I also don’t know about cheap but my daughter takes drum lessons at Palen and they do guitar lessons too

I don't know what you consider cheap, but an excellent guitar instructor is Chris May of Maydash Music. I think he's very reasonable, my son has gone to him for years.

how the hell do you get into that?

Agreed on all points. There are quite a few people in Springfield working to bring about all of that stuff, and I hope it happens eventually. I know they recently allowed for parking minimums to be waived if there is a lot of on street parking available, which basically just helps downtown and Commercial Street, but I hope the idea takes off.

Heres the Cox Health link, but you may need to go through the Springfield Community Gardens volunteer links, worth an email.

https://www.coxhealth.com/farm/

I love on the N. side, there's pockets of crime all over, not just the N side. Jefferson has gotten worse, but there are also more people without homes, than 2 years ago. There are improvements being made in certain areas of the N. side, it takes time and $ to improve streets. Really, starting with Landlords.

I live 3 blocks north of commercial st off of Grant. I have had zero issues. I’ve walked all around when it’s dark and light out and still no issues. The Northside is nowhere near what people make it out to be.

we have highways and freeways literally around the city, it wouldn't really be worth the construction to build a freeway through town

Poverty isn’t the problem it’s bad parenting and mental illness stemming from childhood trauma and it’s a cycle. I’ve known MANY extraordinary people who lived in poverty for so many different reasons but their parents or caregivers parented well.. thus they grew up to be incredibly gifted, scholarly, artists etc. successful people. And many rich kids who were dealing drugs, going to prison, committing terrible acts and yet we think this is still about money..

Thank you for your compassion, that’s needed deeply. People don’t like me saying this because there’s not an immediate solution but crime comes down to mental illness and childhood trauma whether or not it produces effects we dislike. The least we can do is count our blessings for our body mind and spirit that allows us to be blessed and help ourselves or others.

Aren’t lights usually timed to a safe speed for the stretch of road? I’ve definitely driven from chestnut to republic rd on Glenstone and hit every damn light. I’m not an aggro driver, though…

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Nah, it’s a nice area. Most people think of division and grant beach when they think of north side

Same here. I have great neighbors and we all keep an eye out for one another. There are rough streets here and there on the north side but it isn’t the horror story that south siders think it is. Plus, my mortgage is less than most people’s car payments.

Second this…their warranty covers any repairs or even if you need to exchange it. We had issues with a washing machine we bought and they ended up letting us exchange it. Great service.

Yes--sort of.

When I first moved here, I found it pretty annoying that it was so difficult to get around town and that it was especially time-consuming to get downtown if you didn't live very close to downtown. Downtown also seemed a relatively empty shell that wasn't living up to its potential in part because it's so hard to access from the areas most people live. The big traffic-clogged arterials lined with endless soulless strip malls seemed worse here than anywhere else I'd lived.

In part because of the poor infrastructure here, I got interested in urban planning and have spent quite a bit of time learning about and analyzing the development of car-centric cities (like ones common in the US) and pedestrian-centric cities (like ones common in most of the rest of the world).

Springfield misses the mark on both, though. It's an incredibly car-dependent city, but the lack of access to the core of the city by car keeps downtown from thriving. At the same time, it's far too car-dependent and spread out to allow downtown to thrive organically from people who live nearby and would patronize businesses there. As well, while the region is starting to put in a little bit of bike-friendly infrastructure, the few disconnected bike trails and the existence of the Link really don't do much to promote cycling as a feasible way to get around our spread-out city.

Although I personally think that Springfield would do well to remove restrictions that currently prevent the market from filling the demand for building walkable neighborhoods (e.g. allowing denser "missing middle" housing and intermixing commercial and residential [both currently against zoning laws], removing current ordinances that require setbacks and parking minimums [which make it illegal for developers to build homes or businesses close enough together to allow people to feasibly choose to live car-free], etc.) and allowing vibrant, lively communities that don't require driving everywhere, if Springfield is going to embrace car-dependency instead, the current infrastructure really doesn't fill those needs, either.

I've lived on both sides. Northside doesn't get credit for the neighborhood a few blocks north of Drury. They also have an abundance of $250k+ homes north of Norton. Meanwhile southsiders keep mum about the property crime that happens on the Golden ave corridor between Walnut lawn and Republic road

Dude, “you’re a weird bootlicker” and “let’s ban this person from speaking ever anywhere” aren’t remotely the same, ffs.

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I literally have a job now I’m no longer searching I have a great opportunity that I’d be an idiot to turn down. It’s not good work, but it pays damn good.

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Chomsky sucks

Well it's kind of a double-edged sword because I can reveal this and they don't give a fuck because this is a lower paid employee saying that not a high no ranking corporate disclosing things to a competitor.

I documented phone numbers and everything else and just due to the nature of the harassment I was fairly isolated at that store so knowing names and people is going to be pretty hard because I didn't even know anybody on a first name basis even other than the employees I've worked with.

WM is synonymous with poor taste low quality and low class. Everything about that store is I don't give a fuck we're a national institution we aren't going anywhere and you have no choice most of the time.