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Boner Zone posted:very cosmopolitan, and 82% white Actually 72% which is much lower than the rest of the state. Des Moines is a Mecca of good.
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Pittsburgh is legit p good now. Kinda Northeast more than midwest though idk. Probably better than Des Moines. Maybe not as good as minneapolis.
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BigBoss posted:I went to Des Moines once. It wasn't bad. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad. Pretty much this. It's probably the best city in the Iowa/Nebraska/Kansas shitbucket zone. Also, gently caress Nebraska.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:17
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Actually Austin is
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Jastiger posted:Actually 72% which is much lower than the rest of the state. Des Moines is a Mecca of good. lmao
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Giblet Plus! posted:agreed twin cities are the best cities They said Minneapolis, not twin cities, nub.
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Battery Joe posted:Pittsburgh is legit p good now. Kinda Northeast more than midwest though idk. Probably better than Des Moines. Maybe not as good as minneapolis. Lol Pittsburgh. Enjoy your 1920s era house burning down due to lovely fire codes and poor maintenance. Oh? All the jobs are blue collar that pay like $20K max? Pfffft. Actually Pitt probably isn't that bad, but its a lot harder to get ahead there than in Glorious Des Moines.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:18
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St Paul is like De Moines boring, it kind of sucks. Okay for a suburb tho.
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Bip Roberts posted:They said Minneapolis, not twin cities, nub. yeah st paul sucks
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Apr 25, 2015 18:19
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It takes two cities in MN to equal Des Moines, and Des Moines still comes out on top. Not saying Minneapolis is bad, it isn't. Its probably the second best city in the midwest AFTER Des Moines.
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Jastiger posted:Lol Pittsburgh. Enjoy your 1920s era house burning down due to lovely fire codes and poor maintenance. Oh? All the jobs are blue collar that pay like $20K max? Pfffft. You are absolutely right about the houses. Houses burn down like every week in my neighborhood/surrounding neighborhoods. I think we have a lot of Arson also, though.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:20
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bradzilla posted:yeah I definitely wanna move to a place that's going to be flooded in 20 years I too believe you should spend your youth in a meth soaked cultureless wasteland based off of the effects of climate change decades in the future
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Apr 25, 2015 18:27
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Concerned Citizen posted:des moines is a pretty nice place to live, and zombie burger does own. that's all you can really say about it. imo iowa city is superior though
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Apr 25, 2015 18:28
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gently caress YOU OP, Iowa City is the best... Iowa... City. Most arsons per capita. Pretty soon, anyway. 
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Apr 25, 2015 18:29
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Des Moines has like +50 against flooding. It doesn't happen here. Ames and Iowa City and Cedar Rapids on the other hand....
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Apr 25, 2015 18:31
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Waterloo is better than Des Moines
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Apr 25, 2015 18:31
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The restaurant pride of Des Moines is a gimmick hamburger shack, a regular hamburger shack, a gimmick pizzeria, and a Thai place whose website doesn't work.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:32
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all good thai places have no website
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Apr 25, 2015 18:33
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i went to zombie burger and got the "coming to get you barbara," which is described as thus:quote:‘two grilled-cheese-sandwich’ bun, American cheese, i wasn't sure what "two grilled-cheese-sandwich bun" was, i assumed it was like maybe a different kind of bread and some extra cheese. nope, it's literally two grilled cheese sandwiches used as buns. it was really good and probably took at least a year off of my life. 5/5 would recommend
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Apr 25, 2015 18:37
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Minneapolis has buildings that look like boobs, but you can't see them from the highway because you're dodging other cars since drivers licenses are handed out when they find you in the dumpster as a baby after prom. Ames sucks because it wants to have a real school soooo bad in the middle of a bunch of lovely redneck oasis'. Also the teens there drive to Minneapolis in their camoflage tux'/gowns for their prom. Minneapolis blows. Austin is in Texas so thats like 10 strikes against it right there. Nebraska is literally hell. Kansas and Oklahoma have justly incurred a diety's wrath for incestuous retards breeding and are nearly wiped from the map twice a year. You can pronounce "Missourri" as "misery" and not be wrong. Fun Iowa fact: The Governor of Iowa's son killed people driving drunk as a teen and was pardoned before the next morning. He felt really bad about it so it's totally okay.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:38
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I fixed the Thai restaurant website. Its true about the Governor. He's done some shady rear end poo poo. As far as Republicans go, he's not that bad, but he's still a shitlord when it comes to stuff like that.
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Hobohemian posted:The restaurant pride of Des Moines is a gimmick hamburger shack, a regular hamburger shack, a gimmick pizzeria, and a Thai place whose website doesn't work. There are also French, Spanish, and Bosnian restaurants here that kick total rear end. Good steak houses and the Iowa Machine Shed for some good ol' hometown eatin'. Go back to your McDonalds, scrub.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:43
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Origin posted:As a Midwestern city, you have failed to comment on how good is the hotdish? Well, how good is it? It's called a casserole you loving heathen gently caress
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Apr 25, 2015 18:44
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As someone who grew up in Des Moines, it's actually total trash compared to both Minneapolis/St. Paul and Chicago.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:46
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I'm moving to Des Moines next year so I went up recently to make sure the place was okay & I wasn't going to want to kill myself when I got there and it was a totally acceptable, typical midwestern city & I think I will be perfectly happy living there, hopefully, I guess, I don't know. I did find it weird how genuinely nice everyone seemed and also how people living in Des Moines all seem really into living in Des Moines. A friend took me into a shop that was basically a tourist shop full of Des Moines stuff for people who live in Des Moines. A few times I got the feeling that Des Moines might actually be an elaborate multi-level marketing scam that I was getting the hard sell on.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:46
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The Iowa legislature is pushing a bill to force women to view their baby's ultrasound prior to an abortion, while the school funding bill languishes. Oh and their working to make fireworks legal. Whoop
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Hobohemian posted:The restaurant pride of Des Moines is a gimmick hamburger shack, a regular hamburger shack, a gimmick pizzeria, and a Thai place whose website doesn't work. Des Moines lol
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of course midwest people would appropriate other cultures since their culture is pretty boring TheJoker138 posted:As someone who grew up in Des Moines, it's actually total trash compared to both Minneapolis/St. Paul and Chicago. doesn't even have a subway/light rail system like a real city
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Iowa has the most culture in the entire United States. UNESCO's City of Literature: ==================================== Edinburgh, Scotland (2004) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (2008) Iowa City, Iowa, United States (2008) Dublin, Ireland (2010) Reykjavík, Iceland (2011)[3] Norwich, England (2012) Kraków, Poland (2013) Heidelberg, Germany (2014) Dunedin, New Zealand (2014) [4] Granada, Spain (2014) Prague, Czech Republic (2014) If you don't live in Iowa, you are of no literary significance. Enjoy never winning a Pulitzer Prize after graduating from Cornell, you east coast slobs. As we all know, Robert Wilson first performed Deafman Glance in Iowa City, you might as well watch your lame off-broadway uncouth performances of bourgeois tools of hegemony while feeding from the breast of the spectacle.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:49
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I live in DSM and it sucks and is bad. Take that OP.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:49
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i used to think fireworks should be legal, until i was in providence for the 4th of july and the entire city was covered in a thick layer of smoke. then i decided fireworks are bad and no one should have them
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Apr 25, 2015 18:51
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I live in the south where the 2 weeks before & after the 4th of July all your neighbors are just straight up shooting mini-nukes in the street from dusk to dawn.
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Trixie Hardcore posted:I'm moving to Des Moines next year so I went up recently to make sure the place was okay & I wasn't going to want to kill myself when I got there and it was a totally acceptable, typical midwestern city & I think I will be perfectly happy living there, hopefully, I guess, I don't know. I did find it weird how genuinely nice everyone seemed and also how people living in Des Moines all seem really into living in Des Moines. A friend took me into a shop that was basically a tourist shop full of Des Moines stuff for people who live in Des Moines. A few times I got the feeling that Des Moines might actually be an elaborate multi-level marketing scam that I was getting the hard sell on. You're going to love it. Its safe, and chill, and you don't have to worry about any of the bullshit that comes from those other huge cities. There is plenty to do and you can do it on the cheap. Darth123123 posted:The Iowa legislature is pushing a bill to force women to view their baby's ultrasound prior to an abortion, while the school funding bill languishes. Oh and their working to make fireworks legal. Whoop This is actually true. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City are literally the only things keeping the legislation from becoming more South-like its kinda scary. The good news is the next elections are during a presidential election year so we'll probably see some good progress in that congressional make up. Concerned Citizen posted:i used to think fireworks should be legal, until i was in providence for the 4th of july and the entire city was covered in a thick layer of smoke. then i decided fireworks are bad and no one should have them gently caress fireworks. I went to Kansas to see my in laws and they dropped like $300 on fireworks one year for the 4th. I mean yay fun, but god drat, you'd get more use out of like a pS4 or an amusement park or some thing that literally doesn't explode when used properly. And they are dangerous as hell and I KNOW I'm gonna have to clean that poo poo up off my lawn this year. drat kids. coldplay chiptunes posted:I live in DSM and it sucks and is bad. Take that OP. Proof. My mastercraft OP debunks this post before it happens. That place is fun as hell. They have mixed drinks bigger than your head for cheap.
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Apr 25, 2015 19:15
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des moines, washington is probably better also thanks for steve king jerks
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Trixie Hardcore posted:I'm moving to Des Moines next year so I went up recently to make sure the place was okay & I wasn't going to want to kill myself when I got there and it was a totally acceptable, typical midwestern city & I think I will be perfectly happy living there, hopefully, I guess, I don't know. I did find it weird how genuinely nice everyone seemed and also how people living in Des Moines all seem really into living in Des Moines. A friend took me into a shop that was basically a tourist shop full of Des Moines stuff for people who live in Des Moines. A few times I got the feeling that Des Moines might actually be an elaborate multi-level marketing scam that I was getting the hard sell on. i laughed at that and then i remembered that i live in alabama, and we have fucktons of stores dedicated to selling auburn or alabama gear also i remembered that i live in alabama and gently caress alabama
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Apr 25, 2015 20:10
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Warning: minority spotted second row, third over. Multi culture enforced.
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People who convince themselves that Austin is actually good are hilarious. I'd rather take my chances living homeless, naked and armed only with a knife in the hill country than live in Austin lol
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Apr 25, 2015 20:50
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Go tend to your crops before they whither, loser.
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Shinjobi posted:People who convince themselves that Austin is actually good are hilarious. I'd rather take my chances living homeless, naked and armed only with a knife in the hill country than live in Austin lol LA traffic, Alabama weather, San Fransisco homeless, and Brooklyn hipsters. It's like the best from around the country scrunched into the heart of Texas.
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Yo I teach in Waukee (a suburb of Des Moines) and literally every classroom, in every school, has like 3 Indian kids. Like I don't know what the demographics say, but apparently the Des Moines suburbs are a hotspot for Indian immigrants. Maybe someone hung fliers up in india? I dunno.
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