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The people are friendly, but the architecture is ugly, some sections (with off-campus student housing) are very seedy, there's homelessness, the health food store is filled with arrogant, holier-than-thou types, there are no decent restaurants.
I mistakenly thought Iowa City would be more "Mom and Pop" than it is. |
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Haha... I think that's everywhere though. |
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architecture is great now, becoming very modern. Seedy areas are in one area and you have to try to get to that area, theres no stumbling upon it. The Co-op is full of great people and there are a plethora or great restaurants. You must have mistakenly been in Cedar Rapids, that place is a ****hole for the most part. |
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Haha, no, but I understand what you mean. Mainly I am thinking of southern Iowa City, the area just south of Burlington St and especially south of the RR tracks. Maybe I partially get an unfair impression because I haven't lived here long, and the tornado emptied out some of the lots south of Burlington. The majority of the land south of Burlington and west of Gilbert consists of parking lots. One block, IIRC, is completely empty - no parking, no nothing. Just dirt.
I haven't noticed any arrogance at the Co-Op... just helpful, friendly staff. What is it about that city? When I go there, there is something very basic, that I cannot put my finger on, that I find really off-putting. Just the whole vibe of it. Maybe it's the smell. I was amazed at how bad that city smells in some areas. |
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^ yeah, the stretch of highways 1 and 6 through southern Iowa City are definitely not attractive. That part of town always bothered me, and the southern stretches of Riverside and Gilbert. I mean they funtion fine, and aren't hell-holes, but not pretty. They could at least reconstruct the highway to make it a more urban road than a horribly unfriendly bypass type of road.
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yep exactly the area I was talking about. More specifically the south side of Broadway street. There are some nice places off of Sycamore though. |
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"City of 5 Smells" I used to be a parts driver for a dealership here in IC and was in CR 2-3 times a day and not only are the people terrible drivers but the city itself is so poorly laid out. You have a street that gets cut off 12 times and each section of that street is not accessible by the previous section so you have to go around. It was a miserable experience to say the least. |
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Good luck! |
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Oh come on! The Co-op? It's filled with a lost slice of the sixties...the holier than thou types are thirty miles north.
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