Next CF Bracket Best Iowa Towns/Cities Nomination Thread
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It's a nice little town with some great places to grab a drink, but those people are just so, so full of themselves. And if I lived there, the first person to complain to me about mowing on a Sunday would get a swift kick to the shin.
It's a nice little town with some great places to grab a drink, but those people are just so, so full of themselves. And if I lived there, the first person to complain to me about mowing on a Sunday would get a swift kick to the shin.
I've never been but my thought was less about people and more about their tulip festival.
I seem to remember people saying "if you're not Dutch you're not much".It's a nice little town with some great places to grab a drink, but those people are just so, so full of themselves. And if I lived there, the first person to complain to me about mowing on a Sunday would get a swift kick to the shin.
I'm proposing that you don't include cities. A tournament of towns would be better IMHO.
There is no difference in Iowa, and most places for that matter, sou're going to have to define that. I saw 15,000, but that would exclude Newton and Indianola, while including Norwalk.
It should be considered one, and all my buddies from AP/Milford who graduated from Okoboji High would punch me for lumping them in with Spirit Lake.
The one thing I have noticed after living most of my life in southern Iowa along the Iowa/Missouri border is how much nicer and cleaner the towns are in the North compared to the South. The northern part of the state just has more money in their economy. I would say the major part of that is from the value of the farm ground and the increased amounts of crops it will grow. It costs roughly the same to put it in and take it out, you just get more grown. That money has flowed into the towns and people therefore have more money to keep the upkeep on their home.
The 2nd part is religion, most of the Northern towns have larger Catholic populations that tend to push the town pride angle much more than in the southern parts of the state. Most of the smaller towns around Ames, are just much cleaner nicer little towns, and well kept more than southern area towns towards the border. All the houses are kept up, yards are mowed, you don't see rusted cars sitting on the lots, and no one has a couch on their porch as the main sitting area to watch traffic as it flows by.
The 2nd part is religion, most of the Northern towns have larger Catholic populations that tend to push the town pride angle much more than in the southern parts of the state. Most of the smaller towns around Ames, are just much cleaner nicer little towns, and well kept more than southern area towns towards the border. All the houses are kept up, yards are mowed, you don't see rusted cars sitting on the lots, and no one has a couch on their porch as the main sitting area to watch traffic as it flows by.
I love me a good small river town.
McGregor
Marquette
Elkader
St. Olaf
Le Claire
Decorah
Polk City
Pella
Spirit Lake
Guttenberg
McGregor
Marquette
Elkader
St. Olaf
Le Claire
Decorah
Polk City
Pella
Spirit Lake
Guttenberg
Ft Madison
Keokuk
Mt Pleasant
Burlington
Washington
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Mt Vernon
Keokuk
Mt Pleasant
Burlington
Washington
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Mt Vernon
Waukon - almost everything Decorah has, but without the self-importance and hype.
Without giving it much thought, I would go with 50,000. Maybe even 30,000.
The funnest part of Pella is Knoxville has a cannon pointed at Pella and Pella obliges with one of their own.It's a nice little town with some great places to grab a drink, but those people are just so, so full of themselves. And if I lived there, the first person to complain to me about mowing on a Sunday would get a swift kick to the shin.
something I learned about Pella recently is they have a phrase called Dutch Bingo which basically means everyone is related to everyone else.It's a nice little town with some great places to grab a drink, but those people are just so, so full of themselves. And if I lived there, the first person to complain to me about mowing on a Sunday would get a swift kick to the shin.
