Reviews & Comments
Moline, IL
Poverty Warning List -
6/26/2006I felt a little guilty about my earlier posting, bashing my hometown like that. But I have to say I do agree with what has been said here. The past twenty years have not been kind to this area. I grew up in Rock Island and love the city it used to be. I actually worked for the city for a couple of years and worked with some of the greatest people I've ever worked with, ever known, for that matter...
I have lived in southern California and in eastern Texas. I used to have family here, that's what brought be back. But I can't wait to get back to California, anywhere... where there are jobs and where having intellectiual or artistic interests is not frowned upon. I don't think I'll get very homesick again since the area hardly resembles the place where I grew up.
I don't know what can be done to help the area, but I don't think that a new hog plant is the answer. It will only drive out other industry.
Rock Island County has recently been placed on the Poverty Warning List. That says it all.
Moline, IL
Moline, Illinois -
5/2/2006On the Mississippi River. Economoically challenged, hot and humid in the summer, cold as hell in the winter. We want out!