The worst place where you have lived?
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Ida Grove IA. longest 4 months of my life, didn't spend one weekend in that hole. Drove to Ames every Friday to have a life.
Hey, It'd be nice if maybe there would be somewhere good to go in a 90 minute drive. Sioux City doesn't cut it.
Considering Des Moines is only an hour further. But no one makes that drive that I know for some reason.
I heard the Northwest has the money and is a lot nicer.
The Southern part is a dump, Texarkana is a dump, and everything out East is a dump. The mosquitoes are as big as birds.
Right out of ISU I took a job in Copeland, KS. Town of 150 in the absolute middle of nowhere. It is down in the sw corner of KS between Dodge City, Garden City, and Liberal.
I worked down there for 1 year and while I was there we got 1 measurable rain and it was over 100 degrees for 27 days in a row. There would be thunderstorms with zero rain in them and tornados would drop out of them. So it was pretty much like hell on earth. Although I did meet some good people and drank alot of beer.
I worked down there for 1 year and while I was there we got 1 measurable rain and it was over 100 degrees for 27 days in a row. There would be thunderstorms with zero rain in them and tornados would drop out of them. So it was pretty much like hell on earth. Although I did meet some good people and drank alot of beer.
Vermillion, SD. The entire state for that matter. They had to deface a mountain to get people to visit for christ's sake.
I met a fine co-ed from USD while at a conference in St. Louis during my college days. She invited me up to Vermillion the next weekend. Vermillion seemed like a very nice place, although I arrived at night and really did not see anything other than her room.:yes:
Cedar Rapids has plenty to do as long as you like being outside, especially in the summer. A lot of parks, numerous disc golf courses, kernels, bike trails, nice places to eat, and overall crime isn't terrible unless you are on the SE side and even then there are only a few areas that are bad. It could be better but imo there are many places (mainly smaller towns) that are a lot worse in terms of things to do.
I have to take offense.
Nebraska taxes are slightly high but the City of Omahas are not really.
The streets arent much different than any city of this size.
Downtown and midtown have had a tremendous amount of reinvestment and this continues to be the case, both public and private.
Crime does stink in the hood. Dont live there.
Ha ha ha... I used to go there to drive around the town... I wonder if kids still drive around on Wednesday night?
Dayton, Ohio. I remember turning TV on right after I moved and seeing all murders that occurred the day before. I was def not ready for that since I grew up in a state with very few murders. Yucky town
You've obviously never lived near Davenport. If Rock Island were on the Iowa side of the Mississippi (as opposed to being in Illinois), Iowa's murder rate would at least double. They didn't used to say that Rock Island, IL used to have the highest murder rate with respect to population proportion in the United States for nothing...
Upon further review: Helser hall. What a craphole. When they told us it was closing at the end of the year (2004) i thought that was a great thing. Too bad they didnt end up knocking it down..
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