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Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte
How is Sioux City a dump?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte
How is Sioux City a dump?
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It seems that everyone that has something good to say doesn't live there. I was a resident for 14 years and saw the good days and ended up in the bad. As was said the white collar industry has all but died. The reason the housing is affordable is that no one makes any decent money. If they do...they do not live within the city limits. Yes, the town stinks, the roads are always in VERY bad shape and and the city as a whole is a dirty, many shades of gray type town. There are things to do however they are not necessarily good quality events. Saturday in the park is quite expensive for the kids events and other then that, its a drunk fest. Rivercade is also a drunk fest.
I lived on the North side where the kids could play outside unattended, and even ride their bikes a few blocks away, but thats changing too fast. Cars are speeding by now on side streets, I do not trust the neighbors 'so to speak', hell they do not even speak english. The home values are stuck and dropping more then the national average. You will certainly find yourself needing to get your car aligned at least once a year and watch out for the too frequent car muffler that fell off the 1982 rusted out junker in front of you. The radio stations are behind the curve in the songs they play (there are only three non-country stations). The news casting is weak and amateur. The taxes are way high.
My home in SC which I bought for 80,000 9 years ago sold for 92,000 after dumping 20,000 into upgrades. My taxes on that house were $2400 a year for the double lot. My new house at $230,000 and taxes are $3000 on an acre.
My pay jumped up 60% over the pay scale in SC for the same job line. Oh and now that the kids are in school again, we are finding that they too are behind the curve on what they should have been learning. The schools in SC are very crowded and there are lots of problems. My friends that were teachers were admittingly spending more time on discipline then teaching.
Places to eat......this is the main event in Sioux city along with the bars, however the places to eat are all chain places and if you eat out twice a week, you'll be through them all in about 2 months.
The SC city counsel is 50% recovering alcoholics and 50% death bed elderly staffed and they cannot decide whether or not to drive the city into progression or retro. They built a great new art center where budding and well known artist could display their work and bring culture to the city. Its open about what....' 4 hours a day' and if you work you'll miss the opened times. So who did they make it for? Hey if you like Hockey, indoor football and baseball and don't mind dropping $60+ bucks to see amateur sports for a party of two....SC has it all. Oh and did I mention the gambling? There is a boat right there and you can waste all the money you earned at your $7 an hour job. There are stacks of cars there all the time.....hmmmm but instead of SC getting the boat to move, they claim that they are getting big money out of the agreement and that coupled with high property and auto tax, you get the ability to live in a poorly managed and maintained city where crime is on the rise, housing is declining faster then the national average. The schools are over crowed and mainly non-english speaking. Your pay scale has a special reduced section on Salary.com and you live in one of the windiest and most wind blown dirt areas in the country. Oh also check out the Multiple Sclerosis stats about cases of it in that area....., also check out teenage pregnancy rate, median income, average age of housing and take a look at how many red-tagged (tagged for demolition) homes there are in every neighborhood, check out the auto insurance rates for the town. Drive around and look at how the city has designed the town, how many buildings are half torn down, how many buildings are maintained or landscaped. There are sweet spots of design wins, very nice areas, but look at what you drove through to get there. The town is mismanaged, poverty stricken, generally dirty and its not gotten better over time. Its only gotten worse. It got worse while the rest of the nation flourished and now that everyone is having a hard time, SC is in really bad shape.
If you move there, don't say no one warned you.
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06-23-2007, 02:12 PM
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