Springfield has improved over the years , but stil
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9/19/2011
Springfield has gotten better over the years as far as offering festivals; i.e. Snowfest and all the fall activities, etc., and places to go for entertainment, but it is still lacking very much!!!
I want REAL museums! The Springfield Art Museum is okay, but not large enough for my taste. I want professional sports teams, the NFL, NBA, MBA, NHL, etc.! Yes, John Q. did bring us a minor league baseball team and I thank him! Someone is trying to bring a race track between Branson and Springfield and I love the idea, but he has been warned not to do it!!! Sheesh!!! I want REAL mountains! Okay, we have small ones, but I want to snow ski!!! I want sandy beaches in town! Our zoo is too expensive for what it is and there are many zoos around the country that many times its size that are FREE! Maybe I'm asking for too much!
I grew up going to Table Rock Lake, which is great for swimming, boating, water skiing, etc. And there are some great rivers in the Ozarks to canoe. There also nice places to camp. Branson is a fun getaway, but sadly Silver Dollar City has gotten to be too expensive for my budget.
Springfield does not offer the kind of job I want at all; and for that reason alone and many others, I would like to go elsewhere. As others have said, the jobs here do not pay well unless you are in healthcare and some of those jobs do not pay well either.
You definitely need a car to live in Springfield. The bus system here is not good. It takes two hours for a person to go to a grocery store about a mile away! They also do not offer enough bus stops or enough shelters for the bus stops they do have for bad weather. And City Utilities controls the transportation system and will not allow anyone else to start another system. By the way, CU does not have a good reputation!
This is definitely not a bicycle-friendly town! Yes, we do have some good paths, but not enough; and drivers are not friendly to bicyclists!
Yes, there are a lot of good, friendly people here! But there are also too many close-minded, backward, racist folks to count here! It is true that many people will ask you when they meet you what church you attend. I have literally had neighbors that wanted to save me and take me to their churches and they have told me that I will burn in Hell if I don't attend church regularly!
I can't say that we do not have any culture at all here. It is just not a culture that I want because I am not Conservative.
One of my favorite places is Jordan Valley Park. I think it is a lovely park with a water fountain for the kids in the summer. There are also some nice historic areas with historic homes in the central part of the city. But in my honest opinion, most of the city is very sterile looking.
I would like to raise my children in a more open-minded environment and I am saving up to do so. There are a few things I know I will miss. I will miss the cashew chicken and Mexican Villa for sure!
Wendy | Pleasant Hope, MO