What Is The Worst Town In Nebraska? (Omaha, Lincoln: movies, utilities)

[ColeSD]

Originally Posted by nebrgirlgeorge

I read this, and I feel very sorry for you. First of all, if you think you are the only educated person in western Nebraska, you are so sadly mistaken. Do you know what kind of an IQ it takes to run a successful ranch. Well, my bad , you quite obviously don't. And I will tell you why I think this. If you stand on such a pedestal, you need to climb down off it so you are able to converse with the people that are smart enough to know that they don't need a flashing neon sign with their IQ on their forehead! They know they don't need to convince anyone how smart they are. If you have to tell everyone how smart you are, who are you trying to convince? You ... or others. If you ask me, if you have to tout your IQ, it probably isn't as high as you say it is. And then again, if you have to have a congenial personality to join in the community - who cares what your IQ is.

I agree with who ever said, if you are so overly educated, why were you not smart enough to realize that you were above all the people of Ogalla. You should have figured that out when you went to apply for the job. And maybe it isn't the towns or companys fault that they didn't need an engineer, maybe they were looking for someone that would fit in to the area, and make a positive contribution to the community, rather than to put your co-workers and neighbors down. You must have a very long nose to look down.

Again, like (sorry, I have old timers disease- so I don't remember her full name) Granny said, instead of putting the town down, why not try to start some organization to bring the culture to the town that you say the town is so desperately lacking in. With an IQ like you say you have, I would think you could figure out how to do that - no problem. Maybe you aren't the only one who would enjoy bringing something new and exciting to their town.

I know of a lovely little town that is much smaller than Ogalla, that took the old grocery store, and turned it into a concert hall. Every two weeks they book a concert. Not all who appear are famous, but Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and several others played there. Now before you give me what for about who would want to listen to Willie, I am just saying - if they can bring in country names, why can't you find a way to bring what ever you like to your uneducated town?? With such a high IQ, you should not only be able to figure out a way to do it, but possibly turn it into a money making business.

But in reality, as one said, the country in Nebraska isn't for everybody. And Nebraska would be better off with out those who really don't want to be there. So I am right there offering you the $5 to get out of town, and hopefully out of the state and back to NY or your 3rd world country. I think they deserve you. I am old, and I still recall stories of people being tarred and feathered, and run out of many towns, and not just in Nebraska! If I were you, I would be saving every penney so you can get out on your own, instead of being railroaded as you say you may do. Sounds like quite a pity party you are having at Ogalla's expense. Even in Nebraska we have heard of anti-depressants, I would say you could use a dose, because you are sure feeling sorry for yourself. Just because you weren't smart enough to go to a big city to get that Senior Eng. job you think you deserve - you are no different than the welfare recipient, only you think we owe you entertainment, and a better job, that evidently you weren't able to capture in some big city or in Ogalla.

I wish you much luck in your quest for your utopia. And I certainly hope they worship you in the manner you want to be accustomed to. As for me, I will stay where I like talking to people, everyone has an interesting story. Life is what you make of it. I do surveys for a living, and I know there is alot of animosity towards the dreaded telemarketer, although I do surveys, many people say it is the same thing. And I talk to people like you, and it is a very short survey, because people like you bore me. But I get some calls where elderly people and others have stories that I could listen to forever. And I talk to educated people that have very interesting stories, but they don't start the conversation with "I have a three digit IQ!" You just figure it out by listening. Maybe you should try a little more listening, and not so much tooting your own horn.

But I wish you the best. I hope you find it. I just don't understand why you were so blind as to think you would be happy in what you think is a jerkwater town. Just baffels me why you even took the job. I am sure you,too, have a story, but I think it would probably bore me.

If you don't like your life - only you can change it!!

THEY STILL DO RUN PEOPLE OUT OF TOWNS.

I'm gonna take a WILD guess and say you live in Cedar County, where they do actively run people out of towns who don't fit in.

I joined with this thread, and am leaving with this thread.

This response was as disgusting as Sudo Nymm's post, yet both at opposite extremes.

Thanks for the fun times all, I'm out.

[nebrgirlgeorge]

Good Grief,

No, I don't live in Cedar County and never have! You took me quite literally, and you are doing exactly what you are upset that happened to you. I believe it might be called stereo typing. I think I made the comment in one of my posts that there is good and bad in everyone, and every race, color and creed. Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean everyone isn't out to get ya -huh?? I am sorry you had such a bad experience in Cedar County. If I remember right, as I said - I have old timers disease, but you did have a genuinely bad expereince with your children being the target. And that is really too bad, I feel for you - if as I say - I am right and your children were involved. No one should treat children bad, and believe me, I would be right there fighting beside anyone's kid that is being the target of anyone's bullying or hatred. I hope I am remembering you right. You had an unfortunate isolated incident that you didn't expect and have had no control over.

But Sudo has a way to change his life, he just prefers to blame everyone else for a poor choice that he made, and prefers to hold his "Oh wow is me" party - instead of doing something about it. If he has the IQ he says he has, he could try to get along, and blend in and be a part of the community. I am sure Ogalla would appreciate any Arts and Excitement he could muster up if he tried to work WITH others instead of AGAINST them. I told him, if he doesn't like his life, with that IQ and Degree, he should be able to go anywhere in the US and get any job he wanted in any town he wanted.And if he doesn't like his life - he is the only one that can change it.

You didn't tout an exceptional IQ and Degree where you can just pick up and go, at any time you want. I have waded thru every post on this thread, but I just got off work, and thought I would see what was going on here. I really didn't even intend to add a post, but since you aimed this at me, I felt I had to answer. And I am tired, and I don't remember exactly who you were, but as I say, if memory serves me well, your children were involved, and I don't hold with anyone hurting any child - physically or mentally. I was chubby as a child, and I took all the teasing and being called fat. As I got into high school, I got a little taller and thinner, but the stigmatism was already there, the seed planted for the rest of school. So I understand your plight.

But at least ask me if I live in Cedar County before you go pointing fingers, and accusing. I didn't say I advocated running people out of town, but when you spread around the town how beneath you they all are, I could understood why he got the treatment he recieved. It is all about attitude when you are an adult, and how you react to circumstances, you can say it is everyone else's fault - or you can do something to change it. Whether that be to try to get along - or to just get off you duff if you are so sure that you are in the briar patch.

I certainly never aimed any of what I said about Sudo, at you. But trust me, this weekend, I will research the past posts, and get my facts straight about your story. And I will try to sort things out with you. Kids are treasures and should be treated as such. Grownups can determine their own path in life. Children have to rely on their parents. So until this weekend - please accept my apology if it is due you. Anything I said was aimed at a grown man who is acting like a spoiled child who expects mommy to give him a new toy every day so that he doesn't get bored.

So for now, until the weekend - unless this offends some one I will try to be politically correct and wish you a happy holiday weekend!

[nebrgirlgeorge]

This is for ColeSD,
I did reread the post from the past. As I said, when I made the comments you took as aimed at you - they were not. I feel deeply for your children and you. And you are caught between the proverbial rock and the hard spot. I am sorry I don't have any magic word for you, I wish I did.
Where I live, the Hispanics moved in, and I dated one for about 5 yrs. It ended in disaster, not because he was hispanic, but because I found out later the dreadful drug Meth had gotten ahold of him. And after the beating I got while he was under the influence of this dreadful drug, I had to call it quits. But it was the way he acted while on Meth, it was not the man I fell in love with. But I met some wonderful Hispanics while I dated him, and we are still good friends. They are wonderful people. And I work with several, that I would rather sit with at break than the white people.
One of my Hispanic friends said when the Sudanese moved in, it was the best thing for the Hispanics, because now the white people had a problem with them, and suddenly the Hispanics were okay. Sad to say, but he was right.
I am sorry for you and your children, and as I said, I wish I had some magical words that not only would heal all the wounds, but would keep that sort of thing from happening. I try to look at the person on the inside, not what they look like. I really have no magic solution for you, because if you move to a bigger town, you run the risk of being accused of your children belonging to gangs, which isn't fair either. I know of a lot of small towns that I have lived in that took people for who they were and not what they looked like. But then you have to drive forever to get a job in a bigger town.
I have no idea what living in Cedar County is like, but I don't think I would like to, either.
All I can say is, I wish you only the best of luck, and I hope you find a place where you can all be friends. Good luck!
Amd I am very sorry that you took it that I was aiming any of my remarks at you. I know it is harder to up and move your whole family, move them out of the school, etc. But Sudo has plenty of choices if he has the smarts and culture he says he has. And even with his mention of 911 still makes me wonder how you would come from NY to a small town like Ogalla and expect to be happy. I can't even imagine what drew him there. But your case is entirely different.
I do, however, wish you and your family the best, and good luck to you!

[itsMeFred]

I have no idea what living in Cedar County is like, but I don't think I would like to, either

Good grief. I spent the first 20 years of my life next door to Cedar county.
For the most part, it's like anywhere else. There are good folks and not so good folks. I've read the various threads where the "atrocities" of this county were mentioned and held my tongue, but good grief... Enough is enough.

I've lived all over the state. I honestly haven't seen where people are any worse there than anywhere else.

My husband and I were the victims of a witch hunt about a year ago. Something I noticed though was that while it initially felt like everyone was trying to run us out of town, once we stepped back and were fair, there were still people on our side, too. not as many, true... But enough friends to make us hang on and ride it out. (and the vast majority of people simply didn't care one way or the other...Or didn't even know that something was going on)
Sure enough, a year later, everyone but the original "organizers" have forgotten.

People are people, and mobs are formed everywhere. One of the drawbacks of small-town life is that it happens more often than in cities where you have the protection of annonymity.


Cole, I don't know the whole story of your experience (nor am I likely ever to because the whole story can't be told from just one person's perspective) but it's simply not fair to paint an entire county with such a wide brush stroke.
I don't know everyone in my county (we have about one fifth of the population of Cedar) so I know you couldn't possibly have known everyone in yours.

I have no doubt that something very painful happened for your family. And I don't blame you for holding a grudge.
But I have a really hard time believe that the nearly 10,000 people who live in Cedar county were all in on it...

--Erin

[Chris19]

I know people in Cedar County and have been it a number of times. Most of the people I have come across are very pleasant people and had postive experiences. There are a few bad apples there too, but that is with any place (including my South Dakota). Having a certain attitude can make an unpleasant sitution worse. To paint an enitre county as being upleasant is not fair, especially to the number of good-hearted people who live in that county.

[Jaydublu]

Back in the 1930s a WPA-Project book about Nebraska warned folks about going through ARNOLD, Nebraska...out in the Sandhills. Evidently strangers passing through pissed off people in this nice little town. Wonder if it's still the same way. Arnold is the first town I have ever seen in print called "mean" unless it's the "mean streets" of (fill in the blank).

[tpabes]

Well, I have never had a problem with Arnold, anytime I have been there, but I wasn't there in the 1930's either, maybe people were crazy because of the dust bowl!

[mattpoulsen]

I'm guessing 77 years later things may have changed, but that's an interesting tidbit.

[STEIL DESCENDANT]

Is anyone familiar with Scribner, NE? All my U.S. ancestors are from there. I'm new to this site, and was hoping to bump into someone who may have known my relatives.

[ehenningsen]

I'm familiar with Scribner as I have a few friends that live there.

They also have a race-track that people from north-east nebraska use..