Fayetteville, Arkansas

I wouldn't move anywhere where Sarah Huckabee Sanders is Governor.

As long as you aren’t looking for a social network, the internet, Amazon, etc mean you have a reasonable life in many small, isolated cities provided they are low crime. However, good luck travelling easily anywhere, especially by plane

Eureka Springs is gay friendly and would make a nice day trip from there.

Fayetteville is not a backwater despite Sasquatch Sanders. NW Arkansas is the home of Walmart, it is booming just nicely up there.

The Arkansas is for the most part a hell hole, and a dangerous one at that.

It’s close to Bentonville which is still smaller but is growing exponentially because it’s the corporate home of Walmart so it’s full of their top executives. And apparently has a bunch of cool new things to keep said executives not bored and discourage them from moving away.

In Fayetteville all seems to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.

R2 is an obvious idiot.

R8. Such an intelligent and thoughtful post!

[quote] kind of looking around to relocate me and my cats.

Don't take your cats to Arkansas. The hill folk will use them for target practice.

[quote]Fayetteville is not a backwater

My sides.

To anyone who has ever lived in a major cosmopolitan city it is nothing but some backwater.

When you consider the personalities, intellect, and level of sophistication of the people on this thread who don’t want to live there, it almost makes you want to go there immediately.

In 2019, I took a road trip on my Harley from my place in FL to CA going west on I-40. My bike broke down outside of Little Rock. The tow truck came and took me and my bike to the Harley shop, and then he was kind enough to drop me at a hotel. But the closest one? Oh, no. It had to be a few miles away from the shop because "coloreds" stayed at the closer one, and there was nothing I could say to talk him out of it. And Little Rock is the capital and the biggest city in Arkansas.

Does that help any, OP?

Meth fentanyl poverty and roaming addicts looking for stuff to steal. On the other hand the Ozark's are beautiful and the area has some lovely rivers lakes and landscapes. Great barbecue is available from little homegrown operations. Way too many Americana food restaurants. The locals think it’s freakin Paris. The backroads are scenic but dusty. Hardwood forests and great horse husbandry culture and traditions. This area is crawling with conservatives and Christian Baptist witness etc.. This was a dry county until about 10 years ago. Church affiliation can be important to people in getting a pigeon hole on you. Cost of living is here is shockingly low for a Californian or New Yorker. I think the racism is overblown but I may be wrong.

Can I find a good Christian woman?

“ Meth fentanyl poverty and roaming addicts looking for stuff to steal.”

But enough about New York City ….

It's a college town--places like that have "liberal" reps but often are very insular---town and gown and you won't be either.

Arkansas and Missouri have their good areas. We need more Democrats to move to these states and vote.

The flagship University of Arkansas is located in Fayetteville, and you get all the intelligence and culture there other places in Arkansas don't.

I have a very liberal fraternity brother who teaches there, and he loves the community and the environment. This from a guy from Massachusetts.

I can’t imagine anybody of a liberal cast being comfortable in the south.

We drove thru Fayetteville and it was actually very very pretty. Rolling hills and horse farms. i was very surprised by the natural beauty of the area.

I'm very liberal and live in Baton Rouge, r20. My social circle is either also liberal or, if Republican, not batshit crazy. I visited a friend in Joplin, Missouri, and it was very gay friendly. We do live here.

What is Hot Springs like?

Trump won the county where Fayetteville is located. It's hardly a liberal outpost.

Was it named after that tramp LuAnn Fayette?

If you like to travel it's inconvenient and expensive traveling from these small regional airports. Always something to keep in mind if you are used to living near a major airport.

I also think in terms of where you can go for a day trip or a long weekend. That part of the country doesn't have a lot unless you like Lake of the Ozarks or Kansas City. People here usually love college towns, but having lived in a few, they can be very insular, esp. if your neither a local nor part of academia and the academic world can be very unwelcoming depending on the institution and department.

These two are from Bentonville, they are fundies and have multiple children, some black. Fundies always adopt black children.

[quote] This was a dry county until about 10 years ago.

WRONG. I went to grad school there at the U of A in the mid 90s, and Washington County was not dry. There were more restrictive liquor laws (can't sell from a liquor store on Sunday), but it wasn't dry. Some of the other counties in Arkansas were still dry at the time, though.

If I HAD to live in Arkansas, I would live in Fayetteville. It is a nice college town with a liberal vibe, yet like others have said there's a lot of fundie Xtian types all around. It's growth has exploded in the last 10 years or so and the services, roads, schools, etc. are slow to catch up. I was there a couple of years ago for work and the traffic was HORRENDOUS, especially when there was a Razorback game.

The Ozarks does have a lot of beauty and outdoor recreation (hiking trails, lakes, etc) and the Walton grandkids have been using their cash to build a lot of mountain biking and other bike trails. However, the state is going straight down the shitter politically by electing corrupt cow Sarah Hucklebees as governor. It was conservative back in the 90s but now its full on MAGA.

“On the Chronicles of Southern Flyoverstan, we take you to a booming metro full of new sights to see!” 📺

R24. You really need to look at Fayetteville itself. Trump won the vast majority of the counties in the US.

Hon, I have heard of blue dot in a red state but I will not be convinced of blue dot in a red county r31.

If the county itself voted for Trump, that tells you if you move to that area you are going to be surrounded by a lot of Trumpsters in your day to day life.

I’d take El Camino over their “flagship” campus.

I was going to say what r19 brought up. If there is a university, you will find more intelligence and liberalism in the area and more events, cultural or otherwise. If you're a relatively sociable person, you'll meet like-minded people.

I lived in Bloomington, Indiana for five years in grad school. I imagine things are pretty similar to Fayetteville. The shocking amount of traffic on home game days was the absolute worst, and I say that as a native Californian with more than a passing familiarity with traffic.

Fun fact: the University of Arkansas sent a recruitment letter to our academic department (and all others in the same discipline across the country) to fill a faculty position. It was pinned up in the student lounge. All the usual boiler for requirements, etc. The letter closed with SOWEEE PIG!!! Not joking.

R32 R32. I won’t do all your research for you, hon,(since you claim the idea that Fayetteville could be blue is too preposterous to be considered), but I very easily found Clinton won Fayetteville in 2016.

You might have considered the fact, hon, the Fayetteville’s population is 95,000, and the county’s population is 250,000. In the 2020 election, hon, Trump and Biden got 50 percent snd 47 percent respectively, and it is highly like the outlying areas of the county voted heavily for Trump in line with other rural areas. Therefore, hon, it is quite likely the democrats won Fayetteville by a substantial margin in 2020 as well.

It ain't no Eureker Springs no how.

Sure, dear. Now enjoying living in Fayetteville, surrounded by Trumtards and being governed by corrupt sow Sarah.

A college town in the middle of nowhere doesn't sound inviting.

R38 In DL world, it’s at least a likely oasis going from point A to point B.