Northwest Arkansas Is Horrible. (Bella Vista, Strong: house, crime, cost of living)

[The A-Team]

I wouldn't say LR comes close to a real city experience. Actually, Tulsa is a very small city experience. Cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Los angeles etc will give you a real city experience.

[bchris02]

Originally Posted by The A-Team

I wouldn't say LR comes close to a real city experience. Actually, Tulsa is a very small city experience. Cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Los angeles etc will give you a real city experience.

Of course those places you mentioned are on a completely different level. By saying it comes close...i meant it comes close to actually feeling like a city. LR really is just a very large town with just enough diversity to make it feel somewhat urban. When I defend it I am defending it when compared to the rest of Arkansas and other cities in its league like Jackson, Shreveport, and Mobile. I will admit, I would take any of the cities you mentioned over Little Rock in a heartbeat if it was an option for me. I have to make the best of the cards I have been dealt.

[The A-Team]

Very true. Hopefully the next hand will deal you better cards, and you can have your pick of cities you like. Good luck to ya.

[Aporkalypse]

Originally Posted by bchris02

Of course those places you mentioned are on a completely different level. By saying it comes close...i meant it comes close to actually feeling like a city. LR really is just a very large town with just enough diversity to make it feel somewhat urban. When I defend it I am defending it when compared to the rest of Arkansas and other cities in its league like Jackson, Shreveport, and Mobile. I will admit, I would take any of the cities you mentioned over Little Rock in a heartbeat if it was an option for me. I have to make the best of the cards I have been dealt.

I actually think LR is remarkably urban for a city its size. I lived in Dallas for quite a while and there you feel like most of the metro is cookie cutter sprawl and the urban core is relatively tiny. Neighborhoods like the Heights and Hillcrest, Park Hill, etc have character you rarely see in cities this size. Downtown is bustling most days and full of new projects and developments.

[in_the_gloaming]

Originally Posted by BroncoFan

If you don't like here, Hwy 71 runs north into Missouri and 412 runs west into Oklahoma. Use the big vertical petal on the right and leave. People like you who make blanket statements have lived in silos. You want crime? Problems? Traffic? Rude people? Try Memphis or New Orleans. Or Dallas for that matter. Traffic here in NWA is a joke. What? It took you 12 minutes to get to work and you actually had to stop at two lights on the way in? Please. Try going 40 miles into Nashville and taking an hour and a half to do it. Every day, each way. The illegal aliens are everywhere hoss. Here, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Kansas City, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Tulsa, Omaha, etc. If it's so bad, I'm sure there's a hut in the woods in Idaho with your name on it. Just don't come back when you hate it there too.

I like what you said too! We also have the same problem in Colorado where I live! If you don't like Arkansas, try somewhere else but don't come to Denver! Denver has a bumper crop of transplants and others who have ruined our economy!!! Many of these are from places where the cost of living has been higher than it is here. They come here, jack up our cost of living and think its cheap because they sold their house for $750,000 to a million bucks and came here and feel that since they can buy a house here for half that amount, our cost of living is cheap! this is especially true if they came from places like: Boston, New York City, New Yersey, Chicago or large metropolitan areas in California!

Personally, I love Arkansas! I own property there and some day I intend to return to live there again!

[in_the_gloaming]

Originally Posted by Art Brunje

I'm one of those old snoots who have relocated to Bella Vista.....NWA is a GREAT place to live..in fact we even have wall to wall carpeting straight to our outhouse.

LOL..., love it!

[JGAngel97]

Well, this thread is interesting. I don't live in AR yet but we are pretty sure that is where we will end up. I am originally from So. Calif. Then moved to Las Vegas, NV. We couldn't afford to live in California any more. Las Vegas is not a nice place to live. The traffic is unbelievable, the crime rate is just getting worse and there is very little to do unless you go to the "Strip". My children (young adults) don't like it here either. They want to live in a nice, GREEN, quiet area with beautiful scenery and affordable housing. I am not a "rich snoot" by any means. I am not retired. My husband and I visited Bella Vista on the free trip advertised on TV and we fell in love with it. We did not buy land, however. I doubt BV is perfect. Hopefully it will have what we want. I'm so sorry for all of you that have experienced such awfulness. I hope you find what you are looking for.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by JGAngel97

Well, this thread is interesting. I don't live in AR yet but we are pretty sure that is where we will end up. I am originally from So. Calif. Then moved to Las Vegas, NV. We couldn't afford to live in California any more. Las Vegas is not a nice place to live. The traffic is unbelievable, the crime rate is just getting worse and there is very little to do unless you go to the "Strip". My children (young adults) don't like it here either. They want to live in a nice, GREEN, quiet area with beautiful scenery and affordable housing. I am not a "rich snoot" by any means. I am not retired. My husband and I visited Bella Vista on the free trip advertised on TV and we fell in love with it. We did not buy land, however. I doubt BV is perfect. Hopefully it will have what we want. I'm so sorry for all of you that have experienced such awfulness. I hope you find what you are looking for.

Interesting, where you lived and now live. We were raised in So Calif and eventually moved to DC area in the early 80s. After about 7 years hubby was about to take a job in Vegas and we were delighted. To make a long story short it feel through at the last minute and we settled for Dallas. We loved Vegas so much we bought a time share there. Well, we just sold it about 2 months ago. Every year the traffic got worse, things got more expensive and we don't care if we ever go back. 7 years ago we settled here, in NM. The things we thought we wanted were only partially here. Yes, no place is utopia, but after visiting BV and talking to people who live there and near there it will offer us what we want. We are looking for a slightly rural atmosphere (I know those who have lived in AR for years think the rural is gone, for those of us who have spent many years in the really big city, we see rural) and yet convenient to shopping, restaurants and medical care. We have none of that here as we are really rural. Our granddaughter is senior at UAR. She loves NWA and is sure BV will offer us the life we want.

Good luck to you,

Nita

[RogMar]

[quote=nmnita;3344460](I know those who have lived in AR for years think the rural is gone, for those of us who have spent many years in the really big city, we see rural)

Naw....it's just kinda like honest politicians, still around, it just takes a search.

I have seen people in Arkansas in even more rural areas than I'm in, but if I wanted pizza delivery, they'd have to air-drop it.

I drive 1/2 mile to my mailbox, and sometimes I've got to stop for a cow that found a hole in their fence.

I have a neighbor with no running water and an outhouse.

If a "car" drives down the road, everybody starts calling each other, "Y'all know somebody that drives a green auto-mo-bile?"

Believe me, rural is still around.

[nmnita]

[quote=RogMar;3345114]

Originally Posted by nmnita

(I know those who have lived in AR for years think the rural is gone, for those of us who have spent many years in the really big city, we see rural)

Naw....it's just kinda like honest politicians, still around, it just takes a search.

I have seen people in Arkansas in even more rural areas than I'm in, but if I wanted pizza delivery, they'd have to air-drop it.

I drive 1/2 mile to my mailbox, and sometimes I've got to stop for a cow that found a hole in their fence.

I have a neighbor with no running water and an outhouse.

If a "car" drives down the road, everybody starts calling each other, "Y'all know somebody that drives a green auto-mo-bile?"

Believe me, rural is still around.

Now that is rural and as for the policians, yes, I am glad to see someone thinks like me: there are still honest ones, they just are not easy to find. I doubt they ever have been.