Connersville, Indiana. I spent a summer there for an internship.
Town of 20,000, and the highlights of the town were the antique bowling alley, a scurvy Hardees (the only fast-food joint in town), and a small run-down K-Mart. Pretty much the only other thing in that town were run-down houses. Lots of broken glass and weeds growing in the residential streets around my apartment. I also think they have to have one of the lowest tooth-per-capita ratios in the country.
Easily, the most depressing place I have ever lived. The best thing about Connersville was looking at it in the rear-view mirror as I left town for the last time.
I don't get people that say Ames stinks as a college graduate. I am a 5 yr. alum and work at a firm in Ames and still enjoy it. I had to give up campus town bars and mostly go to Main St. now (London Underground) but its not that bad.
I enjoy the sports, concerts, bike trails, cheap food, and young feel of the town.
I like some parts of of Southern Iowa, but those counties and towns are run down.You don't like Southeastern Iowa, do you?![]()
this thread is great.
we all complain about recruiting...and yet 50-75% of the answers to "worst place you have ever lived" is either 1) someplace in Iowa or 2) on campus! and we wonder why so many kids don't want to come here....haha.
I don't get people that say Ames stinks as a college graduate. I am a 5 yr. alum and work at a firm in Ames and still enjoy it. I had to give up campus town bars and mostly go to Main St. now (London Underground) but its not that bad.
I enjoy the sports, concerts, bike trails, cheap food, and young feel of the town.
Dubuque is better than Ames? I never thought I would ever hear that.
Don't you reckon that is because there is a great correlation between living in Iowa (especially on ISU campus) and being a Cyclone fan?this thread is great.
we all complain about recruiting...and yet 50-75% of the answers to "worst place you have ever lived" is either 1) someplace in Iowa or 2) on campus! and we wonder why so many kids don't want to come here....haha.
FYI -- A chemical engineer once told me that there was no such thing as Captain Crunch day in Cedar Rapids. The smell had some completely other cause.
This is truth. Lived in CR for 19 years, and you know when Captain Crunch was being made. You also know when the wind is blowing from the south because the entire town reeks of *** from the paper plant just south of 30.That is a bold faced lie. I have family that works there. You can most definitely tell when there are captain crunch days and crunch berries days.
Kansas City ... really? Personally I think KC is awesome with the Power & Light District, Westport, The Plaza, Bonner Springs (Kansas Motor Sweedway, NFM, etc...), KC Royals, KC Chiefs, Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun, KC Zoo, Boulevard Brewing Company, great restaurants/bars/nightlife, 2 hours from the Lake of the Ozarks and 4 hours from Omaha/Des Moines/St Louis! How you can you beat all of this?
Centerville, Ottumwa, Cincinnati, Albia, and Bloomfield...would be awful to live in.
I'd say Iowa City, Iowa.
Ok haven't lived there but I've been through there... looks like a pretty ****** town...
No but seriously over by the mall where my brothers live is terrible, especially in the winter. Narrow streets on hills that get covered in snow and ice... terrible. Population on a whole are a bunch of *** holes and idiots too...
P&L = Too saturated with d-bags from Johnson County