We currently live on the west side of the metro, but were thinking of building on the northern side of Ankeny.
My concern is I've lived in the area for almost 10 years now, and have only gone up to ankeny a handful of times, so I'm afraid we're going to end up needing to drive down to DSM/WDM for everything.
For those of you that live in ankeny, is that the case? Or are you pretty much set regarding businesses/decent selections in restaurants/etc? She goes to life time fitness, so I'm sure that's going to be an issue; I wasn't sure if there were any clubs somewhat on par with that up there or not.
At some point I got the impression altoona was planning on building a lot of retail in the near future, which I'd hope would offset the need to go out to west des moines, but I can't remember what that plan was (or if I'm crazy and just made it up).
My concern is I've lived in the area for almost 10 years now, and have only gone up to ankeny a handful of times, so I'm afraid we're going to end up needing to drive down to DSM/WDM for everything.
For those of you that live in ankeny, is that the case? Or are you pretty much set regarding businesses/decent selections in restaurants/etc? She goes to life time fitness, so I'm sure that's going to be an issue; I wasn't sure if there were any clubs somewhat on par with that up there or not.
At some point I got the impression altoona was planning on building a lot of retail in the near future, which I'd hope would offset the need to go out to west des moines, but I can't remember what that plan was (or if I'm crazy and just made it up).