Jefferson City - Anything & Everything

[SunGrins]

Jefferson City is a good place to raise kids but don't be surprised when they all move away when they have a chance. Some will move back because they miss the small town atmosphere. It is a very small town and you will be surprised at the various family connections and relationships - who is related to who, etc. That's pretty common in small towns.

Our biggest current city controversy is how to manage tattoo parlors. The city has just discovered roundabouts so we have several of them and people are still trying to figure them out...no one has died yet.

State government is the biggest industry and that includes the hangers-on (lobbiyists, various political/shadow groups or associations, the Farm Bureau, professional groups) so there is always a background noise of what is or isn't happening in the legislature.

[Born1988]

Jefferson City has a great small town feel and you can find really anything you need. That is about the only good things I can say about JC anymore. I just recently moved out of JC for many reasons. Its a terrible place for any young adult to find a job even for the college grads so your either working out of the city or working retail. All my generation does in this town is go to the bar drink and do it all over again and occasionally mix drugs in the "fun night out." Its a great city to find drugs if your looking for that kinda thing especially heroin with its growing use. Even the JCPD said its a growing problem. Go to the local news websites. If your looking for a place thats going to advance and grow JC is not it. Columbia is not a great city either. Crime keeps going up not down.

[aragx6]

Crime in Columbia is not going up. It's been about stagnant for more than a decade.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Columbia-Missouri.html

[stlouisan]

Jeff City I would say is a quiet, quaint little Midwestern river city with Southern influences. It's not small enough to be called a town, but barely large enough to be called a city. It's the state capital, but overshadowed by its big brother to north, Columbia. The atmosphere is definitely conservative. It's got a big religion thing going on...majority Catholic, but with a lot of Southern Baptists and also a decent-sized Lutheran element. I'm not sure about the schools but I doubt I would call them outstanding. Other than the government being located there, i would say the city is pretty laid-back and easy-going.