Agree. I recommend knowing your credit score before going to a dealership.

Salt Life

Yeah, I mostly report them when they are on secondary roads. I'd like to assume they patrol the major roads for issues.

Based on the location of the stadium, I'd say not many businesses benefit from it. Probably just the parking garage.

Oh, and making the thing into a giant shelter for the homeless would actually be a good use of public funds. We can centralize services for them, saving money while containing problems to a small area that is easily patrolled. The city as a whole would benefit. We could put in a small clinic and police office onsite as well. Provide onsite addiction treatment and counseling and mental healthcare. As well as permeant housing services and job assistance. A big part of the homeless not being able to get a job is employers' reluctance to hire anyone with no permanent address and hygiene issues. I know when I do interviews if you smell or are dirty, I do not care how good a resume you have I'm not hiring you.

Trust funds can spend funds on improvements. And you are making a supposition that Restaurants, hotels, shops et all actually significantly benefited from said stadium^(1). This is the same tired argument that keeps getting retreaded every time public funds are used to prop up private enterprise. If the stadium had been profitable then it could easily have gotten financing. Or the Cardinals could easily have ponied up to buy it themselves if it is that important to them. Their organization is worth how many billion??? ~20 million is barely even a drop in their net revenues.

1 Whaples, Robert. "Do Economists Agree on Anything? Yes!" Economists' Voice, 2006, 3(9), pp. 1-6.

I would say that whatever particular route you take might have more potholes. Have you reported any of them?

Pros: Bass Pro Shops

Cons: They don’t matter compared to the glory of Bass Pro Shops

The only thing that can be done is patch them with cold mix until the plants start making asphalt again...the cold mix holds for about a week if there's much temperature fluctuation

Yes an increase is understandable at this point in the season, but this just seems more excessive. I've lived here since 1997 and it just literally feels different driving to and from work.

The Stadium was in a Trust Fund, so no dollars being spent for improvements. And the tax dollars generated were not specifically from the Stadium... Restaurants, hotels, shops that benefited from the Stadium. So not necessarily a bail out ... If the Cardinals had moved the AA club... We would have another urban outdoors person's hangout, an eyesore with no future.

🤯 Full-Time job!!! 😁

There is multiple buy here pay here financing guaranteed as long as you have a job type places here in town. I used the one in Strafford about 15 years ago, they are good people.

That said paying off your debts will not negatively impact your credit rating (baring though bankruptcy). Depending on how they are structured it will even give a boost to your credit rating. So, I'm concluding that the story here is incomplete.

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There’s niche pockets. One of my coworkers used to know a poly couple. They exist. I don’t know where they are though, unfortunately.

It is more the freezing cycle of expansion and contraction of water after it has gotten into the road. Exasperated by cheap incomplete patch jobs, and inadequate funding for maintenace.

If it was that big of a tax generator (i.e. profitable) they would not have needed a public bail out.

It does seem like a bad year. I think the sub-zero temps were really hard on roads. Spring repairs don’t start until the cold temps are done.

My family and I moved here from KY. We looked at Nixa and Ozark (both have great school systems as well as Republic and Willard) but settled on south Springfield. From a teaching standpoint, I think it really varies school to school, but I am really impressed with the SPS superintendent and we have been very happy with the schools as parents. (I have kids from elementary to high school.) When looking for housing, I would recommend south Springfield or northeast if you’re staying in town. But a lot of people also really like living in the middle of town — the University Heights and Rountree subdivisions.

There are a lot of great restaurants— you can do a search on this subreddit and find some great recommendations. Greek Belly is one of our favorites. You’ll also hear people recommend Cafe Cusco but it took me 4 tries before I found something I liked there (the pork tacos, fYI). :)

Yeh the salt and plows are bad on the roads

Goodwill actually has decent plus sized clothing at times (on Kansas Expressway). Also, there’s a consignment store downtown called Next to New that is sometimes hit or miss, but when they are a hit, they have some really nice stuff in plus sizes.

This is the in-depth and nuanced analysis I’ve come to expect from this sub.

Lane Bryant is the best store I’ve come across in my opinion

They’re harbingers of spring…

Another tick in the heard bad things column, but I lived with them at Briarwood for 6 years, and am now at Lakewood Village and I haven’t had any issues other than poor communication when trying to move out at Briarwood. Other than that, it’s been fine. I do feel like they can be pricey depending on location, but that’s probably a universal issue. I’m paying $700 for a 1 bedroom that’s not updated on the south side.