COMMENT BY
Jane from Orange Beach, AL
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Orange Beach, AL
COMMENT
Culture in desperate need of improvement! Recreat
This area is heavily populated with ostentatious elitists. It is growing rapidly and, because it is so expensive to live here now, it seems to only be attracting the wealthy. The culture is becoming more and more difficult to tolerate. The political corruption is terrible -- the former Mayor of Orange Beach was recently sentenced to prison, and there are even more charges pending! There is obviously a shrinking middle class in Orange Beach -- there is the wealthy and the poor, and not very much in between. Individuals who expect to earn a living wage in this area are in for a big surprise -- you cannot exist here on the wages which are paid locally. On a positive note, it is a lovely sub-tropical area and the climate is very nice. Water sports and fishing abound, and represent the only saving grace for the area. It is a great place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live here!