Thinking about moving out of Iowa

[1SEIACLONE]

In my opinion this is far from better...

Ice lasts a day, two at most and then in KC it melts away, snow up here just piles up and continues to be a pain for weeks. I have gotten to the point in life, where if bad weather is coming, I just stay at home, whether it's snow or ice. I agree ice is worst in the short term, but does not last, while snow does.

 

[VeloClone]

Ice lasts a day, two at most and then in KC it melts away, snow up here just piles up and continues to be a pain for weeks. I have gotten to the point in life, where if bad weather is coming, I just stay at home, whether it's snow or ice. I agree ice is worst in the short term, but does not last, while snow does.

Snow rarely gets to the point in the metro where travel becomes extremely dangerous. With ice it doesn't matter if you are in the metro or out state travel is out.

I live in the Twin Cities, my BIL in KC. I'll take the snow.

Agree to disagree...

 

[1SEIACLONE]

Snow rarely gets to the point in the metro where travel becomes extremely dangerous. With ice it doesn't matter if you are in the metro or out state travel is out.

I live in the Twin Cities, my BIL in KC. I'll take the snow.

Agree to disagree...

I agree ice is worse in the short term, but ice melts off quickly, while the snow does not. Day after an ice storm, most of the roads are fine in KC, but snow just sits there and piles up. So which is worse, one day where you cannot travel, meaning ice, and the fine, compared to day after day of snow on the ground? I'll take the one day of ice, and then good driving conditions over the weather in the Twin Cites any day.

 

[besserheimerphat]

This is one thing that has me mildly concerned about moving away. Just about every year we get a 1/2 or 1/4 beef plus 1/2 a hog and fill our freezer with fresh meat from a couple local farmers.

Maybe you can do that other places, but I doubt it will be nearly as easy as it is right here in Iowa.

Also, Edgewood Locker is the KING of lockers.

We're able to get half a beef in WA, but pork is much harder to find. I suspect it's that way most places outside the Midwest and Iowa in particular.

When I visit my parents I make sure to get at least one smoked pork chop. The regular pork chops at the grocery stores here are sad little things about the size of a deck if cards. Not the big beautiful slabs that you can get from Fareway or Hy-Vee. But I can still find good steaks.

 

[SayMyName]

I grew up 20 minutes from Sioux Center. The Dutch are evil people.

 

[demoncore1031]

Make sure they steer clear of Walter White and Jessie Pinkman.

I was gonna reply with a picture of Pinkman's house that I took recently but I must have accidentally deleted it from my phone. D'oh!

 

[demoncore1031]

Has anyone here lived in or around New Orleans? I'm curious to know how it would be to live there.

 

[TitanClone]

Ice lasts a day, two at most and then in KC it melts away, snow up here just piles up and continues to be a pain for weeks. I have gotten to the point in life, where if bad weather is coming, I just stay at home, whether it's snow or ice. I agree ice is worst in the short term, but does not last, while snow does.

Lived in KC for 7 years, now back in Des Moines. Ice was the only thing I hated about KC. I'll take more/longer snow over it.

 

[deadeyededric]

I have cousins who grew up in Albuquerque and are now in Tulsa. One of them really loved and misses Albuquerque, not sure about the other.

Tulsa is severely underrated. More culture and diversity than one would think and has a really good nightlife scene. I lived in OKC and actually preferred the social aspect of Tulsa. Okc has obviously overtaken it by quite a bit in terms of jobs. Both underrated cities. It reminds me a little of the Nashville and Memphis things. If I could make more money in Oklahoma I would love to live in OKC again. Its like a slightly smaller version of KC.

 

[qwerty]

I'm sorry but saying Madison WI is something different from here is like saying I usually order a hamburger, but today I am going to try a CHEESEburger!

Well, in Wisconsin you probably can’t get a burger without cheese

 

[83cy]

Unless you move to, like, boonies of SD or WY...there aren't many good places to really avoid state taxes. States just choose different paths to collect roughly the same amount of money between income tax, sales tax, corp tax, prop tax, etc. Everyone needs money to operate and are all getting it one way or another.

Not entirely true, if you have a high to very high income the savings in state taxes will easily pay for the increase in property taxes of Texas or Florida etc.