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re: What’s it like Living in Iowa?
Posted on 10/11/26 at 2:20 pm to turnpiketiger
Posted on 10/11/26 at 2:20 pm to turnpiketiger
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Medical field
University of Iowa/Iowa City has a great cancer treatment center, as well as the Children’s Hospital and the university hospital. My former ortho completed his residency there.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 3:06 pm to GEAUXT
quote:all of this. The pork and beef are excellent. Food is simple but good
lived in Des Moines for 3 years. It's awesome. The people are extremely friendly (but not touchy-feely like the south). The wide open spaces and rolling hills are pretty. Winters are very cold, but it's not that bad. Hunting is great. They also have Kum and Go. Eta: Des Moines has some great restaurants The meat quality in the grocery is excellent.
The country folks are frugal, drive old tractors and old trucks, wear old clothes, live in old houses and put there farm money in big old bank accounts (not all of em but many)
Never spent time in the cities.
And if they drink…they drink a lot.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 3:18 pm to UtahCajun
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And most people are fat. Like really fat.
This. And wind farms. Lots of wind farms.
Flew all over the state twice.... Always dodging wind farms
This post was edited on 10/11/26 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 3:19 pm to dawginar
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Play golf with a retired guy who chose to move to Arkansas from Iowa from just driving thru to Texas.
He said he hated the weather.
Hasn't been fond of the 100 degree days last couple years either
Most outsiders eventually move back to where they came or a more temworate climate than the deep south/Texas. The heat does it to them.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 3:20 pm to andouille
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They had seen some movie where Cajuns were like the Viet Cong, sniping and killing strangers, they were scared to go out at night
Wiki link to Southern Comfort the movie
Released in 81, it was ok.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 3:22 pm to turnpiketiger
Nice enough if you avoid the cities
Posted on 10/11/26 at 7:38 pm to GEAUXT
Iowa City is cool.
Posted on 10/11/26 at 11:06 pm to turnpiketiger
My son graduated from ISU in 2020. We loved visiting several times a year while he was in Ames. Good, welcoming, nice folks. Only Courtyard I have ever stayed in where they didnt have 2 queen beds in a room ( all booked up), so they gave us 2 separate king rooms and 4 free drink coupons. Iowa nice is a thing!
This post was edited on 10/11/26 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 11:44 pm to roberma
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Only Courtyard I have ever stayed in where they didnt have 2 queen beds in a room ( all booked up), so they gave us 2 separate king rooms and 4 free drink coupons. Iowa nice is a thing!
Good lord, that means they weren't at full occupancy to get you an additional room.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 8:28 am to LSUShock
So Iowa is way colder than Kansas?
Posted on 10/12/26 at 8:58 am to turnpiketiger
I spent a summer in southern Minnesota and it was a totally different mindset and a lot of fun.
The roads are flat, gravel and laser straight and the run them at max speed. There were pig roasts and keggers every weekend. Several had jacked up trucks and would go mud bogging with them. And there seemed to be good money in farming because they all had newer trucks too.
The roads are flat, gravel and laser straight and the run them at max speed. There were pig roasts and keggers every weekend. Several had jacked up trucks and would go mud bogging with them. And there seemed to be good money in farming because they all had newer trucks too.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 9:05 am to cbree88
I would say it’s colder, but not way colder. It’s colder than central MO.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 9:20 am to turnpiketiger
I heard that it's pretty cold in the Winter.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 12:50 pm to cbree88
Significantly. For much longer and with much more snow.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:50 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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fried chicken that has no flavor.
Must be where Todd got his canes chicken recipe from
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