So are we OK with rural Iowa being almost uninhabitable so urban areas can have cheaper bacon?

[Tenacious E]

All those things are available to people in the smaller towns. Many of the smaller towns in the regional areas of the city are bedroom towns and hold their own.

The High Trestle Trail is not in Des Moines BTW...its near Woodward or Madrid.

The original dig was anything west of 380 is trash. The follow up dig was what is great about Des Moines it is boring. My responses were to refer to the Des Moines metro, which is great. We don’t live is Des Moines proper either we live in ankeny. But actual Des Moines residents and ankeny residents enjoy the fruits of both and I don’t think I’m alone that I think of myself for Des Moines even though I live I ankeny. It is like when I lived in Lexington, MA. Obviously a suburb or satellite city of Boston. If someone said Boston is boring and I pointed out the many awesome things in Boston proper that can be enjoyed by cities like Lexington, that doesn’t mean Boston isn’t awesome. It also doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t include great things in Lexington in a claim that Boston is great because I mean the Boston metro is great.

 

[HallofFame]

Sorry the truth hurts.

The culturally elite populate the eastern side of Iowa

That's the spirit. Always remember that you are better than the people of Western Iowa.

 

[whatsup13579er]

I used to power wash hog confinements during high school. Not many jobs would pay a high school kid $20-$30 an hour 15 years ago (min wage was $5.15). The health impacts of a confinement over 1/2 mile away in this article are laughable. The dust from general farming activities would be much more destructive to an elderly persons breathing than the hog confinement.

 

[Pinehawk]

Why do you think they had to pay you that much?

 

[hawkssox1]

Trick question. Rural Iowa is already uninhabitable.

Says a guy who lives in a shithole like New Jersey.

 

[Rose bowl or bust]

Why do you think they had to pay you that much?

Because it's fricking exhausting...not many people want to work that hard.

And I agree with @whatsup13579er those "problems" are hilarious from over a half mile away. You wouldn't even smell the confinement at that distance but once or twice a year.

 

[Pinehawk]

Because it's fricking exhausting...not many people want to work that hard.

And I agree with @whatsup13579er those "problems" are hilarious from over a half mile away. You wouldn't even smell the confinement at that distance but once or twice a year.

Power washing pig crap is so hard it's worth 6x minimum wage?

No, it's because people don't want to work in that unhealthy environment and they need to pay a premium to get the work done.

 

[ft254]

Stand on my land, or sit on my deck and you get a nice view, fresh air, peace and quiet. No problems with sound or odor pollution until I have to drive back to town.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Western Iowa = trash.

How far west we talking?

Everything touching Nebraska?

 

[artradley]

Says a guy who lives in a shithole like New Jersey.

Have you lived in New Jersey?

 

[hydro2.0]

How far west we talking?

Everything touching Nebraska?

West of Des Moines

 

[ottumwan in tx]

atlantic is nice, and it's west

 

[hawkssox1]

Have you lived in New Jersey?

Been there more times than I would like flew into Teteboro 15-20 times a year.

 

[whatsup13579er]

Why do you think they had to pay you that much?

The same reason you can make $20-$30-$40 an hour working other manual labor jobs.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

West of Des Moines

Try again.

 

[hydro2.0]

Try again.

Nope

 

[Pinehawk]

The same reason you can make $20-$30-$40 an hour working other manual labor jobs.

Right. Because few are willing to do it.

 

[lucas80]

And what did Democrats accomplish on this when in office?

Apparently they kept a lid on things, that's why there has been such a rush to relax regulations.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Nope

Well your generalized area was inaccurate, so if you want to live with inaccuracy, then that's your problem to deal with.