Posted on 01/03/2012 10:12:19 AM PST by thescourged1
Is Thai food available in Sioux Falls ?
Avoid it if you can. Bunch of inbreds with nothing to do out there.
Grew up just north of there, went to college in Brookings, SD.
Think you know what ‘cold’ is? You are in for a surprise.
South Dakota is great for hunting, fishing, growing misquitoes just ‘that’ much smaller than Minnesota. 9 months of Winter, and 3 months of poor sledding. No state income tax, and a culture that is largely based on agriculture. Primarily German/Norwegion - at least it was when there 25+ years ago.
The culture may have changed - but the weather likely hasn’t.
We were there for the downtown Thanksgiving parade. Christmas lights were on everything and they had hot air balloon lauchers in the parade to heat the crowd up.
You could find work in SF, but live in NW Iowa... those 4 counties in the NW corner of Iowa are THE most conservative in the state.
So Dak is a great family state. Would prefer to live there myself.
There are difference west -v- east, divided by roughly divided by the Missouri river. farmers in the east, ranchers in the west both of which think their part of the state is the best.
Hunter?...great bird hunting (east)...great antelope hunting (west)
Most important...great people
bring thermal undies.
Coco Palace
2530 S Louise Ave, Sioux Falls
Would you please quit trying to get people to come to Colorado!?!?!? I like it just the way it is.
I think a big tell would be gun laws. How are they and more importantly, how ‘vigorously’ are they enforced?
I’s suggest you focus less on politics and more on lifestyle and climate.
The climate is a given. The politics dictate a great deal of the lifestyle anywhere. Key word is ‘dictate’.
“Cold” tends to keep the riff raff out.
Right, Bill?
I did hear that there are jobs opening up in the oil drilling industry in the Dakotas. My brother-in-law was a rough neck in No Dak for several years. Tough work and they often had to pile in a SUV and drive 100+ miles to the job site. But it paid well. And yes, it gets cold. I went there to help him move back to Washington, and I was wondering why all the cars had electrical plugs out the front grill. Plugging in your car was the only way to have it survive the cold nights.
Many years ago I dropped by a gun shop in Maryland and just out of curiosity I asked whether Maryland issued concealed carry permits. After the clerk stopped laughing, he said, “Yes, they do, but just try to get one.” The state has not changed since then.
Oh, yeah. My old realtor kept a separate, private set of listings that he called the "Broken Dreams" listings. All out-of-staters who didn't last past the first winter. All with dwellings of one sort or another, from broken-down trailers to - I swear I'm not making this up - a "berm" house that was really a cave dug into a hill by a small California "back to nature" commune. That one he showed to me. Bears are better housekeepers.
Folks, it's real. If your neighbors all have large, 4WD pickups and snowmobiles, it might be not because they're rednecks who watch too much TV, but because they know something you don't. And on a more general principle, if you want to be happy, don't move from something, move to something. Personally I love looking at eagles circling a frozen lake - spent the last week doing so - but it's cold up here and heat moves up in priority with water and food and they all cost. Trust me.
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