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Old 05-25-2010, 09:17 PM
 
Location: Sioux Falls, SD area
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I had a job lead in Sioux City. After going through this thread....I think I'll pass.
I'd still follow through on the job lead. There are lots of nice smaller communities outside of Sioux City to live. In this area, commuting 20 to 30 miles to a job is nothing. You'll get there as fast or faster as living within 2 miles of your work in the very large cities.
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Old 05-25-2010, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
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I had a job lead in Sioux City. After going through this thread....I think I'll pass.
I'd still follow through with it. Passing up a job in this economy? Someone from metro 'D' should know how hard it is to snag a job right now
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Old 05-27-2010, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Livonia,MI
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I'd still follow through with it. Passing up a job in this economy? Someone from metro 'D' should know how hard it is to snag a job right now

Well, after nearly a year of being unemployed.....tell me about it....
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Old 08-24-2010, 07:04 PM
 
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I've lived in Sioux City all my life. Mostly the northside. Moved to the westside. I LOVE where I'm at. Clean, nice, and friendly neighborhood. Jobs are far and few but other than that it's really not that bad of a place. Best of luck!
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Old 08-24-2010, 07:15 PM
 
Location: Bettendorf, IA
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Texastrigirl wrote:
My oldest brother did move back though after 30 years in big cities such as Atlanta. He is sooooo enjoying the fact that there is no traffic there.


I am from Iowa and now live in D.C. I can totally relate, and how I envy your brother. The traffic here is absoutely hainous. My wife and I want to retire back in Iowa or at least the midwest.
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Old 05-23-2011, 12:55 PM
 
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Sioux city has fallen off what it was when i was growing up in the 70's and 80's, but I'm still here after living in 3 different places, Sioux city is still home. If people have that many complaints (which some are valid, some aren't) then go to the city council meetings.. You will be heard, maybe to no good effect, but then there is possibly a chance you may get through to these hard heads that seem to keep Sioux City from prospering. Sioux city is a relatively central city in this nation and we should be utilizing that to the best of our abilty by recruiting serious business's to build, or move here.. Shipping cost is easier from the midwest than it is from Coast to coast.. We need good hard working people with good ideas to come here and help this City prosper as it did years ago. Like 1 person already said, this area has some of the most honest, dependable, hardest working people in the nation..IF YOU MOVE HERE, WELCOME
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Old 08-11-2011, 07:53 PM
 
Location: Hillbilly Land
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In 1957 I convinced the folks to relocate to California.

Despite the MANY and steadily-increasing negatives there (increasing exponentially when mega-millions of invaders crossed the southern border) we never returned.
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Old 10-31-2012, 08:04 PM
 
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Just moved to Dakota Dunes for that reason...when we lived in sioux city (south helen street in the Morningside ) our brand new 2012 subaru forester got the windows smashed out 1 month after we bought it then a few weeks later our other car was vandalized. I was so angry and could not wait to move to a very nice area which Dakota Dunes is. I don't know why people are saying that dakota dunes is super expensive to live in and that people will judge you because they don't. We have a mixture poor college students to the very wealthy living here in the dunes. I am one of those poor college students and rent is only 750 a month....anyone with a job can pay that.... Everyone is so nice here in the Dunes and have not had a problem with any of the neighbors. It is a master planned community though so we do not want trashy people living here that will just destroy the value of this area. If you are thinking of moving to sioux city..then move to dakota dunes...there are two very nice apartment complexes here welling and prestwick. other than that if you want to purchase a home the median home only costs 161,000....so in reality that's not a lot of money if you want to live in a very very nice community were you can walk down the street at 2 am and not worry for your life
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Old 11-02-2012, 04:19 PM
 
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Just moved to Dakota Dunes for that reason...when we lived in sioux city (south helen street in the Morningside ) our brand new 2012 subaru forester got the windows smashed out 1 month after we bought it then a few weeks later our other car was vandalized. I was so angry and could not wait to move to a very nice area which Dakota Dunes is. I don't know why people are saying that dakota dunes is super expensive to live in and that people will judge you because they don't. We have a mixture poor college students to the very wealthy living here in the dunes. I am one of those poor college students and rent is only 750 a month....anyone with a job can pay that.... Everyone is so nice here in the Dunes and have not had a problem with any of the neighbors. It is a master planned community though so we do not want trashy people living here that will just destroy the value of this area. If you are thinking of moving to sioux city..then move to dakota dunes...there are two very nice apartment complexes here welling and prestwick. other than that if you want to purchase a home the median home only costs 161,000....so in reality that's not a lot of money if you want to live in a very very nice community were you can walk down the street at 2 am and not worry for your life
You were probably the victim of some high school or college kids. You sound like you are prejudice. To be honest where would you be going at 2:00 in the morning in Dakota Dunes or Sioux City besides from your car to your house? Worry for your life? Sioux City is not Chicago! It's not perfect, but it made leaps in bounds in the last 10 years. I highly recommend Sioux City, and am proud to have grown up in Sioux City. The thing that is the worst about Sioux City is the negative attitude of some of the people. This forum reflects the worst of that. I am glad you are happy in Dakota Dunes. I would love to see the entire area grow.
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Old 11-06-2012, 04:04 PM
 
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How much is acreage? 30 minutes or less to SC, 3-4 bedroom house, 10-20 acres, and a small barn? What would we be looking at cost wise?
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