Oh wow, it's a miracle you made it out alive! Reminds me to pack some heat the next time I visit the Algoney...
If you saw my enchilada platter you would be thankful to be alive too.
Oh wow, it's a miracle you made it out alive! Reminds me to pack some heat the next time I visit the Algoney...
Looked pretty rough to me on a recent business trip there and looked a lot like the run-down river towns throughout Iowa. I expected a lot more I guess. Plus, the only thing open for lunch was a crappy mexican restaurant.
If noone has been to Neighborhoodscout.com, it is a fun time.
I move every 2 years due to my job so I use this habitually, there are better sites out there but so far this has been very helpful for me and my wife.
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ia/waterloo/
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.
Don't care. Just want to stay out of the social engineering capitol of Iowa. And the smell? Unshaven legs and armpits. Dope. KY jelly. Refuse from the Emma Goldman clinic. Got the picture? And Iowans flock there for football??!!
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.
If noone has been to Neighborhoodscout.com, it is a fun time.
I move every 2 years due to my job so I use this habitually, there are better sites out there but so far this has been very helpful for me and my wife.
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ia/waterloo/
Are you off your meds again? CyKosys, we've talked about this...you are not going to get to go home if you keep cheeking your meds and flushing them down the toilet as soon as the nurse leaves.
Get those queeros and ladymen away from me!
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Ah, you too have been brainwashed. Iowa City --- four square miles surrounded by reality. Wallow in it, brother.
You've really been painting a very negative picture of yourself this entire thread. Might consider sitting out a bit.
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.
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.
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.