Reviews & Comments
Joplin, MO
I use to live in Joplin -
3/24/2009The schools I went to were filled with drugs, fights, rapes, and recently I've heard on the news a school shooting. The people in Joplin are inbred. There is a good ol boy network for sure. Jobs? YOu get to choose between factories, resturants and if you're REALLY lucky, you can be a bank teller.
Everyone has a gun and they shoot at things like power line insulators, houses, buildings, street signs, etc. Joplin has an EXTREMELY HIGH NUMBER OF METH ADDICTS!
One night, I was woke up by gunshots. I look out the window and the guy across the street from me was drunk, shooting his .357 magnum down the street and yelling. You see, about half the crime here goes unreported. Most of the time, no one calls the cops. Joplin is the place I take white racist snobs to prove that white folks have ghettos too.
Seriously, the schools are horrible. After I dropped out, I got my GED, went to college and became an engineering technician. The closest Engineering school is in Fayettville. I had to get out of the school system in order to succeed.
Housing? You like 200 year old add on shacks with funky floorplans, like 5 foot wide kitchens and the only bathroom is inside a bedroom with a sinkhole in the back yard? You like having wife beating, redneck creep, child molesting neighbors with dirty, Wal-Mart clothes wearing, cigarrette smoking adolescent children? You like being woke up in the middle of the night by glasspacks?
Joplin is a "King of the Hill" cartoon kind of place. They're idea of culture is going to Indian Casino to gamble. Let's not forget the 70's themed tapistries they sell at the flea market. And somebody PLEASE tell these people that mullets and big hair are longer in style! The women have their hair parted on the sides, with a great big, 2 foot tall, curly fluff above their foreheads. I don't know what to think about that. Wow. They look like poodles.
People here look about 15 years older than they are and EVERYBODY SMOKES! You cannot get away from it. Everywhere you go people are smoking! They blow it in your face and think they have the right to fill your air with cancer causing poison! They're even still allowed to smoke inside resturants and bars and pretty much any public building.
I live in Southern California now. It costs 5 times as much to live here. I'm not fond of the town I live in now. But I will never go back to Joplin.
Joplin, MO
re: Good Life - 8/13/2008 -
3/24/2009Joplin has HIGH crime, meth heads on every corner, and is one of the recruiting cities for the Jerry Springer Show. I cannot for the life of me figure out why people think the schools here are so great. Your kid will have to fight with his fists to defend himself every other day against big redneck boys. Racism? YOU BET! The water is poluted. THere are 10 ft. brown suds at the falls on Shoal Creek. There's trash everywhere. I live in Southern California now and I feel safer here than when I lived in Joplin. If you're not a good ol boy, DON'T MOVE HERE!
Joplin, MO
re: Thinking of moving to Joplin - 10/20/2006 -
3/24/2009DON'T Freakin DO iT!
Bakersfield, CA
re: Bakersfield is a good place to raise your kids -
3/24/2009YOU'RE CRAZY! Kids get asthma here! There's TONS of drug addicts and GANGS! GANGS! AND MORE GANGS! The teachers are MORONS that try to teach religion instead of coursework!
Bakersfield, CA
I CAN'T BELIEVE THE REVIEWS ABOUT BAKERSFIELD! -
3/24/2009There are people who actually think this is a GOOD place to live!
Air Quaility: Worse than L.A.
Crime: Worse that L.A.
Grafitti: EVERYWHERE! (Again, worse than L.A.)
The sky is yellowish brown here. Someone wrote than you can see snow capped mountains in the winters here. No you can't. The smog won't let you see more than 2 miles 95% of the time. For a couple days a year, the wind blows it out and suddenly you can see the mountains that are pretty close but that you couldn't see before.
The people ARE NOT FRIENDLY! They're rude as can be. Service from businesses around here is POOR! Everyone tries to RIP YOU OFF around here. From car dealers to realtors to rental managers to the cable company, you can bet that doing business will be a complete nightmare. The first house I rented here was in foreclosure when I signed the lease, unknown to me, and the asshole was trying to collect rent from me AFTER it went to auction.
Employers here aren't as bad as L.A. in the engineering profession, but I don't know how they are in other professions. Everybody's a conservative-stone-age moron that doesn't believe in global warming (ironically). So they drive around in huge Ford f-350 4x4 crew cab trucks with monster tires as their main commute and blaim Los Angeles and San Francisco for their poor air quality (even though Bakersfield is separated from those cities by mountains with elevations over 4000 ft).
The cows, oh yes, the cows. Where I live, I'm 25 miles from any cattle operations. Yet, the stench from cow crap is overwhelming at times (about 50% of the time). It makes my eyes water and makes me choke when I inhale the air it's so strong. When you drive to the source of the smell, there are a thousand cows crammed into steel carport looking shelters, living in super-poor conditions. They're trapped in cages about 4'x5' and have to put their heads through the cages to eat. And to top it off, they're standing in their own crap ALL THEIR LIVES! Once you see it, you pretty much lose your appetite for beef. But remember, happy cows come from California!
Did I mention gangs? They're everywhere around here. There's drive-by shootings, robberies, etc. There's nothing to do here except eat, which is 90% of the people who live here are overweight (including myself). You can't jog outside or it will scar your lungs. If you get a gym membership here, the only good gym is In-Shape City.
In the summer, which lasts from May to September, it stays over 110 degrees most of the time. At night, it'll drop to 95 degrees.
Overall, this place is the hell people say it is. There a few "special" people who like it here. But remember, the band "Korn" is from this place, and you can hear the inspiration they recieved from living here.