Why Your Town Sucks #1: Coralville
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I lived in north DSM for about 10 years. It had its perks, but I won't miss:
Calling the cops at midnight because a drunk didn't know where he was and was trying to break into our house.
Homeless people walking down the back alley yelling at us and our child.
Meth dealers living 2 doors down from our house.
Seeing SWAT parked outside our house because a block down a man decided to kill his wife and a random onlooker before taking his kids hostage in their home.
Our neighbors leaving their 5 year old to watch their infant while they went out to do who knows what. Eventually the state took the kids and the mother kidnapped the 5 year old kicking off an amber alert.
I've lived in Johnston and Ankeny since. Surprisingly no similar incidents in any of the neighborhoods I've lived in. Guess the burbs aren't all bad.
I figured it was named after the rich coral reef in Lake MacBride. Guess you learn something new every day.
I left ankeny about a year ago and thought I'd miss it, quite the opposite. I was there for 6 years and miss a few restaurants but not enough to even drive up there. Terrible place. I'm kinda on drake/beaverdale now and so much better and has character.
I wanna see city history off the normal lists. Like Perry, Jefferson, Burlington, Clinton. All seem like shitholes.
Stick it to the admins too. Clarinda sucks ass. I'm from the area and people drove 40 minutes away to work to get out of there. We took advantage.
Stick it to the admins too. Clarinda sucks ass. I'm from the area and people drove 40 minutes away to work to get out of there. We took advantage.
Most small-medium size Iowa towns that are dumpy used to have a large manufacturing or packing plant type employer that the town was hugely dependent on. Then that employer goes away and the town slowly dies and turns into a bunch of low-rent housing inhabited my meth-heads.
“Decent” is relative. Is Ankeny decent compared to Fort Dodge? Yep.
is Fort Dodge “decent” compared to Clinton? Yep.
Ja-mar is a national treasure, so is Taco Tico, how dare you?!Also please add pics of shittiness, that could get fun in these lame duck run down towns.
For instance, hey Dirty Dodge, Ja-Mars isn't an incredible one of a kind culinary institution, its a Mecca for inbred Iowa hicks. It's a fried food hellhole like a permanent Iowa State fair booth, except the Iowa State Fair brings creativity in it's offerings and KNOWS it should only be consumed once a year.
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I’ve been in Jefferson a few times for kids sports. It doesn’t seem bad to me at all. I think one thing I notice about a lot of these Iowa towns is the uglier industrial areas are along the main roads and entrances to town, so a drive-by gives a very poor impression.
I am from 26 miles east of there (Charles City, which might be a decent candidate as well) so yes, I hope this happens.
Wow, is this true? I think I need to go visit Clinton out of curiosity.
I have an overly huge hate for that place due to an event that occurred earlier this year so I have a bad taste in my mouth.
I have visited Clinton frequently in my life, wife is from there originally, and I don't think it's that bad. I have a lot of experience visiting towns like Fort Dodge, Mason City, Marshalltown etc. and I think Clinton is in the same mold
Also, my son played baseball a couple times in Perry and you haven’t lived until you’ve had an El Sabor beef tongue taco. Oddly I kind of thought Perry was kind of interesting and sort of liked it. Several years ago spent a couple days there doing a workshop at the hotel. I thought the downtown was pretty cool. Maybe I just had really low expectations, but I thought it was not bad. Seeing a bunch of old white people getting geared up for Cinco de Mayo was a fun sight.
