[txdave35]

Originally Posted by bagelw

The fact that you read violence in RogMars statement explains why you have problems making friends.

Guess it's an AR thang huh? Never had problems making friends in TX!

[NCN]

I love Arkansas. We enjoyed driving on the roads except for one bad experience on an overcrowded four lane road. I don't know what it is with four lane roads, but they seem to bring out the worst in everybody. We ate in Pine Bluff and found the people there very friendly. Maybe everybody was so pleasant to us because we were just vacationing. I wasn't looking for a place to live.

We went to a baptist church in Fairfield Bay and they let us sit down. The church we go to every week doesn't always let us do that. They lay books in the seats and save them for their friends. I think Arkansas is a beautiful and nice state.

[todd00]

tex, you are bound to find pple on state threads that love their slice of life in a particular state and will defend it. so your opinion differs, but multiple threads complaining about life in arkansas doesnt seem a productive use of time either. im not happy where i am, so i hope to be able to move. but i dont feel starting multiple threads on the flaws of iowa to be something that will do me or anyone else any good. its not like im a preacher out to convert pple. if you are unhappy make plans to change your situation. thats about all that can be said isnt it?

yeah citydude, cleveland has gotten a bad rap over the yrs. i think now pple are picking on detroit and st louis more than cleveland. oh and tex, if you find a utopia where everything is perfect, please let me know.

[linicx]

Okay folks, time to settle down. Rebutt the post and NOT the poster, please

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by txdave35

And the best advice you can give is "leave arkansas" Funny how you are so up in arms if anyone dares to not give glowing reviews of AR living! I'm just offering a different take to your usual "AR is paradise" comments

AR is paradise to many, but even Paradise has problems. Anyone who thinks anyplace is perfect lives in a dream world, like your views of Texas, especially East Texas. No one will claim AR has the best educational program or the most to offer culturally. We know there is poverty just to mention a few of the concerns some of us have. But when someone can find nothing but negatives about anything or anyplace, their problems become thiers, showing an attitude that either needs change or one that will take a person through life never knowing the pure pleasures that life has to offer.

AR is anything but unfriendly as you claim. It is a beautiful state, with people who are down home nice, not phoney. The state doesn't have 5 months of horrible heat like some places and we do not have uncontrollable traffic either, some traffic yes, traffic like many states, no. There is no convincing you or changing your mind, you obviously spend much of your time looking for the negatives and never see the positives.

Nita

[todd00]

im rebutting the post, not the poster. i understand making friends in new places can be difficult. the closest small town to me is very unfriendly, thats not my negative attitude, its theirs. my point was that making changes to fix things are better than complaining about the problems most any state has. i understand being stuck somewhere too, thats been my situation. but make the best of it that you can, make plans to move someplace that would appeal to you more. i havent travelled alot in arkansas, only to the nw areas, but found it very pretty.

i think this topic has been exhausted. i wish you all well and happiness where ever you live.

[adysmom]

Originally Posted by txdave35

I had a long and interesting conversation about Arkansas culture with a local gal who is a school teacher. I told her about my negative perceptions, and she completely agreed with me 100% and offered some insight and other info:


Pine Bluff - she refered to it as the cesspool of Arkansas, quite possibily one of the dangerous towns in the US. She said is practically all ghetto, 70% black with high crime. Don't hang around the streets if you don't want to get car jacked or worse.


Bryant/Benton - She said Benton is mostly poor redneck type folk which explains why everything seems run down there. Heck even the Kroger looked beat up with cracks in the floor.

Bryant is more high class, but the locals are pretty much stuck up and clichish. The reason being is they don't like the rapid growth of this once small town, and newcomers are not well liked. The traffic alone is enough to make one irritable.

Anything south of 630 is bad territory. I agreed with her when I got lost on 12th street in LR. Baseline, Jacksonville and all East are bad areas as well.

The biggest problem with LR is no one wants to live in the city. So everyone commutes to work and it makes for a traffic nightmare. Arkansas desperately needs to build more roads. The city is designed for decline, not growth.


She also said NWA is a totally different culture, nicer places to live and friendlier people.

Ever been to a real ghetto/cesspool ? If you want to know what a cesspool and a ghetto is visit Los Angeles.

[bagelw]

Originally Posted by txdave35

Guess it's an AR thang huh? Never had problems making friends in TX!

I'm not originally from Arkansas so I wouldn't know if it's an "AR thang".
The point is that RogMar was simply saying he could show you a good time but you'd probably complain about it so what's the point. You have made up your mind at this point and instead of noticing the positive in anything you are going to search for the negative. You can deny that all you want but the fact that you come here just to post negative comments shows that your decision has been made.

[HANNU]

Originally Posted by linicx

Okay folks, time to settle down. Rebutt the post and NOT the poster, please

We are not school children. If someone did 'rebut' the poster, you should speak to that poster and not everyone as a group.

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by txdave35

And I should be thankful not to be neighbors? WHy, is that a threat? Real classy. You don't like someone's opinion so you threaten violence. IS that the AR way?

I can understand you interpreting that as a threat.

It's like that guy in a bar that you say, "How ya doin?" to and he grabs you by the collar and says, "Whatta ya mean by *that*, punk?".

However, what I meant was what I tried to break down for you.

We have Texans in my neighborhood. Proud Texans. They live in Arkansas, but there are Texas state flags, "Don't mess with Texas" bumper stickers, and one even produces a cool kind of metal Texas star bronze things to put on houses.

They get along with everybody, just like the rest of us.

They go to and host get togethers just like the rest of us.

They go into town to eat and shop just like the rest of us.

They go to Jonesboro and Little Rock on occasion just like the rest of us.

For some reason.....

Help me out here, cause I'm thinking "Twilight Zone"....

They're not running into rude people all the time.

As a matter of fact, over the last few years, I've never heard a comment about any bad encounters.

They like it here.

There's no complaints.

I know that's *certainly* not a neighborhood of your liking.