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Post by Judicially Imployed on Apr 15, 2016 17:04:04 GMT -5
Bumping this for all of my fellow candidates who MAY be spending the weekend researching cities on their certs.
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Post by upperwolfjaw on Apr 15, 2016 17:10:07 GMT -5
Tupelo? Is it possible to fly there? Research online turns up no easy way to do it, but maybe I am missing something.
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Post by Gaidin on Apr 15, 2016 18:03:30 GMT -5
Tupelo? Is it possible to fly there? Research online turns up no easy way to do it, but maybe I am missing something. I believe funkyodar reported flights to Nashville in another thread the other day. That may of course involve flying in a cropdusters back seat I don't know.
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Post by JudgeRatty on Apr 15, 2016 18:08:27 GMT -5
Tupelo? Is it possible to fly there? Research online turns up no easy way to do it, but maybe I am missing something. I believe funkyodar reported flights to Nashville in another thread the other day. That may of course involve flying in a cropdusters back seat I don't know. I think I remember him saying he drove his tractor really fast to pull that crop duster into flight. Yep, that's it.
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Post by minny on Apr 15, 2016 19:40:53 GMT -5
Tupelo? Is it possible to fly there? Research online turns up no easy way to do it, but maybe I am missing something. I believe funkyodar reported flights to Nashville in another thread the other day. That may of course involve flying in a cropdusters back seat I don't know. About an hour and a half to the Memphis airport, I believe.
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Post by upperwolfjaw on Apr 15, 2016 19:42:11 GMT -5
Yikes - it's 3.5 hours drive from Nashville airport to the Tupelo ODAR, according to Google. If I'm going to drive that long on a commute, I'd expect to already be there (not just at the airport)! Tupelo is starting to look like "you can't get there from here."
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Post by funkyodar on Apr 15, 2016 19:45:40 GMT -5
Memphis International is about 80 minutes from my house.
Tupelo regional has multiple flights per day but only to Nashville.
Right now, round trip tupelo to Nashville is $38.00.
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Post by christina on Apr 15, 2016 19:50:37 GMT -5
Right now, round trip tupelo to Nashville is $38.00. wow!
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Post by funkyodar on Apr 15, 2016 19:52:52 GMT -5
Right now, round trip tupelo to Nashville is $38.00. wow! I know, right? But, I presume for that price you have to sit in a window seat, with arm out the window and be willing to flap like hell.
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Post by christina on Apr 15, 2016 19:56:42 GMT -5
not necessarily. so funky, what are the best and worst things about Tupelo? is humidity what one would expect for Mississippi?
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Post by funkyodar on Apr 15, 2016 20:14:15 GMT -5
The northern part of Mississippi is hill country and the temps and humidity is better than the pine belt region where Jackson and hattiesburg are. It's still the south so it gets hot. But more on par with like Arkansas or northern Texas.
Great things?
Cost of living is as low as anywhere in the country. Tupelo has pretty much everything you need including very good schools and great medical.
Mississippi gets a bum deal on education. Most of the state is average to very good. The poor, corrupt delta region has horrible schools, as does Jackson's inner city, and they drag the state down horribly.
With tupelo you get a great small city with all the southern charm, maybe 2 DC style snows a year, ridiculously low crime rate and as a starting alj my salary was on par with the chief justice of the state Supreme court's. A couple steps of the ladder and you are making more than the governor.
State taxes are relatively low. You aren't gonna go to the opera or ballet in Tupelo or shop at a versace. But, 30 minutes away in Oxford at Ole Miss you can get culture out the ying and up the yang and 90 minutes east or west puts you in Memphis or Birmingham respectively where you can shop to you drop.
I'm able to live so far out in the country I have no visible or audible neighbors. Yet, 15 minutes in any cardinal direction has me in a Walmart. Takes me 20 minutes to get to work. My kids attend a goodschools.com 5 star school that's A+ rated by safe schools, play tennis, play in the band, take great field trips and it's a public school.
For someone looking for a more laid back existence, it's truly hard to beat.
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Post by christina on Apr 15, 2016 20:17:19 GMT -5
hmm. hills are sounding nice too. but hubby and i are looking at Fayetteville homes as we speak. i will try to convince him mississippi is not as terrible as he thinks. oxford certainly looks lovely when they show UMiss footage on TV and i don;t think that is too far from tupelo
and i think you could head to memphis or nashville for culture too, or as you mentioned, the UMiss campus.
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