All adults age 21 and older, regardless of where they're from, will be able to purchase and enjoy recreational marijuana. It's pretty similar to purchasing alcohol.

we watch them at home lol

Yeah, their Midwest Chinese is extremely bad. Fried chicken chunks slathered in sauce is not what to order from there.

Midwest style Chinese is fried chicken covered in a savory or sweet sauce with varying levels of complexity.

So it's fatty, salty, savory, sweet, sometimes spicy. That's pretty much all tasty foods.

You don't care for Midwest style. Own it. It's not for you. That doesn't mean it's bad.

I don't like Oreos. That doesn't mean everyone who does is objectively wrong.

#TeamShanghai

Here is the city of Springfield's officially tracked data. Click on "Violent Crimes" and download the heat map.

https://www.springfieldmo.gov/3257/Tracked-Data

Safety is relative to the individual and many people have lived here all their lives and are mostly white. Racism is a very real thing here. As a guess you'll probably be fine, especially on campus and in most places during the day. If you are low income and will need to live on the north side of town your results may vary.

I'm in the field of patient care and my client lives close to Kearney so im there no less than 40 hours a week. Kearney is legitimately scary on occasion, particularly at night.

I ordered that when I came to town just to see. Yes, totally noticed a lack of cashews and the sauce reminded me of Mccormick brown gravy mix. I decided I would give it one more try but debating about that.

What are the rules for visitors/non residents?

Gotta have me a DP with my Mexican Villa

I use china king for city style takeout. North and south locations.

Midwest style is across the Midwest, not Springfield. Cashew chicken was created within the category, it did not create the category.

Mexican Villa is one hyper local chain.

Yeah some of the most liberal states have gone too far left and same for the conservative states.

I miss the snow! Missouri doesn’t get enough of it. I grew up stuck in my house because the snow was so tall. I want allllll that back. 🤣

Weird, I've been going there about twice a month for years and I've never had any of those issues. I certainly never got chicken with bones there!

Are you talking about Chinese Chef on Campbell next to Burger King? As far as I know they only have one location.

Hong Kong Inn is my favorite cashew chicken. I feel justified, especially because I have been an AB fan for years.

Thanks for the different perspective!

It's a hellofa town, the schoolyard's up and the shopping malls down!

I would, but it conflicts with my work.

I live in the heart of downtown Springfield and have no idea what this guy is talking about…… I have pets as well and take walks daily and nightly with no issue. Maybe the other commenter had a bad experience or two but it is not at all as bad as they made it out to be. There are not shootings at restaurants and bars every weekend. It’s not running rampant with homeless. There are great people here and the danger they speak of is entirely overblown. Again, I live right in the middle of it and have for years. I thoroughly enjoy the city and people.

Off by 5%. According to this website's stats, around 25% of Springfield's population is enrolled in college.

Eh, Corner 21 is closer to what you’d find in Sichuan province (or at least a Sichuanese joint in Flushing) than a generic NYC Chinese takeout.

“Midwest style” is objectively bad. Fight me.

The only people that like it are people who were born and raised here and view it through the rose-colored lens of nostalgia.

Same goes for Mexican Villa.

For me Shanghai Inn has the best cashew chicken with Hing Kong Inn a close second.

My ex was obsessed with this place and would make me go every time we were in town. Honestly it’s fucking trash.

It's not that bad actually. I don't know where you're coming from, but if it's a larger city you're probably going to find it much safer here than where you were.

I work at MSU and a lot of my friends work with international students (or are international themselves.) Check out the Morris Center if you haven't already, they can help a lot and you'll be in good company. Some cool people there. https://map.missouristate.edu/location.aspx?id=30