But luckily it is located close to Atlanta and Birmingham. The cost of living is low, however, there are not many options for those who prefer to rent. The available rentals to choose from are very slim and in most cases run-down looking. There are only a small handfull of decent apartments (and for some reason the area land lords do not practice monthly bug control - this really bothers me!).

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Anniston is poor but a nice place - 4/2/2007

I grew up in the 50 very close to Anniston. I frequently go back there to visit relatives and friends. I find Anniston to be a bit run down, a bit poorer than it was. But still a nice friendly place. A great place to raise kids now. But, alas there are not too many high tech jobs around. So it may be a great place to retire too. Land is still fairly cheap around Anniston, and some of the land is quite nice.

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oh yea one more thing - 11/5/2005

this dude i know his brother is a police officer in anniston.....and he told his brother that no one really knows all the crime and how bad anniston really is.....if yall think ATL is bad.....check into it...people constantly go from ATL to anniston and vice versa....same stuff goin on in both places.....id just laugh if yall think im lyin

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I dont see how yall dont know how bad anniston is - 11/5/2005

man i been livin here ever since i was born.....i frequently go from here to atlanta...know all kinds of people in both places......in my opinion yea atlanta is a bad place....but yall really need to like conduct some further investigation on how bad anniston is.....i aint even playin and i know they said atlanta was falsifying crime reports....yalls crime rates w anniston VS Atlanta....not too much difference and all of us down here know those aint all that goin down down here..hell wasnt it rated the worst place to live in america or somethin....yall need to look into this place....its CRAZY DOWN HERE

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