I live on Walnut and we love it. It is close enough to walk to the things we enjoy downtown.

We bought way more house for the money than we could get elsewhere with a big lot. The house is an early 1900s house with tons of character that was lovingly remodeled.

There is a lot of pedestrian traffic. We had a porch pirate problem so we built a picket fence and that has resolved that.

There are pockets that are way worse. But as previously mentioned the Grant Avenue parkway is going to be a big deal.

There is a house near me that needs to be torn town and I’ve been a part of that process. It is moving forward for demo soon* and I am hopeful about it.

I’ve lived on WC at various addresses for about 7 years now. It’s gotten better for sure. I live on S Campbell and have had plants stolen off my porch, and one time someone ditched a stolen car in my driveway lol

I'm the same way. I used to love stopping at Slice of Pie anytime I was in Rolla until the day I went in and the owner went on a rant in front of his employees and customers about how he shouldn't have to pay minimum wage because he could train a monkey to do their jobs.

Of course. I’m all for supporting locally owned businesses, but not one’s that treat their employees terribly.

Do you have any cross streets? Everything varies street to street almost on this side of town. Edit: remove something

The shield one! I'm not even crafty and mine turned out great!

I would also love to know what everyone thinks about the actual Westside if anyone has any opinions about that area

Wow, thanks for the info. I'm somehow not surprised by any of that.

They refuse to pay overtime by citing “exemption” because all employees are classified as part-time and seasonal, which is just a huge labor law violation.

If you take off more than 4 days in a row between March and October then you are automatically fired, even if all shifts are covered and you are not needed. I had a coworker who had to go out of state for a funeral and they fired them because they couldn’t get a flight back soon enough.

They say that they are pro conservation, but have completely destroyed that cave and any potential habit that it would have had.

Make their employees work in flooded and dangerous conditions inside the cave.

The granddaughter of the owners is a manager and is a major bitch and yells at everyone, even if they did nothing wrong.

And also they have never hired a non-white employee ever. I watched many apply and all were rejected because they didn’t fit the “Ozarks” look.

I live in west central now, other than an occasional random cutting through my backyard it's been OK, but I adjusted my fence, I have a garage and I have motion detection flood light cameras.

I accidentally left my garage open and nobody took anything, so each their own.

Yes. At route 66 dispensary when you walk in through the first set of doors.

Neighborhood is on the up. While I live off Grant - we do get noise from downtown (sirens, pedestrians, etc). There are some less attractive houses and properties that continue to be neglected or downright abandoned, but a lot of the previous slum-lord like property owners have lately off loaded or entirely sold. Some have cleaned up very nicely. This has gone with some tax breaks offered along with the next section below:

Grant Avenue parkway, bike path and shopping plans have provided a vision for the neighborhood to continue improving and increasing in value. Downtown has been expanding and touches the neighborhood. The biggest sign was the Kum and Go on Grant and Mount Vernon closing. So all that said, I’m sure other property management and large scale owners have come in where the previous ones left - only they are doing some massive renovations on some.

I actually have grown to like it over the past 5 years a lot. There’s a neighborhood group on Facebook that organizes events and cleanups etc

I’m an NG employee and I also miss Lucky’s. They were so cool, I remember their ramen/sushi bar so distinctly. Unfortunately, Kroger (who own’s Lucky’s) shut down basically all of their stores save for a couple in Florida IIRC. NG doesn’t have that type of stuff, but we sell exclusively organic produce and some really good stuff at great prices. I hear a lot of complaints about prices being high, yet most products we sell are more pricey at Walmart. I genuinely respect where I work for making prices not super unreasonable for the average joe, especially being a health food store. There’s a natural grocers store brand that is tbh awesome and really cheap.

Oof I hate when it’s just spice for spice and doesn’t have any flavor.

I tried hot cluckers once. I can’t do chicken that ain’t got no seasoning. There wasn’t no garlic powder no onion powder no paprika I don’t even think they put no salt on them damn things. Lol but being dead ass serious. Bland chicken. Hot isn’t a seasoning

Well that’s good to know. I’ll have to look back into them, then. Thanks for the info!

Fortunately I’d never tried either of those places so couldn’t say from personal experience. In hindsight glad you have never supported them

Neither is Hot Cluckers or Bourbon and Beale. Both owned by him as well as Taco Habitat

Currently living in WC and I have lots of unsolicited people going through my garbage. I’ve had to go out and yell a few times. The worst thing that has happened is someone hitting my mailbox (?) not sure why, but whatever. On the flip side, I have left open my garage during the night (by accident) with tools, a challenger, and other items and nothing was out of place. It’s hit or miss for sure but summer you should expect more activity to happen from side walkers.

I would definitely like more details on this one

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The doctor travels down here from STL. I scheduled mine about two months in advance, but I think the doctor is here more often now. This was in the last quarter of 2022 I had mine done.

Noooo let's cry together!?

I lived in WC and wouldn’t go back. I moved out in a hurry after my security system picked up someone in our back yard looking through our windows while holding a gun.

Before that I had tons of trouble with property crime but nothing that made us feel unsafe, just that we couldn’t own anything nice that we didn’t want stolen.

I hope you're right, but the White River website still shows him as the owner.