Wichita gets the three peat! Worst allergy city

[mr. tegu]

Wichita was named the worst U.S. city to live in for allergy sufferers for the third year in a row, with the data showing the city scored worse than average on all three assessed metrics. The Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America named Wichita the allergy capital once again this year, taking into account pollen levels, medicine use and allergy specialists in the area. The average score sat at 67.57, while Wichita scored a 100 — 14 points less than the city in the No. 2 spot, New Orleans with a score of 86.81.

Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/news/local/ar...#storylink=cpy

https://aafa.org/asthma-allergy-rese...ergy-capitals/

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

I did Basic and AIT at Ft. Bliss so my experience wasn't nearly as pleasant.
I will say that while most of my Army bros absolutely hated the place I had a pretty good time when off post and away from the training environment. It was even reasonably safe to hop over the boarder into Juarez, but from what I've read that's no longer the case.

Interesting, guess I wasn't aware of the army base. That would certainly add some input to the experience for sure!

Yeah, the demos and business I was doing was for "maquiadoras" (sp) companies that had locations on both sides of the border. Thompson telivisione was one making tvs on the same assembly line for several big names. Quite an operation as were several. We are talking around close to 30 years ago now so a lot has probably changed.

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I don’t think this is a fastball when your wife sent pics of her butthole to half of this site.

Wait what???

[TLO]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I don’t think this is a fastball when your wife sent pics of her butthole to half of this site.

Can we get more details on this please?

[notorious]

Originally Posted by CatinKS

I prefer to be positive, but if you ever have driven into Liberal, Kansas south bound on Hwy 54 there is no way to spin it as a positive. I large hill of junk cars, followed by packing plants and trailer parks. Makes a person feel good about where you live.

Believe it or not, it gets far worse the further southwest you keep driving from there.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

That is interesting as I fell in love with El Paso doing some sales/demo calls on companies down there. I had an absolute wonderful day at Painted Dunes golf course and will never forget it. Such a great time it was even in consideration for our retirement location.

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One of my best friends married a woman from El Paso and moved there for several years. (He was raised in Missouri.) They eventually moved back to Missouri for their own reasons, but I remember him telling me that every morning in the newspaper there was a map of where cars had been stolen the previous night. Apparently people would come across the border to steal cars, and once they got back over the line the car would be gone forever.

I don't think I'd ever want to live within 50 miles of the border, other than maybe - MAYBE - San Diego.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by notorious

Believe it or not, it gets far worse the further southwest you keep driving from there.

Made that trip a bunch, intersecting to I-40 at Tucumcari NM on the way out west. Such an interesting drive.

There was a salvage yard in Gallup that was incredible with a bat shit crazy owner. He had a Snapon tool box collection that was shocking. Every room in this house was full of Snapon tool boxes, no way anyone could live in it, no room.

Put the money down on a 340 Duster and when I went back to get it, he had sold it to someone else saying I took too long.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

One of my best friends married a woman from El Paso and moved there for several years. (He was raised in Missouri.) They eventually moved back to Missouri for their own reasons, but I remember him telling me that every morning in the newspaper there was a map of where cars had been stolen the previous night. Apparently people would come across the border to steal cars, and once they got back over the line the car would be gone forever.

I don't think I'd ever want to live within 50 miles of the border, other than maybe - MAYBE - San Diego.

Wow, yeah that would be a deterent for sure. I was only there a couple times and both times it was great. Had no problems crossing the border in either direction. The weather was awesome, just everything. That golf course is way under rated.

Played at several courses around San Diego, they were great as well.

But yeah, you are right there at the border and that could be a real issue.

**edit** Your stolen car newspaper comment reminds me of when we were stationed in Rhode Island. They had no titles to cars and the stolen car reports were a regular on the radio.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

To be fair, I was not on the list…..and I do appreciate that you do just own it.

I was…

[Iowanian]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I was…

Sorry about that, meant to send that to the Indian scammer who called right after you.

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Titty Meat

I live on the nice side of the plaza u couldn't afford it here

You’re right. I’m poor. 🤣

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

Sorry about that, meant to send that to the Indian scammer who called right after you.

[KC Shox]

I lived in Olathe and I’ve lived in Wichita. Comparing a metro with 2.5 million people to one with 650k is asinine. Both metros have their pros and cons. Someone said it earlier, if your a single, 20 something living in Wichita, your entertainment options, that are conducive to your young interests, are limited. If you’re a family starting out, want affordable living and family oriented activities, Wichita for its size is pretty accommodating. Wichita now, is not the Wichita of the late 80s and 90s.

Both places have their $hit-hole areas. You’re lying to yourself if you believe KC is immune and free of societal riff-raff and degenerate hotspots. I reside in Wichita and enjoyed my time in Olathe. If I were to move to a bigger city, KC would be it. I refer to it as a small ‘big city’. KC still has Midwest values and charm. Can’t we all just get along?

[R Clark]

Originally Posted by ThrobProng

Genuinely funny take. What are the underlying causes of your hatred?

If you wore knee high rubber boots all day with goats back legs stuffed in them you would hate on doodah also

[R Clark]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I hadn’t considered it but I was there this week and my allergies are fired up a little bit

Probably didn’t help driving through when they were burning a billion acres of prairie

It has to be done to take care of the grass; with that being said we catch hell from doodah and kc for the smoke

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by KC Shox

I lived in Olathe and I’ve lived in Wichita. Comparing a metro with 2.5 million people to one with 650k is asinine. Both metros have their pros and cons. Someone said it earlier, if your a single, 20 something living in Wichita, your entertainment options, that are conducive to your young interests, are limited. If you’re a family starting out, want affordable living and family oriented activities, Wichita for its size is pretty accommodating. Wichita now, is not the Wichita of the late 80s and 90s.

Both places have their $hit-hole areas. You’re lying to yourself if you believe KC is immune and free of societal riff-raff and degenerate hotspots. I reside in Wichita and enjoyed my time in Olathe. If I were to move to a bigger city, KC would be it. I refer to it as a small ‘big city’. KC still has Midwest values and charm. Can’t we all just get along?

Yeah, we bought our first two homes there and raised our daughters there. We left in 96.

Both won't go back now as they agree it has changed and not for the better. Like anything though, it is probably what you make of it. I heard there is tremendous amount of homeless, like a lot of metro areas. Sad.