COMMENT BY
Emily from Madison, MS
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Madison, MS
COMMENT
Awful If you can Avoid this Place Please Do For yo
I have no idea where this information comes from or how it could possibly be one of the best places to live. The cost of living here is more than anywhere I have found in the state. We have a Kroger right up the street, and you can go just not even five miles down the road to another Kroger and the prices are cheaper. I pay over 5000.00 a year in taxes on a not quite 3000 SQ foot house. The HOA in every neighborhood I have heard about think they are god. i know first hand mine does. They also increase your homeowners dues every time they can. The schools are the worst I have seen yet. They want you to think they are good. They do not help the children that are not naturally smart. The ones they have to really try and help they either can't or choose not to and find a way to get them to drop out or send them to alternative school. My smart child when I was taking her out they told me exactly, "We can't let her go her grades are too good." From the first state test they take in elementary they tell them they will fail the grade over that test. The police start to harass kids the minute they are teenagers ( and some before) and don't let up. They have a miserable time here. Things get worse a lot worse once they start to drive. They always smell marijuana in the car, and they want to search every car a kid is driving. The mayor is a dictator a poor woman was told to take down her Christmas decorations of peacocks and had that not made the news, and a Facebook page that blew up nationally, she probably would have had to take them down but once the mayor looked like a idiot nationally she changed her view. Most everyone here thinks they are better than you. But hey we did get a 28 million dollar bridge with Strawberry's on the end caps of the supports, that we didn't need... It doesn't matter that she ran in it some of the oldest houses in the city backyards and they will never be able to sale those homes now. She didn't care about that she wanted that Bridge....So I guess we know where our taxes are going. And they have voted to raise them again. She wants Hoy Road four lanes and I guess she will get what she wants again. By the way it really is unnecessary to four lane it. Could use a good pavement however. When we moved here it was a great place to live in 1994, but it is not the same. now they can no longer build homes if they are not 2500 sq ft. How does a new family afford that. They don't because they don't want you here if you don't have money. Don't think about renting because she is keeping those people out too. Even in a falling eccomony where those people were trying to save their house from foreclosure by renting it out. That isn't her problem. Power went to head and it is the worst place I know to bring a family. But hey "WE LOOK GOOD"