Whats with all the Springfield bashing

[CityLife]

Gee I guess you guys took up a collection to get Main Street overhauled? Did SPAR pay for that? Did you? I did and so did you, tax dollars from Jacksonville paid to have that done did it not? You people got more money for your area (1 square mile according to cindi!) then my area ever has! But my area has not got squat! We have to pay to maintain a road that handles all 3,800 people in this area, we pay for light repairs and the electricity to power them....do you? So when your driving over my tax money think of me and all the other tax payers who larges paid for your road renovation!

So in addition to your one bad investment at "Once LinkSide", you also own a second condo in the same community. However this time you bought it at $139,900 in 2006. It is now appraised at $100,000. Let me guess your HOA's are now through the roof and the entire community is choosing to foreclose?

You got burned by a bad market and most importantly a bad investment strategy. Just bite the bullet and accept it. No need to be jealous or spiteful of Springfield.

[CS Foltz]

I don't really care if your ambidextrous! Gender not withstanding, the only thing I will agree to is being old! Everyone will die at some point including communities but I beg to differ regarding where I live at. True, lots of elderly people on fixed incomes & young professionals with children but yards are neat, are yours or is there just lots of weed overgrown lots and houses that are uninhabited? Last time I was in Springfield other than Main Street looked kinda dead! A persons choice of domicile is entirely up to them, home is where the heart is and not allways just a bottom line or dollars signs!

[CityLife]

I don't really care if your ambidextrous! Gender not withstanding, the only thing I will agree to is being old! Everyone will die at some point including communities but I beg to differ regarding where I live at. True, lots of elderly people on fixed incomes & young professionals with children but yards are neat, are yours or is there just lots of weed overgrown lots and houses that are uninhabited? Last time I was in Springfield other than Main Street looked kinda dead! A persons choice of domicile is entirely up to them, home is where the heart is and not allways just a bottom line or dollars signs!

Mr. Foltz, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read it. I truly feel sorry for you and may God have mercy on your soul.

[CS Foltz]

CityLife..........you really need to get glass's or google down enough where you can read! Second property I bought for my mother-in-law to move her  down here by me and the missus! She got here in time for me to get her into an Assisted Living Facility...........beginnings of dementia/Alzheimer's. Not at Link Side Dr..........located in Los Lagos, if your interested I can fix you up with a deal? Where I come from family watches out for family!

[Sportmotor]

Springfield has a stigma that it has to get rid of, a crime-ridden neighborhood filled with run down homes and homeless.

I know it is more than that, just speaking in what the general population thinks of it.

Being an outsider who has to drive through it...yea I see a crime-ridden neighborhood filled with trashy run down homes and lotta homeless on my way to the one TINY shining sliver of nice in the place that is the ONLY reason for me driving in it. Three Layers.

and then a bunch of springfieldinivins(?) who like to bicker online none stop with each other lol. Seems rather well deserved rep from where I sit.

[CityLife]

CityLife..........you really need to get glass's or google down enough where you can read! Second property I bought for my mother-in-law to move her  down here by me and the missus! She got here in time for me to get her into an Assisted Living Facility...........beginnings of dementia/Alzheimer's. Not at Link Side Dr..........located in Los Lagos, if your interested I can fix you up with a deal? Where I come from family watches out for family!

Thats very admirable of you. Hope that worked out ok for your family.

As for the offer on a deal. Thanks, but no thanks. I grew up in Mandarin and know the area well. You couldn't pay me to buy in that area. There are going to be some very surprised people in that neck of the woods in 5-10 years.

[cindi]

Gee I guess you guys took up a collection to get Main Street overhauled? Did SPAR pay for that? Did you? I did and so did you, tax dollars from Jacksonville paid to have that done did it not? You people got more money for your area (1 square mile according to cindi!) then my area ever has! But my area has not got squat! We have to pay to maintain a road that handles all 3,800 people in this area, we pay for light repairs and the electricity to power them....do you? So when your driving over my tax money think of me and all the other tax payers who larges paid for your road renovation!

the 1 square mile quote isn't just a number i pulled out of my butt, it's the size of springfiled. lol, don't hate the playa hate the game.  our "area" is over a hundred years old - it stands to reason the cumulative amount of money spent would be more. your area hasn't got squat? does that mean that there is no sewer system, no light poles, no public roads?  that sucks.  again, it's all about choices.  oh, thanks for the new main street - we here in the hood really like it and are so glad you guys bought it for us - can we all mail you our light bill at the end of this month?

[CS Foltz]

Yup............better them than me! Worse case here at Link Side will become a "Special Taxing District", at least that is coming along nicely! Lutheran High School will have a golf teaching Academy and Link Side will again be in the middle of a Golf Course, nine hole this time out. Nope, we are indoor portapottied here, got City sewer, but not storm drains. Have retention ponds to control flooding and draingage, still get storm water fee'd though! Lights in the community are owned by the community and paid for by the HOA monthly. I trade your light bills for our road refurbishment?Link Side came into life in 1978 and the only thing of merit that happened here someone famous played Golf here..........no one seems to know who! I hate golf but like the area!

[Dan B]

Gee I guess you guys took up a collection to get Main Street overhauled? Did SPAR pay for that? Did you? I did and so did you, tax dollars from Jacksonville paid to have that done did it not? You people got more money for your area (1 square mile according to cindi!) then my area ever has! But my area has not got squat! We have to pay to maintain a road that handles all 3,800 people in this area, we pay for light repairs and the electricity to power them....do you? So when your driving over my tax money think of me and all the other tax payers who larges paid for your road renovation!

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? You were saying SPAR is taxpayer funded. I was saying they are not. Now you invoke Main Street? SPAR didnt do main street, the state/city/feds did because it needed to be done. Yes, it was pretty awesome they put some fuex old timey lights in, but really, it was the failing sewage and water lines that were the problem.

Oh, and that Median? Yeah, we really didnt want that either. It was foisted upon us by traffic engineers who didnt give a crap when it came to creating a walkable environment.

Oh, and btw, we (This area) has been paying taxes in this city since 1869. Its about time they replace the failing infrastructure. OR, do you really think it was just a beautification and not needed.

Nah, lets just let the 100 year old ceramic sewage pipes continue to contaminate the ground water. That will work out will for all of us.

[Karl_Pilkington]

ha now I know where some of those TU posters come from.  Whats weird is that SD always come to the defense of SPR on those forums, but here on one where he is a board member its crickets chirping..

ok I'll pile on.. Springfield SUCKS, its HELL to live here amongst all this trash and broken down houses, homeless, drunkards, crackheads, prostitutes roaming all over.. the people who live there are miserable, yes all of them, the neighborhood itself has absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever and I'm including someplace that people seem to like Three Layers (I've never been there) so its included.  It is and will continue to be the dumping ground of Jacksontucky, anyone who was unfortunate to have moved into, purchased or even rents a place is a sucker of the highest order and people who have chosen to raise families in the hellhole known as Springfield are stupid and are bad parents for putting their children at risk from all the crime that is rampant and their children should be taken away by DCF and placed in a much safer environment much more suitable.  There, that should cover it, cindi, dan or any of the other suckers did I leave anything out?

[cindi]

i think you pretty much covered it.  let me review, we suck, we suck, we suck - bad, bad, bad - stupid, stupid, stupid - yep, that's it.  
we do have a rockin' chicken district (great sadness over the loss of guthrie's)

[uptowngirl]

Gee I guess you guys took up a collection to get Main Street overhauled? Did SPAR pay for that? Did you? I did and so did you, tax dollars from Jacksonville paid to have that done did it not? You people got more money for your area (1 square mile according to cindi!) then my area ever has! But my area has not got squat! We have to pay to maintain a road that handles all 3,800 people in this area, we pay for light repairs and the electricity to power them....do you? So when your driving over my tax money think of me and all the other tax payers who larges paid for your road renovation!

Really, did ya all not just get a new highschool over there? Was that free?

[Dan B]

Oh, dont forget, Karl, we are a bunch or narcissistic blowhards.

[Karl_Pilkington]

i think you pretty much covered it.  let me review, we suck, we suck, we suck - bad, bad, bad - stupid, stupid, stupid - yep, that's it.  
we do have a rockin' chicken district (great sadness over the loss of guthrie's)

Our chicken district kills people.  All those hormone filled birds, battered and fried in that heart clogging oil, salted to the point that it would stay fresh for weeks, slathered in processed mashed potatoes with a chemical sludge thrown on they call "gravy", all washed down with a sickly sweet soda which contains some chemical product known as "high fructose corn syrup" and a concoction of other chemicals manufactured by an evil corporation hell bent on world domination.  

Yes Cindi, having that "chicken district" is also a contributing factor in why Springfield sucks so bad.  In fact, you might be able to argue that having so many crammed into such a small area is really an evil plot to subjugate the uninformed and keep them in perpetual chicken slavery!  by causing them to crave it "fortnightly"!

[cindi]

and the guys with the vapid part as well as a group of never happy sabotuers thickskulled, unprofessional and counterproductive train of thought sockpuppets close minded tyrant trying to run a fiefdom, not a team player and someone who needs 'a fire lit under' them. meddlesome witches who needs to be put in out place. What a bunch of pigs bunch of empty, far blown rhetoric we are.