Worst Places to Live In Iowa (article)
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Algona doesn't belong on this list and I can't stand being in Algona. It isn't the nicest town on the planet but it's significantly better than most of Southern Iowa.
According to this site Burlington doesn't compare all that well to LA. Looks like if it isn't nailed down then expect a thief in the Dirty B to steal it
Centerville is not a bad spot. Great country down there as well as Rathbun lake just a couple minutes from town.
In Iowa I think people gravitate to the good of their community not dwell on the negative. Just not the kind of people we have in this state.
In Iowa I think people gravitate to the good of their community not dwell on the negative. Just not the kind of people we have in this state.
Fort Dodge's street layout makes it top 10 easy. It's like drunk Picasso designed the town...to confuse the British. I have never been in a town that is literally a pain in the *** to go anywhere. I hate hate hate going there. Oh...and it can get pretty murdery.
Southern Iowa is really great for rural residential with lots of higher value acreages. Pretty county with few neighbors. However many of the towns have struggled for various reasons. I just don't believe that Ottumwa spends the least per student in the state of Iowa (perhaps they skewed the data adding every child who comes and goes). They spend tons of money on education and if that's true then Iowa is wasting entirely too much money on the government funded schools.
So, you think a place like southern Iowa, which has been an economic wasteland for decades, needs less education?
Pretty interesting. My neighborhood says this:
In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 99.5% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Iowa. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode.
Also interesting
also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
If God was to give earth an enema, he would connect the hose at the center of the O on the Ottumwa football field.
O-town is literally the anus of Iowa.
O-town is literally the anus of Iowa.
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Ah, you too have been brainwashed. Iowa City --- four square miles surrounded by reality. Wallow in it, brother.
Get those queeros and ladymen away from me!
No need to send a self portrait with your response.
If that's you, walk the ped mall and "enjoy" Iowa City", if you know what I mean.
You've really been painting a very negative picture of yourself this entire thread. Might consider sitting out a bit.
If I had to guess, I would pin the economic struggle in Southern Iowa on the fact that it has a lot less tillable ground than Northern Iowa, and what's there isn't as productive. I think a lot of the towns were founded on a coal boom that fizzled quickly and left an unnecessary amount of infrastructure for what the ag economies there can really support.
Southern Iowa's basically a miniature Rust Belt, economically...there were a lot of manufacturing towns that sprung up along the current BNSF rail line around the turn of the century that have been declining ever since those manufacturers pulled out a few decades later.
Granted the responses are for entertainment purposes but it sounds like we have a whole lot of
"I grew up in the town and have not been back except for major holidays. But I remember I was bored to tears as a 17 year old growing up. Then last Thanksgiving Mom sent me to the store for sugar and I had to go to Verna's Grocery and she only had 2 brands of sugar to choose from....and 1 was a generic ..........therefore that town is the horrible and should be on the list. While I'm at it, I remember the town a few miles south of us, were rivals in high school and they beat us in football and volleyball my senior year, therefore their trash too!"
Good gawd folks. Yes, I feel better. Carry on, carry on.
"I grew up in the town and have not been back except for major holidays. But I remember I was bored to tears as a 17 year old growing up. Then last Thanksgiving Mom sent me to the store for sugar and I had to go to Verna's Grocery and she only had 2 brands of sugar to choose from....and 1 was a generic ..........therefore that town is the horrible and should be on the list. While I'm at it, I remember the town a few miles south of us, were rivals in high school and they beat us in football and volleyball my senior year, therefore their trash too!"
Good gawd folks. Yes, I feel better. Carry on, carry on.
