Free land, but bring your own job (in the great state of Kansas)

KUSA 9News website ^ | May 3rd, 2005 | Demetria Gallegos & Gregg Moss

[heckler]

Winfield is a beautifull town, wouldnt mind living there myself, I know a few who commute to Wichita to work. They just voted to allow liquor sales in town for the first time in about 50 years.

[Non-Sequitur]

Only after a ride in a tornado. Just wait a few minutes and you'll see.

This is Kansas. Our tornados deliver people to a different destination...somewhere over the rainbow...way up high...where troubles melt like lemon drops...high above the chimney tops...

[Hardastarboard]

Reminds me of the song lyrics to "Levelland" by Bob Mould (raised in Nebraska and quickly got the hell out of there):

Flatter than a table top; Makes you wonder why they'd stop here. In the great migration west, separated from the rest; They tried their very best, but they never caught the sun.

Great song.

[DaveMSmith]

My family is in Winfield. Folks there are wonderful.

I'm currently on disability which from all indications may retire me.... that's why the move. I'd rather retire in KS than the East Coast.

I heard about the liquor sales... my wife will be happy - she won't have to run to Ark City for Ma's occasional 6 pack.

[sgtbono2002]

100'X 130' isnt quite a big enough lot for me, I have no interest in waking up in a house so close to my neighbor I can see into his house. "Give me 40 acres and I will turn this rig around." Its a good song and makes good neighbors.

[ajolympian2004]

Jon Sinclair, an elite distance runner from here in Ft. Collins, still holds the record for the annual 10 mile road race (around the lake) in Atwood (set in 1991). Many elite runners show up in Atwood each year for this race which has been held like 34 straight years.

http://www.lakeatwoodtenmile.com/

[Mustng959]

~ticket doing 90 in that stretch of nowhere...I did.~

Me too. Back when the speed limit was still 55 (around 1980 or so), I got stopped for doing 65 in west Kansas on the interstate. Cost about $75 then. The officer was proud of himself and told me that he knew I had a radar detector and a CB radio so he stayed a mile behind me and clocked me with mile markers. I was traveling between bases then and kept my Air Force blues (complete with Security Police badge) in full view hanging behind me.....lot of good it did! Last ticket I ever got (knocking on my wood desk as I speak).

[Bear_Slayer]

I have no idea what "...marry a local woman, then plow..." refers to in the context as you quoted.

Apparently you are not already married.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

(I do not see a population number on their website, but I think it's like 1700+)

In Western Kansas that is a big city!

[LibertarianInExile]

I've gotten three tickets, and NONE was anything where I could have spotted the cops. All were either coming the OTHER direction or shooting from a hidden stationary position and radioing ahead to pull over cars.

I hate it when that happens.

Now, I respect timing cops. At least they show you they're thinking. I'm hopefully done with tickets myself (jinx jinx jinx) having gotten my last one in 2001.

[loreldan]

Speed limits here in Colorado are 75 mph - from the Kansas border to Denver is about 200 miles.

[rdb3]

I've been to Dodge City, KS. It was enjoyable, yet it felt as though I stepped back in time. Bat Masterson. Wyatt Earp. Boot Hill. Beef, and lots of it.

[bboop]

But ... the first Boot Hill was in Hays, Kansas. Must never forget.

[SoDak]

Working with the bank.