Jackson Jambalaya

This is like when Columbus landed here and thought he was in India. This guy went to Lost Rabbit and thought he was in the City of Madison.

I’ve seen some of this guy’s videos; he tries to confirm his hypotheses instead of testing them. In Jackson, he filmed nothing but abandoned houses - never went to Council Circle, Eastover, St. Andrew’s Drive, etc.

Wow! I am fucking impressed! Makes me wanna move there!

Where are reunion swingers

Proper Society has become so alien to the world that madison, MS is becoming a vanguard. Mayor Mary will end up being right

I’d rather live in the fucking ghetto than Madison.

Madison "wealth" = loans.

Madison, The City is ripe for comedy gold because they are all so full of themselves but to anyone visiting from outside Mississippi they sound just as much like hayseed country bumpkin rednecks, as someone from Neshoba, or Newton, or Jasper Counties.

Meanwhile, your average migrant Hispanic oil worker in the Permian has 6X the net worth of your average Madisonite.

It is a tie between 2;41 and 2:42 for today's win - so far.

We wanted a Christian society. What a maroon. I doubt Jesus would opt to live in Madison.

We’re very tolerant. Hahahahaha

Wait a minute. What’s wrong with Andrew Jackson Street? He was an American President. Guy acts like he was in charge of the confederacy.

I grew up in Jackson, live in Madison now. Both cities have good and bad. I’m glad I live in Madison but quite honestly could live in Jackson without too many issues provided it was in a relatively safe area.

I’ve lived in Reunion for almost 15 years and still can’t seem to find those swingers everyone jokes about.

Don’t consider myself or anyone I know in Madison to be the slightest bit conceited. I do however see that in a good many of my old JA classmates from way back.

I don’t have much debt and know plenty of other Reunion/Madison residents that live well beneath their means. Really don’t understand the back and forth butthurtedness that we can’t seem to overcome.

It isn’t a competition.

Madison is "a mile wide and a foot deep". I live here.

@2:29 thank goodness you already do

It's called jealousy.

@3:17

Like most ignorant Americans, he doesn’t know General Andrew Jackson (Hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812) from the globally renowned tactical genius, Confederate General Thomas J “Stonewall” Jackson (Hero of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign during the War of Northern Aggression)

Your speech indicates you'd fit right in there.

Exactly as I was expecting, the sour grapes bunch has come out in full force. “If I can’t afford something, I’ll pretend like I don’t want it”. You’re not fooling anyone. Meanwhile, it’s pineapple night so I’m meeting up with several of my neighbors’ wives.

Might be the best post of 2026. Wish more Madisonittes thought like you. It’s probably the broke ones who crow the loudest.

(Back in the Day) ... Lost Rabbit "get togethers" were on par with the
Green Lizard "meet and greets".

You're right, 3:21. That little hick town can't even manage to synchronize the traffic signals along Highway 51.

I moved from Madison to Jackson, both places having been very nice and having very friendly and not “fake” people. One of the allures of Madison is that it is full of people that just want to keep the riff raff and culture out so their children can be safe and attend decent schools. I think that the hatred Madison gets almost exclusively comes from Rankin Countians with no life that are looking for something to make fun of. The retarded “same brick everywhere” and “they’re all in debt” jokes is just so sad and makes you look pathetic. You should be damn thankful that Mississippi has a premier city that people desperately want to live in. And again, I say this as a Jacksonian having lived there previously. It’s an awesome place to raise a family and live a quiet life.

The only downside of Madison is the Islamists and H1-Bs moving there. As a whole, the Jackson metro is the lone holdout against foreigners moving to America as you simply don’t see them here, but their population is growing in Madison and their incomes are very suspicious.

Andrew Jackson was a patriot and him, Teddy Roosevelt, and Washington are among the only aggressive presidents we ever had that accomplished things for the common man.

Meanwhile, your average migrant Hispanic oil worker in the Permian has 6X the net worth of your average Madisonite.

Won't bother asking you for a link because I already know your unsupported claim is bull$hit.

I lived there for over 20 years, what a waste , I moved south and life is good.

Thanks again, for the warning, Kingfish, that it was a TicTokk video!

Some liberal posted this video over on Reddit. The rabid leftists there are shiatting on themselves hating Madison, the City, more than the leftists here are doing so.


I thought about moving to Jackson years ago. The difference in taxes on the south side of county line were enough to convince me not to do so. Never regretted that decision.

Ha 3:59 you literally stole my response !

@5:07 PM
Damn right. Andrew Jackson delayed the secession of the South for more than a decade. The liberals say it was appeasement and point out that he owned slaves homself. He did the best he could do at the tike to keep the young nation together, It blows their marxist minds when you point out that White European Americans did not invent slavery. They did end it.

It’s funny you mentioned the suspicious income statement. Here is a fact. 98% of all ocean containers are not inspected and makes their way through customs. I have recently spoken to a former liquor store owner who has told me that a particular group not from here are involved in illegal liquor trade. They have a warehouse in plain site in an area south of Jackson and they are performing illegal liquor sales by obtaining. Stock from out of state. I sure hope the MSDOR has an employee reading this. It places honest businesses on an unlevel basis. As far as the ones who are moving into Madison I have also been told that the organized crime within their culture is stronger than what we knew of the Italians when we were growing up. It’s really worth looking into. The drugs being brought into the country by them is far more greater than you think and they have propped themselves up with so called “Wealth Management” companies….

I just can't get over the us versus them Christianity argument through out this video. Its like the exact opposite of reading the Bible.

@ 3:59, correction: It's called ignorance and/or jealousy. For the record, I live in Reunion/Madison, I'm a self made man, and I am not broke and have 0 loans. Just to correct the record for the other earlier comment about people in Madison=loans.

I will say, as bad as Jackson is (and it's very bad), it's a very unfair characterization of the city.

Difference in property taxes is massive.

I moved to Madison from Jackson in 1999. If you don’t have anything nice to say or don’t want to come out here we are fine with you leaving us the hell alone.

I wish some of the illiterate posters could compose a simple sentence without dropping an “f” bomb. I’m sure they talk the same way.
Trash.

He said Kamala Harris got 40% of the vote in Madison. I'd say Madison County. I'm confident that 40% of Madison residents aren't dumb enough to vote for the dumbest presidential candidate in US history.

Unlike the Jxn lights that don't work or are constantly disregarded by all the Chrysler residents running thru them

Lived in Ridgeland and Madison for 50 years combined (Madison County) and have had a business in Jxn for 40 years. Most all of you don't know what you don't know.

I have lived in Eastover my whole life. It is still nice here, but I am thinking I want a change for my retirement years. I am looking for a smaller but nice place to retire in Madison. Between Reunion, Lake Caroline, and Annandale, which is the best? I was thinking it would be nice to have a place in Lake Caroline with a view of the big lake, but have heard the bugs can be pretty bad out there. Any suggestions or insight greatly appreciated.

It was meant to be

Madison is, well, it's Madison.

Those are some pretty properties they showcased....but living so close to the giant, malignant tumor that is Jackson, MS would give me pause to actually purchase there.

I believe this joke has lived on past its expiration date.

Some guy walks up to you with a camera, all friendly like, and puts on that he’s so impressed with your town and just wants to ask a few questions how and why it’s so nice and clean and wonderful. People, women especially, fall for it every time. Never, ever, talk to somebody who wants to ask you just a few questions while he records.

That’s how folks have described Phil Bryant

Lake Caroline uses Canton Municipal Utilities (CMU), with increasing rates, incompetency, history of corruption, etc. The traffic is also bad coming/going as the infrastructure hasn't kept up with the rapid growth. Buyer beware. Reunion is very nice, as is Annandale, both on Bear Creek Water Assoc. which is a great entity.

7:24 Slow down big boy. It was a Yankee who said it once and was was quoted twice. It wasn't "through out the video" as you said. Cut the lies from your posts.

Everywhere with any water has bugs. Annandale has foundation problems, Reunion HOA fees are high and Lake Caroline is a little bit of a drive. Pick your poison.

After moving away from Mississippi, it was kind of shocking to learn how not-actually-affluent Madison is. There are some fine houses, mostly hidden miles away from anything. But overall, it's just a typical southern suburb but with weird facades on the gas stations and strip malls. Its reputation is mainly a function of being compared to the squalor of Jackson.

Do not live anywhere that is served by Canton Municipal Utilities, so that excludes almost all of Lake Caroline. Supposedly some of the houses around the golf course are served by Bear Creek , but it may be split between water and sewer. Eagle Cove, the next street to the west from the main entrance is served by Bear Creek. Verify the provider for water, sewer and electricity before even looking at a house.

8:05, Beverly Hills is adjacent the giant, malignant tumor that is LA. So is Rancho Santa Fe/Rancho Santa Fe Estates. So is The Malibu Colony, which is so insulated, insiders call it 'Tibet by the Sea' (renting there, a couple of summers, was the smartest thing we ever did: changed the kids' worldview, and - once they'd schmoozed a few elderly billionaires - gave them a grasp of money maybe better than what I gained in my long schlep in becoming a Doctor of Economics). So is Thousand Oaks, which is the budget option: lots of LEOs live there. A little planning, is all it takes (and a lot of vigilance).

Madison, from the first days of Mary, has gotten LOTS of planning, and LOTS of vigilance. In the early decades, elderly society ladies did all-night stakeouts, monitoring problems. Men capable of calling their New York cousins, in order to call-off labor unions (in other words: plugged into THE most powerful parallel power structure), have been sub rosa guardians of the town (their granddaughters are allowed into good cotillions and sororities: something which would NOT happen in New York). Similarly, members of Princely Rajput AND Rajasthani families, quietly watch over the town.

(note to bad boys: you only THINK you got away with it. And soon...)

Occasionally, some little architect or urban planner, straight outta Hotseplotz (or West Podunk), will attempt to share, with Madison stakeholders, the wonders of New Urbanism or Ancient Greek architecture. Much tittering will ensue, because those shaping Madison (or their parents), have been active PARTICIPANTS in New Urbanism, since the early Eighties, and also "know all about the Ancient Greece" (since they were five years old, sittin' up in church, hearin' about Paul the Apostle's Epistles to the Corinthians).

"I mean, we learned 'Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian', about the time we learned 'Brontosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus'... and 'Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic'! Do these people think we all just fell off the cantaloupe truck?"

11:21 oh wow aren’t you so wise now that you’ve moved off! Those “weird facades” on gas stations and strip malls are what’s called “classic detail” and it’s what keeps the buildings from ever needing to be remodeled, and they are always pleasant to look at. You are pathetic for crapping on a good thing just because you think you’re some genius now. Shame!

A good fiend of mine from Reunion explained the pineapple thing. It has nothing to do with swingers. Someone named [REDACTED] got caught microwaving a pineapple and using it “American pie” style. And now everyone openly mocks them. That’s the 100% truth straight from the fiend in Reunion!

Right you are, 12:01! And actually, the styling of the gas stations, has a venerable and iconic local precedent: Belhaven's 'Shady Nook' - originally a 1920s GAS STATION. It received Doric-style columns-&-gable (tympanum?), in those heady days preceding the Cotton Panic and the Great Depression.

The Shady Nook became the real estate offices of revered community mainstay, Henry Larose (the unofficial 'Mayor of Belhaven'), with additions/infill, in the then-quite-edgy 'Postmodern' style. It was heavily published, nationally, at the time.

At one time, the Larose-era interior featured, if I'm remembering correctly, Corinthian columns/architectural fragments, from the 'Palaces of Saint Petersburg' Exhibit (this was a first, worldwide - an expression of gratitude, from the People of Saint Petersburg, for the gift - by Jacksonians - of LIFE-SAVING medical supplies/equipment (including a Cat Scan), at a time when Russians were perishing from the lack of even the simplest things - like insulin. That may have been Jackson's finest hour.

Last I heard, Shady Nook had been repurposed as a gathering space for the Belhaven community.

Madison's approach to gas stations has been copied, both locally and nationally : all-too-quickly, actually, since the first one broke sales records and won awards, soon after completion. But no town does it as well as does Madison.

Fun anecdotes: The Shell station (back when sight lines were clear), used to pull TOUR BUSES off the Interstate: it looked too tempting to resist. Think of all those impulse purchases, while the tourists were gawking at the miniature train running in front of the mural depicting 1890s Madison!

A location scout, for what was possibly THE nation's biggest banking operation, was on her way to Florida, looking for more office space. She pulled into the Shell Station, for gas. Taking-in all of that, and then noticing the Texaco across the street, she went, "DAMN! What IS this place?" She called her offices: "Look up office developments in .... um... Madison, Mississippi..."

Well, first-up, was the build/own/rent corporation founded by an engineer whose structures, to put it mildly, were cost-efficient - and, in other places, mostly ugly. However, his Madison buildings had to be up to Madison's aesthetic standards. He was in the process of completing two big ones.

"...do you have any LARGE office spaces coming available?"
"Boooooyyyy.... do I EVER!"

Although the Madison spaces were the most expensive, that's where she chose to locate the call center. PRETTY SELLS. I forget how many floors she took, but...

Another funny, much-repeated by that developer/office park mogul: he was inspecting the bank's new call center, pointing-out the Vegas-style White Noise system, and the ultra-filtered air system, with the designer who'd styled the facades (which landed the call center). A floor manager with a Yankee accent, rushed up to them, and asked the designer: "Man! Who made your CLOTHES!"

Starting at the shoes and working up, in perfect, rapid-fire Italian, "Prada, Battaglia, Stefano Ricci, Stefano Ricci, Kiton..."

(So, 10:03's bit about "typical Southern suburb", is something only an OUTSIDER would say.)

The City of Madison, “consistently recognized as the city with the lowest overall crime rate in Mississippi” would be as close to perfect as possible is we could force all of the HYPOCRITE DEMOCRATS to leave.

The Hypocrite Democrats living in Madison, many of which are doctors, and of the course slime ball fee churning and ambulance chasing lawyers, are too chicken s__t to live in their Democrat controlled murder capital City of Jackson. Hypocrite Democrats make sure to keep their babies safe from all of that purposeful Democrat crime they fully support during elections.

Hypocrite Democrats living in Republican suburbs are the cancer that eventually ruins cities like Madison. We need to find a way to force them to put their money where their chicken s__t mouths are, and move out of Madison.

Some people don’t get satire even when they are the star of the movie. Case in point, they were making rubes out of all of the interviewees. They hadn’t a clue.

Silly me thinks that Madison copied another city. I can’t think of it offhand, maybe Homewood Alabama or something similar. They are definitely not the front runner, it was 100% mirrored and it’s well known.

Back in the day…. Lost Rabbit was a mud hole.

I live in the City of Madison and I drink bottled water. Also, the City of Madison is far from crime free.

How many murders has the city of Madison had in their history? I’m asking an honest question.

The only place in Mississippi I would consider living is Oxford, Starkville, some of Hattiesburg and the coast. Anything south of 82 and north of 98 and/or west of 55 is just going to get worse. Mush worse. Madison is nice but the numbers don’t work.

12:01 pm needs to take a history of architecture class

The only thing wrong with 12:01's comment, as far as I can see, is the use of 'Classic', where the word should have been 'Classical'. But if you'd like to offer a point-by-point listing of 12:01's errata, please proceed.

8:58, darlin', just because nobody asked YOU, doesn't mean...

I've been propositioned by would-be clients, at Caroline.

I've been propositioned by swinger tenants (pre-gentrification and post-gentrification), in my apartment buildings.

I know people who've ignored swinging invites, at the Yacht Club.

A Yacht Club swinger/news personality, figured prominently in the "going-viral" of the "House of the Blue Peacocks" story (see JJ Archives).

Also in JJ Archives, is the court testimony in the Mardis case, detailing the showing of cell phone wifey topless pics, in a Madison County eatery, at the dinner table, presumably attendant to ongoing swinging activities. Those were nominally Upper Middle Class people: Reunion-eligible.

My old Trainer, and his UNCLE, were approached by two early-middle-age blondes, UP IN MAMA HAMIL'S, who wanted them to join activities not two blocks from Madison City Hall.

And my husband could write a whole encyclopedia, describing all the men, from state leaders to tow truck drivers, who've approached him, during our years in Mississippi, from gym showers to the squat rack, offering him their wives - and other men's wives - in swinging scenarios.

A former "Rush Chairman at Ole Miss", in THE best sorority (in other words, socially 'comme il faut' - top of the heap - creme de la creme - utterly unimpeachable - puts the 'G' in 'Gravitas'), once told me, "There are people doing it, whom WE would know." (in other words, some of her peers)

So, please! If Reunion DOESN'T have a well-developed swinging scene, it would be an anomaly in Central Mississippi.

They put their money where their mouths are but buying a house there.

2:00 PM, nope! Hypocrite Democrats living in Madison vote for the culture rot resulting in the two year-old just murdered in a triple homicide, but they’re too chicken s__t to risk putting their babies in harm’s way by living in their own Democrat controlled crime infested s__t hole cities like Jackson.

There’s a special place in hell for the white liberal Democrats Malcom X warned us about….that vote for high crime Democrats while living safely in Republican suburbs. A special place in hell.

You're thinking about Germantown, Tennessee, 7:51. But Madison put Germantown in its rearview mirror (and left it in a cloud of dust), decades-back.

Today, Madison is the best place between Belle Meade, Tennessee, and Mandeville, Louisiana - and on an East-West axis, between Highland Park, Texas, and Mountain Brook, Alabama.

And NOW, considering current alliances, and who's moving there, Madison's competing on a world stage. Parts are already on a par with Atherton and Chevy Chase. Germantown's just a distant, dull, dinky Williamsburg Georgian Depression-era memory.