A great place to visit but I would not want to liv
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12/17/2005
After 30 plus years, we have finally left Omaha and moved to Florida. Omaha was a great place to raise our children. I never could understand people that said there was nothing to do, or it was a boring town, or whatever… what do you want? Omaha has more great restaurants than most cities in the country, the finest zoo in the country, a great symphony, good museum, plenty of clubs and entertainment venues, some wonderful parks, relatively good infrastructure and mass transit (could use some improvement there), all the amenities of any “big” city. Now the bad, the taxes in Omaha and Nebraska are beyond ridiculous that alone was nearly enough to prompt our move, miserable barely describes the winters there, snow removal on most side streets in town was close to non-existent. The “good old boy” network of city and county government stifled small business growth; if you were not a multibillion-dollar corporation they could give massive tax breaks to so you could move people in instead of create jobs for existing residents, you were not welcomed. Road construction projects that took years in some cases even a decade to complete were often under repair before the project was complete. Every Omaha resident knows all about the orange barrels. Omaha residents watched the Council Bluffs, IA economy blossom with casinos that were to evil for Nebraska’s “Good Life”. Then the construction of a new arena and beginning of an amusement/water park found Omaha trying to “catch up”. Omaha public schools have a larger budget than the state of Nebraska but the performance rating does not show that. Overall, a great place to visit but I would not want to live there…..anymore.
Rich | Tallahassee, FL