I've heard the only Dutch Letters they'll sell you is F and U.They don't like white people that aren't Dutch either.
I've heard the only Dutch Letters they'll sell you is F and U.They don't like white people that aren't Dutch either.
All downhill after Alco and Pamida closed.Boone???
Lived there with my then fiancee for a year (she grew up there, I grew up in nearby Ogden). I didn't name them because I've already considered that place a ghost town. Fort Dodge at least has murders to keep it interesting.Boone???
A couple of deer strategically placed could bankrupt the town.Pella probably not big enough to qualify but their hatred of outsiders is of the charts.
Felt sorry for the nurse on call during kaleidoscope quiz. You had to drive to Boone and get her name At 2 a.mBoone???
I'll see you on all of those and raise you southeast Ohio.Travel the rural Midwest anywhere south and east of Iowa, and you’ll quit whining about Iowa. Southern Illinois/Indiana, almost all of Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, pockets of Kansas, just far worse than anywhere here.
Having grown up in Iowa during the '80's farm crisis, I disagree. Many of these towns were ready to dry up and blow away. I am very surprised at the renewal. My up close example is the Hwy 20 corridor of Independence, Manchester, and Dyersville. They all have more to offer than 20 years ago. Housing prices in all these communities reflect this as well. The small industries that have grown up in these communities is significant. I am shocked to be honest. I am more optimistic on these type of communities than ever before.Very true. But my observations in those regions and Iowa is that those places had a head start. A lot of the other rural areas outside of Iowa decayed 30 years ago. Iowa’s have had a later and slower decline. Most of Iowas small towns are significantly worse than they were 20-30 years ago. Other than a handful of exceptions like Decorah and those with bedroom community locations small towns in Iowa are going to keep declining. It’s just really hard to maintain a small town once the schools are gone.
I lived there as a young single guy at my first teaching job. An incredibly close knit community which can be very judgmental and exclusive. On top of that, there's a damned snowmobile route through the center of town and the neighborhoods. Idiots going on poker runs gunning it up and down the street all night. It was a nice cheap place to live, but I don't think I'll be raising my family there.Dyersville?
Parkersburg?
Grinnell?
Sioux Center?
Thats just because we had nothing else to do in our smaller towns. Plus Taco Tico is the bomb.When I was in high school, you'd be surprised how many people came from the smaller towns into Fort Dodge for fun.
True - there are places that were on the edge during that time, and that was a big hit followed by a rebound, but most are slowly declining since that rebound.Having grown up in Iowa during the '80's farm crisis, I disagree. Many of these towns were ready to dry up and blow away. I am very surprised at the renewal. My up close example is the Hwy 20 corridor of Independence, Manchester, and Dyersville. They all have more to offer than 20 years ago. Housing prices in all these communities reflect this as well. The small industries that have grown up in these communities is significant. I am shocked to be honest. I am more optimistic on these type of communities than ever before.
As a former Central student myself, I know better than to mess with Pella’s tulips. That’s serious business.A principal in our town went to central college and as a prank at midnight took a push mower and mowed a section of tulips in a businessman’s yard. It created quite a scandal. It was found out that the culprit was a Central College student. The Pella mayor demanded the college expel him, which they did. That’s why he was a William Penn graduate.
CR seems to have almost oddly improved in some ways since the flood. The Newbo area and a few other pockets are nice. Older parts look worse though and since the derecho some parts look like new suburbs just with older houses.
I grew up around there and when I officially lived there for a full year after college in the mid-2000s I actually kinda hated going out.
It felt like one big small town and there just seemed to be some weird vibe in the air like someone was going to get in a fight over some high school drama from 10+ years prior.
Travel the rural Midwest anywhere south and east of Iowa, and you’ll quit whining about Iowa. Southern Illinois/Indiana, almost all of Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, pockets of Kansas, just far worse than anywhere here.
As a former Central student myself, I know better than to mess with Pella’s tulips. That’s serious business.