<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nHayden is a great small rural town that has one requirement all good southern small towns should have. About 30 minutes North of Birmingham Alabama and just East of a place called smoke rise, Hayden has a population of about 1200 residents. They get a thumbs up for their crime rate. It’s 61 percent lower than the national average. If you want to get some internet, they get a big thumbs up. You have 18 T Fiber that covers almost 70 percent of the town and they offer five gigs outstanding. They have a spectrum that offers one gig to a little over 50 percent of the town. When it comes to health care they get a thumbs up, because right down the road just outside of town about eight minutes away they have an urgent care. If you need to go to the hospital, you can go right down into Birmingham about 30 minutes away. When it comes to real estate Hayden is gonna get a faded thumbs up because they only got a couple places for sale and two of them are lots couple acres going for about twenty-five thousand dollars. They also have 53 acres being sold in town that’s going for four hundred thousand. Now on the outskirts of town you can find some homes, that are around two hundred thousand that probably need a little work. But they’re only two hundred thousand and they usually come with an acre or two. Not a bad place to live especially when you consider such a low crime rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>5. Marion<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nMarion sits about 90 minutes west of Montgomery, kind of the midway point between Montgomery and Meridian Mississippi. This is one of those great southern towns with the town square that has the county courthouse right in the middle of it and shops surrounding it, just the way an American small town should be laid out. This used to be creek territory. It was originally founded in 1819 as muckle ridge. In 1822, the city was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the swamp fox hero of the American revolutionary war. Marion has about 3 500 residents and they get a thumbs up for their crime rate, it’s actually 76 percent lower than the national average which is outstanding especially for Alabama. The only knock on this place is their internet. They don’t have the best they’re getting a faded thumbs up. They’ve ATT DSL which covers about 70 percent of the town, but it only gets up to 100 mbps. After that, you get pine belt communications which offers 100 Mbps. When it comes to healthcare they’re going to get a thumbs up, because they have a couple different clinics and a few doctors in town along with an urgent care type place. But if you need a legit hospital, you got Vaughn regional medical center down in Selma and that’s about 30 minutes away. When it comes to real estate, we’re going to give them a thumbs up because they got a lot to choose from and it’s relatively inexpensive. Most of the homes that are really inexpensive are going to need some work but you got some choices. Houses here start off around thousand dollars and work their way up to about four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Anything below two hundred thousand dollars, you’re gonna need to do some work and anything above two hundred thousand dollars is probably ready to go. They have some beautiful old homes that look like they were well maintained or recently redone and those go for about 125 thousand dollars. This is another part of Alabama that has creeks lakes rivers everywhere, so if you like to fish you like to be on the water.<\/p>
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