Mobile Bay Area: Random Thoughts (Birmingham, Black: racism, cities, mayor)

[BelleFontaineMan]

Originally Posted by MardiGras251

Don’t know if you got the chance to see this but yeah it’s about 3500 voucher recipients so far but not everyone living or lived in the housing projects received the voucher. https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/p...ing-in-mobile/

I'm a big believer that we need to make this metro wide, would definitely disperse the poverty even more and allow more job opportunities, I hear Gulf shores is in dire need of lower wage jobs, that could easily be remedied, especially with that affordable housing project they are trying to get done

[MardiGras251]

Originally Posted by BelleFontaineMan

I'm a big believer that we need to make this metro wide, would definitely disperse the poverty even more and allow more job opportunities, I hear Gulf shores is in dire need of lower wage jobs, that could easily be remedied, especially with that affordable housing project they are trying to get done

Facts. First step is actually making Baldwin part of mobiles metro on paper. I don’t know what the hold up is but it’s quite odd. I can see the dire need especially with alot of the lower wage jobs being seasonal. I think a lot of the longtime citizens there are against the inevitable boom of gulf shores but it’s too late; it started with construction of condo alley( probably the best skyline in Al ) but all in all I hope they get the project done bc those ppl deserve the choice to have somewhere nice to live that is structurally stronger than say a trailer.

[MardiGras251]

What restaurants in the mobile area has fire gumbo ? I know kravers does, any others y’all know of that just really stands out ?

[PortCity]

Originally Posted by MardiGras251

What restaurants in the mobile area has fire gumbo ? I know kravers does, any others y’all know of that just really stands out ?

Seafood house.

[BelleFontaineMan]

So I went through Clarke County a few days ago, ever since the new hospital was built in Thomasville last year, there been a lot of buzz happening, Just from Highway 43 three new restaurant have been built in Jackson and now there's a Truck Stop and Holiday Inn being built in Thomasville as well as a few other constructions. I imagine the expansion of 43 north of Thomasville has created a great deal of hype for the area, not to mention they repave 4-lane 43 all the way from Grove Hill to Thomasville

[BelleFontaineMan]

So I finally found the 2020 Census data by Census Blocks

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/advan...0data%20blocks
This is the actually information by Census Block. This is how to navigate to it
Geography>Block>Alabama>Mobile County>(Select Your Census Tract)> All Blocks within ____,Mobile County, Alabama> Search> (Choose Table) and it will give the information by Block


Now to actually know what block you are wanting to look for, I also found the map that corresponds to the Census Blocks
https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2...20BLK/st01_al/
Instructions:
county/> c01097_mobile/> DC20BLK_C0197.pdf
this will bring up the mobile county map by census block, you are gonna have to zoom in a lot in order to see the census blocks

[BelleFontaineMan]

Not related to Mobile, but Long Beach MS is currently trying to annex 20 square miles of land and looking at the comments, there is an absolute massive opposition to this, glad that Mobile doesn't seem to have that problem, it is an internal problem for Mobile
https://www.wlox.com/2021/12/28/coun..._yJ4UM0I0yXKvQ

[evlb401]

Originally Posted by BelleFontaineMan

Not related to Mobile, but Long Beach MS is currently trying to annex 20 square miles of land and looking at the comments, there is an absolute massive opposition to this, glad that Mobile doesn't seem to have that problem, it is an internal problem for Mobile
https://www.wlox.com/2021/12/28/coun..._yJ4UM0I0yXKvQ

Yeah, sometimes it seems Mobile is trying to shrink and destroy itself.

[PortCity]

Originally Posted by evlb401

Yeah, sometimes it seems Mobile is trying to shrink and destroy itself.

Reading the Al.com comme st ot really does smh.

[RocketDawg]

Originally Posted by PortCity

Reading the Al.com comme st ot really does smh.

Not real sure what that means but al.com takes over the largest state newspapers, then devolves into what we have today - something pretty much useless. I think you agree.