No opportunity
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11/29/2020
I've lived in Dubuque for over 25 years. Dubuque is not a very good place to live if you are open minded and want to experience new things. Dubuque is an old town with old beliefs. It votes blue but it is socially conservative. If I could describe it I would say it is a dumb place, as in the people here are generally not intelligent. It is an okay place for a family, but certainly not a good place anymore. There are not very many good jobs here, the school system has gotten very bad over the years, it like the rest of Iowa has been hit severely by brain drain. Every smart person I went to school with moved away, far away, and has no plan of ever coming back. Hardly any opportunity for a high paying job unless you are part of a wealthy family or know someone in a wealthy family. It is one of those towns. The poor people are stuffed into downtown where drug use and violence grows worse every year, people are pretty racist here as well. If you are white, vanilla, uncultured/ignorant, you will fit in, but if you want to experience culture, a variety of different people, a good paying job, opportunity to own a nice house, really if you want a good life do not live here because unless you know somebody who can hook you up with a great job, you'll be left out to dry. This is a typical midwestern town: ignorant, white, low opportunity, socially conservative, older population, declining economy.
I would say stay away.
S | Dubuque, IA