Apartments = section 8. Or whatever government housing subsidies are called now.

Talked with a guy who invests in a lot of the apartments around Huntsville, said occupancy rate was over 90% and the need was outweighing the demand right now.

Use to be able to make it to my grandparents house out of wall triana rd in Madison from New Hope area in 30 minutes. Takes over an hour now and that’s with half decent traffic. I remember when they first started building out there, my grandpaw sold his house and bought a farm in Tennessee. He hated it!

I doubt many of these are #8 anytime soon.

All it takes is one.

There is a specific time limit on when apartments go from being brand new to being eligible for Sec 8. I do not know what that number is but most owners wish it was 30 years longer than it is now.

Main reason I quit working at Larry's was the traffic. I was rear ended once and nearly had a bad wreck a couple of weeks later. Not worth it. If I go to Huntsville twice a month now its unusual. My renter is a patrolman for Huntsville Police Dept. Told me that if I go to Hsv not to go on the Parkway. It was designed for 1985 traffic levels. The way it dips and rolls you can be going 65 all fine then top a rise and traffic be at a complete standstill. He works 3-5 wrecks himself a day.

The Parkway isn't that bad, but 565 through Huntsville is an absolute schit show at from 6:00 to 8:00 and 3:30 to 6:00...I mean SCHIT SHOW

Will it turn into liberal land and be taken over completely by demtards like Houston has? I'm hearing it is already heading that way.

So is this where we are supposed to say "yes it is" then "no its not" back and forth a few times? And next to threaten each other with our big brothers? But its my own damn fault. I ought to know better than to say anything. Will from now on.

I'm with you. And it's definitely gotten worse. Driving to Galaxy of Lights last night with the family, people on the parkway are either FLYING or going 20mph under. Causes all sorts of problems.

One problem Huntsville has in terms of growth is that they are limited on how high they can go. There’s an old ordinance that keeps them from being able to go “up”. Something about something to do with blocking the skyline from Monte Sano Mtn.

You can’t go taller in downtown, and well, theres not much ground space around it. Something’s gotta give.

I live out in the country near Elkmont. They are building new subdivisions at several places that were once farmland, crazy!

It’s drying up around here. Lots pads are leveled but no slabs have been poured yet. Some but not like it was. The price and interest rate is just too high. I can’t stomache 8% on an200$ per sqf home. A neighborhood behind my aunts home has three 700$k houses that have been empty for close to two years now. Lots more money and people in north Alabama but not so much here.

Huntsville hospital employees have had parking problems for years. I know 5yrs ago all the employees were made to park way down the street and ride a shuttle bus to work. That was before the town blew up. That was a big reason why they can't keep employees.

72 through Madison is going to be gridlocked before long. They have a bunch of apartments near that Jones farm they started developing (across from target). It’s bad now, going to be 10x worse once it’s all finished.

We've sold almost 200 building permits for new home this year

I do not believe anyone is still parking offsite. It was never everyone, but it was newer hires during all the construction of the new ortho spine tower. I would not like parking offsite either, but the biggest reason any hospital is short staffed is because of Covid leading to travel jobs paying 2-3 times as much as hospital employees

The number of apartments and hotels going in downtown and around Big Spring Park are amazing. I like that downtown isn't a bunch of empty storefronts and there lots of entertainment opportunities - baseball, hockey, soccer, music and so on

The number of jobs coming to the area is spectacular. The FBI is moving something like 3,000 people here. The Toyota plant will be 4,000 employees. That's not counting families and supporting contractors etc.

I have a different view on traffic after living in Atlanta and the Norfolk, VA area. But it is worse than it was.

Sounds like Huntsville is a carbon copy of Colorado Springs. We've been growing so fast it is hard to believe. I've heard Huntsville is similar as I want to move home. That's a bit of a let down as I want to get back to what I know. We think the climate of California along with the weed is the reason for influx of Colorado. Not sure why the same is said for Bama. Maybe they like the belching Governor or something.

Relatively low cost of living (increasing tremendously) and good paying jobs jobs jobs