Most towns promise a good time and deliver a parking lot with a chain restaurant attached, but Fairhope, Alabama skips that whole routine entirely.
Fairhope sits on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, and it’s the kind of place that makes you feel like you’ve been let in on a secret that everyone in Alabama already knows.
The town has roughly 20,000 residents, a bluff overlooking one of the most beautiful stretches of water in the South, and a crime rate so low it almost seems like a clerical error.
It’s not a clerical error…