Picture this: You’ve been sipping sweet tea porch-side under the humid Alabama summer sky, but something whispers: “Maybe somewhere else you won’t need three fans, a dehumidifier, and a tornado-alert app just to fetch the mail.” So you glance at your moving box, wipe off a fleck of BBQ sauce, and start wondering why you’re still here. Spoiler alert: there are 14 legit reasons folks are actually starting to load the U-Haul.
The “Hey, we’re affordable!” pitch isn’t quite fooling everyone anymore.
Sure, the cost of living in Alabama is below the U.S. average. But as one redditor put it:…