Eyesores in Madison (Huntsville: buy, price, donated)

[djmaxwell]

Originally Posted by HSVAeroEngineer

One of my major pet peeves about the culture here so far is the amount of BS excuses people to try to come up with just to justify not taking any action.

Who's making excuses? I went to the very little trouble to provide you with the information regarding your non-Madison eyesore. What have you done with it? Are you going to contact the owner or are you just going to complain?

[aero10]

Originally Posted by HSVAeroEngineer

One of my major pet peeves about the culture here so far is the amount of BS excuses people to try to come up with just to justify not taking any action.

I see that at work at lot mostly with the more blue collar types, mostly natives.

My buddy who is not from here has a little skit he does with the Southern accent- I can see how people here would be offended but it is basically:

One guy tells the other "Go throw this in the dumpster" The guy responds, "Oh you know, it is gonna rain, the dumpster is too far to walk to and it is too hot outside"-Spot on!

I think you picked the wrong place to move to. It's obvious you don't like the area.

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by RocketDawg

Just curious - why did you decide to move to such a backward area?

Missionary trying to save the natives. My wife had a next door neighbor, a nurse, who moved to South Alabama to save the natives, she moved there from some place in Mass. This was right after WW2. She clearly was a missionary. She had the attitude.

[HSVAeroEngineer]

Originally Posted by RocketDawg

Just curious - why did you decide to move to such a backward area?

Because I was offered a strategic position with a company as an Engineer in Aerospace that probably I could only find in California or Cape Canaveral.

Secondly, the amount of business and investment opportunities I have been able to identify in this area so far are incredible- it would be impossible to do the same things I am planning to do here in California or Colorado.

As much as I like the state of California and the way do and go about certain things, the currently culture there is total crap. The politics are crap, nobody gives a damn about anybody, the amount of homeless people and drug users in CA is just absurd, most ungodly state in this nation by far.

I am a very Conservative person too- so I was also tired in living a Liberal area- the politics in Colorado are total crap too. Making weed legal in Colorado was one of the most idiotic things they could have done, some of the little mountain towns now have 2 or 3 dispensaries- it created a culture of laziness and loserness- a lot of people in the small towns dont even work anymore, just smoke weed all day, absolutely pathetic.

I am very grateful to be here but I do not have to with agree with things that do not make any logical or rational sense in my mind.

[VTsnowbird]

warning that this thread will be shut down if more moderation is needed. Please stay on topic.

[needtosellmyhome]

I've definitely got the right way to bring it back on topic!

I was sitting in traffic at the light at the intersection of Slaughter and Eastview this week and noticed the shack that was discussed here has been completely torn down the lot scraped clean!

Did the owner see this post or did anyone actually contact her as was suggested here?

Originally Posted by HSVAeroEngineer

Thought I would start a thread to list some eyesores in Madison. There is one I drive by everyday and I still don't understand what the heck that is all about.

800 block of Slaughter Rd, almost across from St Andrews Anglican Mission Church-there is shack, with overgrown brush all around it- if I had to guess, it has probably been sitting there for 30 years untouched.

I don't understand how the city can allow a structure like that to just sit untouched-what exactly are they waiting for before they demolish it?

If that property has any historical significance, they need to fix it. Otherwise, I don't understand what purpose that serves.

[Rick In Madison]

I think (will check the next time I drive by, hopefully tomorrow) I saw the sign on the land facing Eastview had a "sold" on it.

By the way; same stuff, different forum:

https://nextdoor.com/profile/01WJP6x...feed_commenter

[MdWestMama]

Originally Posted by Rick In Madison

I think (will check the next time I drive by, hopefully tomorrow) I saw the sign on the land facing Eastview had a "sold" on it.

By the way; same stuff, different forum:

https://nextdoor.com/profile/01WJP6x...feed_commenter

I saw a comment a few days ago that appeared to call him out too.

[johnsonkk]

Originally Posted by MdWestMama

I saw a comment a few days ago that appeared to call him out too.

On nextdoor? Wow.

[maillemaker]

I like that little old shack. I drive by it all the time. I think it's interesting how little bubbles of "ancient history" become stuck sometimes when the "big city" grows up around it.


That little shack looks like a sharecropper home from the 1930s. It would be neat to get some photos of it when all the kudzu is dormant or cut down. A few years ago someone had cleared away all the vegetation and it was a quaint looking old building.


I know a lot of people just see "junk". I see a window to a bygone era. Very few buildings in America get preserved or kept for long. They are just bulldozed and the next new throw-away thing is erected. Little bits like this pop out of existence all the time. Enjoy them while they are around.


Huntsville is growing so fast it won't be long and there won't be a cotton field to be found.