After living in Sioux Falls for 6 years...
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6/22/2006
After living in Sioux Falls for 6 years, I have went through all the phases of moving and getting acquainted with a city. I hated Sioux Falls when I moved here, I had the "there is nothing to do here" state of mind. However, there are a lot of things to do in Sioux Falls, everything from sports (we have the Sioux Falls Storm, arena football, Stampede, hockey, Canaries, baseball, Skyforce, basketball), we have the Washington Pavillion of Arts and Sciences which has a science museum and various plays, musicians, dance related shows and the Omnitheatre. We also have a nice sized mall, the Sertoma Butterfly House, the Great Plains Zoo, the Game Fish and Parks outdoor campus, and a wide variety of parks and playgrounds for the children. There are several lakes and campgrounds for those who love the outdoors, as well as the Big Sioux River and Falls Park, there are biking trails, there are many community pools, some with waterslides, and there is Wild Water West which is a waterpark that also has paintball and batting cages, Thunder Road which has a small race track and minigolf, there is also 3 round dirt tracks for auto racing enthusiasts. We have many bars and restaurants. Every style of food imaginable. We also have the rodeo which comes to town several times a year. The Minnehaha County Fair, arts and crafts festivals, car shows (the most recent having Chip Foose appearing along with Jeff Gordon's #24 car). For those with kids we have some great public schools and private schools, dance academies galore, there are summer baseball/fastpitch leagues, pool/dart leagues, book clubs, Universities/Trade Schools, and outdoor shows for the kids and festivals for the adults. Downtown Sioux Falls also has the Phillips to the Falls project which is a walking path that leads from Downtown to Falls Park. Downtown itself has a wide variety of unique stores to visit. With two choices of hospitals and also having the heart hospitals you know you are well taken care of in that aspect as well.
I myself have never known of anyone that has been mistreated due to race, however, I am sure it happens but not to the extent that many other cities have. I work for a ciminal defense law office and can tell you that 95% of our cases are DWI cases and in the 10 months I have been here we have not had any violent crime cases.
Sioux Falls is not a city that has entertainment jumping out at you like the larger cities. However, if you pay attention you can find plenty
Carey | Sioux Falls, SD