Do you like warm summers sweet tea and crimson tide football? If so it's time to sell your home
and move to alabama alabama is a great state to relocate to especially if you're retired
the cost of living is one of the lowest in the country and has very affordable real estate more
and more people are looking to move to alabama for retirement instead of florida or arizona it's just
a little bit cheaper here in my opinion most the great places to live in alabama are in the suburbs
some of the suburbs here are amazing but they do still have some great small rural towns and that's
the focus of these videos what we're looking for in this series is that sweet spot small
rural towns that are decent places to live aren't too close to any major cities they're easy on the
crime rate and not five hours away from a hospital or so far out in the sticks that you can't get
decent internet those things knock a lot of nice rural towns off these lists crime and internet
seem to be the ones that knocked most of alabama's rural towns off today's video get it got it good
let's take a look number five cedar bluff alabama cedar bluff is a town on weiss lake about an
hour and a half northeast of birmingham near the georgia border this area is known for its crappie
fishing it's spelt crappy but it's pronounced crappie fishing it's type of fish it's not just
horrible fishing anyway this is a great lake town to retire the cost of living is below the national
average and it's on a lake that type of thing never happens well i shouldn't say never hardly
ever happens cedar bluff is a nice lake community with a lot of nature and farmland around it the
town is kind of spread out and they have about 1900 residents and it won't seem like it because
like i said it's spread out the crime rate here is 16 percent lower than the national average like i
was saying the cost of living in cedar bluff is 25 percent lower than the national average when
it comes their real estate they get a thumbs up you can get a home here for under 200 000 within
walking distance from the lake and nice homes on the water start around four hundred thousand now
if you wanna buy lake property and build or let's say park a motor home on it even better waterfront
lots start around fifteen or twenty thousand dollars when it comes the internet they get a big
thumbs up here they have tds internet which gives one gig fiber and it covers 98 of the town they
also have spectrum one gig it only covers about 20 percent of the town but at least some of you would
have an option there healthcare gets a big thumbs up too cedar bluff doesn't have anything in town
they have an ems there like emergency services thing but right across the cedar bluff causeway
about eight minutes away you have cherokee medical center eight minutes away that might
as well be in town and that's a pretty good sized place along with that that whole area right there
by cherokee medical center has different doctor's offices and orthodontists and all that good stuff
number four owens crossroad alabama owens crossroad is a small community about 25 minutes
southeast of downtown huntsville this is almost too close to major city but it's just far enough
outside to make this list the area has a history that can be dated back to the 1800s pioneers
drifted into this area from tennessee virginia north carolina south carolina and georgia with
names like wood parker craig maples carpenter but a gentleman named thomas j owens had migrated from
virginia and was the first to build his family home near the intersection of two crossroads so
it became known as owens crossroad owens crossroad has a population of about 2500 residents now
they've jumped up in population quite a bit in the 2010 census they only had 1500 so they gained
about a thousand people for this small area and they get a thumbs up for their crime rate it's 45
percent lower than the national average which is pretty good their internet they also get a
giant thumbs up because they have xfinity one gig that covers 81 percent of the town they have a t
fiber 5 gig which covers sixty percent of the town and list this it gets better google fiber two gig
covers eighty percent of the town you got some really good options here great area if you're a
remote worker with that kind of internet you know you're working for geico insurance or something
working from home this is a great place to live i mean if you're web hosting that's enough internet
to do all the things you need to do there you could start up a email marketing firm
in this small town when it comes to health care they also get a thumbs up you have crestwood
medical center on the south side of the huntsville metro area it's only about 20 minutes away from
owens crossing and they've got er and everything you're going to need it's a pretty big place owens
crossroads gets a thumbs up when it comes to their real estate they've got a lot of new construction
a lot of new homes have been built in this area and they start off around 250 270 000
that's not bad for new construction you could find older homes for under 250 000 on the outskirts of
town that are in decent shape the occasional one will pop up that's under 200 000. that might need
a little work the area is surrounded by creeks and rivers so if you like fishing i'm sure you're
not going to be bored here number 3 springville alabama springville is about 30 minutes northeast
of birmingham just outside the birmingham metro area this is another one that's on the outskirts
of a major metro area but it's still plenty rural they have new construction all over the town's
center of springville but they also have older homes and land outside of town that really show
springville as a rural place to live there seems to be a little confusion when it comes to how many
people live here wikipedia says they have 4 700 residents i looked at the u.s census it says they
have 4 200 residents so it's somewhere around there they get a thumbs up for their crime rate
it's actually 57 percent lower than the national average which is outstanding their internet also
gets a big thumbs up they have spectrum offering one gig cable internet to about 65 percent of
the town they also have wind stream offering one gig fiber to 98.2 percent of the town so you have
some options they have like three others offering cable and fiber broadband but they only cover like
four and ten percent of the town those are jtm broadband and uh go net speed so you got plenty
of options when it comes to healthcare they also get a thumbs up they have quite a few doctors and
clinics in town but if you really need a hospital you have ascension saint vincent east which is
about 25 minutes to the southeast near birmingham they also have one about 25 minutes to the north
if you need some real estate like i'd said they have a lot of new construction in and around town
those start off around 300 000 and work their way up into the 700 000 some of them are really
really nice but on the outskirts of town you can still find things for around 220 to 270 thousand
dollars that'll look nice and maybe might need a little work nothing major all in all springville
is a great place to live especially if you want to be near a major city but still live the rural
lifestyle gives you the best of both worlds this part of alabama is great for fishing actually you
know i that's really hard to find an area in alabama that's not like downtown birmingham or
montgomery that doesn't have great fishing there's whole states like that mississippi and georgia are
the same way spent a lot of time in both those states and yeah you could fish anywhere you want
stick a line in you're bound to pull something out number two hayden alabama hayden alabama is a
great small rural town that has one requirement all good southern small towns should have and
really any small rural towns no sidewalks yeah that's like a requirement now to be fair they do
have like a i don't know 20 foot stretch in front of the middle school but that's about it they
don't have any sidewalks anywhere and if you ask anyone why they don't have sidewalks they probably
look at you why do we need sidewalks then they go on to some story about how some yankee came
down here one time suggested sidewalks and they chased him out of town stories like that usually
are finished up with that was right before the war hayden sits about 30 minutes north of birmingham
alabama and just east of a place called smoke rise yeah not kidding it's called smoke rise hayden has
a population of about 1200 residents and they get a thumbs up for their crime rate it's 61 percent
lower than the national average if you want to get some internet and hayden so you could uh google
why they don't have sidewalks you got a lot of choices so they get a big thumbs up you have 18t
fiber that covers almost 70 percent of the town and they offer five gigs outstanding they have
spectrum that offers one gig to a little over 50 percent of the town you go down to
jtm broadband one gig fiber to about 45 of the town then you have go net speed fiber one gig
and they have that almost 30 percent of the town so a lot of options and a lot of good speeds here
when it comes to health care they get a thumbs up because right down the road just outside of
town about eight minutes away they have an urgent care if you need to go to the hospital you can
go right down into birmingham about 30 minutes away that might be a pain because you're going
in the city you could just head east and go to the ascension st vincent blount hospital there
that's only like 30 minutes away as well when it comes to real estate hayden is gonna get a faded
thumbs up because they only got a couple places for sale and two of them are lots couple acres
going for about twenty five thousand dollars they also have 53 acres being sold in town that's going
for four hundred thousand now on the outskirts of town you can find some homes right now that are
around two hundred thousand that probably need a little work but they're only two hundred thousand
and they usually come with an acre or two not a bad place to live especially when you consider
such a low crime rate it's really rural it's a nice place to live i wouldn't mind living here
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it's free all right on to number one and number one marion alabama marion sits about 90 minutes
west of montgomery kind of the midway point between montgomery and meridian mississippi
this is one of those great southern towns with the town square that has the county courthouse
right in the middle of it and shops surrounding it just the way an american small town should be laid
out this used to be creek territory creek indians it was originally founded in 1819 as muckle
ridge in 1822 the city was renamed in honor of francis marion the swamp fox hero of the american
revolutionary war marion incorporated the town the same year and later became perry county's second
county seat because the old one perry ridge was deemed unsuitable marion has about 3 500 residents
and they get a thumbs up for their crime rate it's actually 76 percent lower than the national
average that is outstanding especially for alabama the only knock on this place is their internet
they don't have the best they're getting a faded thumbs up they've att dsl which covers about 70
percent of the town but it only gets up to 100 mbps after that you get pine belt communications
which offers 100 mbps they only cover like 20 the town but that's fiber you know after
that you better hope that starlink works pretty good here so yeah fated thumbs up when it comes
to healthcare they're going to get a thumbs up because they have a couple different clinics and
a few doctors in town along with an urgent care type place but if you need a legit hospital you
got vaughn regional medical center down in selma and that's about 30 minutes away when it comes
to real estate we're going to give them a thumbs up because they got a lot to choose from and it's
relatively inexpensive sure most of the homes that are really inexpensive are going to need some work
but you got some choices houses here start off around thousand dollars and work their way up to
about four hundred and fifty thousand dollars now anything below two hundred thousand dollars you're
gonna need to do some work anything above two hundred thousand dollars is probably ready to go
they have some beautiful old homes that look like they were well maintained or recently redone and
those go for about 125 thousand dollars this is another part of alabama that has creeks lakes
rivers everywhere so if you like to fish you like to be on the water you can pick a lot worse places
they also have the marion military institute in town so in case you need a place to store your
kids this is a beautiful part of alabama though you ever get a chance to go out here and visit
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information out of it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other