New to here and moving to Hunts

Hi,

New to your forum and will be moving to Huntsville in the summer.  I would love to hook up with your club, looks like a ton of fun and need to find some wheeling friends when I move.  Anyone have suggestions on what area is best to live in up there?  Looking at buying a house in the next few months and would like to live in the mountains if possible.  But I hear Madison is a great place to live.  Any help?

Ken Arrington

I just had a house built between two mtns and 15 minutes outside of downtown huntsville.

Look in the New Market / NE Huntsville Area as there are some good deals to be had.  But as Dalton said, your price range, distance from work (and your work location) and size of house makes a big difference.

Madison is a very nice area but traffic to and fro can sometimes be a hassle.

AL,

that would be 85cruiser.

Patrick

wakeboarder 21 wrote: As a former Highschool student I would recommend Huntsville High over Bob Jones any day.

Hmmmm.....others might say different:

http://www.psk12.com/rating/USthreeRsphp/STATE_AL_level_High _CountyID_0.html

Although all three major schools in Hsv (BJHS, Grissom and Hsv High) are ranked well, but BJHS, as we in Madison already knew, is the highest of the three.  Also, something really interesting.....schoolmatters.com ranks the expenditures per student for Huntsville and Madison County HIGHER than per student for Madison city, yet Madison city schools ranks MUCH higher for reading and math proficiency.  Interesting.....glad you motivated me to look at this.  And BTW, I dont have a kid in the public school system, so I have no axe to grind here.

Marine wrote: Doc, not that I have an axe to grind either but Buckhorn actually has better numbers than madison with a 96 in reading and a 92 in math. compare this to madison with a 90 and a 89 respective.

I dont know where you got 90 and 89 from, when I look at the same site for BJHS it shows 95.5 and 93.3.....so you are right Buckhorn is 0.6 higher in the reading (which is really surprising) but lower in math.

Marine wrote: Why are you so suprised that Buckhorn was higher in reading?

Just stereotype, I guess - I would have expected Grissom or Hsv High to be higher than Buckhorn.  My wife informed me that Buckhorn won some "blue ribbon school" thing here a year or two ago, same as BJHS.  I just didna know.

The only reason I would avoid the Winchester road / New Market area is the rediculous traffic situation on Moore's Mill/72/565 during rush hour.  'Course Madison has its problems too, with 72 construction, old Mad Pike/Slaughter Road congestion etc.  The new middle school at the end of Farrier had a cut-through to the back of Research Park and that was alleviating a lot of the congestion  but the County School Board closed it a few weeks ago.....

I go in to work at 6:30.  It takes me about 15 minutes from my house in Madison to B5400 on Redstone Arsenal.  Cant get much better than that.

Marine wrote: Why are you so suprised that Buckhorn was higher in reading?

HU hU I wEnT to BUkHorn   Seriously, Riverton and Buckhorn schools are great in my opinion.  Now that I have a child, I tend to look at everything with a different perspective.  (I always hated school in general.)  If I wasn't already in this school district I would move to it.

cj8lvr wrote: Anybody hear anything more from this guy lately?

What guy?

Hi again,

I have been so busy with work I cant even stop to write most the time.  We made a house hunting trip to HUntsville a couple weeks ago and found one.  We put a bid on it and it looks like we may get it.  It's South east Huntsville close to where I may be working and with a great view of a mountain I want to drive up.

In the military I fly Helicopters.  Have been doing that for about 14 years and was Infantry for the 1st 6 years. Right now Im working in simulation development and accreditation.  We have no kids but still interested in schools for resale value and our agent said we are in a good school zone. 

Thanks for all the info, can't wait to get a break here and come back up.

no matter what Highschool a kid goes to these days, he/she's gonna come across drugs/alcohol....i graduated from grissom, and yea, drugs are there...but its a small croud of Thug-wannabe white kids that have to be extra crazy to get respect from the black guys....and i also went to Randolph, which is a very very preppy private school, and i experienced just as much drugs there + some because all the kids had soo much money to buy more hardcore stuff...

I would reccommend Grissom area...there is a kickbut offroad trail about 3 minutes from the school, and there are alot of people at the school, so the kid would have alot of chances to meet alot of different people through the years....just my opinion...

-James

cj8rckcrlr wrote: no matter what Highschool a kid goes to these days, he/she's gonna come across drugs/alcohol....i graduated from grissom, and yea, drugs are there...but its a small croud of Thug-wannabe white kids that have to be extra crazy to get respect from the black guys....and i also went to Randolph, which is a very very preppy private school, and i experienced just as much drugs there + some because all the kids had soo much money to buy more hardcore stuff... I would reccommend Grissom area...there is a kickbut offroad trail about 3 minutes from the school, and there are alot of people at the school, so the kid would have alot of chances to meet alot of different people through the years....just my opinion... -James

James you hit the nail right on the head. ( I also agree with what you said Case). I'm a senior at Grissom and i have enjoyed all 4 years. It has been just as easy to find the right crowd to hang out with as it is to find the wrong one.

Rumor has it that the biggest problem at GHS is about to retire. James i dont know what year you graduated but I'm sure you know what i'm talking about.

Ken where are you moving in from? What type miltec aircraft do you specialize in?

hey how about bringing me a care package from McLin's Resturant!

The time for the move is almost here.  I will be in Huntsville next week having things done to our home.  I am so looking forward to the move.  Is there a good car craft center on Redstone??

Ken

kenair wrote: I saw some nice TOYs while I was there driving around and a couple nice Jeeps.

Kenair,

 are you talking about on base in the housing area, I ask because I pretty much own all of the built up Toys in the housing on base. 2 Land Cruiser FJ-40's in the driveway one FJ-60 in front of the house and my wifes BIG suburban also in the driveway. Im just not there to enjoy all those vehicles. (Camp Ramadi, Iraq)

Kenair,

Supposed to be back late February into March.