Don’t move to Des Moines. I’ve lived here for 25 years. It’s awful here. People have common sense. Laws are enforced. You can get from one end of the city to the other in half an hour! HALF an hour! How terrible is that?! It should take an hour minimum! We have jobs. Gross. Also, there are 4 seasons (Sometimes in the same day). People are generally friendly… awful! All you people on the coast, STAY AWAY. This place is practically hell! 😂
amen, dems like to take over the capital of a state, like helena, boise, denver. move in takeover, push agenda. then homelessness rises, prices rise, sucks.
It’s not just that most people won’t move there, but most young people already there move away. Brain drain has been a big issue for decades. College grads are attracted to places with work opportunities, culture, mass transit, top-tier medical facilities and large international airports, among other things. The weather doesn’t help either. ☹️
I moved here from Oregon five years ago. There are plenty of job opportunities here, compared to the coasts, because competition is almost non-existent, so if you look half decent, you will get hired into jobs that would have been way out of your grasp anywhere else. Where I am from, even the grocery store clerks and service industry employees are likely to have masters degrees and just be trying to survive. Vegetables are painfully expensive here, which I found surprising for an agricultural state... Except it isn't. The midwest is a massive food desert that grows almost only corn, mainly for ethanol. Many of the slaughterhouses here mainly export. Everything is toxic. You need to filter or buy your water. People burn trash and yard debris constantly here (plus the forest fire smoke pools here from the US and Canada) so you may find you stay inside all spring and summer to just be able to breathe. Ticks. Ticks everywhere. Ticks on children when it doesn't even make sense. Like, they will just blow down from trees onto you, even in the middle of the city. That said, because of the friendliness and huge opportunities it is a good place to raise kids cheaply with the benefits of a large city... But not in Des Moines. Look to Iowa City.
Hey 👋🏻 I live in Oregon right now and want to move back to Iowa where I was originally from. Am looking in the Des Moines area because I want to live closer to my family
I just crossed the Mississippi River today for the first time on land. It’s also the first time I’ve been to Iowa. I went to Clinton and it was exactly like Illinois just with more pickup trucks and construction machines everywhere. It’s amazing how a 1 1/2 hour drive can change how people live and work. After watching more videos about Iowas pros and cons. It may not make sense for me to move there because it’s to similar to Illinois,it’s far less populated,less opportunity,but I did feel more of a sense of freedom and people were more friendly.
The soccer stadium keeps “falling through” because the responsible party (the owners of Kum n Go) want the city to pay a lot toward the construction costs, and the city isn’t having that. They already covered most of the environmental remediation costs to prep the site.
Here, I don't want to make it look like I hate Iowa, I was found by one of the major employers here, where I lived in Chicago and they moved me here for work. Iowa, if you who live here didn't know it, is a major hub on the fiber optic highway that runs through the corridor of this country and so there are all the enterprise data centers for all the major players here. Meta is building the first super AI cluster here in Altoona . I also really appreciate the 2nd amendment support you have here in Iowa, in fact a year after I moved here Governor Pritzker pulled his underhanded move in illinois basically making every gun I own illegal in Illinois, so I can't move back. Enjoy your gun rights here, because they are under attack everywhere else in this country.
We must remind people to tread here only if they are nice and we have no need for more riff raff to move here. Blizzards and tornadoes here, be scared to move to Iowa, as if found nice, you could stay and that is only wanted if you have proper values and are Iowa nice! 😊
The gun stuff in Iowa is going overboard at this point. I'm a teacher and they are headed towards arming us in the classroom. That's a no-go for me especially when states nearby also pay teachers better and also aren't banning books and doing other intrusive nonsense into classrooms.
I live in Iowa, and the snow here can be bad if you're not used to it. The weather here is Bipolar. Plus, I'm not sure about other states, but people here can't drive here they are always close to you when you drive and idiotic drivers. This video is so accurate.
as someone who grew up in AZ but was born in Sioux Falls, SD and routinely visits up there and also has been to Iowa/Nebraska a few times. Every time coming back to AZ its a noticable difference in the drivers. AZ has some of the worst drivers around. I don't think you have it that bad at all
offices and apartments are all brand new in west des moines. zero crime, brand new infrastructure, excellent schools, friendly city employees, clean streets. west des moines is ideal.unlike the east coast snow is podery and light, easy to plow. summers in texas and florida are brutal. west des moines iowa is a great place to live!!
Lived in Illinois all my life and just moved to northern iowa for work. Its AMAZING.. but then again i was ready to be around more people that didnt have that chicago voting record
I moved to Iowa a few years ago. Very very happy to live in Iowa as opposed to Minnesota or Illinois, which have really gone downhill just like the coastal states over the past several years. Granted, I moved from Minnesota, so maybe that's why weather and bugs don't bother me one bit.
Allergy seasons seem to be the worst around the changes (summer to fall, winter to spring). I have plenty of friends that aren't bothered by them but they were bad for me this year. Just stuffy and some minor headaches
@@livingincentraliowa Nope I'm in the process of buying a house in cedar rapids rn! Closing in a couple weeks and I just got my real estate license yesterday! Serious props to you for getting a yt channel going!
To those of you complaining about grocery prices, my penny pinching 35 yo daughter texted me yesterday and was amazed at the amount of groceries she got at Aldi for $100. She went to the newer one on E. Hickman in Waukee.
You should really give a percent range for the home taxes. By that I mean like 1.2-1.8% or whatever the total tax burden is for the area. In California it takes 5-20 years to do anything. You do a nice job man.
@@livingincentraliowa 🤣🤣🤣....that's a lie. They hyper valuation you on the appraisal to jack up your taxes. They send out threatening letters every year, about any updates you've performed. So they can jack them up even higher I won't do any updates until I'm ready to sell.
Our agriculture is corn, soybeans, eggs, chickens, beef and pork. Hardly a desert. Ticks dont come from trees and i haven't seen one for months. My water is just fine but if i lived in town id b concerned about fluoride. Canadian smoke happens 2 or 3 days a year. As a 58 yr old native Iowan the few negatives can be bugs, some heat index and some wind chill. Great state. But no need for anyone to move here.
I live in Bettendorf which is an hour from Iowa City. It’s a great community and the people are so friendly. The universities in Iowa are fantastic! They have a high graduation rate . The majority of graduates find high paying jobs in their field.
Iowa is the sweet spot for weather. Winter brutal for a few weeks , no 30 day streaks of 100+, no hurricanes no wild fires. Plenty of water. Affordable housing. Plenty of homes for less than 200,000, nice ones. Low property taxes in smaller towns.
I lived in Des Moines from 95-2022 in a low middle class area to the edge of Jefferson on a 1 1/2 acre, so much better, quiet but do miss some things from the bigger city but the trade off is worth it, couldn’t have got the property we have bow for the price we got in the des moines area.
You missed some big ones, perhaps because you haven't been around enough but moving here from Chicago, the damn grocery costs are big, bigger than Chicago. I struggled to understand why and the only reason I can think of is lack of competition. Your grocery chains are dominated by Hy Vee and all the other big chain stores only have one in town so they charge by benchmarking against the Hy Vee and its high. A bag of Pistachios cost 12 to 14$ and in Chicago from say Woodmans its 7$. The cops, the traffic enforcement is insane here. When I first moved here I was like why is everyone driving so damn slow? I was weaving in and out of cars because I'm used to Chicago where the speed limits are 45 65 and 80 mph effectively, then I got the first photo enforced ticket, after the first year I felt like I needed to get enrolled in automatic payments to the photo enforced traffic payment center. I had to get a high end crowd sourced radar detector and drive with highway radar app to navigate all the photo enforcement. Not only do they have cops that perform "traffic enforcement days" almost like DUI checkpoints they have airplanes swooping all the major highways in and out of the state and photo enforcement on top of all that. You can't survive here unless you have cruise control and a serious radar detector with long range sensor capabilities. Lastly the conservative drug policies, Iowa is surrounded by legal marijuana states, and everyone I know partakes here , and the state actually has dispensaries that sell THC hemp, the word HEMP seems to make it legal but regular dispensaries are not legal, recreational is not legal, making it a pain in the ass to drive 2 or 3 hours to one of the other states to get your gear. It's like a huge migration of money out of the state, you would think they would want to keep that, its so stupid. Please for the love of GOD, legalize it already and take the money, and then stop the predatory traffic enforcement!
Appreciate your insights! HyVee is EXPENSIVE and I try to avoid shopping for groceries there. I've never shopped for groceries in Illinois but am glad you shared that. Both IA and IL are much better than many other states. I wouldn't say anyone needs a radar detector here. Commute times aren't long enough to feel the need to speed anywhere, IMO. Des Moines has been really big on improving the safety of our roads.
@@livingincentraliowa Just for argument sake about the traffic enforcement. A little background first, I worked commercial HVAC for 25 to 30 years where I was a road mechanic for 15. I serviced all the big box stores and malls in the whole midwest from Fargo to Kentucky and Pittsburgh to St Louis and by far Iowa has the strictest traffic enforcement. I personally got ticketed for 7 mph over, my foot isn't calibrated that accurate for 7 mph. We all know that traffic enforcement is a ruse by police to get probably cause for search hoping to bust drug dealers and weapons traffickers, but really, how many of those do we have here in Des Moines? Don't fool yourselves Iowans, traffic enforcement is big business for the city government. Cities where they already have huge crime like Chicago and Detroit dont have time for traffic issues under 10 to 15 mph over and traffic enforcement is kind of a nuisance because it leads to high speed chases and disproportionate racial profiling and consequently youtube videos of cops beating the shit out of people alongside the road. I don't know the numbers here in Iowa, and I kinda want to research it, but I really dont think Iowa merits sutch enforcement and it's really just a way for the gang in blue to strong arm the public for money. Detroit for example, by enlarge has the 10 to 15 mph rule but the highways are for the most part 70 mph posted speed limits with only the stretch through downtown lowered. everywhere else it's 45 , 55 , and 70. I don't mention small residential roads because they are all 25 school zone 35 mph everywhere. really, I've traveled by road just about everywhere in this country except NY, NJ, and all those little North Eastern states and Iowa has the most traffic enforcement I have ever seen. really, do you need airplanes running all your highways?
@@flakes369 Drugs should be illegal? stop it with this refer madness from the 50s. Alcohol is far far far worse than some weed. What has the war on drugs done for us? All the gang wars in Chicago are people fighting for crumbs, and they sell drugs to survive. Lets look at places like Portugal decriminalize it and regulate its production and you at least gain some control of it and take the gang element from it and maybe save some lives from getting shot being a bystander. You want to know who the biggest drug dealers are with a higher body count? Its the Pharmaceutical companied broah.
I was born and raised in,Iowa and am highly considering moving back to the Des Moines area to be closer to my son and great granddaughter in Ankeny I live in the PNR area in Oregon
We'd love to have you back! My in-laws live 5 minutes from us and it's a blessing to have them that close Let me know if I can be of assistance! I'd love to help you find a home here. Reach out anytime at 515.414.6281
I like des moines iowa, quiet, nice people and never felt unsafe. That being said there is NOTHING to do past like 10 pm other than bars (NOTHING!!!). And the opportunities are not here unless you already have a plan/money. If you just want a quiet existence and just a stable job though, this is the place to be.
Thinking about moving to, Cedar Rapids, mechanicsville or Tipton. Reason I currently live in AZ, tired of the city life and heat plus my best friends live there. Any recommendations?
I moved to Marion from Komifornia . No regrets . There is actually toilet paper and clean restrooms in the parks . Gas prices are reasonable . Lots of health care if you need it with no waiting .
DONT DO IT! I moved from Mesa, Az 3 years ago because I thought it was getting so overcrowded. Biggest mistake of my life. The people here are not nice. There’s nothing to do. The humidity is the worst. Makes Arizona summer look like a dream. Bugs, when he spoke of bugs he’s not kidding. So many bugs. So many spiders. I will say the season change is beautiful and I still love the winter. Everything revolves around sports too. The people in west Des Moines and downtown Des Moines are nicer than some places. Ankeny is very nice. But where I am, is with a bunch a redneck inbred jerks who think they’re high class. The whole Midwest nice thing is only older people. I miss Arizona. I miss the people there.
Here are a few smaller ones too! Outside of any town there is no pavement, so your carwash budget needs to be put in place because everytime you drive on gravel roads your caked with white gravel dust. It also drives up vehicle maintenance as it clogs your air cleaners and erodes your undercarriage and paint etc. I enjoy good gravel travel on my adventure motorcycle but it gets old quick in your car. You need to have good water purification in your house or buy bottled water. There is pervasive problem with contaminated water supply from farm fertilizer runoff. Des Moines gets its water from a river called of all things The Skunk river and its constantly getting contaminated. The first thing you will notice moving here is all the land is dominated by farmland, no forests here, no wild prairie , only corn crop after corn crop. Every square inch of the land has been turned into some crop or another and it makes scenic drive rather boring. To get away from the children of the corn here you need to drive to South Dakota black hills or back along the mississippi. The goddamn airport here sucks, its says international but it might as well say connecting airport. It has but one luggage carousel and it's very hard to get direct flights out of here. Forget Southwest, you have 2 maybe 3 choices, Denver, StLouis, Atlanta. You can't use one way to get out of the country like buying a one way to O'hare so you can get a direct to Paris because the only carriers that sell those charge 150$ checked bag fees so your better off just buying the round trip and that will 100% include a connecting flight to one of the aforementioned airports. Des Moines is just a weigh station for the airlines, a place the pilots can stop and stretch their legs or use a regular toilet.
We'll have to agree to disagree on some of these! I love the Des Moines airport and think our landscape is beautiful (especially when it comes to sunrises and sunsets). I'll admit the Rockies/coasts have us beat.
So amusing anent the 11 seasons but more accurate than 4. We divided our time between FL and IA for 10+years due to the winter season. About 2 years ago we choose DM full time again as FL was developing lots of problems especially during high season. Here one travels via car to any place in a matter of 20 - 30 minutes, especially as we live close to Gray's Lake. The infrastructure is not overwhelmed by growth although its updates create a puzzle, a maze to driving. I agree with your commentary although I would add a consideration of the political climate. It is a much more conservative state than it was. DM and surrounding areas can ameliorate that but a government network of services is declining on too many fronts. Tolerance for alternative beliefs, lifestyles, etc. is dwindling. If we were younger, we may consider another state. We do enjoy living in Des Moines.
I was in Des Moines for work for 3 months. I was driving from the gym going home on Grand Ave. Cops pulled up really quick on tail, followed me for , like a mile an half and busted a u turn. I have not experienced that for a good two decade in Twin Cities, but the moment I landed in Des Moines, that happens. I'm just saying. And y'all need to quit doing that thing that you do on I-235. 3 lanes, 3 cars, same speed. WTH?
The weather will humble you. That's not a bad thing either. It forces you to live in reality. A lot of people in big cities have their reality distorted by living in an unnatural state of being.
Everything you’ve mentioned here is just called life. These are problems I’ve seen and experienced in many different states. Truthfully, if these are the reasons you have for not moving to Des Moines, Iowa (or Omaha, Nebraska or Grand Rapids, Michigan or Cleveland, Ohio or Duluth, Minnesota or Buffalo, New York, for that matter) then you probably won’t really be happy anywhere, except on the coasts, down south, or in the southwest.
I have a secret service friend who has been traversed to many states his whole career, he lived in New York, California, Maryland , etc. He said raising a family is best place is Iowa , Good public schools, low crime , the traffic is a lot less , I live here all my life , the winters are a lot milder and not as severe 20 years ago, you mentioned Bugs , I don't see a problem , Iowa of all the states have one best bikes paths system. I 🤔 your reason are pretty nice picky, . I travel to many states , the big reason to live in Iowa , is the traffic is a lot less and crime is really low.
IDK man snow removal in Iowa sucks.I moved here from Rochester NY and the snow removal here is much closer to that of North Carolina than it is Rochester. I've also lived in St. Louis.MO, which os significantly better than here. Now, I'm in Southeast Iowa, not the big city of Des Moines, which is certainly a factor, but the inadequate snow removal is frustrating.
The first in the nation politics is a big con. We tend to get spammed really early with calls, door to doors, commercials, etc because of the first in the nation status. People who dislike politics will be miserable.
@@302Rmack Oh dear, I'm going to have to educate you because clearly you can't comprehend what I said above. Iowa doesn't have a state level property tax. Property taxes are set at the city/county level. So, as I pointed out above, a person living in Johnston (Polk county roughly 2.5% property tax) is going to pay a lot more in property tax than a person who lives in Carroll county with a roughly 1.25% tax rate. I do not lie. You just don't understand how it works and that's not my problem. Go yell at your local city/county council and stop believing this is a state wide problem when it's not.
fair point! property taxes do tend to be higher in larger population areas. but even a 1.25% property tax rate could be considered high compared to quite a few other states
@@livingincentraliowa; yes the average property tax in Iowa is above many other states but that wasn't my original point. The point, I raised, was was that property taxes are so high for the person in the video because he is basing it on the Des Moines metro. For that 302Rmack called me a liar. I don't lie. The tax burden for property owners in our state is all over the map. The lowest is Dickinson County at 0.97% whereas the highest is Polk county at 2.10%. So it matters where you live in the state. You live in one of the metro areas you're going to pay through the nose. You live in the rural areas and it's not bad. As I said above.
We must remind people to tread here only if they are nice and we have no need for more riff raff to move here. Blizzards and tornadoes here, be scared to move to Iowa, as if found nice, you could stay and that is only wanted if you have proper values and are Iowa nice! 😊 Complainers, yeah please stay on near the coasts, especially near alligators or sharks so Darwin awards can be yours! If east of the Mississippi River, enjoy the congestion or attitudes around you, it is for the best as Field of Dreams here needs a clear truth so vacant in the east. We will visit you and return to Iowa, so no need to bring your harshness here, we will visit it there or admire the few there like us, trapped in an inexorable fervor so well known in those crowded warrens. Yeah, people hunt here and know the 2nd Amendment rights are sacred as over powering officials seem rampant willingly trample free speech for their political views run counter to those of decent characters and we have to endure strays from other places bringing their worst to Iowa as a bad accident of fate. Small towns do not cater to fancier tastes, just traditional value’s but want nice people to be here with travel out of town to places that make sense. Toll roads are for horrible people to get punished and not for Iowa. Mass transit is nice, but attention it garners can facilitate bad people too. So we moderate it, as a safety measure and would increase it if we could assure safety, as you see on the coast nefarious one’s use it against civilization and riot alot in comparison with their boredom and lack of reading skills.
Poor water quality, not really any extensive parks to explore and get lost in really. Iowa has destroyed nearly all of its natural areas for agriculture and we refuse to give much funding to maintaining the natural areas in our parks.
As someone from Iowa originally I can say this Iowa is (or at least was) a great place to raise a family. Then do what mine did which is spread to the four winds like dandelion Fluff. Aside from some very specific Jobs there isn't much opportunity there and you'll likely do better after moving to a different state. If you get a decent paying job in one of the non-dead Small Towns or smaller cities it can be alright. Avoid Iowa City like the Gosh Darn Plague if you are anywhere Right of Hippie Communard (Grew up there). Almost the entirety of Iowa's economy and surviving small towns are built on the backbones of a dying industry.... University. Most towns in Iowa that are somewhat functional are basically college towns or much of their industries and jobs rely heavily on the college. If that industry bubble bursts as it is looking to do Iowa could plunge into massive poverty. There are some intriguing places in Iowa if you're there but really nothing you can do in Iowa is something that can't be found better in one of the other states. It's mostly farmland with little natural area left. It is one of the most polluted states in its waterways and one of the most changed from its original landscape. Many of the dying small towns have incredibly small and often aging populations and others are completely insane. There are towns that make Florida look sane and towns with absolutely massive drug problems. After moving from Iowa I sadly had to burst a lot of people's idea of it as some bastion of Middle America. It is not and it is increasingly not that. Almost everyone who grows up there leaves if they can afford it, not because they hate Iowa, but because there is functionally not really any future there for most of us. As an aside on the Weather specifically, Iowan weather is surprisingly severe to most people. I moved further North to the Great Lakes area and was surprised at the mild winters, while one of the locals who had lived briefly in Iowa even mentioned they would not want to move back there ever for the harsh winters.
Iowa has a ton of great opportunities, and often little competition for those positions, but you often have to be willing to move with the opportunities, and be willing to settle for a job for a longer period of time than you would on the coasts. Since opportunities come by a bit less frequently, they can end up being better than you would expect - I have a position with the same pay as I did while working remotely for a SV startup. Bigger cities can act like a microcosm of megacities (Chicago, LA, etc) and getting a job in your field can be a bit difficult due to the higher competition.
You should also know that Iowa is terrible for bugs. Termites, cockroaches, and wasps. If you use preventative lawn care and spray your foundations, you can mitigate the first two. But I knock down at least 2 wasp nests every year on my house. And the property damage done by storms is never ending. I replaced my roof in June and already have torn shingles from the high winds and hail. Prepare for the August humidity. Every day starts off at 80° with 100% humidity because the corn is drying and pumping oceans of water into the atmosphere. If you don’t have central air in the summer, and a good furnace in the winter, you could be risking your life. Finally, the tornadoes. Iowa is one of the most active places of Earth for tornadoes. Every year structures are destroyed and people are killed by these acts of God. This year we had the highest wind speed ever recorded on the planet in Greenfield. The Metro area is not immune to the severe weather threats. Remember the Cornbelt Derecho of 2020? 130 mph winds across the whole state. The most destructive non-cyclonic storm in American history.
I live in Iowa City- it’s not as bad as you make it sound. Maybe you should live in Iowa City for a while? I’ve never heard of those 11 seasons before- I just know it doesn’t snow on or around Christmas, it only snows in January, if we’re lucky! That’s my biggest complaint tbh- I want more snow! As for taxes… eh? More taxes mean more going towards the people to make it a better place to live- more for the schools that educate people’s children and the future! Tho, I do think overall, Iowa or elsewhere, the most wealthy should pay higher taxes. Even if it’s by a small percentage, it would do wonders for everyone as a people and all citizens! ^^ But yeah, IC is pretty good, but if you want a “wild night life” maybe go to New York or something and sink all your money in rent with no money left for food. // Other places have it so much worse- maybe you’ve just been spoiled here 🤭 You should try someplace else-
Please don’t move to Iowa! Iowa is expensive, the people are mean, weather sucks year around. It’s flat, crime is bad, it’s ugly. We all hate it here. Wherever you live is better than Iowa please stay there! PS don’t come here you will be miserable
Oh sorry....I get it now...he's trying to keep the "Riff Raff" out of Iowa (aka best kept secret in the USA)....okay...now I get it....Yeah! Don't come to Iowa....we don't want you!! hahahahhahahahah
You can't expect your government to build a bunch of stuff like soccer complexes and then complain about property taxes. If government was really representing us they would lower taxes to attract private investment.
Don’t move to Des Moines. I’ve lived here for 25 years. It’s awful here. People have common sense. Laws are enforced. You can get from one end of the city to the other in half an hour! HALF an hour! How terrible is that?! It should take an hour minimum! We have jobs. Gross. Also, there are 4 seasons (Sometimes in the same day). People are generally friendly… awful! All you people on the coast, STAY AWAY. This place is practically hell!
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amen, dems like to take over the capital of a state, like helena, boise, denver. move in takeover, push agenda. then homelessness rises, prices rise, sucks.
Very closed minded residents . Most are racist and if you’re not White , don’t move here. Drugs are rampant in the old town district.
I've lived in Iowa all my life. Not a good state for a Democrat.
Or a queer or a woman of reproductive age & schools are going downhill.
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It’s not just that most people won’t move there, but most young people already there move away. Brain drain has been a big issue for decades. College grads are attracted to places with work opportunities, culture, mass transit, top-tier medical facilities and large international airports, among other things. The weather doesn’t help either. ☹️
seems like more and more people are coming here!
@livingincentraliowa Iowa is always in the bottom 10 or 15 states for population growth.
@@designer0798 I think we're actually at the 20th or 21st slowest overall, but I could be wrong
I moved here from Oregon five years ago. There are plenty of job opportunities here, compared to the coasts, because competition is almost non-existent, so if you look half decent, you will get hired into jobs that would have been way out of your grasp anywhere else. Where I am from, even the grocery store clerks and service industry employees are likely to have masters degrees and just be trying to survive.
Vegetables are painfully expensive here, which I found surprising for an agricultural state... Except it isn't. The midwest is a massive food desert that grows almost only corn, mainly for ethanol. Many of the slaughterhouses here mainly export.
Everything is toxic. You need to filter or buy your water. People burn trash and yard debris constantly here (plus the forest fire smoke pools here from the US and Canada) so you may find you stay inside all spring and summer to just be able to breathe.
Ticks. Ticks everywhere. Ticks on children when it doesn't even make sense. Like, they will just blow down from trees onto you, even in the middle of the city.
That said, because of the friendliness and huge opportunities it is a good place to raise kids cheaply with the benefits of a large city... But not in Des Moines. Look to Iowa City.
Hey 👋🏻 I live in Oregon right now and want to move back to Iowa where I was originally from. Am looking in the Des Moines area because I want to live closer to my family
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@@inkcorporate5132 Let me know if there's anything I can do to help out! 515.414.6281
I just crossed the Mississippi River today for the first time on land. It’s also the first time I’ve been to Iowa. I went to Clinton and it was exactly like Illinois just with more pickup trucks and construction machines everywhere. It’s amazing how a 1 1/2 hour drive can change how people live and work. After watching more videos about Iowas pros and cons. It may not make sense for me to move there because it’s to similar to Illinois,it’s far less populated,less opportunity,but I did feel more of a sense of freedom and people were more friendly.
We also don't have tolls here!
If you take Chicago away, Iowa is more populated than rural IL
The soccer stadium keeps “falling through” because the responsible party (the owners of Kum n Go) want the city to pay a lot toward the construction costs, and the city isn’t having that. They already covered most of the environmental remediation costs to prep the site.
thanks for the info!
Great state just to kick back and enjoy the extreme parts of the weather in your easy chair... Love it. Hate bugs.
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Here, I don't want to make it look like I hate Iowa, I was found by one of the major employers here, where I lived in Chicago and they moved me here for work. Iowa, if you who live here didn't know it, is a major hub on the fiber optic highway that runs through the corridor of this country and so there are all the enterprise data centers for all the major players here. Meta is building the first super AI cluster here in Altoona . I also really appreciate the 2nd amendment support you have here in Iowa, in fact a year after I moved here Governor Pritzker pulled his underhanded move in illinois basically making every gun I own illegal in Illinois, so I can't move back. Enjoy your gun rights here, because they are under attack everywhere else in this country.
We must remind people to tread here only if they are nice and we have no need for more riff raff to move here. Blizzards and tornadoes here, be scared to move to Iowa, as if found nice, you could stay and that is only wanted if you have proper values and are Iowa nice! 😊
The gun stuff in Iowa is going overboard at this point. I'm a teacher and they are headed towards arming us in the classroom. That's a no-go for me especially when states nearby also pay teachers better and also aren't banning books and doing other intrusive nonsense into classrooms.
Perry, Iowa is particularly great for gun owners.
@@ChrisWEEZ Damn, I would love to move to Iowa then. LOL. Count me in.
Lol, giving us all the gun rights but taking away bodily autonomy...
I live in Iowa, and the snow here can be bad if you're not used to it. The weather here is Bipolar. Plus, I'm not sure about other states, but people here can't drive here they are always close to you when you drive and idiotic drivers. This video is so accurate.
Thank you! People seem to have trouble driving everywhere, imo
I tell people we have two seasons: too f-ing hot and too f-ing cold.
@@andreacook7431 very accurate and a lot easier to remember than the 11!
as someone who grew up in AZ but was born in Sioux Falls, SD and routinely visits up there and also has been to Iowa/Nebraska a few times. Every time coming back to AZ its a noticable difference in the drivers. AZ has some of the worst drivers around. I don't think you have it that bad at all
offices and apartments are all brand new in west des moines. zero crime, brand new infrastructure, excellent schools, friendly
city employees, clean streets. west des moines is ideal.unlike the east coast snow is podery and light, easy to plow. summers in texas and florida are brutal. west des moines iowa is a great place to live!!
Agreed! My office is in WDM and it's a great place
Lived in Illinois all my life and just moved to northern iowa for work. Its AMAZING.. but then again i was ready to be around more people that didnt have that chicago voting record
You forgot that everyone forgets how to drive when it snows haha
you're right! thanks for pointing that out
I moved to Iowa a few years ago. Very very happy to live in Iowa as opposed to Minnesota or Illinois, which have really gone downhill just like the coastal states over the past several years.
Granted, I moved from Minnesota, so maybe that's why weather and bugs don't bother me one bit.
Agreed! Growing up in the midwest I'm very used to the weather/bugs by now.
Helpful video! About 'the pollening'--Could you describe allergy season(s) in Iowa and does it bother you? thanks
Allergy seasons seem to be the worst around the changes (summer to fall, winter to spring). I have plenty of friends that aren't bothered by them but they were bad for me this year. Just stuffy and some minor headaches
Duuuuude Matt, I have no idea how I got your videos in my recommended, but here i am! Keep up the videos my guy!
Thanks man!! Awesome to hear from you. Hope you're doing well!
Still up in Spirit Lake?
@@livingincentraliowa Nope I'm in the process of buying a house in cedar rapids rn! Closing in a couple weeks and I just got my real estate license yesterday!
Serious props to you for getting a yt channel going!
@@bryceolsen3527 that's awesome! would highly recommend the YT channel - great way to provide free value and meet people moving into the area
To those of you complaining about grocery prices, my penny pinching 35 yo daughter texted me yesterday and was amazed at the amount of groceries she got at Aldi for $100. She went to the newer one on E. Hickman in Waukee.
Aldi is the best.
You should really give a percent range for the home taxes. By that I mean like 1.2-1.8% or whatever the total tax burden is for the area.
In California it takes 5-20 years to do anything. You do a nice job man.
Appreciate the feedback! Our average tax burden is 1.5% of home value
@@livingincentraliowa 🤣🤣🤣....that's a lie. They hyper valuation you on the appraisal to jack up your taxes. They send out threatening letters every year, about any updates you've performed. So they can jack them up even higher
I won't do any updates until I'm ready to sell.
Our agriculture is corn, soybeans, eggs, chickens, beef and pork. Hardly a desert. Ticks dont come from trees and i haven't seen one for months. My water is just fine but if i lived in town id b concerned about fluoride. Canadian smoke happens 2 or 3 days a year. As a 58 yr old native Iowan the few negatives can be bugs, some heat index and some wind chill. Great state. But no need for anyone to move here.
My dog has been picking up way too many ticks this year. Thanks for your thoughts!
I live in Bettendorf which is an hour from Iowa City. It’s a great community and the people are so friendly. The universities in Iowa are fantastic! They have a high graduation rate . The majority of graduates find high paying jobs in their field.
Thanks for sharing, Mary!
Bro coming from the south the jobs pay way nicer for the cost of living compared to where I’m from.
Iowa is the sweet spot for weather. Winter brutal for a few weeks , no 30 day streaks of 100+, no hurricanes no wild fires. Plenty of water. Affordable housing. Plenty of homes for less than 200,000, nice ones. Low property taxes in smaller towns.
Agreed. Thanks for your thoughts!
I lived in Des Moines from 95-2022 in a low middle class area to the edge of Jefferson on a 1 1/2 acre, so much better, quiet but do miss some things from the bigger city but the trade off is worth it, couldn’t have got the property we have bow for the price we got in the des moines area.
The prices have certainly come up a lot. Hard to find affordable acreages around here anyomre
You forgot to mention it also gets Florida hot and humid in the summer.
It does indeed. Well, maybe not quite Floida hot, but the humidity is awful.
You missed some big ones, perhaps because you haven't been around enough but moving here from Chicago, the damn grocery costs are big, bigger than Chicago. I struggled to understand why and the only reason I can think of is lack of competition. Your grocery chains are dominated by Hy Vee and all the other big chain stores only have one in town so they charge by benchmarking against the Hy Vee and its high. A bag of Pistachios cost 12 to 14$ and in Chicago from say Woodmans its 7$.
The cops, the traffic enforcement is insane here. When I first moved here I was like why is everyone driving so damn slow? I was weaving in and out of cars because I'm used to Chicago where the speed limits are 45 65 and 80 mph effectively, then I got the first photo enforced ticket, after the first year I felt like I needed to get enrolled in automatic payments to the photo enforced traffic payment center. I had to get a high end crowd sourced radar detector and drive with highway radar app to navigate all the photo enforcement. Not only do they have cops that perform "traffic enforcement days" almost like DUI checkpoints they have airplanes swooping all the major highways in and out of the state and photo enforcement on top of all that. You can't survive here unless you have cruise control and a serious radar detector with long range sensor capabilities.
Lastly the conservative drug policies, Iowa is surrounded by legal marijuana states, and everyone I know partakes here , and the state actually has dispensaries that sell THC hemp, the word HEMP seems to make it legal but regular dispensaries are not legal, recreational is not legal, making it a pain in the ass to drive 2 or 3 hours to one of the other states to get your gear. It's like a huge migration of money out of the state, you would think they would want to keep that, its so stupid. Please for the love of GOD, legalize it already and take the money, and then stop the predatory traffic enforcement!
Appreciate your insights! HyVee is EXPENSIVE and I try to avoid shopping for groceries there. I've never shopped for groceries in Illinois but am glad you shared that. Both IA and IL are much better than many other states.
I wouldn't say anyone needs a radar detector here. Commute times aren't long enough to feel the need to speed anywhere, IMO. Des Moines has been really big on improving the safety of our roads.
@@livingincentraliowa Just for argument sake about the traffic enforcement. A little background first, I worked commercial HVAC for 25 to 30 years where I was a road mechanic for 15. I serviced all the big box stores and malls in the whole midwest from Fargo to Kentucky and Pittsburgh to St Louis and by far Iowa has the strictest traffic enforcement. I personally got ticketed for 7 mph over, my foot isn't calibrated that accurate for 7 mph.
We all know that traffic enforcement is a ruse by police to get probably cause for search hoping to bust drug dealers and weapons traffickers, but really, how many of those do we have here in Des Moines? Don't fool yourselves Iowans, traffic enforcement is big business for the city government. Cities where they already have huge crime like Chicago and Detroit dont have time for traffic issues under 10 to 15 mph over and traffic enforcement is kind of a nuisance because it leads to high speed chases and disproportionate racial profiling and consequently youtube videos of cops beating the shit out of people alongside the road.
I don't know the numbers here in Iowa, and I kinda want to research it, but I really dont think Iowa merits sutch enforcement and it's really just a way for the gang in blue to strong arm the public for money. Detroit for example, by enlarge has the 10 to 15 mph rule but the highways are for the most part 70 mph posted speed limits with only the stretch through downtown lowered. everywhere else it's 45 , 55 , and 70. I don't mention small residential roads because they are all 25 school zone 35 mph everywhere.
really, I've traveled by road just about everywhere in this country except NY, NJ, and all those little North Eastern states and Iowa has the most traffic enforcement I have ever seen. really, do you need airplanes running all your highways?
1. yea thats not ideal
2. slow down?
3. how is this bad? drugs should be illegal
@@flakes369 Drugs should be illegal? stop it with this refer madness from the 50s. Alcohol is far far far worse than some weed. What has the war on drugs done for us? All the gang wars in Chicago are people fighting for crumbs, and they sell drugs to survive. Lets look at places like Portugal decriminalize it and regulate its production and you at least gain some control of it and take the gang element from it and maybe save some lives from getting shot being a bystander. You want to know who the biggest drug dealers are with a higher body count? Its the Pharmaceutical companied broah.
Slow down.
(Duh)
I was born and raised in,Iowa and am highly considering moving back to the Des Moines area to be closer to my son and great granddaughter in Ankeny
I live in the PNR area in Oregon
We'd love to have you back! My in-laws live 5 minutes from us and it's a blessing to have them that close
Let me know if I can be of assistance! I'd love to help you find a home here. Reach out anytime at 515.414.6281
I like des moines iowa, quiet, nice people and never felt unsafe. That being said there is NOTHING to do past like 10 pm other than bars (NOTHING!!!). And the opportunities are not here unless you already have a plan/money. If you just want a quiet existence and just a stable job though, this is the place to be.
Thinking about moving to, Cedar Rapids, mechanicsville or Tipton. Reason I currently live in AZ, tired of the city life and heat plus my best friends live there. Any recommendations?
I moved to Des Moines from Iowa City (right next to Cedar Rapids) and I loved it over there!
I moved to Marion from Komifornia . No regrets . There is actually toilet paper and clean restrooms in the parks . Gas prices are reasonable . Lots of health care if you need it with no waiting .
Come to Tipton. 35 minutes you are in 3 different cities. Small county seat. Low crime.
DONT DO IT! I moved from Mesa, Az 3 years ago because I thought it was getting so overcrowded. Biggest mistake of my life. The people here are not nice. There’s nothing to do. The humidity is the worst. Makes Arizona summer look like a dream. Bugs, when he spoke of bugs he’s not kidding. So many bugs. So many spiders. I will say the season change is beautiful and I still love the winter. Everything revolves around sports too. The people in west Des Moines and downtown Des Moines are nicer than some places. Ankeny is very nice. But where I am, is with a bunch a redneck inbred jerks who think they’re high class. The whole Midwest nice thing is only older people. I miss Arizona. I miss the people there.
@@pamalita86 Tipton's a great small town!
Here are a few smaller ones too! Outside of any town there is no pavement, so your carwash budget needs to be put in place because everytime you drive on gravel roads your caked with white gravel dust. It also drives up vehicle maintenance as it clogs your air cleaners and erodes your undercarriage and paint etc. I enjoy good gravel travel on my adventure motorcycle but it gets old quick in your car.
You need to have good water purification in your house or buy bottled water. There is pervasive problem with contaminated water supply from farm fertilizer runoff. Des Moines gets its water from a river called of all things The Skunk river and its constantly getting contaminated. The first thing you will notice moving here is all the land is dominated by farmland, no forests here, no wild prairie , only corn crop after corn crop. Every square inch of the land has been turned into some crop or another and it makes scenic drive rather boring. To get away from the children of the corn here you need to drive to South Dakota black hills or back along the mississippi.
The goddamn airport here sucks, its says international but it might as well say connecting airport. It has but one luggage carousel and it's very hard to get direct flights out of here. Forget Southwest, you have 2 maybe 3 choices, Denver, StLouis, Atlanta. You can't use one way to get out of the country like buying a one way to O'hare so you can get a direct to Paris because the only carriers that sell those charge 150$ checked bag fees so your better off just buying the round trip and that will 100% include a connecting flight to one of the aforementioned airports. Des Moines is just a weigh station for the airlines, a place the pilots can stop and stretch their legs or use a regular toilet.
We'll have to agree to disagree on some of these! I love the Des Moines airport and think our landscape is beautiful (especially when it comes to sunrises and sunsets). I'll admit the Rockies/coasts have us beat.
Thanks for the honest video.
You bet! Thank you
So amusing anent the 11 seasons but more accurate than 4. We divided our time between FL and IA for 10+years due to the winter season. About 2 years ago we choose DM full time again as FL was developing lots of problems especially during high season. Here one travels via car to any place in a matter of 20 - 30 minutes, especially as we live close to Gray's Lake. The infrastructure is not overwhelmed by growth although its updates create a puzzle, a maze to driving. I agree with your commentary although I would add a consideration of the political climate. It is a much more conservative state than it was. DM and surrounding areas can ameliorate that but a government network of services is declining on too many fronts. Tolerance for alternative beliefs, lifestyles, etc. is dwindling. If we were younger, we may consider another state. We do enjoy living in Des Moines.
I was in Des Moines for work for 3 months. I was driving from the gym going home on Grand Ave. Cops pulled up really quick on tail, followed me for , like a mile an half and busted a u turn. I have not experienced that for a good two decade in Twin Cities, but the moment I landed in Des Moines, that happens. I'm just saying.
And y'all need to quit doing that thing that you do on I-235. 3 lanes, 3 cars, same speed. WTH?
that sounds absolutely terrifying! so sorry that happened to you omg
The weather will humble you. That's not a bad thing either. It forces you to live in reality. A lot of people in big cities have their reality distorted by living in an unnatural state of being.
Agreed. It builds mental toughness and makes you appreciate the good weather for what it is.
Everything you’ve mentioned here is just called life. These are problems I’ve seen and experienced in many different states. Truthfully, if these are the reasons you have for not moving to Des Moines, Iowa (or Omaha, Nebraska or Grand Rapids, Michigan or Cleveland, Ohio or Duluth, Minnesota or Buffalo, New York, for that matter) then you probably won’t really be happy anywhere, except on the coasts, down south, or in the southwest.
Life for us here in the midwest, not necessarily everywhere
I have a secret service friend who has been traversed to many states his whole career, he lived in New York, California, Maryland , etc. He said raising a family is best place is Iowa , Good public schools, low crime , the traffic is a lot less , I live here all my life , the winters are a lot milder and not as severe 20 years ago, you mentioned Bugs , I don't see a problem , Iowa of all the states have one best bikes paths system. I 🤔 your reason are pretty nice picky, . I travel to many states , the big reason to live in Iowa , is the traffic is a lot less and crime is really low.
I love living in Des Moines. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Sounds Awesome to me !!
it is!
IDK man snow removal in Iowa sucks.I moved here from Rochester NY and the snow removal here is much closer to that of North Carolina than it is Rochester. I've also lived in St. Louis.MO, which os significantly better than here. Now, I'm in Southeast Iowa, not the big city of Des Moines, which is certainly a factor, but the inadequate snow removal is frustrating.
Oh yeah, and it's racist AF and religious zealots are all but inescapable.
When I lived in Iowa City our snow removal was quite bad. In the suburbs around Des Moines it's pretty good, IMO
Ayyeeeee you forgot the 12th season......road construction
ah yes thank you!
One thing Des Moines sucks at is NO city rail system! Or Amtrak, just billions and billions for highways and the airport.
Is the Des Moines area friendly towards lgbt couples?
hahahahh I've lived in Iowa for over 25 years. I love it. I'm still waiting for him to give me a good reason not to live here....still waiting....
The first in the nation politics is a big con. We tend to get spammed really early with calls, door to doors, commercials, etc because of the first in the nation status. People who dislike politics will be miserable.
that's fair! lots of spam political mail this year especially, it seems
i have been to iowa many times. i like iowa city.
That's where I moved from a few years back. If I didn't live in DSM, Iowa City would be my 2nd choice!
Party animals
Property taxes are so high for you because you live in Johnston (Des Moines suburb). The rest of Iowa isn't as bad outside of those metro areas.
@@mmiddleton1020 that's a lie....mine keep increasing every year. House appraisal about 50k over reality
@@302Rmack Oh dear, I'm going to have to educate you because clearly you can't comprehend what I said above. Iowa doesn't have a state level property tax. Property taxes are set at the city/county level.
So, as I pointed out above, a person living in Johnston (Polk county roughly 2.5% property tax) is going to pay a lot more in property tax than a person who lives in Carroll county with a roughly 1.25% tax rate.
I do not lie. You just don't understand how it works and that's not my problem. Go yell at your local city/county council and stop believing this is a state wide problem when it's not.
fair point! property taxes do tend to be higher in larger population areas. but even a 1.25% property tax rate could be considered high compared to quite a few other states
@@livingincentraliowa; yes the average property tax in Iowa is above many other states but that wasn't my original point. The point, I raised, was was that property taxes are so high for the person in the video because he is basing it on the Des Moines metro.
For that 302Rmack called me a liar. I don't lie. The tax burden for property owners in our state is all over the map. The lowest is Dickinson County at 0.97% whereas the highest is Polk county at 2.10%.
So it matters where you live in the state. You live in one of the metro areas you're going to pay through the nose. You live in the rural areas and it's not bad. As I said above.
Okay I’m in San Antonio and the weather in Iowa sounds like us here very bipolar
"bipolar" is a great way to put it
Ice, snow, summer heat, beer culture, Athleto-Christianity culture are mostly dominant.
What is Athleto-Christianity?
property, sales, probably income tax all v high in iowa.. high taxes.
I’m moving to Iowa next month!!!
Let me know how I can help! You can reach me on my personal cell - 515.414.6281
Right, don't move Iowa in 2024.I mean where would you even move it to?
lol good catch! thank you
We must remind people to tread here only if they are nice and we have no need for more riff raff to move here. Blizzards and tornadoes here, be scared to move to Iowa, as if found nice, you could stay and that is only wanted if you have proper values and are Iowa nice! 😊
Complainers, yeah please stay on near the coasts, especially near alligators or sharks so Darwin awards can be yours!
If east of the Mississippi River, enjoy the congestion or attitudes around you, it is for the best as Field of Dreams here needs a clear truth so vacant in the east.
We will visit you and return to
Iowa, so no need to bring your harshness here, we will visit it there or admire the few there like us, trapped in an inexorable fervor so well known in those crowded warrens.
Yeah, people hunt here and know the 2nd Amendment rights are sacred as over powering officials seem rampant willingly trample free speech for their political views run counter to those of decent characters and we have to endure strays from other places bringing their worst to Iowa as a bad accident of fate.
Small towns do not cater to fancier tastes, just traditional value’s but want nice people to be here with travel out of town to places that make sense.
Toll roads are for horrible people to get punished and not for Iowa. Mass transit is nice, but attention it garners can facilitate bad people too. So we moderate it, as a safety measure and would increase it if we could assure safety, as you see on the coast nefarious one’s use it against civilization and riot alot in comparison with their boredom and lack of reading skills.
I appreciate your video
Yeah don’t move to Iowa
thank you!
I love living in Iowa beautiful state lots of good paying jobs
Poor water quality, not really any extensive parks to explore and get lost in really. Iowa has destroyed nearly all of its natural areas for agriculture and we refuse to give much funding to maintaining the natural areas in our parks.
Thanks for sharing, Josh!
As someone from Iowa originally I can say this Iowa is (or at least was) a great place to raise a family. Then do what mine did which is spread to the four winds like dandelion Fluff.
Aside from some very specific Jobs there isn't much opportunity there and you'll likely do better after moving to a different state. If you get a decent paying job in one of the non-dead Small Towns or smaller cities it can be alright. Avoid Iowa City like the Gosh Darn Plague if you are anywhere Right of Hippie Communard (Grew up there). Almost the entirety of Iowa's economy and surviving small towns are built on the backbones of a dying industry.... University.
Most towns in Iowa that are somewhat functional are basically college towns or much of their industries and jobs rely heavily on the college. If that industry bubble bursts as it is looking to do Iowa could plunge into massive poverty.
There are some intriguing places in Iowa if you're there but really nothing you can do in Iowa is something that can't be found better in one of the other states. It's mostly farmland with little natural area left. It is one of the most polluted states in its waterways and one of the most changed from its original landscape.
Many of the dying small towns have incredibly small and often aging populations and others are completely insane. There are towns that make Florida look sane and towns with absolutely massive drug problems.
After moving from Iowa I sadly had to burst a lot of people's idea of it as some bastion of Middle America. It is not and it is increasingly not that. Almost everyone who grows up there leaves if they can afford it, not because they hate Iowa, but because there is functionally not really any future there for most of us.
As an aside on the Weather specifically, Iowan weather is surprisingly severe to most people. I moved further North to the Great Lakes area and was surprised at the mild winters, while one of the locals who had lived briefly in Iowa even mentioned they would not want to move back there ever for the harsh winters.
thanks for sharing!
Have you done any videos on the Quad Cities area?
I have not! But, I don't need to because Alex Skeen has that covered!
www.youtube.com/@LIVINGINTHEQUADCITIES
Iowa has a ton of great opportunities, and often little competition for those positions, but you often have to be willing to move with the opportunities, and be willing to settle for a job for a longer period of time than you would on the coasts. Since opportunities come by a bit less frequently, they can end up being better than you would expect - I have a position with the same pay as I did while working remotely for a SV startup. Bigger cities can act like a microcosm of megacities (Chicago, LA, etc) and getting a job in your field can be a bit difficult due to the higher competition.
You should also know that Iowa is terrible for bugs. Termites, cockroaches, and wasps.
If you use preventative lawn care and spray your foundations, you can mitigate the first two. But I knock down at least 2 wasp nests every year on my house.
And the property damage done by storms is never ending. I replaced my roof in June and already have torn shingles from the high winds and hail.
Prepare for the August humidity. Every day starts off at 80° with 100% humidity because the corn is drying and pumping oceans of water into the atmosphere. If you don’t have central air in the summer, and a good furnace in the winter, you could be risking your life.
Finally, the tornadoes. Iowa is one of the most active places of Earth for tornadoes. Every year structures are destroyed and people are killed by these acts of God. This year we had the highest wind speed ever recorded on the planet in Greenfield. The Metro area is not immune to the severe weather threats.
Remember the Cornbelt Derecho of 2020? 130 mph winds across the whole state. The most destructive non-cyclonic storm in American history.
I live in Iowa City- it’s not as bad as you make it sound. Maybe you should live in Iowa City for a while?
I’ve never heard of those 11 seasons before- I just know it doesn’t snow on or around Christmas, it only snows in January, if we’re lucky! That’s my biggest complaint tbh- I want more snow!
As for taxes… eh? More taxes mean more going towards the people to make it a better place to live- more for the schools that educate people’s children and the future!
Tho, I do think overall, Iowa or elsewhere, the most wealthy should pay higher taxes. Even if it’s by a small percentage, it would do wonders for everyone as a people and all citizens! ^^
But yeah, IC is pretty good, but if you want a “wild night life” maybe go to New York or something and sink all your money in rent with no money left for food. //
Other places have it so much worse- maybe you’ve just been spoiled here 🤭
You should try someplace else-
I lived in Iowa City for 5 years and loved it! I truly do enjoy living in Iowa, these are just reasons some people may not
Please don’t move to Iowa! Iowa is expensive, the people are mean, weather sucks year around. It’s flat, crime is bad, it’s ugly. We all hate it here. Wherever you live is better than Iowa please stay there! PS don’t come here you will be miserable
We'll have to agree to disagree!
If you like smog, crime, traffic. Do not come here.
Iowa cops are no joke. They do not mess around. You obey the laws, you will be fine.
nice
Iam Iowa City
Oh sorry....I get it now...he's trying to keep the "Riff Raff" out of Iowa (aka best kept secret in the USA)....okay...now I get it....Yeah! Don't come to Iowa....we don't want you!! hahahahhahahahah
haha it's for the click bait
Just move to Europe
Very different places, IMO
You can't expect your government to build a bunch of stuff like soccer complexes and then complain about property taxes. If government was really representing us they would lower taxes to attract private investment.
Gonna comment, nah
thanks!