Mount Vernon, Illinois
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8/14/2009
The cost of living is reasonable but there are few jobs here other than restaurant work or other minimum wage jobs. The population has been the same since I've been here (40 years).
The high school is literally ancient and in very poor shape. I feel sorry for the students. Visitors call it a ghetto school.
Instead of building a new school they (the polititians) built a new 20 million dollar jail, against the citizen's will, using taxpayer dollars, which sits empty and is losing money.
Unless you are from here or have family keeping you here, this is not the place to be. Southern Illinois has never been much.
Shane | Mount Vernon, IL