More and more people are ditching city life for the quiet luxuries of the Mississippi Coast, where residents can snap up gorgeous new properties for bargain prices. 

Stephen Dinjar settled in Timber Ridge two years ago with his wife, Sheila, after the Louisiana native spent many years living in different places. 

But he liked the pretty environment and slow lifestyle along the Mississippi coastline. 

‘If you are lucky enough to be able to work from home, and decide where it is you want to live, why would you want to live in a big city?’ the New Orleans native told the Sun Herald. 

‘Why wouldn’t you go to a pretty little town like Pass Christian? I see more and more people making the choice.’ 

And he’s not wrong. Plenty of Americans are moving to places like Timber Ridge and Pass Christian, even evading bigger cities like New Orleans in favor of quiet, soft lifestyles. 

And they’re doing it for cheap, snapping up homes for half the value it would be in other parts of the country – a rarity in the current housing market. 

Glynn Illich, a property developer, has a $400,000 home for sale in Pass Christian that he said would go for $800,000 in ‘any other place in the country.’ 

More and more people are ditching city life for the quiet luxuries of the Mississippi Coast, where residents can snap up gorgeous new properties for bargain prices (pictured: Biloxi, MS)

Plenty of Americans are moving to places like Timber Ridge and Pass Christian (pictured). And they’re doing it for cheap, snapping up homes for half the value it would be in other parts of the country – a rarity in the current housing market (pictured: a Pass Christian home on sale) 

‘It’s beautiful,’ he told the outlet. ‘And it’s quiet as a church mouse out here.’ 

Until recently, the Mississippi Gulf Coast was a place for natives who stuck it out after the horrific 2005 Hurricane Katrina, which left $161billion of damage behind and nearly 2,000 deaths. 

But during the pandemic, where work-from-home became the norm, many Americans began questioning if they wanted to pay the big city prices if they could just live anywhere. 

Beach towns – like the ones in Mississippi, Texas, and Florida – began to fill up with out-of-state plates and Northerners who struggled to say the old French town names along the coast. 

Cheaper living, warmer weather, more space, and Southern hospitality became focal points of the real estate market. 

‘It’s a different way of life,’ Steve Scherrer told the Sun Herald. Scherrer had originally settled in Chicago, but who just recently moved to Timber Ridge. He worried about safety in the big city and grown tired of Illinois taxes. 

‘We liked the people, we liked the area. We thought: “Okay, let’s buy a house down here and we’ll move.” So that’s what we did,’ he told the outlet. 

So many are moving to the town that waterfront properties are becoming limited and more housing developments are being built by the day. 

People are even choosing to forego New Orleans (pictured) for smaller beach towns. ‘If you are lucky enough to be able to work from home, and decide where it is you want to live, why would you want to live in a big city?’ Stephen Dinjar said 

Until recently, the Mississippi Gulf Coast was a place for natives who stuck it out after the horrific 2005 Hurricane Katrina, but since the pandemic, it’s become a hot spot (pictured: Timber Ridge)

‘There’s construction going on everywhere,’ Meresa Morgan, the president of the property owner association, told the Sun Herald. ‘This is a new build. This is a remodel. And somebody’s getting ready to build on that lot.’ 

Morgan, herself, moved back to Mississippi during the pandemic, where she was living in Houston before. The ability to work-from-home allowed her to make the move and now she enjoys retirement along the coast. 

Big companies are looking to build in the area, and with it, new jobs and new people, President of the Gulf Coast Association of Relator, Summer Newman, told the outlet. 

So many people have immigrated to the Southern state that the state government is considering dropping income tax, which will only drive more people to the area as it would become the tenth state without it. 

No income tax states are popular amongst the ultra rich, like Elon Musk, who has moved his companies’ headquarters to Texas for the very reason. 

Tourism is also up in the Southern, with Biloxi, Mississippi, being named the ‘Vegas of the South’ for its wide variety of growing casinos. 

The growth of the sleepy area is so big that even some local politicians are campaigning to preserve neighborhoods from developers. 

Places like Timber Ridge and Pass Christian are rising in price as wealthy out-of-states take advantage of the cheaper living. 

So many people have immigrated to the Southern state that the state government is considering dropping income tax, which will only drive more people to the area as it would become the tenth state without it (pictured: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) 

‘We wanted to go back to a small town. People thought we were kind of crazy,’ Joyce Pendleton told the Sun Herald. She moved from Oklahoma City to the Mississippi Coast. 

Illich is currently building 20 properties in the area and doesn’t foresee the growth slowing down anytime soon. 

‘I’ll have this whole area built,’ he told the Sun Herald. ‘I’m working on the plans right now.’ 

And new residents will have plenty to do in the area, from lounging on the beaches, visiting Biloxi’s multiple casinos, shrimping, swimming with dolphins, and more. 

And summers are ripping hot 90 degrees and the area rarely sees a snowstorm in the winter. 

For better weather and cheaper living, no wonder many are flocking to the Magnolia State.