Starkville rated top small town in the South. In the words of Mark Keenum...
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And we don't even have a Square or a Grove, surely there must be some bias and a mistake!
When's Lynn Spruill gonna give due credit to AJ Brown
Sorry, but Starkville is lucky to be in the Top 10 of best small town in Mississippi. Love my Dawgs, but it just isn’t. Bring on the Oxford chastisement as I’m not promoting it either, but it’s way more than having a college in the zip code.
Name the 10 small Mississippi towns that are better.
Without a doubt the only small city on the rise and the best place to live in the South.
Starkville is the Dubai of the South. Nonstop glitz and glamor with a bright, diversified future
Starkville is popular to this day because Peaches moved to Shreveport**
Oxford would have had a better chance to win if it wasn’t full of a%sholes.
@aTotal360 say, “17 em, they’re trash.”
@aTotal360 say, “17 em, they’re trash.”
What constitutes small town and whose poll is this and who’s voting on it?
I can think of a few ahead of StarkVegas…
Ocean Springs, MS
Concord, NC
Roswell, GA
Fairhope, AL
Franklin, TN
Spartanburg, SC
and that’s not even thinking too hard about it.
Starkville is great but what criteria are we judging ?
I can think of a few ahead of StarkVegas…
Ocean Springs, MS
Concord, NC
Roswell, GA
Fairhope, AL
Franklin, TN
Spartanburg, SC
and that’s not even thinking too hard about it.
Starkville is great but what criteria are we judging ?
Just accept it and be happy.
As per usual, and in a vain effort to defeat the Starkville inferiority complex, in no particular order:
1) Bay Springs
2) Ocean Springs
3) Laurel
4) Natchez
5) Oxford
6) New Albany
7) Tupelo
8) Hernando
9) Anywhere else
10) Starkville on a wing and a prayer
I didn’t say there were necessarily 10 better. And the Top 10 in Mississippi pale in comparison to some other states. I said it was lucky to be in the Top 10 of anything. Hate to break it you, but Starkville contains little, is on the way to nothing, and offers zilch outside of a place to sleep. The 60-mile radius is a societal cess pool. Additional hotels and growth aside in the last 20 years, it’s still a Petty’s, Dave’s Darkhorse, Cheers, and Flo and Eddie’s, kind of town. While not a problem for some, the talent it attracts speaks for itself. Its people have a chip on their shoulder while it’s basically the Louisiana Tech of Mississippi and little more than a piss stop for most off Hwy. 45 or 82. That isn’t meant to be offensive. It’s just reality.
Totally happy about it but just curious as to what’s being judged and population cutoff to be considered a small town.
Guessing Starkville’s population- minus
MS State, MS is about 22,000 ??
Tupelo is not a small town. You are a bad troll for citing Bay 17in Springs. Natchez is a bedroom community with limited job opportunities. New Albany is a town between Tupelo and Memphis
Tupelo by any honest metric is absolutely a small town. It’s ~#7 in a state with relatively minuscule population centers. With students, Starkville is likely less than 10k people behind. Outside of State jobs, Starkville isn’t exactly a job opportunity mecca. Your other point(s) is/are factual, although I’m not sure I understand? Meridian is between Jackson and Tuscaloosa…Tupelo is between Corinth and West Point…Memphis is between LA and Baltimore…and?
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lol, New Albany? GTFOH with that kind of stupidity.
We’ve all got opinions, hoss. I’d argue the quality of public schools in the area catapult it above anything within the Golden Triangle.
I believe there's a separate "Small College Town" , this one was for Best Small Town in the South", nothing to do with "college town". I think last year or maybe 2 years ago Oxford was "Best Small College Town in the South"
If you mention Starkville in a good light in a thread on Sixpack TroyMcClure will come to the rescue to point out you’re wrong.
Like clockwork.
Like clockwork.
I don't know what the criteria are, but I wouldn't classify Spartanburg and Franklin as small.
This board never ceases to amaze. Some of yall will complain about literally anything. Take the good pub and let our socials share it with everybody they can. Starkville has gotten so much better over the last 20-30 years. I can’t wait to see what it’s like in the next 10.
Franklin is not what I’d consider a small town. The others are pretty nice tho.
Your vain effort to "defeat the Starkville inferiority complex" is a list of towns that are better and a diatribe to convince us how bad it is...
What's the point in shltting on Starkville? Just be happy someone sees it in a positive light.
