5 REAL Reasons NOT To Move Iowa In 2024
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- 5 REAL Reasons NOT To Move Iowa In 2024.
The title says it all, this is NOT about the generic things you typically hear. Such as living costs no, these are 5 VERY real reasons you probably shouldn't move here... or should you?
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You should really give a percent range for the home taxes. By that I mean like 1.2-1.8% or whatever the total tax burden is for the area.
In California it takes 5-20 years to do anything. You do a nice job man.
Appreciate the feedback! Our average tax burden is 1.5% of home value
I live in Bettendorf which is an hour from Iowa City. It’s a great community and the people are so friendly. The universities in Iowa are fantastic! They have a high graduation rate . The majority of graduates find high paying jobs in their field.
Thanks for sharing, Mary!
It’s not just that most people won’t move there, but most young people already there move away. Brain drain has been a big issue for decades. College grads are attracted to places with work opportunities, culture, mass transit, top-tier medical facilities and large international airports, among other things. The weather doesn’t help either. ☹️
seems like more and more people are coming here!
Here, I don't want to make it look like I hate Iowa, I was found by one of the major employers here, where I lived in Chicago and they moved me here for work. Iowa, if you who live here didn't know it, is a major hub on the fiber optic highway that runs through the corridor of this country and so there are all the enterprise data centers for all the major players here. Meta is building the first super AI cluster here in Altoona . I also really appreciate the 2nd amendment support you have here in Iowa, in fact a year after I moved here Governor Pritzker pulled his underhanded move in illinois basically making every gun I own illegal in Illinois, so I can't move back. Enjoy your gun rights here, because they are under attack everywhere else in this country.
Duuuuude Matt, I have no idea how I got your videos in my recommended, but here i am! Keep up the videos my guy!
Thanks man!! Awesome to hear from you. Hope you're doing well!
Still up in Spirit Lake?
@@livingincentraliowa Nope I'm in the process of buying a house in cedar rapids rn! Closing in a couple weeks and I just got my real estate license yesterday!
Serious props to you for getting a yt channel going!
@@bryceolsen3527 that's awesome! would highly recommend the YT channel - great way to provide free value and meet people moving into the area
I moved here from Oregon five years ago. There are plenty of job opportunities here, compared to the coasts, because competition is almost non-existent, so if you look half decent, you will get hired into jobs that would have been way out of your grasp anywhere else. Where I am from, even the grocery store clerks and service industry employees are likely to have masters degrees and just be trying to survive.
Vegetables are painfully expensive here, which I found surprising for an agricultural state... Except it isn't. The midwest is a massive food desert that grows almost only corn, mainly for ethanol. Many of the slaughterhouses here mainly export.
Everything is toxic. You need to filter or buy your water. People burn trash and yard debris constantly here (plus the forest fire smoke pools here from the US and Canada) so you may find you stay inside all spring and summer to just be able to breathe.
Ticks. Ticks everywhere. Ticks on children when it doesn't even make sense. Like, they will just blow down from trees onto you, even in the middle of the city.
That said, because of the friendliness and huge opportunities it is a good place to raise kids cheaply with the benefits of a large city... But not in Des Moines. Look to Iowa City.
I moved to Iowa a few years ago. Very very happy to live in Iowa as opposed to Minnesota or Illinois, which have really gone downhill just like the coastal states over the past several years.
Granted, I moved from Minnesota, so maybe that's why weather and bugs don't bother me one bit.
Agreed! Growing up in the midwest I'm very used to the weather/bugs by now.
Here are a few smaller ones too! Outside of any town there is no pavement, so your carwash budget needs to be put in place because everytime you drive on gravel roads your caked with white gravel dust. It also drives up vehicle maintenance as it clogs your air cleaners and erodes your undercarriage and paint etc. I enjoy good gravel travel on my adventure motorcycle but it gets old quick in your car.
You need to have good water purification in your house or buy bottled water. There is pervasive problem with contaminated water supply from farm fertilizer runoff. Des Moines gets its water from a river called of all things The Skunk river and its constantly getting contaminated. The first thing you will notice moving here is all the land is dominated by farmland, no forests here, no wild prairie , only corn crop after corn crop. Every square inch of the land has been turned into some crop or another and it makes scenic drive rather boring. To get away from the children of the corn here you need to drive to South Dakota black hills or back along the mississippi.
The goddamn airport here sucks, its says international but it might as well say connecting airport. It has but one luggage carousel and it's very hard to get direct flights out of here. Forget Southwest, you have 2 maybe 3 choices, Denver, StLouis, Atlanta. You can't use one way to get out of the country like buying a one way to O'hare so you can get a direct to Paris because the only carriers that sell those charge 150$ checked bag fees so your better off just buying the round trip and that will 100% include a connecting flight to one of the aforementioned airports. Des Moines is just a weigh station for the airlines, a place the pilots can stop and stretch their legs or use a regular toilet.
We'll have to agree to disagree on some of these! I love the Des Moines airport and think our landscape is beautiful (especially when it comes to sunrises and sunsets). I'll admit the Rockies/coasts have us beat.
I’m moving to Iowa next month!!!
Let me know how I can help! You can reach me on my personal cell - 515.414.6281
Have you done any videos on the Quad Cities area?
I have not! But, I don't need to because Alex Skeen has that covered!
www.youtube.com/@LIVINGINTHEQUADCITIES
i have been to iowa many times. i like iowa city.
That's where I moved from a few years back. If I didn't live in DSM, Iowa City would be my 2nd choice!
You missed some big ones, perhaps because you haven't been around enough but moving here from Chicago, the damn grocery costs are big, bigger than Chicago. I struggled to understand why and the only reason I can think of is lack of competition. Your grocery chains are dominated by Hy Vee and all the other big chain stores only have one in town so they charge by benchmarking against the Hy Vee and its high. A bag of Pistachios cost 12 to 14$ and in Chicago from say Woodmans its 7$.
The cops, the traffic enforcement is insane here. When I first moved here I was like why is everyone driving so damn slow? I was weaving in and out of cars because I'm used to Chicago where the speed limits are 45 65 and 80 mph effectively, then I got the first photo enforced ticket, after the first year I felt like I needed to get enrolled in automatic payments to the photo enforced traffic payment center. I had to get a high end crowd sourced radar detector and drive with highway radar app to navigate all the photo enforcement. Not only do they have cops that perform "traffic enforcement days" almost like DUI checkpoints they have airplanes swooping all the major highways in and out of the state and photo enforcement on top of all that. You can't survive here unless you have cruise control and a serious radar detector with long range sensor capabilities.
Lastly the conservative drug policies, Iowa is surrounded by legal marijuana states, and everyone I know partakes here , and the state actually has dispensaries that sell THC hemp, the word HEMP seems to make it legal but regular dispensaries are not legal, recreational is not legal, making it a pain in the ass to drive 2 or 3 hours to one of the other states to get your gear. It's like a huge migration of money out of the state, you would think they would want to keep that, its so stupid. Please for the love of GOD, legalize it already and take the money, and then stop the predatory traffic enforcement!
Appreciate your insights! HyVee is EXPENSIVE and I try to avoid shopping for groceries there. I've never shopped for groceries in Illinois but am glad you shared that. Both IA and IL are much better than many other states.
I wouldn't say anyone needs a radar detector here. Commute times aren't long enough to feel the need to speed anywhere, IMO. Des Moines has been really big on improving the safety of our roads.
@@livingincentraliowa Just for argument sake about the traffic enforcement. A little background first, I worked commercial HVAC for 25 to 30 years where I was a road mechanic for 15. I serviced all the big box stores and malls in the whole midwest from Fargo to Kentucky and Pittsburgh to St Louis and by far Iowa has the strictest traffic enforcement. I personally got ticketed for 7 mph over, my foot isn't calibrated that accurate for 7 mph.
We all know that traffic enforcement is a ruse by police to get probably cause for search hoping to bust drug dealers and weapons traffickers, but really, how many of those do we have here in Des Moines? Don't fool yourselves Iowans, traffic enforcement is big business for the city government. Cities where they already have huge crime like Chicago and Detroit dont have time for traffic issues under 10 to 15 mph over and traffic enforcement is kind of a nuisance because it leads to high speed chases and disproportionate racial profiling and consequently youtube videos of cops beating the shit out of people alongside the road.
I don't know the numbers here in Iowa, and I kinda want to research it, but I really dont think Iowa merits sutch enforcement and it's really just a way for the gang in blue to strong arm the public for money. Detroit for example, by enlarge has the 10 to 15 mph rule but the highways are for the most part 70 mph posted speed limits with only the stretch through downtown lowered. everywhere else it's 45 , 55 , and 70. I don't mention small residential roads because they are all 25 school zone 35 mph everywhere.
really, I've traveled by road just about everywhere in this country except NY, NJ, and all those little North Eastern states and Iowa has the most traffic enforcement I have ever seen. really, do you need airplanes running all your highways?
1. yea thats not ideal
2. slow down?
3. how is this bad? drugs should be illegal
@@flakes369 Drugs should be illegal? stop it with this refer madness from the 50s. Alcohol is far far far worse than some weed. What has the war on drugs done for us? All the gang wars in Chicago are people fighting for crumbs, and they sell drugs to survive. Lets look at places like Portugal decriminalize it and regulate its production and you at least gain some control of it and take the gang element from it and maybe save some lives from getting shot being a bystander. You want to know who the biggest drug dealers are with a higher body count? Its the Pharmaceutical companied broah.
Slow down.
(Duh)