Review of Carbondale, Illinois

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boring, boring, boring, especially if your low-inc

- 11/19/2007
Most depressively I've had to endure living in this boring town for 29 years except for 1.5 yrs I lived in a somewhat similar college town although bigger called Chapel Hill, NC. Except for with Chapel Hill if you have a car you don't have to travel 2 hours to get to more interesting places. Anyways I've been pretty unhappy here and since I was poor I couldn't afford to relocate. I did attempt to relocate about 5 or 6 times and ended up having to return here. If you've money you can attend plays and various activities going on at Southern Illinois University. Now if you love hunting and fishing you'd probably like it here. There is a major lack of fun activities to do here. Only 1 museum that I know of in Carbondale and that's a small one at the university. There is a stable way up Giant City rd if you like to ride horses. There's a beautiful state park called Giant City State park that has a lodge you can eat good food at and cabins you can rent to stay in. But Carbondale is a small city of only about 25,000 people and very lacking in fun things to see and do. Of course there's church and all the bars. lol I finally am going to be able to relocate. Anybody know of a city that's not to large like under 100,000 that has plenty of fun things to do or is closer to a bigger city with a zoo and other fun things? Thanks! Now a good thing about this city is crime isn't to bad and is pretty low. There is a bad side of town just like any other town/city.
Lisa | Carbondale, IL