Keep telling yourself that...truth hurts. I have a lot of family down in that area but would never live in that area. Sorry
The worst place where you have lived?
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2408 Chamberlain, the apartments a half a block behind T Galaxy. Used to be a chinese restaurant next door. Stinky. And we had a lot of cockroaches, too.
Also lived in Illiopolis, IL all through grade school and junior high. Small town near Springfield. 1000 people. 11 kids in my class, and only 3 girls, ugly ones. The only industry was a chemical plant, and half of the town had cancer because of it. Nice place.
Also lived in Illiopolis, IL all through grade school and junior high. Small town near Springfield. 1000 people. 11 kids in my class, and only 3 girls, ugly ones. The only industry was a chemical plant, and half of the town had cancer because of it. Nice place.
I lived on Capital Hill in DC for a brief time, and it was a mixed bag. Loved being close to the action, and loved the location, but the people were awful. Nothing but hipster liberals running around in pin-striped suits, or girls in short suit-skirts. You go to a bar, and all people want to talk about is the grassroots campagin they are helping their Representative with, or why we shouldn't be involed in some minor conflict in some irrelevant country. Great city, but the people wore on me quickly.
That and on the south side of town when the wind is from the west you can smell all the fruity flavors from general mills. My dad works at PMX which is right next to ADM so he get's a combo of both...it's quite disgusting.
If all you do is visit family..well, yeah I can see not liking it. But the best, most down to earth people in the world live in SE Iowa. Can't say I'm in love with Centerville or Ottumwa either but putting down the area just because there's not a lot of money around is pretty ignorant.
Great Bend, KS is worst than Huchinson. When I lived in Great Bend we would drive an hour to go to Hutch to go to the space museum, since there is absolutely nothing else to do in western kansas.
True, to each their own. I personally love KC, have outside of KC in Warrensburg, MO for going on 2 years now and plan on staying moving to Lee's Summitt once I get out of the USAF. I will admit, it is not the best place I have lived (Raleigh-Durham, NC area) but it is right up there with the best thus far. Like I said in a previous post, I have lived all over (Irwin, IA; Ames, IA; Omaha, NE; Grand Forks, ND; Enid, OK; Tucson, AZ; Raleigh-Durham, NC; and now Warrensburg, MO) and Enid is definately the worst!
Enid is a town of 50,000 people but feels like a town of 1,000. It is an old oil town where in the 1980's it was booming with 200,000+ people but once the oil dryed up, the people left and all was left were the local people who got rich off of the oil. Now what you have is a bunch of retirees that still own all the local businesses and who are all on the local Chamber of Commerce and none will let new businesses begin. For example, once owns the chain of grocery stores and it was't until he passes that a Super Wal-Mart came in. Another owns the local electronics store so b/c of him, Best Buy cannot start up. The list goes on and on like that. The only reason the city doesn't die completely is because of the Air Force Base that employees about 60% of the community. So, unless you are a brand new military officer who wants to become a pilot or a cowboy/farmer; this place is NOT for you!
Honestly, anywhere but my hometown. It isn't a great town, it is small with nothing to do without creativity, but it is the place I like the best. All of my best friends and all of my family is there.
Thank you my fine feathered ferret.
Let me tell you about Johnson County. People from there fail at life! (either Johnson County really... but in the case of the epic rant I heard, Johnson County, Kansas)
I have it on good authority from some belegerant drunk at a Kansas football game that people from Johnson county are a bunch of ****** bags, and that they fail at life.
People from Johnson County attend KU to wave the wheat, graduate, move BACK to Johnson County to buy a house in the suburbs, have kids, and send them to KU to repeat the cycle. People from Johnson County fail at life!
That is the final summary and key point of an epic 10 minute that I cannot even began to recreate in it's entirety. But let me assure you it was epic, emphatic and the ranter was most insistent that people from Johnson County fail at life.
It has been 2-1/2 years since that rant, and for those that were there to hear it, we have continued to spread the word regarding this failing at life by people from Johnson County, who attend KU to wave the wheat, graduate, move back to Johnson County to buy a house in the suburbs, and have kids to repeat the failing at life cycle.
You could not sit there hear it and not be moved by that speech. Whether it greatly amused you sitting amongst 35,000 wheat waving idiots who fail at life when you heard it, or whether you were moved by the folks around said drunken preacher asking us to move into his seats when he went to the bathroom so that he could not return to that location and continue his drunken rantings, you were moved by it.
Epicness my friends, epicness.
And incase you're to lazy to read that rambling post, let me sumerize it for you one last time
People from Johnson County Fail at Life!
What part of Capitol Hill did you live in again? I moved into my place a couple days ago, and I have been working out here for 2 weeks, and haven't noticed anything that bad. However, I have a pretty good sense of people and I would avoid someone like that. Anyway, loving it so far! The people in KC made me more angry than anything...so I probably inherently have an opposing view.
Sioux City, spent a year going to school there it was awful. Constantly windy, seemed like the wind was always blowing at like 30mph in the middle of town. Plus the smell, Tyson and the poo factory right on the edge of town made the whole place smell. And it was dirty seemed like all of downtown was rundown and trashy. Plus it borders Nebraska, and the S*** Hole South Sioux City, Neb
Nice people, crap town
Nice people, crap town
Chicago... Crime, traffic, 10% sales tax, bad air, worst politicians in the world, and the people aren't very friendly. Almost makes you want to move back to Iowa.
I lived in Rochester too, it was one of the worst place I have ever lived. It is a horrible place that thinks it is great. I lived there when that magazine came out, and they darn near declared a city wide holiday.
FYI, the worst place was Brainerd Minnesota. Maybe a good place to vacation, but not someplace you want to live. Another was Sioux City. You know you are in a bad location when the airport abbreviation is SUX.
I've only lived in 3 places; Mason City, Ames, and Carmel, IN.
I didn't HATE any of them, but by default, Mason City would be the worst. It's a dying town.
Carmel is easily the best, despite the fact that the state of Indiana sucks (they put elbow maccaroni in their chilli?!)
I didn't HATE any of them, but by default, Mason City would be the worst. It's a dying town.
Carmel is easily the best, despite the fact that the state of Indiana sucks (they put elbow maccaroni in their chilli?!)
Don't forget that they're all from the suburbs, they've never even SEEN wheat.
That 10 minutes made the whole trip worthwhile. I was laughing so hard I was crying after two minutes. It was like watching someone yack after a Monster Margarita challenge. It just kept coming.
Oh, and FG - the dirt from Johnson County is still in my office. (For everyone else, I got that - and a handle of Captain 100 - as a wedding present from the others who were at KU watching them wave the wheat, repeat the cycle, and fail at life that day. I get to pass it off when the next person gets married.)
This is going to surprise a lot of people, but after spending nearly 3 weeks there on a work trip, one of the last places in the world that I would want to live is Honolulu, HI. Yeah, early on early on in the trip you are mystified by just being in Hawaii, and you can't believe just how beautiful the place is. Then, as some time passes by, you begin noticing things. It's absolutely crowded and the traffic tends to be worse than in New York City (particularly on I-H1). It's far dirtier than anyone would ever realize. Waikiki is becoming run down, or at the very least, is showing its age (every resort on that beach looks at least 40 years old). It's industry and ports are either mixed in with or at least in plain sight of its touristy areas. There are a lot of rough areas in town, a lot of them close to Waikiki. It's hot and humid all the time, it's expensive as hell, and quite literally, once you're there, there is no escape.
Look, I'm not saying I didn't enjoy my visit there, because I did. The North Shore of Oahu is absolutely beautiful, Diamondhead gives you the best and most striking view of Waikiki, Mauna Loa Trail might be the most beautiful nature trail I've ever walked, the Pearl Harbor visit was mandatory and sobering, and the U of Hawaii might just be the most gorgeous college campus in the United States. But after almost 3 weeks of visiting there, I had seen enough to know that I would never want to live there, and if I ever go back to visit I want to go to another island.
Look, I'm not saying I didn't enjoy my visit there, because I did. The North Shore of Oahu is absolutely beautiful, Diamondhead gives you the best and most striking view of Waikiki, Mauna Loa Trail might be the most beautiful nature trail I've ever walked, the Pearl Harbor visit was mandatory and sobering, and the U of Hawaii might just be the most gorgeous college campus in the United States. But after almost 3 weeks of visiting there, I had seen enough to know that I would never want to live there, and if I ever go back to visit I want to go to another island.
I never lived there, but I'm sure my sister would agree with you. They welcome tourists for their money but try raising a Haole family there. The racism is rampant. For example, an islander teacher locked my young grade school niece in a closet as discipline and the school administration refused to even look into it. It wasn't just an allegation, the teacher admitted doing it.
As far as visiting goes, I really had enough of Oahu after a few days. However, we enjoyed Maui enough to go back for a second trip.
