Just open your eyes a little man, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Until then I guess this conversation is done. I don’t have the energy to waste trying to get you to see what’s so blatantly obvious.

Do you have data that you haven’t? All I can tell you is stories but it’s up to you to believe me or not. It’s happened several times in the family bathroom of walmart, it happened less often at wings but it did happen. Those are only the times I was there. See you tell me one good thing about springfield I’ll see 5 bad things. Whereas anywhere else (except chicago or philly) you say one bad thing I’ll show you 5 good things. I’ve been to almost every state, and I feel as though I spent enough time in those places to see both good and bad, not enough time to really judge them but to see the surface. Here I’ve been in the thick of it for a while now and I can’t say I’m happy ab it.

No it happens in all cities, but not everywhere in all cities. You can’t get away from it here it’s just all over springfield.

Incorrect, I loved pittsburgh, I loved Salt Lake City (only lived there for a few months my asthma couldn’t handle the smog) if I could go anywhere it would be anywhere but here. I’m very happy in general however after spending time here I cannot stand this city. The politicians are dumb, and the school board candidates are dumber. When I was in high school I had to ride my bike to work so naturally since I lived on the north side, I worked on the north side, I worked at Culvers and when I ran food I got chased into the restaurant with a knife by a homeless man, a customer had a pistol and got the guy to back off. When I worked at Walmart I did online grocery pickup and had to deal with meth heads coming in the parking lot trying to bribe me to get them free groceries with meth. They upped the security. When I worked at wings etc I had to kick people out on the daily because they’d be shooting up in the bathroom. (That also happened at Walmart) I once had to tackle a guy at the gas station because he was beating the shit out of a woman, in broad daylight, nobody else did anything. Including calling the police, they just looked at me and kept walking. You should really look at springfield in a different light because I’ve seen both sides and to sum it up, the bad heavily outweighs the good in this town. That’s not just me either. People get stuck here, most folks I’ve met agree springfield is a black hole good things fall into.

Really? I’m part of the racism, homophobia and anti semitism? No I just spent too much time stuck in this shit hole. Get out of the city dude and you’ll see it’s not this bad everywhere, this place just sucks.

I’ve lived here for five years, if you have children or plan on having children soon don’t move here, I’d recommend the outer towns like nixa republic or rogersville. Missouri does have some beautiful spots but springfield is honestly so bad, not just cause of crime (although it is pretty rough here) I’m from the outskirts of pittsburgh, it’s not as bad here just a hell of a lot of meth heads. The real kicker is that the whole town is just utter shit, little to no night life unless you like hick themed clubs or hipster bars… or trashy strip clubs. I guarantee I’ll get downvotes from the people who lived here their whole lives but that’s cause they take it personal. Oh and there’s also a bunch of hate around here. Religious nut jobs claiming to regrow human appendages through prayer, people leaving racist flyers around town, ziploc bags with anti semitic messages in them, and most of the homeless don’t bite. I wouldn’t move to springfield if I were you. I’ve been stuck here and now that I have a daughter on the way all me and my old lady can think about is how much we don’t want to raise her here.

To me that just sounds like unnecessary infrastructure, they should focus on making our current roads better (condition wise) and if people really wanna get organized? They should learn how to drive. My insurance is $295 dollars a month, no cool car, one accident on record which is listed as an act of god. My agent told me the reason mine is particularly high is because I’m a young driver and I live in springfield missouri. I’m from a city with 3-4 times the population, and even then I’ve seen as many accidents in 4 years here than I had in 16 years there.

Why? Most major veins are already 4 lane roads.

Traffic? In springfield? It takes like 20 minutes to get across town at rush hour

One of the priests involved in the toe thing was from out in California and he tried to resurrect a congregation members 2 year old daughter through prayer. This isn’t surprising me at all

(Also 3 balls)

I think you’re thinking of mennonites

I literally have a job now I’m no longer searching I have a great opportunity that I’d be an idiot to turn down. It’s not good work, but it pays damn good.

Man I’m just tryna support my family and give them a better life than I had. I can’t do that working at McDonalds, Walmart, Taco Bell, or any of the other jobs I had, but I guess that makes me a bad guy.

Wow. Went completely over your head. Bye.

Okay so at this point you’re saying the same thing as me, only difference is you don’t understand how the economy works apparently, McDonald’s workers make more, then others demand more, then minimum wage gets raised, then cost of living goes up, then everyone is making the same percentage they were. So no not good for them except for a few months to a year they make more than the average Walmart employee. Not knocking anyone I’m just saying that money is rough to come by and jobs are scarce as hell right now, this coming from someone who just spent three months making $14 an hour trying to find even a part time job. I literally have years of experience at restaurants and I couldn’t even get a call back from Taco Bell.

Cool, now McDonald’s workers make that and I have a kid on the way, my current opportunity is paying 85k a year and is work that I’ll likely kill myself doing. It doesn’t matter what I want cause the baby gotta eat so guess what, I’ve been looking for months to find something that will be liveable. Assuming you don’t have many responsibilities aside from you and your s/o, as well as it sounds like you have room mates, our situations are not the same.

Been looking for months, can attest there’s not many jobs for people who aren’t in dire straights

As someone who was raised in Pennsylvania…. Bring it on

Yeah no I’ve noticed the whole “education system failed” deal lmao. The inspection stickers here are definitely a little confusing, like does it mean that it was inspected in April of 21 or did it expire in April of 21… also forgot to mention my tags are from my old car (switched em over at the dmv) but I bought my current car in may of 22 and I already paid my tax when I bought and registered it did I not?

Lame as fuck

Fr? I’ve never renewed them before cause I’m 19 and got two year plates at 17 but they cost like 500 dollars it was fucking ridiculous

Fuck dude my tags are expired they aren’t temp but they did go out in may j only noticed em last month and don’t have the money for em

Wtf… the one on kearney is superior, in food quality and dining experience

Tbh that graffiti is how I was able to tell where it was