Great point, on the south at least, I've never been out east much so I can't speak to that. Hit the MO border and check out the small towns... and they are paradise compared to Arkansas...and they just continue to get worse and worse the further south you get... til you hit the coast, then its great. Never seen a town on any coast I didn't like.
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Great point, on the south at least, I've never been out east much so I can't speak to that. Hit the MO border and check out the small towns... and they are paradise compared to Arkansas...and they just continue to get worse and worse the further south you get... til you hit the coast, then its great. Never seen a town on any coast I didn't like.
Gotta love bashin on crappy towns. My top 4, in no particular order:
Sioux City (AKA "The Dirty")
Fort Dodge
Marshalltown
Neighborhood on east side of Merle Hay Road ("The Dogpatch")
Sioux City (AKA "The Dirty")
Fort Dodge
Marshalltown
Neighborhood on east side of Merle Hay Road ("The Dogpatch")
I can think of about 5 neighborhoods (w/out even trying) in DSM that are worse than that.
Haha yeah it's really not that bad, I have a few friends who live there and they're always complaining about it, so I figured I'd give em a shout out. Plus the nickname "Dogpatch" is just awesome.
I don't know when you were last on the river front in Davenport but it is actually pretty nice now. Stadium is redone. Skyway (bridge to nowhere). Skate Park. Lots of planters. Huge Farmer's market on Saturdays. Lots of nice planters and new trees along river drive.
Other parts of Davenport are rough but the riverfront is nice.
Muscatine also has a nice riverfront.
Most of the roughest towns are under 1,000 population with no schools, no businesses, no zoning and lots of poor and/or uncaring property owners. Most of the larger towns and cities have good and bad areas. It's just a fact of life. Some hide the bad ones better and some they end up on the edge of town on the main drag as you come in and you get that skanky first impression.
I love that nickname too. Had never heard the term until one of my professor's use it last semester. It had never crossed my mind that it's not actually part of Des Moines or any other town for that matter.
There are crappy dimensions to most towns. One of the ways that I determine crappisity is by real estate values. Nice houses in Ames are comparable in price to nice homes in the suburbs on Chicago. Hard to say that about many other places in Iowa. One of the great deals in Iowa is to get a job in a big city or university town, but live 30-45 minutes away. It certainly increases the money you have left after you pay for your house.
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I am sure that it is like this in most places in Iowa, but Dubuque has it nice parts and it has bad parts. It seems like Loras College is the divider in that respect. Though, the river front does look nice.
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Yeah...great reasoning.
I know my marriage as well as my role as a father would be so much more successful if I spent 1/2 day a week mowing grass instead of spending time with them. I can also see how this would benefit my career.
Granted, I'm not a fan of typical suburban development, but you fail to mention anything that goes along with a location that has that type of development. Little things like JOBS, entertainment, culture, shopping...to name a few.
A main complaint by mustangcy was about the cookie-cutter housing. My comment was relevant since I wasn't going to argue that point (and wanted to move past that) and rather, make the point that the attraction is about the ammenities found in the metro that causes it to be attractive.
I'm not sure why the snarky comment was warranted.
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