I ain't diggin' on Iowa

[uptown]

I have to rant for a minute. Living here in Iowa I feel like George Clooney trying to find some Dapper Dan hair jell! I absolutely hate living in Iowa. Everytime I need or wanted something, it's 4 to 7 days away or a 2 hour drive.

I'm trying to finish putting up the marble in the bathroom but can't find a rod saw blade anywhere around here. The guy @ the hardware store hasn't even heard of a rod saw.  I need the blade to cut the holes for the bath fixtures. I've been to or called a dozen places around here and no one carries them.

Same crap when I was shopping for a old school Onkyo stereo system. Closest dealers are 4 hours away  I'm in hell!  This is just two examples. It's the same story for other things here as well.... good entertainment and employment are no where to be found. I'd move back home (Gloucester, Va.) if it wasn't for the wife and kids. This is where they're from and they don't want to move. 

I grew up in a place where there was always something to do and you could get anything you needed. Everything was right there. Hardware stores that had stuff, seafood out the backdoor, Nascar tracks, NASA, the Shipyard, Airforce, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, and Army bases. Revolutionary War and Civil War battle fields, mountains, farmland and the ocean.

Now I feel like I been dropped in a cornfield and all they have is pork loins, corn on the cob and beer.  I like those things too...but damn. I'd like to finish this bathroom, get some CatDaddy shine and watch the ships go by today, instead of watching mortar dry in corn country. I miss home. I ain't diggin' on Iowa.

End of whiney rant. I'm going to get some beer. 

[VonMessa]

I have to rant for a minute. Living here in Iowa I feel like George Clooney trying to find some Dapper Dan hair jell! I absolutely hate living in Iowa. Everytime I need or wanted something, it's 4 to 7 days away or a 2 hour drive.

I'm trying to finish putting up the marble in the bathroom but can't find a rod saw blade anywhere around here. The guy @ the hardware store hasn't even heard of a rod saw.  I need the blade to cut the holes for the bath fixtures. I've been to or called a dozen places around here and no one carries them.

Same crap when I was shopping for a old school Onkyo stereo system. Closest dealers are 4 hours away  I'm in hell!  This is just two examples. It's the same story for other things here as well.... good entertainment and employment are no where to be found. I'd move back home (Gloucester, Va.) if it wasn't for the wife and kids. This is where they're from and they don't want to move. 

I grew up in a place where there was always something to do and you could get anything you needed. Everything was right there. Hardware stores that had stuff, seafood out the backdoor, Nascar tracks, NASA, the Shipyard, Airforce, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, and Army bases. Revolutionary War and Civil War battle fields, mountains, farmland and the ocean.

Now I feel like I been dropped in a cornfield and all they have is pork loins, corn on the cob and beer.  I like those things too...but damn. I'd like to finish this bathroom, get some CatDaddy shine and watch the ships go by today, instead of watching mortar dry in corn country. I miss home. I ain't diggin' on Iowa.

End of whiney rant. I'm going to get some beer. 

Well, I bet that there is plenty of that in Iowa 

[Slate]

  I feel for you, and wish to leave the place I grew up (New Jersey) but family is here. Not as Bad as Iowa for sure. I love the Seafood here, the Ocean, the Marshland,and the hardware store. Just too much city and you can't go in the woods anymore for fear of getting a trespass ticket in the Government's "enviroment sensitive areas. Same Pine Needles I walked on as a kid doesn't look any different to me. 
   You can't get a Hole saw for tile? The rod saws are much harder to use I would think. 

[jeep00]

When you had to go out of the state to use the internet why didn't you pick these things up?

Bob

[xbrit]

Just drive down to Quincy and we can whine about it over coffee.

[morfiend]

   
   You can't get a Hole saw for tile? The rod saws are much harder to use I would think. 
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 I agree a good bimetal hole saw would do the job much easier and quicker,if it's real marble stone{not the manmade poured stuff} us some soap and water to lubricate the saw!


   

[AAJagerX]

Uptown, you're just in the wrong part of Iowa.  Des Moines is easily the best town I've ever lived in, and I've been all over the place.  Easy job market, reasonable housing prices, low crime rate, great entertainment, etc.  You'd go to friggin Virginia???  You're nuts dude.

[curry1]

I like Iowa, have a lot of family there.  Only problem is that there is nothing to do.  Which is fine if that is what I am looking for.

Also don't come to Virginia.  It sucks here.

[AAJagerX]

I like Iowa, have a lot of family there.  Only problem is that there is nothing to do.  Which is fine if that is what I am looking for.

Also don't come to Virginia.  It sucks here.

Nothing to do?  Like Uptown, you must be visiting the wrong places.

[VonMessa]

  I feel for you, and wish to leave the place I grew up (New Jersey) but family is here. Not as Bad as Iowa for sure. I love the Seafood here, the Ocean, the Marshland,and the hardware store. Just too much city and you can't go in the woods anymore for fear of getting a trespass ticket in the Government's "enviroment sensitive areas. Same Pine Needles I walked on as a kid doesn't look any different to me. 
   You can't get a Hole saw for tile? The rod saws are much harder to use I would think. 

Well, others have ruined this for us...

I go to Wharton every year in the fall for a trail ride/clean-up day.  Someone brings an "off-road" trailer and we pick up trash as we go.

Last year, there was more trash at the bottom of the fire tower on Apple Pie Hill than my family generates in a year!

All of it from d-bags climbing up the tower and dropping stuff off of it into the puddle at the bottom.  TV's, computers, microwaves, you name it and it was in there.  It was horrendous.  That is the kind of stuff that pisses off the Pineys and prompts them to lobby the government about the area.  I have also seen examples of them being more aggressive than that such as driving 16d nails through boards and placing them in the mud-holes, point sticking up 

It's a shame that some can ruin it for everyone else...

[curry1]

Nothing to do?  Like Uptown, you must be visiting the wrong places.

Waverly Iowa.  Represent

List of things to do.

1. Stare at Corn Field
2. Stare at Soybean Field next to Corn Field
3. Shoot stuff
4. Drink (remember shoot before drinking)

[cattb]

Must be out in the middle of Iowa in the flat land someplace.

[cattb]

Waverly Iowa.  Represent

List of things to do.

1. Stare at Corn Field
2. Stare at Soybean Field next to Corn Field
3. Shoot stuff
4. Drink (remember shoot before drinking)

 Waverly has Terex plant and river near by...go fishing and drinking and watch the corn grow..................

[kilo2]

Drove through Iowa once. Did not look like an exciting place.

I prefer hill country.

[curry1]

Waverly has Terex plant and river near by...go fishing and drinking and watch the corn grow..................)

Lol that it does, I have gone fishing many a time on the Cedar River.