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re: Farmington High set to become a de facto 2nd Fayetteville high school.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 2:53 pm to Numberwang
Posted on 5/4/16 at 2:53 pm to Numberwang
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NWA is seeing massive growth during a time in which downtowns and city centers are the places people are choosing to live. Fayetteville never saw "white flight" and the city itself is becoming more expensive to live in.
Exactly. The big 4 cities are growing, not losing population.
Lowell, Farmington, and Center ton will never be Benton, Jacksonville and Maumelle
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Posted on 5/4/16 at 2:59 pm to Numberwang
If there's any areas of white flight in NWA it's in very small pockets where hispanic and marshallese took over older neighborhoods in Rogers and Springdale.
Siloam Springs has had a Hispanic influx just to the East of downtown, most of that older neighborhood has had its demographics changed.
for the most part all of our cities are becoming more diverse and the increase in minorities over 25 years has been astonishing. There's always been a welcoming ideal for LGBT in NWA too. I don't believe there's been much racially motivated crime in NWA that went beyond a street fight. I've seen clashes with Marianna area dudes and hispanic gangs and of course the hispanic gangs fighting amongst themselves due to their ethnic homeland issues carrying over.
For the most part all the different cultures and races have intertwined very well here. Sikh's do their thing, Muslims do their thing, Saudi students do their thing, Hmongs do their thing, Viets do their thing, gays do their thing, hispanics do their thing, blacks do their thing, and regular arse honky white folk keep doing their thing where they can.
Siloam Springs has had a Hispanic influx just to the East of downtown, most of that older neighborhood has had its demographics changed.
for the most part all of our cities are becoming more diverse and the increase in minorities over 25 years has been astonishing. There's always been a welcoming ideal for LGBT in NWA too. I don't believe there's been much racially motivated crime in NWA that went beyond a street fight. I've seen clashes with Marianna area dudes and hispanic gangs and of course the hispanic gangs fighting amongst themselves due to their ethnic homeland issues carrying over.
For the most part all the different cultures and races have intertwined very well here. Sikh's do their thing, Muslims do their thing, Saudi students do their thing, Hmongs do their thing, Viets do their thing, gays do their thing, hispanics do their thing, blacks do their thing, and regular arse honky white folk keep doing their thing where they can.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 3:18 pm to I Ham That I Ham
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Nobody needs to take refuge from Fayetteville
What about all the people who hate farmer's markets, organic groceries, botanical gardens, bike trails, beautiful parks, good food, live music, and trees?
I think NWA is more likely to experience "poor flight" to it's smaller outlying areas in the coming years. Even downtown Springdale is gentrifying. The Waltons are making downtown revitalization a priorty in their philanthropy, all over NWA. Fayetteville's doesn't really need any help at this point.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 3:39 pm to Numberwang
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What about all the people who hate farmer's markets, organic groceries, botanical gardens, bike trails, beautiful parks, good food, live music, and trees? I think NWA is more likely to experience "poor flight" to it's smaller outlying areas in the coming years
Pretty much. And for a lot of people and longtime locals it is nicer to be out on the fringe of what is becoming a legit metro. I don't think Fayetteville is a bustling, traffic-heavy headache like some make it out to be but it is nice to have some land and live in a quiet place like P Grove or Elkins or Goshen while going to town when you need to.
Calling any of this* "white flight" is just dumb
*eta - or any growth of these outlying towns in the near future
This post was edited on 5/4/16 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 5/4/16 at 3:52 pm to I Ham That I Ham
Actually, I have kin who live up there. They moved to Rogers back 20+ years ago, then moved out to some little community out there, may be Bethel something, I forget.
But they hate what NWA has become, as compared to what it used to be. Used to think it was heaven. Not so much anymore. Everything that was beautiful is being built on instead.
But they hate what NWA has become, as compared to what it used to be. Used to think it was heaven. Not so much anymore. Everything that was beautiful is being built on instead.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 4:07 pm to WonderWartHawg
was pretty tight w/ a past Police Chief of Bethel Heights back in the day. Miss that crazy old dude, he was nuts.
His drinking cost him a fortune as he was an early Walmart guy that drunk himself out of favor w/ Sam.
As much as I don't like some things about NWA, we're pretty blessed to have clean air, clean water and lots of wildlife and places to go on adventures, relatively low-crime despite the crazy amount of murders lately. Home invasions and muggings are near non-existent.
It's getting hard out there for a pimp.
His drinking cost him a fortune as he was an early Walmart guy that drunk himself out of favor w/ Sam.
As much as I don't like some things about NWA, we're pretty blessed to have clean air, clean water and lots of wildlife and places to go on adventures, relatively low-crime despite the crazy amount of murders lately. Home invasions and muggings are near non-existent.
It's getting hard out there for a pimp.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 5:58 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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It's getting hard out there for a pimp.
As a wise man once said in the WWF "Pimpin' ain't easy."
Posted on 5/4/16 at 6:47 pm to Pigfeet
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Farmington will be the White Flight refuge of Fayettenam
What are they fleeing from? Other whites?
Posted on 5/4/16 at 7:37 pm to Porker Face
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This is completely wrong. Don't project your shite hole onto us just because of jealousy. Come with an actual reason. "It happened somewhere else over 100 miles away" is not a valid reason either
I'll give you a reason. Amazon is kicking the dicks in on Walmart right now, who's turned in some disaster quarters and awful guidance.
Walmart goes, and 1/2 of NWA turns into the rust belt.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 8:00 pm to j1897
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I'll give you a reason. Amazon is kicking the dicks in on Walmart
How stupid are you? I don't even know who you are and I haven't seen you here before, but you just posted one of the dumbest things I have ever read here.
In 2014 Amazon had a net income of $-278 million bucks. In their side ventures, Amazon has lost over $200 million in three of the last four years. In the year they did not lose at least $200 million, they lost $81 million.
Stop posting here if you are just an uneducated goof who runs his cock holster too much.
This post was edited on 5/4/16 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 5/4/16 at 8:34 pm to j1897
When Walmart goes out of business I will drive down to your East End or Gravel Ridge trailer park and suck your needle dick
Posted on 5/4/16 at 9:42 pm to Porker Face
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When Walmart goes out of business I will drive down to your East End or Gravel Ridge trailer park and suck your needle dick
People said the same thing about the railroads... Then the steel mills... Then Chrysler... Then coal....
They better fix their shite, they are having a pretty crap last few years, not to mention repeated layoffs that somehow don't make the news.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 10:31 pm to j1897
Those "repeated layoffs" end up with most people getting rehired or picked up by vendors. I knew a bunch of people from the most recent axing of 400. All of them are back with Walmart or a vendor at better positions. Walmart uses layoffs to restructure. The medi knows this so they don't make a huge fuss about it.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 10:38 pm to j1897
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People said the same thing about the railroads
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Maybe you just meant passenger but we're arguably in a modern Golden age for American freight railroads
Posted on 5/5/16 at 6:33 am to j1897
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People said the same thing about the railroads... Then the steel mills... Then Chrysler... Then coal....
For starters, railroads, steel mills and coal are industries, not companies.
Second, maybe your news is too busy covering the shootings on Asher but Walmart is pretty well covered. The layoffs you are likely referring to was reported in a front page story in my Wall Street Journal
This post was edited on 5/5/16 at 6:34 am
Posted on 5/5/16 at 6:44 am to I Ham That I Ham
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Maybe you just meant passenger but we're arguably in a modern Golden age for American freight railroads
Railroads are tiny in size today compared to their caps 100 years ago.
And no, we aren't in the golden age, the crushing of coal has really put a hurting on all of them. it's in their public earnings releases.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 6:48 am to j1897
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They better fix their shite, they are having a pretty crap last few years
Yes, they have had a crap last few years...
2016: $130.6 B(on pace for this year)
2015: 129.74 B
2014: 127.1 B
2013: 125.18 B
2012: 119.95 B
Yea, they're having a terrible last few years...Stop posting here
Posted on 5/5/16 at 9:39 am to Hawgeye
The Walmart story highlights whats so fricked up about Wall St. and the corporate monster.
Walmart does something good by raising employee wages, the analysts call it a bad thing.
I can tell that morale and employee giveafricktude has increased in the last couple years. It's still not to the point where a store employee will actually go out of their way to assist you or walk to a section where an item you're looking for is or be able to give you a bit of information on a prouduct. At least it's not as hostile of an environment as I felt many stores had become.
I'd hate to see the hit the global economy would take if Walmart just disappeared one day. It's too intertwined in too many communities and industries.
Walmart does something good by raising employee wages, the analysts call it a bad thing.
I can tell that morale and employee giveafricktude has increased in the last couple years. It's still not to the point where a store employee will actually go out of their way to assist you or walk to a section where an item you're looking for is or be able to give you a bit of information on a prouduct. At least it's not as hostile of an environment as I felt many stores had become.
I'd hate to see the hit the global economy would take if Walmart just disappeared one day. It's too intertwined in too many communities and industries.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:03 am to CtotheVrzrbck
I still have never figured out why the old money voted to not build the new one out by Rupple.
They could sell the land where the high school is now to the U of A and make a boatload of money, use it to build the new one.
I understand the non split of high schools as it was debated when I was in high school and nobody in the town wanted the Ramay Woodland split to continue.
They could sell the land where the high school is now to the U of A and make a boatload of money, use it to build the new one.
I understand the non split of high schools as it was debated when I was in high school and nobody in the town wanted the Ramay Woodland split to continue.
This post was edited on 5/5/16 at 10:11 am
Posted on 5/5/16 at 11:07 am to j1897
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Railroads are tiny in size today compared to their caps 100 years ago. And no, we aren't in the golden age, the crushing of coal has really put a hurting on all of them. it's in their public earnings releases.
Hence the word "modern". Rail is diversifying and coal will not be what it was. On the whole though rail is moving far more freight cheaper than ever.
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