Decatur, Ala. | Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Priceville wins quality-of-life award
By Eric Fleischauer
The Decatur Daily

Priceville is on the cover of the January edition of the Alabama Municipal Journal as a winner of the Quality of Life Award. It won the award among towns with populations of 5,000 or … More »
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I love Priceville!

I just hope we can keep it this way and that growth is planned with hometown values in mind.

yes, I have no desire to be the next Madison ALABAMA

I grew up there. Poverty and drug abuse is widespread, the high school is underfunded, and the police are useless. It looks like a nice place when you drive through and see the subdivisions, but when you get further away from the highway you find homes in disrepair, meth-fueled trailer parks, and countless low-income families. There are no jobs in the town of Priceville outside of the service industry. Maybe there is a quality of life for some who find employment elsewhere, for most people it's miserable.

That's anywhere you go Kenneth.

hey kenneth how old are u

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