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Old 01-10-2019, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Bushmaster09 View Post
What high school you graduated from or your religion you come from is everything to them.
FACT. I dont get it either.
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Old 01-10-2019, 04:38 PM
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I would only add there is no culture here. If your into chain restaurants, strip malls, mega churches, and liquor stores....this place will be heaven for you. Otherwise dissapointment. Also the people here are very strange. What high school you graduated from or your religion you come from is everything to them. My neighbors stopped talking to me when I told them I wasn’t from here and didn’t have a clue about the high school they graduated from. It’s really weird!!!

What I said above excludes UPS folks. One of the main reasons I moved here was based on how nice the staff was to me. Just a warning, don’t let that fool you. This place isn’t the south and most people here are not pleasant and just plain weird. It’s really hard to explain, this is just a strange town that is mind numbing lame in so many ways.
Well... https://youtu.be/ZZvT2r828QY

All joking around aside, it has strong elements of a Deep South culture situated in a relatively small college town. You don’t get the diversity larger cities like Atlanta and Dallas get so it ends up being mostly nth local generation of white conservative Christians. Still, lots of non natives have moved in and made the town their home without too much issue, Salty being an example. Perhaps you just got a bad neighborhood? Perhaps not. Beauty of this job is you can literally live anywhere so there’s no real reason to live in base unless you can’t bear to be away from family for more than a few hours or as someone posted earlier, you have a family with special needs.

And it beats Memphis. So we have that going for us...
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Old 01-10-2019, 05:31 PM
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Not sure where Bushmaster lives, but my experience in SDF has been great. Lived in 2 houses in the last 10 years and all our neighbors have been extremely welcoming and friendly. ALso SDF has an outstanding restaurant scene. If you are only eating at fast food places, then you are not trying.
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Old 01-10-2019, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by FTv3 View Post
Don’t forget that even an affordable private school gets pricey when you have multiple kids... again, options are there but limited.

Other reasons I’ve heard:

Louisville is Isolated.

Travel is usually a 2 legger.

Lots of petty crime and drug issues.

All it has is a 30 sec horse race and a giant bat.

Allergies are bad*. This is true.

Not a cheap tax state.

It’s kentucky...

I suspect what the Guy was referring to was cultural issues.
Obviously, people’s taste in places to live varies widely. My wife and I have spent time in Kansas, Texas, Washington, Colorado, and California before I started at UPS. Prior to applying here, Louisville never figured in our discussions of where to live. However, after weighing the pros and cons, the benefits outweighed the costs. We lived close enough to Ontario to sit reserve in my home, but the high cost of living, traffic, crime, lousy schools, and pollution all pushed us out. We would have loved to live in Colorado, but we figured that we could afford to spend as much time on the slopes in Colorado living near Louisville as we could if we lived in Colorado. Long story short, by living near Louisville, my peak only involved working six days. Three of those were due to picking stuff up off the trip board. By living in southern Indiana we get access to better public schools and still have easy access to downtown Louisville. Unless you have a “need” to live in a major urban area or see the ocean/mountains from your deck every morning, commuting probably won’t beat living in Louisville. We did seriously discuss Anchorage, purely because we could have had mountains and ocean from our deck. YMMV
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Old 01-10-2019, 08:55 PM
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I thought this thread was about DFW
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Old 01-11-2019, 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Bushmaster09 View Post
...We moved from a major metropolitan city to SDF and it has been quite a culture shock. We realize now this place is not for us and we have to go. Be careful moving here.
Originally Posted by Bushmaster09 View Post
... I would only add there is no culture here. If your into chain restaurants, strip malls, mega churches, and liquor stores....this place will be heaven for you. Otherwise dissapointment . Also the people here are very strange. What high school you graduated from or your religion you come from is everything to them. My neighbors stopped talking to me when I told them I wasn’t from here and didn’t have a clue about the high school they graduated from. It’s really weird!!!

What I said above excludes UPS folks. One of the main reasons I moved here was based on how nice the staff was to me. Just a warning, don’t let that fool you. This place isn’t the south and most people here are not pleasant and just plain weird. It’s really hard to explain, this is just a strange town that is mind numbing lame in so many ways.

Wow, so your neighbors stopped talking to you because you didn’t know anything about their high school?!!?
Aren’t you precious...




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Old 01-11-2019, 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by navigatro View Post
1. Lived in 2 houses in the last 10 years and all our neighbors have been extremely welcoming and friendly.

2. ALso SDF has an outstanding restaurant scene.
1. Southern hospitality wears out pretty quickly if you don’t fit in.

2. Relatively speaking, it’s good for what it is.

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....by living near Louisville, my peak only involved working six days.
Not understanding what you’re getting at. I commute and didn’t work a day of peak. I’ve barely worked peak since I started.

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Wow, so your neighbors stopped talking to you because you didn’t know anything about their high school?!!?
Aren’t you precious...
A little condescending for you, no? Have you not experienced the pettiness and simple mindedness of small country town folk? I don’t doubt Bushmasters veracity.

I’m not a KY basher myself, just passing along the talking points I’ve heard on the line. For me and my family, we’re not from the area so the it was never a question for us given the benefit of commuting and the commuting skeds at brown. “But you could be home every night...?” Been there, done that at my previous gig - I don’t like reserve or day trips and wanted to fly international so even if we lived in SDF I’d be away just the same. And what’s to do in SDF when you’re home every day? I did choose a place with an easy commute to make my life easy and it seems pretty clear DFW would be one of those places too.
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Old 01-11-2019, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by FTv3 View Post
Not understanding what you’re getting at. I commute and didn’t work a day of peak. I’ve barely worked peak since I started.
So you don’t work between Thanksgiving and Christmas?

I need to come to your fleet.
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Originally Posted by Swedish Blender View Post
So you don’t work between Thanksgiving and Christmas?



I need to come to your fleet.


Truth!

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Old 01-11-2019, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by FTv3
And what’s to do in SDF when you’re home every day?

Other than ocean, desert and mountain-related activities...the same stuff you can do pretty much anywhere else in the United States?

SDF certainly isn’t for everybody (same as working for UPS) but it is rather amusing to see it accused of being some poor, boring, rude cultural backwater.

But hey, at least there are good options for those that choose to commute for WHATEVER the reason, along with diverse flying and domicile choices.
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