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re: Please Don't Move Here: NWA edition.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 6:30 pm to hogfly
Posted on 6/2/15 at 6:30 pm to hogfly
I just watched the news and realized another barometer of the growth here. Shareholder's week is here. And nobody cares.
It used to be "such and such celebrity person is at Ozark Brew Pub RIGHT NOW", etc. And the concerts were the biggest stuff to happen all year. Now there's so much happening all over the place, the AMP, the film fests, etc that it really isn't a huge deal anymore.
It used to be "such and such celebrity person is at Ozark Brew Pub RIGHT NOW", etc. And the concerts were the biggest stuff to happen all year. Now there's so much happening all over the place, the AMP, the film fests, etc that it really isn't a huge deal anymore.
This post was edited on 6/2/15 at 6:31 pm
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:18 am to wmr
Its gone from Shareholder's week is here Wow! To Shareholder's week is here, expect some traffic delays.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 2:22 pm to wmr
Yeah, and who else also forgot that Wakarusa is this weekend?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 3:45 pm to Arksulli
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traffic delays
actually that is one of the constants of NWA life since AHTD started to widen I-49
Posted on 6/3/15 at 3:49 pm to Porker Face
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constants of NWA life since AHTD started to widen I-49
Too true. Thank goodness we at least have good scenery to look at.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 5:25 pm to wmr
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I just watched the news and realized another barometer of the growth here. Shareholder's week is here. And nobody cares.
Everyone cares, but only because it's making the traffic terrible, Dickson unbearable, and the service industry pissed off. There's not much worse in the world than a bunch of rich fricks not tipping at a restaurant.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 5:27 pm to Arksulli
The freeway widening is going to be so worth it when it's done. This construction is nowhere near as bad as when they re-did Fort Smith's leg of the Interstate a couple years ago. They decided to do the ENTIRE thing all at once, from Van Buren to the Jenny Lind exit, and they finished behind schedule.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 5:38 pm to VagueMessage
People bitched about the phased in approach here when it was announced but I think it is the least painful way to do it.
Problem is, as soon as we get 6 lanes from Fayetteville to Bella Vista, we'll need 8.
Problem is, as soon as we get 6 lanes from Fayetteville to Bella Vista, we'll need 8.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 5:48 pm to wmr
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Problem is, as soon as we get 6 lanes from Fayetteville to Bella Vista, we'll need 8.
Agree.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 9:04 pm to STLhog
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Enjoy that.
Springdale is about a 1/2 century behind Fayetteville, 25 behind Bentonville and 10 behind Rodgers.
You could not pay me to live there.
Look, another Fayetteville elitist.
You couldn't pay me to live in Fayetteville, I'll stay in Bentonville.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 9:05 pm to wmr
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Problem is, as soon as we get 6 lanes from Fayetteville to Bella Vista, we'll need 8.
No joke.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 12:12 am to SLC
Oh look, another Bentonville elitist. 
He had an opinion. Wahhhh.
He had an opinion. Wahhhh.Posted on 6/4/15 at 6:10 am to wmr
I don't know why they decided to widen one mile in random sections instead of just starting in Fayetteville and doing one mile at a time consecutively
now everyone hits the 3 lanes in Springdale and hauls arse for 1 mile then is shocked when it ends at the Lowell exit. These people then refuse to get back over...its the same damn thing every day! I think just one mile of widening is to confusing for these people
now everyone hits the 3 lanes in Springdale and hauls arse for 1 mile then is shocked when it ends at the Lowell exit. These people then refuse to get back over...its the same damn thing every day! I think just one mile of widening is to confusing for these people
Posted on 6/4/15 at 6:23 am to ocelot4ark
I work in Springdale and throughout all of NWA and and there is no greater elitist attitude than Fayetteville's contempt and disregard for Springdale and its citizens. They hate blue collar Springdale, despise it. It's as if they despise the working class. I personally believe there are a lot of good people in the working class.
Was born in Bentonville, it's changed a lot and not all for the good. I guess that is consistent with that much change, but yes there are a lot of elitist so there too. Specially the carpetbaggers who look down on the locals.
Was born in Bentonville, it's changed a lot and not all for the good. I guess that is consistent with that much change, but yes there are a lot of elitist so there too. Specially the carpetbaggers who look down on the locals.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 9:05 am to VagueMessage
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This construction is nowhere near as bad as when they re-did Fort Smith's leg of the Interstate a couple years ago
Or pretty much any stretch of I-40 where you can get stuck in bumper to bumper traffic for miles once you hit construction.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 9:43 am to SLC
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SLC
Posted on 6/4/15 at 12:50 pm to arkyhawk
The fact that they still have not bi-passed Bella Vista is utterly pathetic.
Add 1/2 hour to my drive from STL and makes me want to put a nail in my hand.
I-49 is a disaster north of Fayetteville. Should have been 6 lanes 10 years ago and yes, as another poster said, is going to need 8 like now.
Add 1/2 hour to my drive from STL and makes me want to put a nail in my hand.
I-49 is a disaster north of Fayetteville. Should have been 6 lanes 10 years ago and yes, as another poster said, is going to need 8 like now.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 12:52 pm to SLC
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I work in Springdale and throughout all of NWA and and there is no greater elitist attitude than Fayetteville's contempt and disregard for Springdale and its citizens. They hate blue collar Springdale, despise it. It's as if they despise the working class. I personally believe there are a lot of good people in the working class.
I'm a purple dog through and through my man.
I will always disregard Springdale no matter how much they try to class the places like Har-Bor. LMAO.
Springdale holds itself in disregard and has segregated the hell out of the place. They don't give a rats arse about their own blue collar workeres either. They just ship them all to SHS with is a sad sad, shadow of its former self.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 1:23 pm to SLC
I think you misconstrue the disdain Fayetteville has for Springdale. It isn't necessarily classist in the "bluecollar vs whitecollar" sense, at least not a monetary classim.
Fayetteville looks down on Springdale because Springdale has always been dumb by comparison. Springdale's development pattern has been tea-party big "business first" forever. Fayetteville treasures things like local businesses and natural areas. Fayetteville has made commercial developers plant trees for 25 years. Springdale just came around to that idea maybe 5 years ago.
Fayetteville is more hippie-dippy in flavor than it is "upper class wannabe". Bentonville will be carrying that brand of "elitist" torch for NWA from here on out.
The elitism is more about "what are those yokel dumbshits going to do next that isn't thoughtful or smart?" Like specifying parts of their central city as allowing 100 ft tall signs. They literally zoned into existence a 100 ft tall sign allowance along their main corridors as a use-by-right. That's fricking retarded.
Meanwhile, Fayetteville banned billboards back in the 1980s, and restricted signage to varying degrees all over the city. As a result, Fayetteville looks better, greener, cleaner, and just more liveable.
It isn't about money.
Fayetteville looks down on Springdale because Springdale has always been dumb by comparison. Springdale's development pattern has been tea-party big "business first" forever. Fayetteville treasures things like local businesses and natural areas. Fayetteville has made commercial developers plant trees for 25 years. Springdale just came around to that idea maybe 5 years ago.
Fayetteville is more hippie-dippy in flavor than it is "upper class wannabe". Bentonville will be carrying that brand of "elitist" torch for NWA from here on out.
The elitism is more about "what are those yokel dumbshits going to do next that isn't thoughtful or smart?" Like specifying parts of their central city as allowing 100 ft tall signs. They literally zoned into existence a 100 ft tall sign allowance along their main corridors as a use-by-right. That's fricking retarded.
Meanwhile, Fayetteville banned billboards back in the 1980s, and restricted signage to varying degrees all over the city. As a result, Fayetteville looks better, greener, cleaner, and just more liveable.
It isn't about money.
This post was edited on 6/4/15 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 6/4/15 at 1:35 pm to Numberwang
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Like specifying parts of their central city as allowing 100 ft tall signs. They literally zoned into existence a 100 ft tall sign allowance along their main corridors as a use-by-right.
The signs are the worst, same for Hot Springs.
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