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