Joplin=yuck-olo (Springfield, Carthage, Webb City: crime, public schools, to live in)

[TexasLdy]

What about the surrounding towns? Like Web City, Carl Junction, or Carthage, are they any better or just the same?

[DocGSD]

Originally Posted by MNdad

If you love it so much, why are you shopping around?

Brother, sometimes its about the all mighty $$$. The pay was not good enough compared to the cost of living. I hate to leave here right now. I decided to stay.

I am impressed. You do your homework!

[razzy]

The first time I drove around Joplin, I was not impressed. Seems dirty, run-down, and very blue collar to me. It has its nice areas like the "snob hill" area and also south of I-44 and probably some of the newer areas around the outskirts, but Joplin wasnt real easy on the eyes, overall. And neither were most of the people that I saw there.

Webb City is the same way. I havent been to Carl Junction.

Carthage is a nicer place than Joplin, but its smaller. Lots of nice older houses in that town.

[DocGSD]

Originally Posted by razzy

The first time I drove around Joplin, I was not impressed. Seems dirty, run-down, and very blue collar to me. It has its nice areas like the "snob hill" area and also south of I-44 and probably some of the newer areas around the outskirts, but Joplin wasnt real easy on the eyes, overall. And neither were most of the people that I saw there.

Webb City is the same way. I havent been to Carl Junction.

Carthage is a nicer place than Joplin, but its smaller. Lots of nice older houses in that town.

Come on razzy..... Carthage nicer??? You have got to be kidding right???
Carthage is a nasty little town with a few nice streets.

J's nice areas are northeast and southwest....

[razzy]

I havent driven down every street in either place, but Carthage does have a lot of charming older houses south of downtown. I think the north side of Carthage was pretty much a dump though.

[DocGSD]

Originally Posted by razzy

I havent driven down every street in either place, but Carthage does have a lot of charming older houses south of downtown. I think the north side of Carthage was pretty much a dump though.

Carthage has a beautifull historic district of century old homes that are well restored. Other than that, I see it as nothing more than a spanish speaking political nightmare.

Joplin has some real crappy areas but I think that comes with the high crime rate. It has several very wealthy areas and a major boom in the retail market right now.

[MNdad]

Originally Posted by TexasLdy

What about the surrounding towns? Like Web City, Carl Junction, or Carthage, are they any better or just the same?

More of the same.

[MNdad]

Originally Posted by razzy

The first time I drove around Joplin, I was not impressed. Seems dirty, run-down, and very blue collar to me. It has its nice areas like the "snob hill" area and also south of I-44 and probably some of the newer areas around the outskirts, but Joplin wasnt real easy on the eyes, overall. And neither were most of the people that I saw there.

Webb City is the same way. I havent been to Carl Junction.

Carthage is a nicer place than Joplin, but its smaller. Lots of nice older houses in that town.

The funny part is that people who grew up in Webb City, Carl Junction and Webb City make a big deal about how they are "different". They are all the same. These people are still in their high school cliques, that is all that is different.

[MNdad]

Originally Posted by GSD353

Brother, sometimes its about the all mighty $$$. The pay was not good enough compared to the cost of living. I hate to leave here right now. I decided to stay.

I am impressed. You do your homework!

Yes, I do. That is what bugs me about the folks who say I do not know what I am talking about. The $$$ and some family issues are all that are keeping us here. If the family issues resolve, we will take less $$$ to live in a nicer place.

[missymomof3]

Ok.. someone tell me what is wrong with saying "Do what?" lol I say that all the time