Look Out World! Here Comes Freeport!

Anything to give the Freeporters something to do and keep them out of South Walton is fine with me.

Freeport is south Walton

Freeport will do best as a middle class area that's not too far from the beach while having housing costs more in line with wages around here compared to home prices south of the bay. And IMO, nothing wrong with the usual middle class mass market shopping outposts as long as that's not all there is. As for strip malls, it's not like Freeport has an old school downtown area for Just Socks (which if you're talking socks from fair trade alpaca wool hand-woven by Peruvian virgins, that's more of a Watercolor store anyways) and many a strip mall has some nice local non-chain options to go along with the usual cell phone stores, nail salons, and Supercuts offerings. Some of my favorite cheap and ethnic eats around here are in strip malls.

I do think Dairy Queen is getting rather expensive though. For what they charge these days for a couple of ordinary cones, you can get a nice pint of Talenti from the Freeport Publix instead.

Anything to give the Freeporters something to do and keep them out of South Walton is fine with me.

Kind of hurts my feelings... thought we were friends

We Freeporters should get Trump to build us a wall to keep the beach people out of our town. Divert them to PCB and Destin to see what 30A's overcrowded future looks like!

We Freeporters should get Trump to build us a wall to keep the beach people out of our town. Divert them to PCB and Destin to see what 30A's overcrowded future looks like!

Yes, please do. It will solve a lot of problems. Great Idea.

30a's overcrowded future is the end on SoWal. Circle of Life...

Freeport could legalize gambling, hookers, and weed and I'd still avoid it.

Really? Legal weed? I might have to go for that!

Really? Legal weed? I might have to go for that!

Go to Vegas and you get the aforementioned trifecta of vices completely legal.

I love Freeport! If it watn't for Freeport I'd have to drive through Pantymaw City or Destin to get in and outta here.

Freeport could legalize gambling, hookers, and weed and I'd still avoid it.

Sounds like a heaven I could believe in.

And by Freeport coming I mean the orgasmic splendor of franchises, strip malls, and homogenized American anywhere.

The capitalist racetrack between the bridge and I10 goes vroom vroom vroom!

Waffle House, McDonalds and Dairy Queen starting their engines.

Any guesses on how long before we see a store which sells nothing but socks? A subdivision with a lazy river? Holiday Inn Express? Mercedes or Lexus Dealer? The world's largest outlet mall? New Jin Jin 331?

Hate Jin Jin SOWAL needs real takeout Chinese...please...

They need a whole string of restaurants serving Chinese food because 10 minutes after you're done eating, you're hungry again.

We moved to Freeport at the beginning of this year. We still own our property in So Wal. I sure am love`n the quietness of Freeport verses the over crowdedness of So Wal. Probably helps we bought on the river, not to many places available. As of now, I`ll take Freeport over SoWal.

I like Sowal, Seaside, Grayton, gulf plce, Rosemary, all of it.. It will always be beautiful, and above all you have lots to do within walking or biking distance. It will never be too loud, crowded, busy, or congested for me. I would be bored out of my mind living in Freeport.

Wait until they (Freeport) want / get their own TDC...

I adore Freeport. Normal people live there.

I adore Freeport. Normal people live there.

LOL

What is normal?

I adore Freeport. Normal people live there.

I prefer exceptional people.

Ace Hardware planned for Freeport. Home Depot and Lowe's a couple of years out?

City's population up to about 5,000 with several new subdivisions going.

City's population up to about 5,000 with several new subdivisions going.

It`s going to be the NEW SoWal.

I adore Freeport and would live there on a bayou somewhere, any time. Yes, the growth on 331 is already here.