--- Page 1 --- [Cameron]: All right, you're watching Boomtown , a podcast about Huntsville's explosive growth, both on and off the Arsenal. I'm Cameron Walker, your host. I'm the broker/owner of Cameron Walker Realty, located right here in Huntsville, and you're joining me and my co-host, Megan. Love that you guys are here. We ask that you subscribe so we can keep you informed of everything that's going on in Huntsville. [Megan]: Welcome back, everybody! I'm Megan Hines, and I'm here with Cameron. We are—well, he's Cameron Walker, I'm Megan Hines, and this is the Boomtown podcast. Today, we are going to talk about something I think is really important: where you're actually going to live if you move to the area. It may sound strange to say, but what is Huntsville? Where is Madison? Where is this odd, northern Alabama place that you've possibly never been to? Where is everything, what are the differences between them, and where might you like to end up? [Cameron]: Yeah, I mean, great point. Huntsville is kind of like a water balloon that somebody poked in a few different spots, and it started leaking out. This doesn't have the clearly defined edges that you might see in some other parts of the country or other cities. [Megan]: Yeah, when I first moved here, I never knew where I was. I was very confused because Madison and Huntsville sort of bleed together. And Owens Crossroads—is that even a separate place, or is it part of Huntsville? [Cameron]: I guess it all depends on what we're referencing. From a tax standpoint, it's in a different tax rate, but the kids go to Huntsville City Schools; they use some county services and some city services. I know I had a homebuyer a couple of years ago, and when their appraisal was completed, the inspector put "Huntsville" instead of "Owens Crossroads" (or vice versa), and we couldn't go to closing on time until the inspector corrected that. It was the city inspector—not a home inspector—and you're fighting City Hall to get them to change something, but you're also fighting City Hall with the lender. So yeah, it does get these little gray areas, and overlaps can become a problem. [Megan]: And so, just so everybody has this pictured in their minds, we have Huntsville. Huntsville City is in one place, but Huntsville is annexing land all over the place. If you look on a map, you'll see that Madison is actually surrounded by Huntsville on almost all sides. And then if you keep going west, you come to Athens. So it goes Huntsville, Madison, Athens toward the west. And then on the other side, you have Owens Crossroads, which is over this little mountain range that includes Monte Sano and Green Mountain. So you have mountain views when you come into Owens Crossroads; it's sort of a valley surrounded by mountains. And if you go north, you have Meridianville and Harvest, north of all of these. I hope you can picture that. If not, get out a map. [Cameron]: Absolutely. My favorite tool for mapping out Huntsville is Google Maps. Go to your computer, bring up Google Maps, and type in "Huntsville." It's going to outline in a little bit of red, --- Page 2 --- and that'll show you. It's just a big donut, and Madison is in the middle of the donut hole. Then, to your point about annexing land: it seems like not a week goes by that Huntsville doesn't annex thousands of acres from a surrounding county or city or municipality. If you just go into Google and type "Huntsville annexes," look at how many news stories come up. About a year and a half ago, Huntsville became the most populous city in Alabama. It's not that we're the most populous metro area; it's just because city limits have expanded so far with these annexes that it's just, by default, brought people into the population base. It's a little misleading when you look at Huntsville's size; I think we're even in the top 30 in the nation as far as geographic size now. [Megan]: Growing and growing! But it throws people off because we're not a super heavily populated city, but it would appear that we are if you just look at the solid numbers. So, why is Huntsville trying to "eat the world" like this? [Cameron]: There's so much economic expansion here. Huntsville has done a good job—for the most part, not perfect—of segmenting different parts of town for different industries. We have the Arsenal very close, and right by the Arsenal, we have Research Park. So much is going on there with missile testing, rocket testing, cybersecurity, and everything else; it becomes its own little pocket. There's a lot of manufacturing in our area, both inside the aerospace industries and outside—we have Toyota-Mazda manufacturing and all the little sub-plants. We have a lot of logistics, shipping, and warehousing. These areas don't really want too much cross-pollination with residential areas, so you see Huntsville annexing these areas so they can bring in these businesses and give them a place to call home where they're not trampling on the nature of where people live. [Megan]: It's the same city planning that brought us all these amazing city centers; they're also bringing in businesses that can actually fund those things. [Cameron]: Absolutely. Those lands were not part of Huntsville in many cases originally; they were annexed in to create these different city centers and districts. It expands the tax base. A lot of times, you'll see an individual business—like an anchor store—get a tax exemption, or maybe they get some of their infrastructure or construction paid for. But because they bring in so many jobs, there are going to be so many more nearby homes and nearby businesses. It more than offsets the economic expense, and it allows those of us that are residents here to enjoy many more fruits of the city's labor. [Megan]: Okay, but you could be living in Huntsville and be really far from the Huntsville city center. That's why it's confusing. You're looking at a map, you're planning on moving here, and you're like, "Is this Huntsville?" If you're out there in certain parts of Huntsville, you might have to commute quite a bit to get to work, or your whole life might not seem like it's in Huntsville because all the amenities that you use might be in, say, Madison or Athens. --- Page 3 --- [Cameron]: No, absolutely. And schools are a big problem with that, too. You even have kids that live in one area, and their school is so far away. There are kids that have 30 to 45-minute bus rides one way, and that's in great traffic! Imagine if it's worse. Another thing is it gets really confusing when people move here because the overlap for things is vast. An example I like to give: my kids are in Madison City Schools; their bus comes down. I sold a house a quarter-mile from where I live. My kid's bus goes to that neighborhood because there are other kids that go to their school who live in that neighborhood. The people I sold the house to, they are not part of Madison City, they're not part of the Madison City School District. But if they had a neighbor next door, that kid would be, and they would pay Madison City taxes. And that is not the only neighborhood where that happens. It's not just Madison City Schools and Huntsville City Schools; it can be Madison County, it can be Limestone County, it can be Athens. There are so many areas where that bleed-over happens. If you don't know specifically what you're looking for, go on any of the forums—Facebook, Reddit, anywhere else—you will find people literally complaining that they bought a home thinking it was in one school district or tax district and it wound up being in another. [Megan]: And you can check all of these things. We can do it for you if you're working with us, but you can go online. Madison City has a website, and there are ways to check your tax rate wherever you are. I would say that if you're moving from most places, your property taxes are going to seem lower here regardless, but there is a difference between Madison City taxes, Huntsville, Athens, Owens Crossroads, and the counties. [Cameron]: Actually, Madison County has a great website where you have a property tax estimator, and you can go in and select from any of those different tax rates. It's by locality, so you don't have to guess which one of five numbers is yours. If you're buying in Huntsville, you select "Huntsville" from the drop-down box. If you live in Huntsville proper, you might get rezoned for a school, but you're still in Huntsville City Schools. If you're in Madison, you're going to be in Madison schools; Athens the same way. You might get rezoned for the particular school, but you will stay in the school district. That's confusing to people, too. [Megan]: I will say the exception is if your area is annexed. That can be a difference. That seems to be a one-way street: you're either in the county, or you get annexed by a city. They're not kicking you out of the city! I don't see that happening. There are definitely areas where a house is surrounded by a city, and it's unincorporated. I don't know the history behind those things, but there are areas—like near Rainbow Elementary School—where it's like polkadotted, where one house is in Madison City and the next house is not. I always think of the movie Up ; it's that guy. [Cameron]: Yeah, that guy! Okay, there you go. But when you started this, we were talking about going around the globe, around Huntsville. You have these different pockets and areas, and you have areas that have a local name, but there's nothing actually known. Like, I love Monrovia; it's one of my favorites. I love that part of town. I love driving through there. It's gorgeous. But unless you're a Huntsville local and grew up here, it's just a name on a map. There's no post --- Page 4 --- office; nobody's address ends in "Monrovia, 35..." zip code. That can be troubling for people moving here from elsewhere. They're like, "Oh yeah, that's over in Monrovia," and you're like, "Where?" [Megan]: Yeah, that confused me. I moved here 10 years ago, and people would tell me a place, and I'd be like, "Wait, I'm in a different city now? Where am I?" And now I have to find Monrovia, which doesn't exist on any maps. For sure, if you want to start a fight in Huntsville, go into a bar and tell somebody where you think Jones Valley stops. [Cameron]: I'm not doing that! Exactly. Everybody has their own opinion. Same thing with Five Points: what is and isn't Five Points? And Blossomwood... all these little pockets and areas. They're just not as clearly defined as maybe they once were. Depending on when you moved to Huntsville and what you were taught, everybody has a very strong opinion on what is or isn't in Jones Valley or Blossomwood. Part of that is because the Huntsville area has grown so much over the last 20 years. At one point, these places were separated; there was farmland around these places. South Huntsville was mostly farmland 20 years ago, and then it had these little centers. Now it's developed and everything bleeds together, but it still has the names. If you're coming here from another place, it's confusing. But for clarification, starting on the east side in Owens Crossroads—what would you say is the reason someone might choose Owens Crossroads to live? [Megan]: It's gorgeous—a valley surrounded by mountains—and it probably has the easiest access to the multitude of outdoor activities you can do in the Huntsville area. You've got hiking, biking, there's even some horse trails over there, you've got the greenways, great golf courses, canoeing, Flint River... yep, canoeing, kayaking. And you and I were talking the other day, and you brought up a really good point: it's only about 30 minutes from Guntersville Lake, and you have a state park there. If you're an outdoor enthusiast who still loves some amenities—like a fancy outdoors person—there's really good sushi over there, but you can go hiking all the time. [Cameron]: Exactly. I'm over there all the time. I've had quite a few clients over the last couple of years, especially some that do new construction, so I was always over there while their house was coming up. It's funny, you can be in the heart of Owens Crossroads and you're 10 to 15 minutes from Jones Valley and all the shopping and dining—the AMC movie theater and all that—or you're 10 to 15 minutes from the medical district in downtown, going the opposite direction. But when you drive out there, you feel isolated because you've got beautiful trees. There's more and more buildup, but they're nowhere near approaching, say, Madison, which is just a sea of neighborhoods. I think that's probably the biggest draw over there. I kind of think of Green Mountain as the divider; you're on one side of it or the other. You're in southeast Huntsville or you're in Owens Crossroads. There is a little mountain range, and Monte Sano goes right into Green Mountain. The east of that mountain range is pretty much Owens Crossroads. As far as living there, you're basically part of Huntsville—you're in Huntsville City Schools, you --- Page 5 --- pay (I think) Huntsville Utilities, your tax rate is different, and you get to say you're in Owens Crossroads. [Megan]: So, back to our fighting about where Jones Valley ends: another fight if you want to start one is to call everything over there "Hampton Cove." It is too common for people to call it Hampton Cove nowadays, and Hampton Cove is a neighborhood. Just north of that, you've got Bailey Cove. People who have been here 20, 30, 40 years will reference those distinctly: you have Owens Crossroads, you have Hampton Cove, you have Bailey Cove. People that are new here—Bailey Cove is probably the least likely—they will call anything within three or four miles of the Hampton Cove neighborhood "Hampton Cove." [Cameron]: Okay, then you come over the mountain. We're just going to work our way east. You're in Huntsville proper, and you have South Huntsville, North Huntsville, and Central Huntsville. Why might someone choose those? [Megan]: I kind of think of Huntsville as five distinct areas. Southeast Huntsville is very similar in some ways to Owens Crossroads; you have beautiful mountains, trees, still easy access to outdoor activities, but it actually feels like a suburb within a city. It's still tree-lined streets, sidewalks, the kids out playing in the grass. As you make your way further north, you kind of get into that city center area. I'm going to expand that circle beyond what a lot of people do—I'm going to include city center, downtown, Five Points, all that—so you feel a little bit more of an urban area, like your taller buildings, a lot more red brick, a lot more gray concrete. But that's also where you're going to find inner-city condos and bungalow houses where you're walking distance from everything. Northeast Huntsville, particularly once you get up over Chapman Mountain or Monte Sano, you kind of come back down into a valley again, but you also have those homes up on those mountains. Northwest Huntsville? Gosh, there's so much going on there; so many different vibes. You can't really encapsulate it in one thing. Ton of growth there, both commercial and residential. And Southwest Huntsville—there's only so much that can go on there because you have the Arsenal, so you have a little bit of residential surrounding the Arsenal, and then you bleed over into Madison. [Cameron]: I live in South Huntsville, and I think one of the things that makes Huntsville different—South Huntsville included—is that Huntsville was built up during the space program. It's got a lot of mid-century homes from that time when we had these engineers coming in; they were affluent and intelligent, and they had a vision for how they wanted the city to look and how they wanted their homes to look. These neighborhoods are very classic-looking; it's almost like these Leave It to Beaver neighborhoods from that era. They are spotted around the city: you can find them in Northwest, you can find them in Blossomwood, you can find them in Southeast, you can find some of them up on Monte Sano. And you can also find a handful of modern homes. I think they're really cool, but a lot of people don't like them. If you go up on Monte Sano, you can find a modern home across the street from a log cabin, next to a colonial, next to a shanty. You --- Page 6 --- do have these eclectic places, too. The neighborhoods you were talking about aren't cookie-cutter, but once you get out in the suburbs, there's more of that. [Megan]: I have to mention the Monte Sano neighborhood, too, because I think it is one of the most charming neighborhoods in Huntsville. It is pricey at this point up there on top of the mountain, but it really feels like your own vacation when you get to the top. It's woodsy, it's got this big state park behind it, and a lot of the houses have views of the valley. I went up there when it snowed, and it was like Santa's village. I love it. [Cameron]: Absolutely, it's a cool area. It's like many parts of Huntsville; it has some really close-knit community groups. There's an area where you might have a lot of stay-at-home parents or homeschooled kids, so they have a cooperative there where they can help each other with homeschooling, own shares in some neighborhood amenities, and things like that. You're walking or biking distance to the state park, and you have these stunning overviews whether you're on one side of the mountain or the other—overlooking the city or looking toward Owens Crossroads. It has a feel; if you're coming from Colorado, the West Coast, or Oregon, you're going to be surprised at how familiar it feels. It doesn't have as much of an Eastern feel; it feels mountainous, lots of pines, lots of views. It has that pine tree smell that I associate with Colorado. [Megan]: It's obviously the closest thing in elevation we have to that, and that probably does impact some of that. Then, coming down off of that, you go down into what I consider Northeast Huntsville—the Ryland area, Brownsboro, even getting over a little towards Maysville and going up into New Market. It's really pretty. I always notice that over there, it has the best sunsets. [Cameron]: It does, because you come into the flat, and it used to be really all farmland. You still see a horse or some goats right next to new construction. It still has this very homey, southern feel; it's comforting. It's a "lemonade on the porch," "sweet tea," "sunset" area for sure. But it's also another area where you bleed from Huntsville into New Market in the span of feet. Even there, it can get confusing because you might actually be in the county but have a Huntsville mailing address and zip code. That throws a lot of people off. When I have these conversations with people moving here, we may be looking at a house in a specific neighborhood, and they're adamant that it's Huntsville. I understand the name is Huntsville, but I'll have to bring up some resources for them to realize this truly is a Madison County school or tax district. It happens in Madison, too, but it's one of those areas where the barrier isn't hard and flush; you have to know where it is. [Megan]: We keep talking about Jones Valley. Let's tell people what Jones Valley is. [Cameron]: Jones Valley is actually the largest urban farm in the U.S. Walden Mountain, Green Mountain, and I want to say Huntsville Mountain all kind of meet there. You have this gorgeous --- Page 7 --- green valley. If you come over one of the mountains in the spring or the summer, it's just vibrant green—a green Crayola couldn't recreate. It bleeds down; it's the farm, and over the years some of the farmland's been sold off, so there's a big shopping center and some neighborhoods. But before you get to one of those mountains and drive over, you'd have no idea it's in there. It feels like when you watch a movie and they come over a cliff into a valley. [Megan]: I actually live right by there, so I drive by it every day. I think it's one of the most charming things about this area. There aren't many urban places where you drive down and you see cows in a field, a beautiful little pond, and mountain views. It looks like a postcard. It's in the middle of town, and it's absolutely amazing that they've kept it intact this far. I hope it stays intact. You have some stunning views from above, too, because you go up to Blevins Gap and you can overlook that area. It's just gorgeous. If you need a lot of natural beauty to be happy, that might be where you want to live. [Cameron]: If you want mountainous, hilly, stunning views, you do just about have to be on the east side of Huntsville. You get over to the west side, you have Wade Mountain and Rainbow Mountain, but that's really it. It's just flat farmland for as far as you can see. You feel like you're in Iowa or something. [Megan]: We've been in the beautiful Jones Valley, then we're coming... South Huntsville is close to the Arsenal. If you have a job on the Arsenal, you can live in South Huntsville and have a very easy, fast commute and avoid I-565. [Cameron]: Absolutely. Now, you have to deal with all the stuff that comes from the Arsenal—the rocket testing, the FBI and ATF have a bomb range down there—so you get some loud noises and some booms. Sometimes I think aliens are landing, for sure! I find it exciting. But you have easier access to the Arsenal, so with people with the back-to-work orders and traffic stacking up at the gates, you're mitigating some of that if you live closer. You also have Ditto Landing and easy access to the Tennessee River and points further south. The only thing is there's so much stuff down there that if you don't work in another part of town, you might just never leave. You might be with your South Huntsville people and not go anywhere else! [Megan]: There are some drawbacks to being down there, too. You've got South Parkway drivers. The Parkway can get backed up. There's always an accident on it, several times a week. That's why you stay down there! But it is cool, like something unique to that area: you have these surface feeder roads. If there is an accident, you can get off and go around it. It's a unique scenario with the roadways; I always find it kind of cool. There's a learning curve to that, though—that's why I didn't [use them] at first, but when I first moved down there, I didn't know, so I'd just sit there. --- Page 8 --- [Cameron]: I feel like we've covered South Huntsville well. Some areas that I've really been drawn towards recently—a lot of clients I've been working with—are areas like Midtown and Providence. [Megan]: Providence and Midtown are fun. We have a lot of people moving here for all kinds of reasons. I sold a house last year to a young guy, 25, buying his first house. He wanted to be around people, to meet a lady friend. It's hard anywhere if you get too far out; it can be challenging if you're looking to mingle. [Cameron]: I've certainly had clients with those same things. I had somebody buy in Providence about a year and a half ago. She was later in life, looking for a man. She reached out to me trying to find out more about 55-plus communities. I told her we have a handful, but they're small. When we really got to talking, Providence was what she wanted; she didn't care about an age restriction. She wanted a close-knit group of people with clubs and things to do. It turned out we met with the senior sales rep at Providence—she's been there forever, sold houses to generations of people—so she knows everybody. She was able to put us in touch with the book club, a supper club, and things my client was really into. She could immediately integrate with the social scene. If she was over where I live, once you get past my neighborhood, it's cows and corn. You're not going to have a lot of places to mix and mingle. It gets to be hard without those areas like Midtown, MidCity, and Providence to make those connections. [Megan]: People are so isolated these days. There are a lot of people in this area who are not from here—because of the Arsenal, tech, and people transitioning—and they can be lonely. These city centers allow for a social lifestyle without being in an environment that is so urban where you feel like you're dealing with urban problems. And those meetups are really cool. We're a nerdy, geeky town, so that's easy to find. But a lot of people say, "Hey, I want to meet people, but I don't drink." So the bar or brewery scene isn't the right fit. Having these city centers where there's more than that—nice restaurants, gaming setups, all kinds of stuff—is important. If you buy on the outskirts of town or out in one of the suburbs, you're going to have to drive in to have access to those. Because we don't have a ton of infrastructure for mass transit, if you are going out to have drinks, you need to be really careful. You need to have that Uber ride home. [Cameron]: Heading further west, we find ourselves in Madison. Surrounded by Huntsville, it's the "Gooey Center." I live in Madison myself, and I always tease people: you can walk from a driveway to a church parking lot, to a school, to a grocery store, all the way across and never touch grass. If you look at it from a satellite view, it is a sea of neighborhoods. Big family draw there, schools are highly rated. A lot of people moving here learn that before they came. I really love it there, but I'm more of a homebody. There's not a lot of adventurous stuff to do over there, but there are a lot of parks, greenways, and green space despite the neighborhoods. Great sidewalks, awesome places to take our family for walks or bike rides, and a lot of neighborhoods have pools, clubhouses, and playgrounds. Everything you would want for your family. If I Google a dance class I want my daughter to go to, there's always more of them in --- Page 9 --- Madison—kids karate, dance, archery, basket weaving. If you want your kid to do something, you can find somebody to teach them that in Madison. [Megan]: Absolutely, there's all kinds of classes. My kids are three-sport athletes; they do dance, cheer, and archery. In a couple of weeks, we're doing a big math competition over there. There's just always something. With that said, if you're looking for bigger activities—the trampoline parks, the museums, the baseball stadium, the sports teams—those are all really going to be in Huntsville. Fortunately, it's super close, but it is a car ride in to do those things. [Cameron]: Sometimes it's a car ride out to do other things, though! The feel of Madison is a little different. Most of those houses were built more recently. You can find the Madison City Center—an old, Southern-looking city center—but it's small. Until about 25 years ago, that was what Madison was. It's not going to be annexing because it's surrounded by us. So, I kind of think of Madison as the old city center, the surrounding neighborhoods, and then the newer builds, say 10 years or younger, that surround that area. Also, you have I-565 that splits it. You have the older sections of Madison, but just about everything south is brand new until you get down to Triana. You've got all this new build down there, close to the Arsenal, close to Toyota Field, and the Town Madison area. Ton of new construction. The houses there are on smaller lots and tend to be smaller homes, so it's got a whole different look and vibe than a 30-year-old home in a central area of Madison. If you live in Madison and your commute is toward Huntsville, that's traffic. [Megan]: It depends. I'm on the outskirts of Madison, so for me, getting into downtown Huntsville is super easy. If you live anywhere in the center of Madison—especially during school bus hours or rush hour—it can be a slog. It's a grid system; that bus is going to stop at every stop sign, every red light, every railroad crossing. Highway 72 can be a challenge in the morning. [Cameron]: Heading further west, we find our way to Athens. Athens is the fastest-growing city in Alabama right now, and part of the fastest-growing county, Limestone County. It is the county seat. It's really cool in that if you close your eyes and think about the old, historic Southern town with the courthouse and the town square around it, that is Athens. It's really cute, easy to get around, a lot of little shops and restaurants right there around the courthouse. I love going there for that. You can get ice cream, go to a little diner. They do "Fridays After 5" in the summer where businesses stay open late. That's the historic part, then you have the 20-30-year-old part of Athens, which is a little more commercial/drive-thru. Outside of that, there's a suburban feel, and that bleeds into rural lightning-fast. [Megan]: It's another area where there's a lot of cotton and corn farms being converted to neighborhoods, but I would still say there's more farm than neighborhood right now. I had some people purchasing in Athens, and they looked at everything and said, "Everything we need is here." They didn't feel they needed to commute to Huntsville; they have stores, restaurants, and recreation. If you live in Athens, it's pretty self-contained. That's why it's such a fast-growing --- Page 10 --- area. The price point's really attractive, too. Another area with highly ranked schools. There are two economies: the Athens local economy, or you could be part of Huntsville or Madison, which is a realistic commute. If you're coming from a higher-populated area, it's a joke, and your cost of living is going to be less. The house you buy is going to be less; you're going to be buying the same new construction perhaps from the same builder, and it's substantially less than it would be in Madison. [Cameron]: Or you get more land. I actually had two friends that bought houses concurrent from the same builder. The people in Owens Crossroads got a more "cookie-cutter" style lot, rectangular, maybe 0.3 acres, and they paid more than the person that got more square footage on a 2.5-acre lot in Athens. Same builder, similar fit and finish. You get considerably more house, more land, or a significantly lower price. Because it's the fastest-growing city, your investment there is a good one. People that I sold a house to three years ago there have done very well. I would estimate we're maybe on the first or second floor of growth now, maybe still on a 10-floor building. [Megan]: It's also cool in that some of the communities there are smaller builders who have been here for 30 years. They build these small communities. One sales rep I know lives in every community they build in. She moves into the initial model home, people walk through during her hours, and she lives there for two or three years till they finish, then moves to the next community. That's such an Alabama thing! [Cameron]: I don't think you'd see that many places. She loves it! She's the representative for the builder; if you're out walking your dog and your toilet's not draining, you knock on her door, and that's the life she signed up for. She brags about it. You can still find those things in Athens. [Megan]: One that we haven't mentioned yet, because we need to wrap up, is Meridianville. It wasn't on our journey west, so we have to come back around to it. [Cameron]: It's almost due north of Huntsville. Of the four places not within Huntsville city limits that I sell the most homes, it's Owens Crossroads, Madison, Athens, and Meridianville. In Meridianville, if you name a builder in our area, they're building there right now. A lot of flat farmland has been converted to new construction. It's very much a bedroom community; there's not a lot of industry outside of farming. If you're living there and not remote, you're commuting due south into Huntsville. There's not a lot of restaurants or bars, just chain restaurants as you're coming down because it's a corridor—you can drive to Nashville through Meridianville. I'd say the main industry in Meridianville is commuting to Huntsville and new construction homes. I actually take people out there when they want to see all the new construction available because you can go to every builder in the area, essentially. [Megan]: You can get a lot of home for your money out there, or a reasonably priced home if you're not looking for something super large. There's a lot of variety of homes. It's funny, it all --- Page 11 --- seems to be on the east side of the highway; once you cross over to the west side, you're in Tony/Hazel Green and you're back into almost exclusively farmland. [Cameron]: There's also something to be mentioned: there is an airport out there. It's the executive airport of Huntsville. You might get some airport noise if you buy new construction out there. It's not the major airport; it's a smaller flight path. I was actually doing research for another video, and there's a neighborhood right across the street from that airport! You'll definitely hear airplanes. Huntsville has a higher pilot-per-capita than most areas due to the nature of who lives and works here. [Megan]: Well, I think we've been through it! Unless we go way out somewhere, I think that covers the area. I'm tired of this conversation! [Cameron]: If you have questions about the area, or one of these areas inside Huntsville or out, we're glad to answer. There are certainly areas we didn't cover, but they're not as populous. Reach out to us, drop a comment. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for watching or listening; you can catch us on audio wherever you get your podcasts—[Spotify]([link removed]), [Apple]([link removed])—or watch our video on [YouTube]([link removed]). Really appreciate you guys being here. Ask that you subscribe so we can keep you informed of everything going on here.