[songinthewind7]

Originally Posted by jim9251

And there's nothing like falling into an ice cold rice canal in the middle of August.

I gotta try that when I get there.

[latunafish]

and speaking of the delta, there are some great looking crops this year, corn, soybeans, rice and a small amount of cotton. the corn is so tall, it has changed the landscape of the area temporarily. yeah, the delta really can be beautiful!

[Podo944]

Originally Posted by Old Fossil

The current issue of the magazine LIVING IN ARKANSAS has some great info and has a section they call "An Arkansas Cheat Sheet". On these two pages they have some great stats and here are a few of them; Clean air, on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being the best, AR rates 91.9 - cost of living is 15% lower compared to the rest of the country - median home cost is $109,100 - there are 52 state parks and three National Forests and 17.2 million acres of forests - 600,000 acres of lakes, 9,700 miles of streams and rivers, 13 major lakes - average annual temperature 61.4 degrees, average annual rainfall 49.6 inches, average annual snowfall in the northern region 10.4 inches and southern region 2.8 inches.

So come on to The Natural State. It's a great place to live.

How refreshing... I'm so used to hearing, "Go away, we're full!"

[Old Fossil]

Originally Posted by latunafish

and speaking of the delta, there are some great looking crops this year, corn, soybeans, rice and a small amount of cotton. the corn is so tall, it has changed the landscape of the area temporarily. yeah, the delta really can be beautiful!

I have often wished my grandpa could have seen those "cotton patches" that covered hundreds of acres. He was a hill farmer and for him a 20 acre cotton patch was big. And it was for me too when I was chopping it and later picking it.

[Old Fossil]

Our craft beer gets lots of press, but our wine makers deserve some too. In the 1880s Swiss and German wine makers moved into the hills around what became the community of Altus, east of Fort Smith, started making superb wine and have continued and expanded since.

[Loveswater_outdoors]

To me Arkansas seems to have one of the biggest contrasts of any state. In the northern half, specifically NWA you have a very nice area that is growing and seems to be one of the best up and coming places in America. In the southern half, specifically PB and further south, seems to be depressed, ghetto, overall bad. Huge contrasts between the two halves.

[jane_sm1th73]

Originally Posted by Loveswater_outdoors

... In the southern half, specifically PB and further south, seems to be depressed, ghetto, overall bad. Huge contrasts between the two halves.

Excuse me for being dull, but what does "PB" refers to? Thanks, Jane

[Old Fossil]

Originally Posted by Loveswater_outdoors

To me Arkansas seems to have one of the biggest contrasts of any state. In the northern half, specifically NWA you have a very nice area that is growing and seems to be one of the best up and coming places in America. In the southern half, specifically PB and further south, seems to be depressed, ghetto, overall bad. Huge contrasts between the two halves.

You are correct, but keep in mind that work in NWA requires people, but since the farming and timber industry has become so mechanized there is less need for people (workers) and the unemployment rate in the south part of the state, and the delta, is very high.

[greenacresusa]

Originally Posted by jane_sm1th73

Excuse me for being dull, but what does "PB" refers to? Thanks, Jane

PB = Pine Bluff

[boiselover]

Family is all originally for arkansas. Left during the depression for california where most of us still reside with a few of us up in idaho. I considered a move to AR a few years back and will keep it in mind as others stated the northern half seems nicer.