[fruitlassie]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

ITA...the people that I've known over the years that lived there had nothing but love for it.

I spent 25 years there and I hate the place. Too suburban, too white bread, too segregated, too conservative, too bland, too tornado-prone, just a very average place all around. No decent nightlife to speak of (I don't consider sports bars or crappy indie rock shows to be decent nightlife). No mountains, no ocean, nothing really outstanding about the landscape or architecture. Extreme weather possible at all times of the year. Terrible public transportation. Positives: it is cheap (for good reason), there are a few very nice well-maintained older neighborhoods like Dundee, Gold Coast etc. and yeah, the zoo is nice (notice how all the pro-Omaha people always have to mention their WORLD CLASS ZOO!), but that's not enough to make me ever want to return.

[WILWRadio]

I lived there for a short period of time and have the following perception of the place. Most of the people seemed fairly friendly and the only real jerk I met was a woman from St. Louis that happened to work in the same office as I. At worst the people were cordial or standoffish. Being from New England I can live with that.

I was not too crazy about the dumping of raw, untreated sewage into the MO River at the sewage treatment plant near downtown. Traffic came to a grinding halt even when there was a simple one inch snowfall. I recall having to park my car one day after work at a local restaurant for at least two hours during an afternoon rush hour while I waited for the traffic to start moving again. Every major artery was gridlocked and not even moving!

I found a general lack of any real culture or entertainment to occupy myself. I guess that seems to be changing now. But more or less at that time the town was Snoresville and had little in the way of fun. And as the poster above suggested, if you like mountains, forests and large bodies of water then the place is most definitely not for you.

[Go Ne]

This doesn't help it either

[Synopsis]

An old classmate of mine lived in Omaha for several years and had nothing but good to say about Omaha.

I've run into a lot of people from Nebraska at OU/Nebraska games and Nebraskans in general are really decent.

[Go Ne]

thanks for the compliment

[2Adam29]

I can live with the above critisisms. Like I've said, things have been and continue to change dramatically, and I'd encourage either of you to visit Omaha again sometime in the future, like 2011 or sometime around there.

[Toxic Toast]

Omaha is one of the country’s largest telecommunications centers, employing over 30,000 individuals who field nearly 20 million toll-free calls per day. Omaha citizens are great on the phone because they don’t have accents–they sound like they’re from nowhere, which is partially true.

- Stephen Colbert

[WILWRadio]

Yes, Omaha is a Telemarketer's dream market. I worked in one of those places very briefly. No thanks.

[SoCiEtY's ReBel]

I like the Omaha Metro because:

1. The cost of living is really low, when compared with other US metros of similiar size, the rents in Omaha really can't be beaten!

2. Vast amounts of employers moving full speed ahead means its relatively easy to find employment... And from the three years I lived in Omaha it appears wages are on the increase too... My educated guess is that average wages for entry-level unskilled labor and clerical office jobs are increasing somewhere between 5-10% annually!-- More than enough to keep up with core inflation... food and gas is another story but in Omaha food and energy still remain well below the national average!

3. There is a large concentration of Chain resturaunts and stores that can't be found in other cities of comperable size, i.e. Famous Dave's, Chipotle Mexican Grill, FatBurger, Cheese Cake Factory, etc.

4. Large concentration of Hospitals and Clinics... After having been to UNMC and then having to go to Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center here in Reno, lets just say the service is lacking, the wait times are horrible, overcrowding and sub-par service (My son was nearly delivered by nurses because the only MD on call was across town at another hospital!-- After the delivery I told them that I felt as if we were in a 3rd world country, then the smug b*tch of a nurse had the nerve to tell me "this is how we do obstetrics in the US). Yeah effing right, I bet UNMC probably has 20 MDs on call any given night and I'm sure they don't go back and forth from Creighton to UNMC!

5. Oh yea and in Omaha everyone doesn't speak spanish... I'm no racist, in fact Im white and my wife is black and we are the perfect couple, but seriously, I think Mexicans are taking over out here in the West... Everything is in Spanish, from going to the pediatrician to telemarketers calling me... its all in Spanish out here and I feel almost as if I'm a second class citizen here because I can't speak Spanish... It's ridiculous... This is the US not Mexico, right? English should always be used over Spanish in any business... Atleast in Omaha, the only time I had to deal with people who only spoke Spanish was when I went to Alvarados and that is ok cause its a mexican food joint... But when I have people knocking on my door everyday trying to sell me something and then when I tell them I don't speak Spanish they just walk away and go to the next apartment over, it really frustrates me, I might as well be living in Mexico, atleast that's how I feel sometimes... I'll be glad when I get back to Omaha so I can stop feeling so alienated...

Also Omaha has much much more to offer, from great schools K-12 and post-secondary...

6. Also Omaha has a more laid back lifestyle... not so fast-pace, not so much traffic, not so many pedestrians everywhere...

7. The only really bad thing about Omaha is the weather, but the pros more than outweigh the cons...

[ehenningsen]

Originally Posted by WILWRadio

Yes, Omaha is a Telemarketer's dream market. I worked in one of those places very briefly. No thanks.

why did you 'have' to work telemarketing? We are a top 10 computing hub in the nation, we have 3 of the top architectural firms, 5 fortune 500 companies hq'd here, and another 25 fortune 500 companies have offices here, on top of that we have TD Ameritrade HQ'd here, Hawkins construction HQ'd here, Info USA hq'd here, we have like 50 insurance companies that have set up their corporate Hqs here, we're adding a google data center, most likely 550 cyber command defense jobs with the airforce, we recently added 3 companies involved with space technology and this is just to start with...

And you are complaining about telemarketing... Try a different industry