Gripes about Wichita (Plains, Park: rent, lease, jobs)

[zoebaby]

Originally Posted by Sunvixen

1.) Join a Gym?


2.) Maybe Rihanna stole all the umbrellas!!!


YouTube - Rihanna - Umbrella


But she said you can stand under her umbrella...ella...ella...aye...aye!

That was great!!!

[zoebaby]

Originally Posted by Taboo2

Oh you'll be crying allright when a lifeguard gets skin cancer and sues yr cities ass for not providing adequate shading during his job. Watch them raise YOUR taxes to pay it off. When a 40 dollar umbrella could have saved it all.

His comment made me think of something from a long time ago. One time, about 15 year's ago, I was talking to my dad ( he's from Wichita, all his life) about global warming and how we should recylce, I was living on the west coast, and he had not heard of global warming, I think he thought I had been living on the west coast for too long and I had lost my mind . When I think about that now I smile. I remember thinking, oh how sweet, he's from this small town, they haven't heard about global warming, same thing here, this is skin cancer, and it's real, and this is 2008. Thing's are a little backward's here, and I think his comment about "who care's" was very rude, no community support. Thing's like skin cancer are real issue's, and if you don't care about you're fellow man... that's sad... Im trying to find the good thing's here, still trying...and I was just making a couple of observation's

[bjmkw23580]

Wow! I only came back to post another event:

I got flipped off by a police man!

I was driving to a job in the industrial area by Mid Continent Airport and I turned onto Harry from Hoover. I saw the cop car facing me, and it was against the curb appeared to be PARKED. I needed to turn left Eisenhower, and he suddenly accelerated toward me, honked, about HIT my back right corner, skidded to a stop, and flipped me off. If it wasn't a cop car you'd bet your ass I'd do what happened to me a while back...chase the mofo until he parks in front of a police station... I tried looking for a tag# but couldn't read it, cuz I was going to report it.

That takes the cake. Thank you Wichita Police Department!

But isn't there some stink floating around against Wichita Police Department? I can't put my finger on it.

Oh, I did an experiment last weekend and went grocery shopping at the opposite end of town just for s***s and grins. Total transformation. I didn't get messed with or or had people stay in my way. I evidently appeared lost and another shopper actually helped me locate an item without my asking. I somehow got involved in a conversation while waiting in line. The customer service by the employees was actually halfway existent. The checker didn't literally throw my items or talk to the bagger but not me, or say things like, "Ew. People actually eat this?"

But Dillon's and their Plus Card crap pisses me off. But I can't stand Wal-Mart's crowds and constant out-of-stock items. And I'll never set foot into another Target (long story).

About the snow mess on roads, I should have specified I meant city streets. They usually do a decent job on I-35 and I-135, and US-54. But I-235 and northeast K-96 were often questionable.

My first impression of Wichita, in general, was okay. Being the smallest "urban area" I've lived in, I expected too much, I guess. It is NOT a small town, by any means. I'm not a partier therefore I figure I wouldn't enjoy Old Town. There seems to be several family places, though. Exploration Place, All Star Sports, etc... that would be pointless for me to go to since I'm single & no kids....

Boring people!? The only reason why I stumbled to this site is I became frustrated with the COLD temperatures a few week ago. It wasn't just cold. It was the kind of cold that made you cuss when that wind hit you. I was curious as to what the average temperatures are here. Google brought me to this site. Then I noticed some forum links, yada, and fell into this trap.

Miami!? My sister spent time there. She hated it. Outrageous cost of living. Stormed off and on all the time. Very humid. Hurricanes. People either had a lot of money or held three part-time jobs just to still be broke. (She was unfortunately the latter.) Drove forever just to get anywhere. Honestly I'd pick San Diego, but cost of living is outrageous there also.

It seems like economic problems the rest of US is experiencing don't really apply here. Best example is the real estate market. Prices are crazy low and foreclosure rate is lower compared to the average. In fact, about a month ago a news channel or show mentioned Wichita as one of the cheapest places to live.

About conservation, yes, there are no plans in effect. This is the first place I've lived that doesn't force you to recycle something, use high-power appliances a certain way (like running an electric dryer at night), but I remember a lawn-watering restriction in effect last summer, mainly to educate home owners not to water in the heat because there's proof that the water evaporates before it hits the roots. Yet I still saw numerous homes AND businesses whose sprinklers were running at 5pm... But I still conserve water and energy because it's a good habit and I so choose to keep doing so. But my recycling has stopped, unfortunately, because it's just not made convenient here.

Speaking of pants-saggers, I was turning at an intersection and noticed a group of five Mexican adolescents wearing pants so low, I just had to be a smart-ass, rolled down my window, and shouted, "PULL YER PANTS UP!" They didn't appreciate that.

And there are ugly people no matter where you live.

Heard about the auto break-ins going around town? One victim was a daughter's car just down the street from me. She lost her custom stereo system and a bunch of CDs. I think she only asked for it--she always came zooming down our street booming that dang thing, and I will not miss hearing it. And I imagine everything was in plain site only to show off. I'd keep the sub in the trunk and turn the dang thing off before approaching my neighborhood. And remove the faceplate. And make copies of your CDs and keep the originals at home. Or better yet, bluetooth the MP3s from your phone. Duh?

And the JUNK MAIL! I swear, useless ads and coupons I'd normally expect in a Wednesday or Sunday paper are jammed into my mailbox every Monday and Thursday! I hate it! The mail carriers should boycott against letting this continue.

I'm sorry I type so much.

[dotnetdotcom]

Before I start my gripe I want to say that the back-and-forth park lighting and sun cancer conversation was ridiculously humorous, it just kept going and going.

Also, in a previous post someone said that you can't compare Wichita or KS to California. That is what this forum (and citydata website) is for, comparing cities in the united states. Yes, Cali, in general, is on a different level, but can still be compared. I live in the bay area for a while and loved it and its unlimited outdoor acitivities.

Anyway, I visited Wichita for a job interview and my main gripe is that I saw one, and I reapeat, ONE, hot girl. I am a 22 yr old guy and may end up getting a job out here soon and I would like at least a reasonable selection of girls.
---If a anybody can prove me wrong, please. tell me where they are.----

I wasn't there long enough to have any other gripes. I do want to mention how impressed I was with the lack of traffic, everywhere.

[ksmama007]

Wichita gripes? How come I didn't see this sooner!!

Hmm, okay. To start, I've lived in Wichita now for almost 10 years, and I haven't liked it since the beginning. I am actually moving out of state soon so I can finally get out of this 'one big dark cloud' of a city. You have no idea how happy that makes me. LOL

Gripes:

*Basic: Way to many people are horribly rude, lazy, bad drivers, competitive over the most ridiculous crap ever (like their lawns), full of strange habits (like raking their carpet in a home that really isn't all that fancy), snotty for no reason, tons of young girls here think they are the hottest thing around when they are straight up nasty, when you go to certain bars you can almost guarantee you will get a mean look from someone OR you might get to watch some drunk get tazed outside the bar and pee their pants because the police are just so ethical and normal here aren't they! That's a whole new gripe right there.


*Police: Well, despite the fact they are just plain bored in certain areas of this town, MOST here are jerks. And yes, in certain instances they have to be, if they have people being ignorant, violent, etc, I understand. But what about when I was 18 and 8 months pregnant and the cop was only a few years older than me, thought I was hot, so made me spread my legs in the middle of the street and literally felt me up from top to bottom? His claim was that he was 'checking me for weapons' when I was riding in the backseat of a car that got pulled over for going like 4 over the speed limit, *everyone* cooperated, showed NO signs of HAVING weapons or NOT cooperating. "Ma'am could you step out of the car please?" Errrr, what about the other girl that was in the front seat? Or the guy that was driving? Why didn't they get 'frisked'? Yeah having a cop feel my chest while preggers was a GREAT experience here. Definitely felt 'safe' in the community. /sarcasm


*Schools: My daughter is very bright. She was tested for gifted in Kindergarten at a public school. Despite having a 99.5 percentile ranking, the psych let me know that he 'just wasn't going to admit her into the program'. Thanks jerk-off. Now my daughter can sit in class and be bored to death when she already reads at a 4th & 5th grade level at SIX. *sigh* Last summer, I get a call from Wichita Schools. "Great news! Your daughter has been chosen to get BUSSED to a different school, all the way across town, in a neighborhood you would never live in!" (Yes I exaggerated, she didn't say it that way.)

For starters, why the CRAP are we still bussing kids when NO ONE ELSE in the friggen COUNTRY is anymore AND Bush actually did something productive while in office and overturned Brown vs. Education which implemented bussing in the first place?????????

After my blood was boiling hotter than it ever has, I was informed that I had no choice. She said "Sorry, it's not your choice." Pardon me? I don't have a choice where my daughter attends my ***. I moved to the Maize district shortly after. Oh we went to the 'other' school for two weeks while waiting to get into a place in the Maize district. It was soooo comforting seeing men sitting on their porches 12 feet across from the school drinking Mickey's 40 ounces at 11 in the morning, knowing I dropped her off there. Bloods and crips bringing and picking up their kids from schools. Half of them giving me the 'whats up' nod, like Hey baby. Yes that is my idea of a stellar education and location. Sorry but I do have a choice in this. If I wanted her to attend that school then I would be living in that area. But I don't. So Wichita needs to get the crap over that. I've thought about going to the board a million times. TONS of other parents are STILL going through this here and it's out of control. Literally.

How about school lunches? You know what they get fed if parents accidently go one day's worth under in lunch money? Milk and crackers. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA So there isn't enough funding for even peanut butter which has protein? Flipping joke right there. Oh hey! Here is a GENIUS idea!! Let's build a million dollar arena even though we already have places for events but let's NOT worry about funding for other *important things like our children.

*Weather: Well you would think with how crazy the weather is here that our 'experts' would be just a TAD more in touch with what is going on. Nah. Granted the weather everywhere is in fact unpredictable right now, and is changing each year...that still doesn't make me feel better about the 'experts' here. LOL Here is a classic 'you know you are watching local Wichita weather': "Oh man! We've got SLC's up there right now!" So you think what the heck is a SLC? What weather term is that? OH! It's a 'scary looking cloud'! DUH! Why didn't I figure that out!!!! /sarcasm

Also touching on weather, it's pretty classic that with the first snow of like ONE INCH the school's are closed, but then when we get EIGHT or more inches on a Sunday night, they are open Monday. Sending buses off to get the kids on ice. Again, genius!

*News: "Firefighters responded to an eldery woman's call - her cat was stuck in a tree! WHEW. Luckily firefighters were able to remove the animal from the tree and return her safely back into her owner's arms." Nuff said.

*Recreation: Well, if you consider going to the same cool park (Sedgwick county) over and over and visiting the zoo a million times a year because there isn't crap else to do here then your life must be pretty boring! Seriously, what else is there to DO? Go drink at bars, go to the library, go shopping (umm you can do that anywhere), go chase tornados, go for a 'drive' and see nothing but tumbleweeds and flatland (sounds beautiful doesn't it?), go see the gorilla exibit at the zoo, drive to Lake Afton and swim in mud, go to a public pool.....pretty typical stuff in EVERY 'big' town. There just isn't anything that 'sets' Wichita apart. And don't pull out the airplane card please. LMAO

*Finally* a theme park worth going to (come on who goes to Joyland?) opened up then...errrr just kidding, it shut down.

Coming from Missouri, where things to do are *abundant*, Kansas is the most boring place EVER. It's no wonder people are cranky here. Sad really. The only other gripe I have is how HORRIBLE Spangle's commercials are. LMAO

Thanks for this. Strangely, I feel a sense of relief now. lol

[Visi]

Originally Posted by ksmama007

*Schools: My daughter is very bright. She was tested for gifted in Kindergarten at a public school. Despite having a 99.5 percentile ranking, the psych let me know that he 'just wasn't going to admit her into the program'. Thanks jerk-off. Now my daughter can sit in class and be bored to death when she already reads at a 4th & 5th grade level at SIX. *sigh* Last summer, I get a call from Wichita Schools. "Great news! Your daughter has been chosen to get BUSSED to a different school, all the way across town, in a neighborhood you would never live in!" (Yes I exaggerated, she didn't say it that way.)

Just so you know, a child cannot be accurately tested for the gifted program until he or she is 7 years old. You may think that a year or two doesn't make that much of a difference, but there are concrete reasons why the school psych didn't put her in a gifted class YET. Demand that she be re-tested when she is a 2nd grader. Psychologists don't make the decision to admit/exclude a child from a gifted program arbitrarily. A child's intelligence isn't really stable/reliable enough to be quantified when they're a kindergartner, and the psych likely tested her so that he would know who retest when she gets older.

Also, now the bussing issue is dead, so that will no longer affect you.

[Brasidas]

Originally Posted by zoebaby

His comment made me think of something from a long time ago. One time, about 15 year's ago, I was talking to my dad ( he's from Wichita, all his life) about global warming and how we should recylce, I was living on the west coast, and he had not heard of global warming, I think he thought I had been living on the west coast for too long and I had lost my mind . When I think about that now I smile. I remember thinking, oh how sweet, he's from this small town, they haven't heard about global warming, same thing here, this is skin cancer, and it's real, and this is 2008. Thing's are a little backward's here, and I think his comment about "who care's" was very rude, no community support. Thing's like skin cancer are real issue's, and if you don't care about you're fellow man... that's sad... Im trying to find the good thing's here, still trying...and I was just making a couple of observation's

Global warming is a hysterical response to unknown natural phenomena. Primarily a means by which those with a populist agenda can attempt to socially engineer the younger generation towards a populist sociopolitical strata.

Skin cancer, while a valid concern, is easily mitigated by putting sun block on or an umbrella up so that the life guards are protected.

Sorry you are having such a hard time fitting in there in Kansas. I'm moving to Wichita in the next month and very much looking forward to it. Originally from Tulsa, and have now lived in upstate NY and Southern Maryland.

[Plains10]

Originally Posted by Brasidas

Global warming is a hysterical response to unknown natural phenomena. Primarily a means by which those with a populist agenda can attempt to socially engineer the younger generation towards a populist sociopolitical strata.

The media turns it into a political issue which it is not. I will belive the scientists who are the experts, and compiled the IPCC report. Climate change is real with humans partly responsible. We should invest in green technologies and other technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. Kansas has been rather forward thinking lately and not invested in more outdated coal plants. Energy efficiency, conservation, net metering, and renewable sources of energy is the future. For baseload I still like nuclear and natural gas over dirty coal.

[janetjanetbobanet]

I spent a good share of my life in Wichita. People aren't generally rude there,
although there are some of those in every city. They just tend to mind their
own business more than in say, California. It's not unfriendliness, though.
They aren't used to strangers striking up conversations.

It's not a hard place to drive around in for the most part, and there are way
less crazy drivers there than in KC or Denver. I never had a police officer
be rude to me.

And there are plenty of good non-chain places to eat, you just have to look
for them.

[bjmkw23580]

It's evidently the neighborhood or area of town I live in. Everybody's worried about being better than everybody else. I minded my own business so I became the neighborhood snob. I did a good deed one night and I was accused of being in everybody's business. I was screwed no matter what I did! It was everybody else in MY business! Is this what Wichita neighborhood living is about???

And I've always been an optimist, but I've never felt so unwelcome before. Since I've been having a hard time finding "real employment" in Wichita (I'm wanting out of this contract junk I've been doing for TOO LONG), I've been considering going back to Tulsa and submitting resumes there. (And you all are gonna ask why I just quit belly-achin' and go back...moving ain't cheap nor is it fun --- keep the spirit alive and I just might!)

And during USD-259's Spring Break I had several vandalism events occur to my duplex, and I know it's the bad-mannered teens next door. It didn't start until I had asked them to keep it quiet on the Sunday night before Spring Break. If I had definite evidence, I'd sue their parents, cuz I'm out of my deposit and then some.

On each event, I called the WPD, who took forever to come each time, and when they came, they acted like they had better things to do. Their attitudes pissed me off so much during their visit when one of my windows got bashed out that I ordered THEM to leave. The fifth, and final event, I didn't even bother reporting it. Why even bother if they're gonna make NO damn effort to even ACT like they're gonna help?

I'm moving nonetheless ... to an apartment at the far west side ... this weekend, and I'm hoping for the best. I just wanna be left ALONE.....I'm tired of being constantly pissed for no reason (is THIS what Wichita does to people?)....and no, I'm not one of those bad neighbors no matter where I live...I've only had these problems HERE, thank you...