America's Most Boring Towns: 10

Local ASS: 16th Jun 2007 - 15:46 GMT

Hey, Hutchinson is growing! With old folks homes and fat women having worthless children. READ THE HUTCHINSON NEW ASSHOLE. LAST YEAR THE JOB GROWTH IN THIS TOWN WAS 1 JOB!!! WOW it is growing!

And yes, Hutchinson is growing with OLD RETIRED ASSHOLES who want to play golf! And Drive slow. Why would anyone move to hutchinson? I don't see any places for good employment, no large plants for people to work at.

Also maybe you need to give this a thought... Maybe the old retired asses from Hutchinson are moving from their old houses to new!

I know that I am personally from out of a town, and I am going to be moving out of town again.

ALso Every town is growing because people are havhing children!!! Look at the facts, there are no good jobs in this town, also if you want facts go to www.census.gov and look at the unemployment rates in Hutchinson. If you factor in all of the retired, retarded and disabled people in this town you will see that 38% of this town does not have a job or cannot have a job!

Also, would you care the guess who that largest employer is in Hutchinson? THE CITY!!!

It sounds to me that "Local" thinks he/she is doing well. GO TO ANY MAJOR CITY AND COMPARE YOUR LIFE AND INCOME LEVEL TO THOSE CITIES. OPEN YOUR EYES DUMBASS!

Local ASS: 16th Jun 2007 - 16:35 GMT

I know that theirs plenty of pathetic places to live. Ever day I deal with Hutchinson Kansas, I never got lucky and got out. Hutch is a trash hole,infested with lazy non-working money sucking users. Ask any clerk in a grocery store, they see the lazy money sucking over fed (obese) moms,dads, and children. These state@gov. thieves know how to work the system. they eat,our money up,while we are watching our budget. For our population we have dead people driving around. (to old to drive) . the small percent of hard working people,lucky enough to find a job. The rampant percent 78% of our drug dealers. Our lovely city is a breeding ground for drug dealers. PEOPLE WAKE UP...... our town is a joke!!!!!!!. Why is the drug traffic so big, and we keep putting more police, detectives, etc out on the street.maybe something is not on the level,or someone. It is known in other states ,that hutch has plenty of meth. I just got a positive thought!!!!. I think I'll stay in hutch go on food stamps,eat like a king,and make meth!!!!!. Also I can get doctors for free , when I need diet pills, or my teeth rot out from all the drugs I used. WELCOME TO HUTCHINSON,,,, COME SHARE OUR SPACE

local : 18th Jun 2007 - 16:15 GMT

Point made. Get the tissue and wipe those eyes.

local: 20th Jun 2007 - 14:49 GMT

I know Hutchinson is a dumpster.. There ain't Much in Hutch...

I don't know why are speak highly of this place... I am retarded

salt: 26th Jun 2007 - 01:02 GMT

Take a moment and notice how many people who hate Hutch kant rite so good and think the town is soooooo boringk. Can you guess why they were/are so bored/boring?

Now, go take a walk in the Dillon's Nature Center.
Or visit the old folks--who really do know a lot--at the Delos Smith Center. Have you heard of Delos Smith? Check him out at imdb.com.
Or take a walk through Carey Park. Yeah, I've read Mysterious Skin. Have you? Scott Heim writes fiction. He's honest. Hutch is still okay.
Read a William Stafford poem about Hutchinson? Have you read William Stafford?
Watch a full moon rise over the State Fair. Yeah, the photo shows the grounds closed. You think every theater on Broadway is always open?
Man, go have a coffee at Metropolitan Coffee and listen to a band. It's like Austin. Have you been to Austin?
Talk to a Mennonite. They're really cool and they like to take care of people who need care. Yeah, that's boring. Have you heard of Darfur?
Okay, enough already. You didn't notice that cottonwoods are beautiful?
Did you ever read PrairyErth?
Ever read a poem by Steven Hind?
Ever listen to the wind?
I know. It's all crap. It's boring. Life. You. Me.
Or.
Maybe not?

proud2serve: 26th Jun 2007 - 19:42 GMT

What about Hutchinson is boring? I really am interested in your thoughts and how we can make it better. What would make it exciting? I know that most young people think that about Hutch but I can't figure out what it is that they would like to do - I like living here and I work for the City of Hutchinson but would really like to pass on to city officials how we can improve it. I would like more nightlife here and there isn't much shopping to do - the mall is fading fast. I do agree there are not many job opportunities and we need more big businesses here but hopefully with Dave Kerr on board with the Chamber - we will see some growth.

confused: 27th Jun 2007 - 14:03 GMT

The City of Hutchinson is boring for several reasons, 1. NO ECONOMY, NO GOOD attractions. There is plenty of Night Life in Hutchinson, but most of that involves drinking. It has been made very clear that the Hutchinson Police have nothing better to do than wait outside of Bars "nightlife" and get new DUI cases. Not to mention that every bar I have been in and I mean EVERY bar is full a people high on meth! or Cocaine or some type of "energy supplement" (you can see it in their eyes.)

Hutchinson is also unsafe! I read every single day about businesses getting ripped off all over Hutchinson. Stolen cars, motor fuel.... the list goes on.

These are the facts.

1. Hutchinson Has no job base, this drives the scum of this town to steal.

2. Hutchinson has a small population, this keeps big business out.

3. Hutchinson has a large population of people who simply choose not to work. (get on social services) This also keep big business out because of the lack of educated workforce.

4. Hutchinson has no major interstate running into the city, and Never will... This also keeps the town from growing (look at Mcpherson, Wichita, Newton, Salina, Manhattan, Emporia or any other city along the interstate. Then compare those cities to Hutchinson foremost, Kingman, Pratt... These cities have no major interstates running into them, and they are shrinking.

5. Hutchinson has refused in the past to accept large businesses and refused to give these business a reason to move to Hutchinson. Case in Point: I personally know of several large companies that have wanted to move into to Hutchinson, but the city refused to give them tax discounts if they moved in. This has put Hutchinson on a black list, these business know not to mess with Hutchinson because the people here a stubborn and will not work with them.

Hutchinson has made it's own destiny. It is to late and the world and nation has passed it by.

Kansas as a whole is not doing well.

philly_jawn: 27th Jun 2007 - 16:16 GMT

you couldn't pay me to live in a shit-hole like Hutchinton, Kansas

returned_farmboy: 29th Jun 2007 - 19:18 GMT

I was going to go to all the trouble to refute some claims about Hutchinson made in this post, but then I cam to the realization that: 1) If the author was doing a serious listing of the most boring towns in America, Norman, OK wouldn't have been higher than Hutchinson, and 2) there are plenty of dull towns not in the geographic center of the country. My only guess is that the author isn't as well-travelled as some would think.
Honestly, I will agree that Hutchinson isn't the most exciting place in the world, but compared to the major metropolitan area I worked in prior to moving back to Hutch (where I was tired of the daylight murders down the street from my previous employer), it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
It's interesting that the worse a person's grammer/spelling is, the less they like their hometown/former hometown. Honestly, I used to think Hutchinson was a crummy town also, but compared to what many people call home (Gary Indiana, Flint Michigan, Camden New Jersey come to mind, as well as most inner cities) it's not really that bad. Finally, any one I've come across that couldn't find a respectable job here were limited more by their personal "attributes" (lazy, slow, etc.) than by their geographic locale.
While Hutchinson may have gained only 1 job last year, that's still better than most Plains communities that are off the Interstate system & under 45,000 people. I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

Wannabe-Farmboy: 29th Jun 2007 - 22:27 GMT

I always love it when someone makes remarks about grammer/spelling. This is a cheap comeback or stab. But maybe you don't have enough common since to think that it may have been a typo.. Not a direct reflection of the persons ability to speak or spell.

Yes, it is true that other towns may have the same problem, not a single person here has stated that Hutchinson was the ONLY town like this.

My personal dislike for Hutchinson comes not from it's geological location, but it's stubborn community of upper class scum that run this town. They always have.

Also the one poster that talked about other town's located in this area and comparing them to Hutchinson was correct. Hutchinson is not as progressive or aggressive in attracting new business, They want to think of Hutchinson as a retirement community/vacation Destination. This does not build a good economic base either, it makes a transient community with low paying jobs. Also who wants to visit Kansas for Vacation?

Hutchinson is failing, it has been for years. Despite the supermen and women that are trying to save this town, no one else cares. They are leaving.

I get the feeling that Farmboy is an employee for the city. Maybe he is retired. Who cares about how well traveled anyone is? What does this have to do with anything? Facts are Facts. Even the mighty farmboy cannot dispute the facts that have been posted! You can see the proof in the near by towns and cities. (ie. mcpherson, salina etc..)

Jersey: 30th Jun 2007 - 14:39 GMT

You compared Camden, NJ to Hutchinson. Yes they are both crummy towns, atleast camden NJ has an economy.

Mr Low Income: 2nd Jul 2007 - 21:55 GMT

Well here we are, 8 homeless/Low income housing projects in Hutchinson now. 1. The Clusters 2. The apartments on 11th and Porter 3. Commerce Gardens 4. The Apartments behind K-mart (off 33rd St). 5. Hidden Villages 6.The Duplexes behind and to the west of Hamilton Lagreca. 7. The Revonvated/defunct Hotel in downtown (off of 1st or 2nd street). AND DRUM ROLL PLEASE! NUMBER 8! NEW CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN ON AVENUE A, IN THE FORMER LOCATION OF NEW BEGINNINGS!

WOW what a success, we are sure doing a good job of burning tax payer money on people who want to have children and not work! GO HUTCH!! NO WONDER TAXES IN HUTCHINSON ARE SO HIGH!! YEA!!

realworldgirl9: 4th Jul 2007 - 01:10 GMT

You know, the reason our entire country is in a shit hole right now is because of the lousy attitudes of people today. I have lived in many places in my life, for instance: Derby ks. kingman ks. Savannah Ga. Korea, San Antonio Tx. so, I feel I have experience enough to make some comments about living here in Hutchinson ks. "There is no night life" Your right, if you are so ignorant that you can't find anything to do but go drink or screw around. Call me crazy, but going to the HISTORICAL fox theatre. taking a walk with my sweetheart, going to friends houses for get togethers to spend some good quality time with people I like and love before they are gone, going to the salt mines,(where the origanl film gone with the wind is stored), going to the farmers market, taking a cruise with the top down on a cool evening, or God forbid spend some time with my family, and ride bikes or play with my children etc. etc. I could go on for an hour. Until you have lived in a big city, or a different country, where you go to bed wondering if you or your nieghbor are going to be awakened by a knife to your throat, or a bullet in your chest in the middle of the night, you really shouldn't talk so much smack. I'm not saying it cant happen here, but i garantee you don't go to bed every night in this town, wondering if you are going to be next. I can understand wanting more. More, seems to be the only thing everyone wants anymore. I think most of the: I am not happy, I need to be entertained, I want more attitudes, come from people who eighther had everything handed to them from mommy and daddy their entire lives, or from someone who wants to bitch about how bad everything is, but is to stupid or lazy to change it or pack their belongings and get the hell out of here. If you don't like it here, get a pair, and change it or Kick Rocks. After working double shifts, and paying my way through college, I joined the military as a Helicopter crew chief. I got the hell out of my little pissy town, and after everything, came back and found that some of the silence, boring days, and small town B>S> was refreshing compared to what I've experienced. I have seen more good, bad, and ugly in my young life than some see in thier entire lives. Most of you making these comments need to grab ahold of your lives and make them what you want them to be, instead of blaming a town for your own lack of desire to make a change for yourself, or your surroundings. And, for Gods sake, read people. not just Bullshit magazines, read a newspaper, read some books from authors that can be documented in our history. Read and educate yourselves about more than tabloid B.S. "Knowledge IS power", and you get real knowledge from educating yourselves and . . . wait for it, wait for it, TALKING TO "OLD" PEOPLE. Hutch has a Plethera of "old" people who are willing to talk to you and open your eyes to some truths onlythey can tell. Hear those stories before they are lost forever. So, all you Hutch Haters, Fish, or cut bait. Good Intentions to all who read this!

Hutch1: 6th Jul 2007 - 23:15 GMT

To the original poster of the photos.

You took photos of only the worst of the town. What state has a year round State Fair? The old hospital is not across from a highway. I do agree it is ugly and needs done away with. The apartment complex had an out of state owner who died before completing it and it is now tied up in estate problems.

Very easy to point out the worst problem areas. Every place and person has problems.

I have traveled all over the world and every town/city has a run down section, homeless and just plain lazy. Your worst town choices show you haven't been anywhere to speak of.

Just an sad little man crying about what he doesn't like but doesn't understand.

Hutch is a dying town. Like many across our country. The population is old. There are few good jobs. This is a sign of our times and not unusual for small midwest towns.

If you don't like it change it or move on.

Not everyone is looking for a good time. The drug problems exist everywhere. You sure seem to be able to find them. Maybe you are looking in the wrong places and finding just what you want to see.

Hutch-2: 7th Jul 2007 - 13:09 GMT

Yes there are alot of problems in the United States with small towns. But you say they are all dying, then let me ask you this question.

WHY IN THE HELL IS MCPHERSON, SALINA AND OTHER TOWNS IN KANSAS GROWING WITH JOBS AND COMMERCE??? I think you are a stubborn ass just like the majority of Hutchinson. THIS is why Hutchinson is dead. Hutchinson has NO good large employers. It has no factories, manufacturing jobs or anything else. Just some fast food dumps and other low paying jobs.

HUTCHINSON SUCKS. I have moved on, you are not smart enough to do so.

HUTCHPD: 14th Jul 2007 - 14:48 GMT

Hutchinson is a crime infested shit hole. The police do nothing but take reports and do nothing.

from there: 18th Jul 2007 - 03:09 GMT

Hutch does suck, and is full of drugs, It is a C.I.P.O.S.(crime,invested,peace,of,shit) That is why I left all those years ago.

papergirl17: 18th Jul 2007 - 22:42 GMT

Hutch may not have all the ammenities the larger towns have, but here are the "10 Specific Things That Make It Better" for you losers who don't have anything better to do than to rag on probably the first place you lived.

1. The Cosmosphere (since there are only like 2 or 3 in the whole United States)

2. State Fair is here

3. Several different schools to put your kids in

4. Renovation of downtown

5. The help that goes towards the less fortunate (like housing)

6. Carey Emerson

7. Two cities in one (Hutch and South Hutch)

8. VFC program at the local Health Department (does YOUR Health Dept have that?)

9. Several car dealerships

10. The murder rate is lower here than most every other place (One murder in the last 23 years)

Yeah, there are drugs here, but there are drugs everywhere. Maybe instead of complaining about it you should help clean it up you mamma's boy. If you don't like it here, go somewhere else and shut up.

Me: 19th Jul 2007 - 12:23 GMT

Well, I for one moved back here after being gone for 23 years in a place that was so dang expensive(California) rent 1,400 a month. Median home prices 600,000 and that would get you something with maybe 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. I saw million dollar homes that sat on the ocean that was comparable to houses in the south end of town ( no offense, because I grew up in the south end), but there are worse places to live. Try living in South Central Los Angeles where you have to wear protective gear just to go outside of your home. My nephew and cousin visited there in the 80s and was shot at just returning to the aunt's home! No rhyme or reason for it. Yes, it is hard to get a job here, but I am lucky that my job is in on the internet and it came with me. (Medical Field). My daughter tried to work at the hospital and clinics, after working in those fields in California and they would not hire her. But, there are worse places to live other than Hutchinson

Bass Girl: 19th Jul 2007 - 13:41 GMT

I moved here from a town of 2500 people about 7 years ago, and I've watched this town die around me. Many businesses have come and gone, major industrial places for large employment have closed, or are tetering on keeping their doors open or not. I think there was more to do & more opportunity in my hometown of 2500 than there is here. Yeah, there is the Cosmosphere, free water parks, the college, etc., but after 1 or 2 trips to the "sites" here and you've seen enough. I won't take my kids to the free water parks anymore because the quality of people that frequent those places has diminished greatly. I don't like the thought of my kids playing in someone else's bath water. The property taxes are outrageous here as well. My husband moved here from Salina about 8 or 9 years ago, and when he had to renew his tags in Reno county, his fees doubled. I'm guessing our taxes are so high here so that the "attractions" of Hutchinson can be funded. I could go on and on about how the "old money" keeps its control over this city.... It was sad to hear that a development company designed to investigate how to grow communities came to spend 5 years researching on how to grow Hutchinson, but after 1 year they packed up and said that there was no hope. Now the county is offering you $100 per person that you can get to move into Reno County from out-of-state. That's sad. I wonder when the city commissioners will realize it's going to take more than dressing up the delapitated downtown area to get people to want to stay here / spend money here? People can't afford to go out when the jobs pay so lousy around here - IF there are jobs available..... Things just don't sound promising and that makes everyone's attitudes dwindle.

Bass Girl: 19th Jul 2007 - 14:47 GMT

Oh my gosh PAPERGIRL17....do you live in the salt mine hundreds of feet under Hutch or something? Lets try coming to the surface and having a cup of reality....

1. The Cosmosphere (since there are only like 2 or 3 in the whole United States)

Woo frickin' Hoo. Once you've visited there a couple of times, it's a done deal. And how many of us saw that same stuff when we were in grade school? I don't know about other residents here, but I find that the Russian space program is intensely boring to read about.

2. State Fair is here

Once a year for 2 weeks. That leaves 50 weeks of nothing going on around here. Unless you count Hutch Fest, which is yet another feeble attempt at coolness.

3. Several different schools to put your kids in

And this is supposed to be unique in some way?

4. Renovation of downtown

So now we can sit on a chair and look at the empty and/or rundown buildings. Maybe others can sit there and get even larger eating the junk food they bought with their Vision Card because they don't have a job to go to (or because they don't WANT to work).

5. The help that goes towards the less fortunate (like housing)

They are less fortunate because they either A)Can't find a job, or B)Don't want to find a job because they are catered to as it is and aren't given any motivation to work. How does this benefit those here that are working and willing???

6. Carey Emerson

Are you serious???? The guy is dead. I don't see how he is making an impact on the community NOW...except for a park for all the "less fortunate" to make their drug deals and have sex.

7. Two cities in one (Hutch and South Hutch)

That's like having 2 boobs in 1 side of your bra. It's all one big boob when you step back and look at it.

8. VFC program at the local Health Department (does YOUR Health Dept have that?)
Google "VFC program" and the list of cities that provide that service goes on and on.

9. Several car dealerships

This is the real reason why anyone would want to move to Hutch. All those car dealerships! LOL Too bad the jobs don't pay what most other cities have their standards set for the same types of jobs, or that there aren't more jobs available for those who need them. Then maybe more residents could afford to spend their money at ALL OF THESE AMAZING DEALERSHIPS.

10. The murder rate is lower here than most every other place (One murder in the last 23 years)

They just haven't found the bodies of the people who supposedly "moved away." Maybe other dogs will start digging them up like the one that drug that dead newborn up in the yard of that family. Remember? It was the one where that girl didn't get CONVICTED of murder because of legal red tape. I think you forgot about the guy that shot another other guy over losing a poker game too. Or the woman they found dead in her house over a bad drug deal.....

So, despite your desperate attempt to make Hutchinson so like such an amazing place to live, that list just doesn't provide VALID reasons. Good try though.

John Humperdink: 19th Jul 2007 - 16:42 GMT

What's that smell? oh, it's the living sewer town of hutchinson, with all the people drowning in their own scum.

Papergirl, you are living in your own little dream world...I think you are smoking some good stuff to be that disillusioned. Don't you read the paper? And who cares if we have car dealerships? You make it sound like a convenience...like a grocery store or something. Oh, it's Friday again, time to go buy a car. Which place should I go to? Also, the renovation of the downtown was like dressing up a turd. There's nothing anymore to go see, most of the stores are closed anyway and the one that are there are nothing but junk stores.

Bass girl, you rock! You hit that nail on the head.

John Humperdink: 19th Jul 2007 - 16:55 GMT

Sally, tell us about the "active" area's of hutchinson, We'd all love to know since they aren't obvious. I think the most active place is the highway out of town. Usually trailer trash doesn't know they are trash cuz they are dumb and living better than most of us on welfare.

Aubie, is that the best you can do? Why would having the cosmosphere and a catchy them be reason to live in hutchinson and raise a family. I don't want a kid that can tell me everything that's in one space museum because that's all there was to do. Besides, it's mostly Russion space stuff anyway. Who Cares to see that more than a couple of times? And if it's so popular, why is the lot always empty and they struggle to pay staff?

Hutchinson is dead: 19th Jul 2007 - 18:11 GMT

John, You hit it right on the head. I don't know why these idiots have to get on here and prop hutchinson up. Do they work for the City? Why do they love Hutchinson?

Hutchinson is dead and will not come back from the grave.

Reply to me: 20th Jul 2007 - 01:19 GMT

Me, There is more and more bad things happening in Hutch. IT is no mayberry. Plus cities have plenty of jobs, Hutchinson and other towns like it are not good places to make money or advance yourself.

Do the Hutchinson.: 20th Jul 2007 - 15:57 GMT

I would like everyone in Hutchinson to think of the 70's hit "do the hustle". Replace Hustle with Hutchinson and you have "Do the Hutchinson". This what I think about everytime I am behind someone at Walmart or Dillons using a vision card or driving extremely slow or wandering down the street on their gov't bought electric wheelchairs.

Hutch sucks. Why does anyone try to prop it up? That is truly a loosing battle.

Bass Girl: 20th Jul 2007 - 20:30 GMT

LOL @ "Do the Hutchinson"!! I have seen the dude who cruises around in his electric wheelchair pulling another electric wheelchair behind him! It's attached with a bungy cord, no less. LOL!!! And for all you Hutch Fans - no, he's not pulling it as to give someone "a friendly tow."

Do the Hutchinson.: 21st Jul 2007 - 15:46 GMT

Yes, it is a great adaptation to that great 70's hit. EVERYTIME I drive I get behind some old fossil who is driving 10 to 15 Mph under the legal posted limit and randomly hitting their breaks. And to keep from getting road rage I start thinking of "Do the Hutchinson" as I pass these old fools.

I also use it everytime I see some old/retard/non job wanting person driving around on a $10,000 electric wheelchair. THEY ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE, Like Flies! And the thing that really pisses me off is the fact that I am paying for this shit as a taxpayer!

Also, a previous poster brought up the 8 low income housing projects in this GREAT town of 35,000 people. I would like to bring notice to another! I think that I have spotted another free housing area! 1200 Block of west 11th, these look like gov't housing projects to me!

Also I have thought of another way to spend more tax money(that we don't have), that will make this town more inhabitable. Instead of taking out stopsigns and stop lights, Just put mini over passes on every intersection! This will allow the huge community of old/retarded drivers in this town that don't know how to operate car/electric wheelchair at an intersection to pass freely instead of clogging the intersections.

new at Hustle Hutchinson: 22nd Jul 2007 - 21:59 GMT

Does any-one know of some jobs around Hustle Hutchinson? I know I will need three part time jobs to make ends meet. I am new here,and I was told to get on this site to search for a job. I have found out how much employees get paid. I am thinking I screwed up moving here, HELP!!!!!

I hate Hutchinson: 25th Jul 2007 - 04:12 GMT

Hutchinson is full of thieves, drug heads, drunks and general losers. All the people with any promise move from this town and get a life. I was happy to see this website,
Exposing the nasty truth! If you have any property in Hutchinson you had better keep tight hands on it. Go to www.hutchpd.info and just take a look for yourself, Major thefts are an everyday happening in this shit hole.

Also the Hutchinson channel is a JOKE! The producers of this channel should be sued for false advertising and false representation.

Angela Watkins~ Harris: 6th Aug 2007 - 03:24 GMT

I was born in Hutchinson, Kansas back in 1960 and I lived there for a while I did 1/2 of 9th grade at Sherman Junior High School and then attended 10th & 11th at Hutch High 1977 & 1978 and then graduated in 1979 from Elmira Free Academy in 1979 in Elmira, New York after graduating. I moved back to Hutchinson, Kansas and live there until returning back to Elmira, New York in 1986 I have to say I love Hutchinson, Kansas I had good jobs while living there my grandparents taught me well my grandfater retired from Cargill Salt Company and grandmother from Wiley's Department Store I owe everything to my grandparent's may they R.I.P. because from 1986 I have a job on going and wouldn't know how it would fill to be layed off I made good money in Hutchinson, Kansas I now work in a Business Office at a Hospital and the last 17 years and enjoying it thats what my grandparents taught me how to work and thanks to them for allowing me to live with them because I wouldn't be where I'm at today if it wasn't for them I cannot know Hutchinson, Kansas was just there last year for The Emancipation Day and it was lovely its not the town its how you live in it yourself I know back then I hanged out at Page 1 & Page 2 I use to go to the NJCAA Tournaments and I use to throw parties at the Knights Of Columbus and other buildings its what you make it if you want to sit around and not work or do anything you will become bored but that wasn't my problem I will be going back to visit relatives again in 2010 if the good lord is willing so don't bash Hutchinson, Kansas it sure was good to me

Angela
From Elmira, New York

Hutchinson=Poor Town USA: 6th Aug 2007 - 21:52 GMT

Angela, You must have not had a good english teacher. Your grammer is very bad. I am glad to hear that you are doing so well in New York. I live in New Jersey and moved from Hutchinson at a young age.

Hutchinson is a dead town and it is not getting any better. I have not lived in that hell hole for 9 years and still to this day it gives me a bad feeling.

If your thing is drugs, drinking or unemployment it is a town for you. Hutchinson has a wide variety of extremes. Either Drug users, drunks or Super Religious fanatics. From one extreme to the other. One thing I can say about Hutchinson, if you want to be lazy and fat, sit on your ass and do nothing then it is great!

BelRoC: 6th Aug 2007 - 22:33 GMT

The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson has the 2nd largest collection of US space memorabilia anywhere and the largest collection of Russian space memorabilia outside the former Soviet Union..
Also has an Amtrak station on E. 3rd Ave.. & N. Walnut St.
Plus alot of train activity near S. Whiteside St. & Ave D.
Thats what I heard..........

Hutchinson Kansas=Poor Town USA: 7th Aug 2007 - 13:28 GMT

Belroc, Who cares about the things you stated. Does the Cosmosphere employ large amounts of people? NO!! And I have never ever seen an amtrack train in Hutchinson.

Newton Kansas Has alot of train activity also. Alot more than Hutchinson does...

Your comments make no sence..... That's what I read..

serlingrod: 7th Aug 2007 - 14:47 GMT

we should all take a virtual field trip to Hutchinson, via Google Maps. Once they get their Street Views covering the whole nation I say we take a group tour to each of the several car dealerships.

Bass Girl: 7th Aug 2007 - 15:00 GMT

I have yet to see someone come up with a valid reason why Hutch is a prospering community with anything to offer....

Hutchinson=Poor Town USA: 7th Aug 2007 - 16:38 GMT

Bass Girl. I know it is just like Hutchinson. People live in dream world and think they are the ONLY ones that are right!

Kristen from Hutchinson: 7th Aug 2007 - 19:13 GMT

"I always love it when someone makes remarks about grammer/spelling. This is a cheap comeback or stab. But maybe you don't have enough common since to think that it may have been a typo.. Not a direct reflection of the persons ability to speak or spell."

Just cause you asked for it...it's SENSE, NOT SINCE.

And the people that said that building is not near the highway are correct...it's off Monroe Street.

The people who say their aren't many jobs are right---there aren't. But you know what, Hutch really isn't that bad! I know of and have been to many "cities" that are much, much worse.Kr

Kansan: 7th Aug 2007 - 20:27 GMT

I just want to say I have a great job in Hutchinson. Anyone who has been to Hutch knows these photos are not all there is to the town. I don't think Hutch deserves this ranking, but then again, this list is questionable anyway. The comments on this site are very entertaining, though!

cbdi: 7th Aug 2007 - 20:36 GMT

proud2serve: if you think dave kerr and the chamber will get anything done you are in for a surprise. what did kerr do for reno county when he was a state senator representing reno county for 20 years. he gets a nice state pension, a check for being president of the chamber, and is building a multi-million dollar ethanol plant in rice county. get past the "spin" they try to spoon feed you and start doing some research on kerr's record re; reno county, the "real" facts about ethanol and subsidies and you may have the same questions that the chamber and it's execs are not wanting to talk about. who needs them! this town will never be what they are trying to promote. any one with any sense that has been anywhere around the country laugh at the feeble attempts these leaders come up with. there is not enough space or time to rant on about this town, it has been left in the dust and will never be what it once was.

Dojo: 7th Aug 2007 - 21:13 GMT

With all due respect to the above posters, I'm also from Hutchinson, and I couldn't agree more that its a shithole infested with worthless humans following pointless lives. I just can't wait to turn 18 and move out of here! Literally, I'm gone the second midnight of my 18th birthday comes. And it can't come soon enough.

DITTO: 7th Aug 2007 - 22:07 GMT

Has anyone paid attention to the people in this town? FAT mega beasts setting around eating pizza a Cici's Pizza or one of the other major buffets in town. I noticed that someone has posted about the large amount of low income housing projects in town. I would like to bring light to the large amount of nursing homes! MY GOD! They keep builing more and more.

To all of you posters that are Pro-Hutchinson. You must have nothing better to do than sit around and prop Hutchinson Kansas up. Because your life is meaningless and you have been left behind just like Hutchinson.

cowgirl82: 8th Aug 2007 - 05:31 GMT

Yes Hutch can be very boring. But we do have a few things to do. And the person that said the Hidden village was low income housing...not even...I used to live there and I am paying less to live in a four bedroom house now. We do need a lot more things to do. For one we need to have somewhere for young people to hang out that will actually stay in business. But we need more big companies first. Unfortunantly that will probably never happen due to the facdt that people here are so stubborn. There are good points and bad points to every city or town. Some people just choose to look over the bad if they are truly happy in that place. Others move on and find somewhere they can be happy. And they could have shown a few more pics. The ones here are all in residential neighborhoods...never to exciting.

blah is good: 9th Aug 2007 - 03:35 GMT

Drugs, drinking, crime, unemployment - doesn't sound boring to me. Boring is under-rated.

City Council's Fault: 10th Aug 2007 - 00:52 GMT

The City Council in Hutchinson will NOT do anything that the citizens want done. Hundreds of people can complain about fireworks in the city limits, stop lights being taken down around the busy post office, vandalism, and so much more. This town does not cater to the residents who live here, our opinions mean nothing!! The City does what they want to do, not what is good for the citizens of Hutchinson. Until they pull their heads out of their asses and realize the citizens have good ideas for change, nothing will ever change. Let's throw the people in charge, out of charge.

Not from Hutch anymore: 12th Aug 2007 - 03:18 GMT

I would like to say that I do not live in Hutchinson anymore. I have, however, lived all over the country since I left. This includes New York, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Florida, Texas, Arizona, and Colorado to name a few. Let me tell you, if most of you had experienced life in other parts of the country, and reading a few of your comments I would say most of you are under the age of 25 and dying to get out of the city, you would not be so quick to mark down Hutchinson. While it is in the Midwest, which I would say is entirely being affected by the flight to larger cities, there are many qualities that I respect. Hutchinson provides a stable living environment for families and others, a respectable school system (I am a graduate student so I turned out ok),public and school activities, good public recreation and recreational systems, cheap (yes, I say CHEAP! Move to CA if you have a complaint about housing) housing. Don't complain about the drug problem until you REALLY know what a drug infested city is (LA). To be boring, as you mature, you realize means safe, secure and a stable environment. You make your life as "exciting" as you want it to, it doesn't matter where you live. Life on the streets of New York City can be just as boring as life in Hutch. Trust me, I know. The question is, is your life what you want it to be? The town doesn't matter, you will always find fault with where you are, it is your attitude that counts. And no, I don't live in Hutch anymore and realize there are many problems, but make your life what you can, regardless where you are. In retrospect, Hutch is a pretty good place to be.

Hutch=LOW INCOME: 12th Aug 2007 - 14:39 GMT

I question people like you who list these many cities they have lived in. You must travel alot, because if you lived in that vast number of cities you must stay for less than a year at a time. This tells me that you would have a hard to getting to know the city before you left.

All you have to do is look at Hutchinson like this. Compare it to Mcpherson, Salina, Manhattan, Newton, Kansas City, Springfield MO and Joplin MO. These cities offer a safe living area, things to do and the most important of all JOBS! Hutchinson has job but they are low paying. Manufacturing jobs and other jobs that produce $18.00 per hour or more do not exist in Hutchinson. If you want to work in a nursing home or Mcdonalds then every thing is great.

I am a business owner and a pretty successful one. However if I counted on Hutchinson for my revenue I would be screwed. Hutchinson's residence cannot spend money they do not have. The majority of the residence in Hutchinson are just making it, affording luxuries is not something they can do. Plus there is a large large part of this town that survives off gov't paychecks.

A few things that make Hutch special: 12th Aug 2007 - 19:51 GMT

Let's see, we have the Hutchinson Salt Museum (the only one in the Western hemisphere), Senior's Open and the Women's Open (famous golf tournaments if you didn't know), NJCAA (basketball tournament again, if you didn't know what that is), Kansas Cosmosphere, Kansas State Fair, car racing, Fun Valley Sports Complex (many baseball/softball/fast pitch teams visit each year), Hutchinson High School football team has won the state champanionship three years in a row (doesn't sound like they're bored), Fox Theater (brings in plays from all over the country), Children's Flag Theater, Grand Prairie Splashdown (indoor water park), Salt City Spash and the YMCA. Guess if you don't like doing any of these things, maybe it would be boring. You challenged someone to find 5 things that make Hutch "special", well, we found around 15 things we feel make Hutch special, which isn't bad for a small town. As other's have posted, you can take pictures of the worst part of any town and project the image you have of it but there is so much more to it than what you projected. As I've always said, if you're bored, your the one not looking for something to do. Anyway, this is only my opnion.

Hutch=LOW INCOME: 12th Aug 2007 - 22:42 GMT

The person that posted the "special" things about Hutchinson. Let me ask you a question. DO ANY OF THESE THINGS BRING EMPLOYMENT ON A LARGE SCALE BASIS THAT PAYS OVER MINIMUM WAGE??? NO!!! AND ALSO I SUPPOSE THAT NO OTHER TOWN THE SIZE OF HUTCHINSON HAS MUSEUMS AND WATER PARKS? THAT IS WHAT MAKES THIS TOWN A SHIT HOLE IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU!

You are to stuck up and ignorant to see that we can have all the little attractions in the world and it will not cause this city to grow! People will come and see the stupid attractions ONCE and never come back!

Look at Sturgis South Dakota, it has one of the most well known attractions in the world and it is not growing. People come in spend some money and leave! But this is on a much larger scale then Hutchinson's great attactions. Yet still the town does not grow.

Now look at Kansas City. This town has made an attempt to bring in large business and has done well. It is growing and people are spending money. In HUTCHINSON THEY ARE NOT, unless you count wal-mart. The vast majority of this town is financial broke and cannot afford to leave that is the only reason they stay. I personally know more people that have had to leave Hutchinson because they could not find a job that pays well, they are forced to leave before they lose everything!

THE POINT IS, you have have all the State Fairs, Underground salt shit and space museums. This does not pay the bills. Hutchinson has a poor economy if you compare it to any town that has industry that supports employees. Keep in mind when I am speaking of employment I am not speaking of Mcdonalds, Arbys, Walmart, officemax or the cosmosphere.

Plains of Despair: 20th Aug 2007 - 19:21 GMT

Hutchinson Kansas Sucks=Plains of Despair

Western Kansan: 20th Aug 2007 - 20:14 GMT

If you think Hutch is bad, you should come to western Kansas. Take your pick of Garden City, Liberal, or Dodge City; they are all being taken over by the Mexicans, many of whom are probably illegal immigrants.

After visiting any or all of these cities, Hutch will be very attractive to you!

Plains of Despair: 21st Aug 2007 - 13:23 GMT

Go watch The Factor some more. I can refute your comments. With this statement. HUTCHINSON KANSAS IS SHRINKING. YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY OR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. IT IS YOUR JOB TO PROTECT THIS SEWER OF A CITY.

Why is it that you cannot understand, you said yourself that Hutchinson has a huge population of people living at the poverty line or BELOW! This is enough to make our point and it came from your sphincter of a mouth.

I encourage you, just go people watch. You will see all the Meth heads, crack heads, drunks and losers that make up this great town.

We can all tell that you are an uptight asshole who had to settle for his current position in life. When all else fails move to Hutchinson and that is what you did. You did not have enough talent to land a job outside of Hutchinson.

And as far as opinions.. You have done nothing but spout your own opinion. You have not addressed the problems that curse Hutchinson. You live in make believe land where everything is peaches and cream. THAT IS YOUR OPINION.

The jobs that you listed do not put a dent in the problems in this town. Any town in America and say the same thing. "well we have jobs".

THESE ARE THE FACTS:
1. Hutchinson is a retirement community, which does not accelerate growth.
2. Hutchinson is a substandard town, because of years of mismanagement.
3. Hutchinson has no major interstate and NEVER WILL!
4. Hutchinson is full of drugs.
5. The idiots that run this towm (much like yourself) only do it so they can look special in everyone's eyes.
6. Hutchinson has a substandard Justice system, which has has been full or corruption for hears (i.e sheriff Leslie and other scandals.)
7. Hutchinson has a large population of handicap persons (they cannot hold down a job).
8. Anyone that does get an education in this town, leaves as soon as they get the chance!
9. There is not a large community of educated people to fill any jobs that are highly technical or highly paid.

These are not opinions, These are facts.

You sir are just a puppet in a circus of idiots, doing what he is told to get a paycheck.

one more comment: 22nd Aug 2007 - 22:36 GMT

ok, i got to this site by accident but it caught my attention so I continued to read. I should have gotten out the dictionary to make sure I spell everything right so you dont slam me also. Both sides have valid remarks. I used to hate the town also but that when i was getting in trouble with the law, cheating on my spouse, screwing up at my job and looking for every reason i could to try to get out of here. Funny though - i went to prison for awhile and Hutchinson looked really good when I came home. Ok, so there you go- maybe it is good place for an ex-convict! But now that i dont use drugs, or do anything illegal i have started taking time to enjoy the things that the town has to offer ( not a whole lot) but it is really where i know i will be the rest of my life so i have learned to not try to "escape" to the other side. just deal with it fools! oh, but the idiot that made the remarks about the Mexicans-he must be jealous cuz all they do is work the jobs the white boys wont take because they can draw the welfare check. And.. the Mexicans are paying in taxes and they dont file tax returns so where do the white folks get all the tax money to cover their welfare checks? Right, the illegal immigrants support our welfare system so girls can have babies or drug addicts dont have to work and they can sit back and receive the welfare money ...it is all how you look at it. And fyi- no i am not a Mexican.

one more comment: 22nd Aug 2007 - 22:42 GMT

not that I am sticking up for Hutch because i do know that it has a lot of "respected citizens" that are running most of the government here, and almost all of the boards of directors have the same people on them, the "people with money" and they control almost everything. But i dont think it is probably worse than lots of other towns. the rich people run them too, there are just more of them. so either pack up and leave if you have the education and money to re-locate or put the crack pipe down and get a minimum wage job here in Hutch and enjoy it. Funny though, the druggies in the town think there isnt enough dope here!

John Doe Jr.: 23rd Aug 2007 - 13:31 GMT

That is some of the problem. the PRISON! Hutchinson is a great place for convicts.

Miss Positive.: 23rd Aug 2007 - 14:52 GMT

Those who live in Hutch need to help change Hutch.
What can you do to make Hutchinson a better place? Can you volunteer to plant flowers on a street corner? Can you volunteer to arrange a group to pick up street trash?
Can you get a Christian group to help paint someone's worn down home?
One person can start a program to make Hutchinson a better looking place to live.

Miss LALA LAND: 23rd Aug 2007 - 18:06 GMT

Hutchinson has plenty of people that want to plant flowers and join church groups. That has nothing to do with the bad economy. That is the biggest problem this town has.

How about a christian group to attract a large employer? Or a Christian Group to get people off their asses and stop sucking of hard working tax payers.

saltbake: 24th Aug 2007 - 06:10 GMT

I´m afraid to say that this town is the worst place I´ve ever lived. I grew up in a really small town in South Dakota, and I can say that Hutchinson does not even have the charm of my hometown, which was likewise terrible (about 1200 people).

I´ve lived in Europe for 4 years of my life, and I´ve lived around the United States as well. The Middle West of the United States is one of the dumpiest places in the civilized world, though nobody could have predicted it would turn out that way. And it gets worse when you go south, and Kansas is where that starts.

The problem with Hutchinson, at the bottom of things, is not economy like so many folks are suggesting. The problem is that like the rest of this wasteland, everything was built according to profitable principles. This includes making ugly, crummy buildings. This includes the American concept of excess with space as well... the design of the city cripples social interaction. But this is no different than so many American towns. I can tell you, there are some poor cities out there in the world that are excellent places to live, for example Sevilla, Spain.

I read alot of posts, and I´d like to respond to the fellow that mentioned LA. That guy has no frame of reference, because to compare Hutchinson, Kansas to Los Angeles, California, is like comparing two big pieces of shit.

I´m really sorry, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, for all the people who grow up here and never leave to see how beautiful life can be, to get to know other cultures, to participate in the vast exchange of ideas and cultures that is taking place all over the world. I´m really sorry that people here probably don´t realize the possibilities in front of them. I´m just really sorry for everyone, including myself, that has to be here.

I´m sorry if I offend anyone. Please, if I offend you, let go of your pride and think past the city limits. Nobody can save this city. It started going wrong long before it was built.

La: 24th Aug 2007 - 15:51 GMT

I happen to love Hutchinson.It may not be the prettiest, but the photos you show are from the very worst building in town. Yes we have attractions, a world renowned space museum, the underground salt museum, the Kansas State Fair and on. I am proud to live here and raise my children. I happen to make a very nice living here and live in a nice neighborhood. Maybe you need to get out of the south side for a change and experience some of the good things.

John Doe Jr.: 25th Aug 2007 - 01:01 GMT

Saltbake you had some good points. Hutchinson is a sad place.

John Doe Jr.: 25th Aug 2007 - 01:03 GMT

LA. Hutchinson is a good place to race childem (ok?)AND who cares about that? We are talking about the economy here. Raising children has nothing to do with it. What is someone wants to do something beside raise kids. What would you say then?

John Doe Jr.: 25th Aug 2007 - 01:32 GMT

HEHE... Peter... I am glad to see Hutchinson is not enough of a concern for a CAPITOL "H"

Look here Mr. Fact: 25th Aug 2007 - 15:47 GMT

www.hutchnews.com/Editorials/location Yet something else that we have been saying is true! Hutchinson is falling apart.

Amanda: 28th Aug 2007 - 00:00 GMT

yes hutch maybe lonley and desolant in those photos but hutch has the state fair cosmosphere and lots of other fun things to do and you dont know what hutch is like till youve lived there for 8 yrs...or more!!!!!!!!

mike hawk: 28th Aug 2007 - 21:38 GMT

"FUCK YOURSELF YOU FUCKING NOTHING PUDDLE OF FUCKDEW. YOU DRIPPING STICKY BLEACH SMELLING MASS OF EXTREME UBER-MENTAL RETARDATION. SOUR JIZZ FUCKASSFACE. EAT MY FUCK WITH AN EXTRA SIDE OF FUCK FRIES.
YOU FUCKHOLE."

What Amanda ?: 29th Aug 2007 - 14:40 GMT

That post is a complete explanation of a big majority of the residents of Hutch. You bring up Hutch has "lots of other fun things" FUN DOES NOT PAY BILLS!!!!!!! I have lived here more than 8 yrs. It has gotten so much worse every 8 yrs of living here !!!!!!. I know other places are in trouble also, but if you have worked hard your whole life in this shit hole, you have seen our city officials, ( the complete spectrum of all city employees screw with our money. You start to see the games they play while abusing their place they have been appointed..... Again FUN DOES NOT PAY BILLS. By the way. I am stuck here in this shit hole. yes I have a job, I am on a budget . So I can support the looser people that need to live off us so they can have FUN. OH! this Mike hawk dude that wrote the very colorful and creative post using a certain word starting with the letter [F]: must be a resident of hutchinson ks.; He is just going through a level of frustration, depression, to his braking point. I hope he can hold on.. What your reading is a victim of the city of Hutchinson . He has fallen into the hostage of hutchinson crisis.. And its not FUN!!!!!!......

Bass Girl: 30th Aug 2007 - 15:12 GMT

LOL @ all of the comments made since I last stopped by. I can't help but shake my head when I see people hanging on to the "but we have the Cosmosphere, the free water parks, the museum, the...the..." mindset. Like I've said before, those are attractions that you visit once, and then you've seen it. No need to revisit and revisit, unless you like to stab yourself in the eye with a fork repeatedly too. Besides, you have to have extra money to do a lot of those things anyway, and who has that with the crappy salaries the few jobs here have to offer??

I am in my early 30's, raising a family of 3 in a middle class home, and hoping that my kids don't fall to the entertainment of drugs because of a lack of things to do. It is definitely hard to keep your head up and stay positive after a trip outside of the house. Even my family has noticed a decline in the quality of people here when they visit from out-of-town and go to local businesses. They say our Wal-Mart reflects a pathetic example of what Hutchinson is made up of compared to other cities (like Manhattan, Salina, Emporia).

I could go on and on, but it's really futile to do so. The experts agreed when they came here to stay for 5 years and come up with a plan to grow Hutch......they left after 1 year saying there was no hope.

Bass Girl: 30th Aug 2007 - 20:28 GMT

P.S. Has anyone mentioned the sky high property taxes in this county? I was in the courthouse renewing my car tags, and there was a college-aged guy renewing his tags at the neighboring station. When the clerk told him his total, he looked at the check he was holding and said, "How much again?" She told him again and I heard her say that the taxes in Reno County were a little bit 'different' than the taxes in McPherson County. Apparently his mother had written a check for the total stated on his renewal form.....for McPherson County. He said he would have to come back to take care of his tags and taxes because he did not have enough. How much more did he owe compared to what he would have had to pay in McPherson County??? I heard the clerk figure up that he owed 75 more bucks. My husband had a similar shock when he moved here from Saline County. His car tags/taxes almost doubled. Now why is it that we pay more, yet appear to have less?? Hmmmmmmmm......

Former Salt Hawk: 3rd Sep 2007 - 17:23 GMT

I read this multitude of comments with bemusement, shock and sorrow. I was born and grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, and, like the old familiar Neil Young lyric, "All my memories are there". It is true that Hutch has a drug problem, but what town in America does not? The standard of living also appears to be declining, but that also is probably a State-wide problem and endemic to the agriculture-based states. It is also true that there is not very much to do in Hutch, exept for what I would consider to be more wholesome types of entertainment. But what Hutch has to offer is not found in the variety of entertainment resources. Hutchinson, Kansas is about the people who live there; and I'm not talking about all the losers who have been posting to this response column. I know that sounds harsh, but anyone who professes hate for the community and still lives there can be decribed in no other way. The people in Hutchinson, who make up the backbone of that community, are some of the finest, most decent, and creative people in the world. They have intuited that life is far more meaningful than constant engagement in leisurely distractions such as going to the concerts of big name entertainers. These peple know that the most precious and rewarding aspect of life is casual conversation and daily involvement with people that you love and respect; and they have found the rich bounty of the rewards that come from human interaction. In my view, there is no one more creative than the person who does not need to be entertained. So I am shocked to see how many people from Hutchinson have posted to this response column with nothing but anger an venom in their spirits that has somehow become directed toward the community. And I am saddened to see the place where I grew up, a place where many people that I love and respect still live, to become the focus of such ridicule.

Yahoo!: 3rd Sep 2007 - 23:14 GMT

Hutchinson Kansas is a bad place period. Again Hutchinson has lost more chances for employment. It will not change. Hutch may have some good people in it. But it has far MORE SHIT.

observer: 6th Sep 2007 - 19:30 GMT

leaving Hutchinson, Kansas about 20 years ago was a decision i've never regretted.The mindset of the business community is that you OWE them for a minimum wage existence.GOOD jobs are hard to find and unless your'e related by blood or politics --you will not advance in any meaningful way.Don't make the mistake of giving this town your youthful and best years. Get out while you can! The economy is not set up for the working average Joe. Everything seems to be slanted to keep the "old order" of things firmly fixed. There is a wide boundry between "UPPER CLASS" and "lower class". The "middle class" element is very small and continues to diminish. Wal-Mart,nursing homes,liquor stores,the medical community, pawn shops,pay-day loan firms, credit collection agencies and the like appear to be prospering. Fast food joints are in abundance. Granted -Hutchinson has some good qualities; but unless you are "born and bred" here you will not-"fit in" Enough said.If you enjoy golf you will find a wealth of it-also a wealth of politicl B.S. that you will also enjoy!Hindsight is always 20-20.Let the "city fathers" have it!!!

HushUp: 6th Sep 2007 - 23:39 GMT

Is all the messages a person tries to leave show up as spam?

HushUp: 7th Sep 2007 - 00:11 GMT

Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I want to prove a point.

I wasn't born in this city. I moved here for the first time in 1990 and left after 2 years of pure hell. I have lived in Phoenix, LA, Dallas, Kansas City and Europe (5 years). I moved back here because my husband is originally from here and all of his family is here. I wasn't in the least bit thrilled about moving back here, just for the record, but it was based on a previous bad experience that I didn't want to feel like I was going to have to relive over and over. I agreed to come back here, only because of a certain situation. Prior to moving back here, I was living in Kansas City. Now for the person that compared Hutchinson to Kansas City, just so you know, Kansas City (on the Missouri side) is without a doubt the most drug infested and gang infested place I have ever been to, next to LA. The reason I left Kansas City? My son, 16 at the time, his best friend was shot by gang members. Although they were gang members, they went looking for my son and his friend because some kids at school didn't like them, so they told these gang members that my son and his friend called the cops on them, which wasn't true. So my son's friend is dead. You better believe we left and left quickly, it was enough to have SWAT at our apartment complex on a weekly basis, and that is without exaggeration. The drugs up there are worse than Hutchinson could ever think of being. At least here all you have are 'gang wannabees'; which if they were to go to Kansas City, I'm relatively sure they would be killed inside of a month. Sure it's nice in Kansas City if you live in one of the richest counties in America, which happens to be where Olathe and Overland Park are, good luck affording the cost of living though, on a medium income. Otherwise you are stuck in the area's that I described above, whether you like it or not. I'm well educated and had an incredible job as a Regional Manager, so you aren't talking to someone who is in the least bit interested in hearing all of the 'uneducated' guesses at what a city should or shouldn't do, if they aren't willing to stand up and do something about it. You want to do something about the problems, GREAT DO IT!! If not, then you have absolutely no right to be an armchair politician and voice your opinion and spread hatred. No I'm not some rich person, My husband makes average wages around here, and currently I'm unemployed (my choice). For all the armchair politicians out there though, I took the liberty of putting together a list JUST FOR YOU (although i'm not sure why i'm wasting my time); this is a list of all the companies in this city and the number of employee's they have here as of last year; the list does NOT include companies that have LESS than 150 employees.

Hutchinson Hospital - 1536
Dillons Companies - 1,098
Hutchinson Public Schools - 939
Hutchinson Clinic - 610
Tyson Prepared Foods (omg a manufacturing company??) 536
Hutchinson Correctional Facility - 508
Reno County - 420
Wal-Mart SuperCenter - 420
City of Hutchinson - 398 (as you can see they are not largest employer in Hutchinson)
Hutchinson Community College - 340
Lowen Corporation (oh no not ANOTHER MANUFACTURER) 330
Collins Industries (WOW ANOTHER MANUFACTURER?) 300
Eaton Corporation (I just cannot believe it; another manufacturer - well what do you know?) 300
Wesley Towers - Health Care/Retirement 260
Data Center - 240
Mega Manufacturing (Metal Fabrication MANUFACTURER) - 225
Mennonite Manor - 219
The Medical Center - 190
Krause Corporation (yes you guessed it; another manufacturer) - 171
TECH - Education & Training for Special needs; although you guys like to refer to the people that need these services as retards, the majority of their students are brought from out of town because of the program TECH has to offer them; I hope you never have a family member that needs their help since you seem to hate them so much. - 169 employees
Kroger Convenience Stores Division (Corporate office) 168
Portfolio Recovery Associates (i would bet this bothers some of you because i'm sure they have had occasion to call you to collect money from you and that is why you're so upset; get over it, they are needed for thieves and dead beats) - 165
APAC-Kansas Inc. Commerical Contractors- 156
First National Bank of Hutchinson - 150

Ok, so am I making my point yet? What the hell will make you happy? To see an entire list of MANUFACTURING COMPANIES on here that will bring people to this city and we wind up like Wichita? Where the crime rate is so high for such a small city; Is that what you people want? Or do you want to suck it up and realize that there is more out there than what you realize, but it's people like you that are purposely making things worse, because we don't fit into YOUR idea of what A PERFECT city should be. Friend of your idea of a perfect city is Kansas City, HAVE A NICE LIFE AND I WILL TAKE HUTCHINSON ANYTIME. By the way, although I have a college education, my husband doesn't, and neither do any of my kids, but they don't seem to have a problem finding a job here that pays enough for them to live comfortably. You people are just too greedy, that's all your problem is.
Have a nice day, and either do something about it, or hush up.

HushUp: 7th Sep 2007 - 00:35 GMT

Oh, and by the way, that list was only about 25 companies; and of those 25 they are employing over 10,000 people around here. Excuse me, they aren't all manufacturing companies, but I happen to be ok with that, and apparently at least 10 thousand others do too. And just for the correction, I had written about my son and his friend; I put in there they were gang members, that was a typo (please forgive my lack of education and lack of editing skills) - but no they were NOT gang members.

I'm not saying this town is perfect, I'm not saying we don't need more business in here, but what I am saying, is you have a right to vote, you have a right to help make changes, no matter how corrupt you think (and I think) this city is; we all know who runs this city, there is no doubt about that, but instead of looking at what we are lacking, and how bad it is how about people start getting off the backs of the elderly and the handicapp, and put heads together to see what can be done. I would love to see this city grow as well, but within reason, I certainly would hate to see this city get as big as Wichita, because like others around here, I enjoy being able to walk out to my car without fear, and sleep at night without constant sirens going off from police cars.

I think it would behoove the city to offer better tax cuts for businesses wanting to move in, although I know no city likes doing that but if they did it they could still reap the rewards by boosting the economy either way they would get tax money (and Lord knows we all know the taxes are incredibly high here).
The cost of living here is about 80% of the national average, which I think is too high for a city this small as well for no more than they have to offer.
I was watching the city council last summer, talk to a group of individuals who didn't want their taxes raised in order for new development next to their property. One of the City Councilmen (which i won't say his name) - told them they can say what they want, but he already had his mind made up, so it didn't matter. The only reason why they were allowing the people in that neighborhood to speak was because of protocol. I would highly suggest getting individuals off of the City Council that have that mindset, it hurts the city more than help it.
Our country has always had a majority rules society. There is always a loophole for most anything, and that includes getting people off of the council if they are not performing their jobs in the capacity that they were hired to do. You can start with petitions or I'm sure there are plenty of avenues to go.

With that, I'll shut up now, just some things to consider and think about. Thanks for your time.

Re. Hush up: 8th Sep 2007 - 02:42 GMT

If you delt with the economic conditions of this town (LIKE I DO) on an everyday basis you would see the truth. Hutchinson is a low income area! PERIOD!

Why do you demand attention, you know you are fighting an up hill battle. Hutchinson is not the worst place in the world, but it is not the best. You must have nothing better to do than defend Hutchinson.

By the way, Did you read the artical in the Hutch news about why the petrochemical company overlooked Hutchinson??? No interstate highway and other factors.

I live in Brooklyn NY now, I bet you think this is a dangerous city. I walk down the street every night from work. Never had a problem. You are like the majority of people in the US, making up stories and taking things out of context to suit your needs. Also generating fears that should not exist about large cities. Perhaps the deal with your son and his buddy is not what you see.. 16 year olds and stretch the truth to suit their needs also. Perhaps you did not hear the side of the ¨gang member

why not: 8th Sep 2007 - 15:50 GMT

Why not place a large meat-processing plant in Hutchinson? It would create lots of decent paying jobs and enlarge the tax base as well.Empty apartments would be a thing of the past and overall business would most certainly increase.Thanks for listening.

Big Momma Becky: 10th Sep 2007 - 17:38 GMT

I am going to straddle the fence,so to speak,about my hometown,which happens to be Hutch. I am a middle aged woman,so someone younger might not have my same opinion,which is understandable. I have lived here my entire 53 years,so I know what I am talking about. Yes Hutch is dying. Anyone who disagrees just needs to go out to the mall and see how many empty spaces there are. The mall used to be so festive and fun,especially at christmas,with all the decorations,and Chris Moose. What the hell happened to Chris Moose? He even left Hutch,for petes sake!!! Downtown is and has been dead for years. I remember when a person would have to drive around the block over and over again to find a parking space,you dont see that anymore. Look at how our phone book is shrinking,that in its self tells you all you need to know. If you cant remember how big our phone books used to be,go to the library,upstairs,in the Kansas room,and compare what the phone books looked like 10,20,30 years ago. Yes,Hutch is dying. I really do not know what has kept me here all these years. I guess I am afraid of change. Plus I do like the big beautiful trees here, the Antique district is pretty cool,Hutch does have some good restaurants for a town this size,we do have a fun and entertaining coffee shop,some pretty cool bars,if that is your thing. Plus many beautiful churches to choose from to attend,if that is your thing. I really do not know what this town has to offer for our younger folks,that has always been a problem. The skate park and Salt City Splash is only a seasonal thing,so what are our pre-teens and teens supposed to do? I ran into that problem years ago myself,nothing to do. So I got high. Honestly,if there would have been something around this town to keep me occupied,I probably would have chose a different recreation, but there was none. I think thats why drugs and alcohol are such a problem in Hutch,there is nothing to offer our youth here. Hutch has its good points and its bad points.I love the Houston Whiteside area, Hutch has some grand homes. Its fun to walk around and look at the beautiful older homes,but again,something like this would probably not be fun for a younger person. I have been a single mother most of the time I raised my daughters,I have been able to buy a modest home and a new car on my income,and my income alone, I have just recently sent my 17 year old to Hutch Jucco as a full time student,she evidently got a good education here because she was through with High School and enrolled at Jucco at 16 and now attending at 17. And you know what??? I have made my living working in Nursing homes and no where else. Yes nursing homes. I am not a nurse making big bucks, I am a CNA-CMA and have made a halfway decent living off of it for over 20 years. I really have rambled on enough. I guess my point is,is that Hutch has its good with its bad,like all places do.

Big Momma Becky: 10th Sep 2007 - 17:46 GMT

Oh I almost forgot. Our new slogan should be "Come to Hutch,its a BLAST" or "Come to Hutch,its a GAS" I know this is a cheap shot,sorry.

Born in Hutchinson: 11th Sep 2007 - 04:36 GMT

That weird church/apartment building you describe used to be called St. Elizabeth's Mercy Hospital. I was born there.
I lived for several years about three blocks east of that building, in a very nice neighborhood. I have very wonderful memories of that town, but also very dark memories as well.
I left Hutchinson in 1978 and I've been back only three times. It now feels flat and baked, almost shrunken.
The downtown is a pathetic shell of what it used to be, but I have memories going back to the late 60's, when there were still department stores downtown and a Woolworth lunch counter. For a kid who didn't know anything else, it was exciting to go downtown.
But like everyone else I yearned for the big city and I got out, living in various big cities like San Francisco and New York.
I learned that these places can be shitholes, too.
Life is what you make of it. There are no boring towns...only boring people.
Here are some pictures...St. Lizzies in her heyday and the Wiley building, ca. 1930's.

Bass Girl: 12th Sep 2007 - 15:41 GMT

I love those old photos above! It's good to see Hutch had a good start. I wonder what happened?

I had an interesting visit with a neighbor who has been trying to get something wonderful started for kids and teens. He has been working on this project for about 5 years. In that coversation, it was mentioned how hard it is for change and "new" to come into Hutch. Since the city won't budge on giving new developments a tax break (can you blame them for asking since Reno Co. is the 2nd highest in the state?), we've missed out on quite a few new job ops. Dell wanted to put a call center here, but the city wouldn't work with them. Hospira, now located in McPherson, was originally wanting to locate here, but the city wouldn't budge for them either. Many years ago, when Hutch was asked if they'd rather have a State Fair, or a State College, look at what they chose. What the ???? And Eaton.... still clinging to life here after weeks of begging them to stay....

Sure, as mentioned above, there are 10,000 jobs occupied in major companies in Hutch right now. What about the other 30,000 people living here? Granted, some of that population includes children, but given the average age of habitants is 40+ here, they probably don't make up very much of that 30,000. Some of those people are working the random lower salaried jobs (most likely floating around min. wage), which forces them to depend on the state (our tax dollars) to provide the gap between what they make and what it takes to live above poverty level here. Employers (mostly owned by deep-rooted money) are not willing to pay more when they aren't given any incentive too - such as new comapanies with the same type of jobs that are willing to pay more and put a little competition in the market.

I've noticed there is a new group starting - the Young Professionals Association. I could not make it to their initial meeting, but if they are about making Hutchinson an improved city, and not a dieing one, then I am all for it. I just hope the "old money" and City Council are willing to go along with fresh ideas. Historically, they have not. I wonder if any of them read this post?????? Maybe someone should email them the link so they can see what residents REALLY think, and then take that to heart.....

HushUp: 12th Sep 2007 - 19:46 GMT

For the person who thinks that someone should ask the side of the 'Gang Member' on why they shot and killed my son's friend - It's obvious you have no clue what it's like to live in a City that suffers - so I think anything further you have to say from this point on is irrelevant. Maybe you didn't understand what I was saying, so let me say it again, I never said that Hutchinson wasn't a dying city (learn to read), what I said was it doesn't have to have or be over run with Large Manufacturing Companies in order to survive. There are other avenues to go. No, I'm not defending Hutchinson, but I'm not willing to sit back and watch low lifes make their pathetic posts about this city in which they DON'T LIVE - I'm not sure why you would want to try and condemn this city over and over and over. You must be the one that posted those ridiculous pictures about Hutch as well at the begining of this thread. Go back to your city, and let the people of this city try and do something about it. Your anger and frustration does no good to anyone to try and help solve any problems.

As for the others that posted in this thread - I think it would be a great idea to send a copy of this link to the City Council, they need to know what a small handful of people think of how they handle themselves around here. I was watching them on t.v. the other day talk about some woman and her daycare, and how it is she didn't 'care' to show up at the City Council Meeting, and how they would never send their kids to her daycare because she doesn't care. I think them voicing their personal opinions in a public forum like that, instead of just moving on with their next agenda should be cause for City Council Members to be removed from their seats. It was a statement that was uncalled for. I know a person who know's the woman that was trying to open that Daycare Center up, she said the reason the woman didn't go was because the City Council had already denied her the license because of no off street parking, the City denied her AFTER the City Engineer said it would be fine - seem's to me the City works against itself instead of working together. So why would the woman show up in front of the City Council Meeting? What? So they can tell her to her face 'NO'? It's rediculous - I wouldn't have gone either. Apparently they told her she had to have a significant plan for parking before they would change their mind about her permit.

The problems with this City, start with the City Council, and it's time for a drastic change. People are right, it is a dying city, but it can be stopped if the right people are in place.

Yes we lost out on another company due to lack of Interstate Access, that's to be expected by large Companies. The City has been taking steps, such as expanding 96 Hwy out like they have, and their plans for 61hwy to McPherson.

As for the companies that I listed - and talking about the 10,000 people that are employed, the only point was, that was only 25 companies here in Hutchinson that are employing more than 150 people - that doesn't include all of the other companies that we have in town that employ less than 150, but I understand your concern, and your right, there are a lot of people that are unemployed.
Just by chance (and not because I get into the middle of anything) I know a little bit of the revitalizing of downtown, and am excited about what they are wanting to do down there. Although it's not enough to bring in jobs, it is a start.

I don't see Hutchinson as having any other problems as any other major city - they all have attractions that you visit once and then your done, or they have seasonal type entertainment for our kids. Growing up in L.A. and Phoenix (for me), it was no different there either, except if they did have more to do it was too expensive for our family to really enjoy (like a majority of the population there as well).

My kids aren't into drugs or anything like that here (and yes I have one left at home that is a teenager). He seems to find things to do with his friends that quite frankly I think are creative, and don't always involve the computer, t.v., or video games. Seriously, think about it, what did you use to do when you were a teenager? Ride bikes, hang out with friends, go to parties, go to the mall, go to the park (winter is always a cause for cabin fever, not just with adults; lol).. I just don't see that much difference. Although I don't have my head in the sand either, I do know there is a huge drug problem here as well. My son and I both try hard to show kids that they can have fun without drugs and alcohol. He makes pacts with other kids not to smoke dope and do drugs or they beat eachother up if they do, that kind of thing (that was suppose to be a joke).

Anyway, it is good to see others from Hutch posting on here (and trying to be positive without ignoring the truth).

As for those who don't live here, who want to bash this city. If you are so concerned about it, how about giving some idea's. You seem to be really good with your words and bashing, lets see how good you are with your words in a positive note, ok? Just an idea.

Have fun :)

Re : Hushup: 12th Sep 2007 - 23:04 GMT

First of all I live in Hutchinson. I do not bring up points that are pointless or stabbing. I am only trying to show this town has many problems. It is not the happy little haven of prosperity that you try and convey.

It is a drug infested, crime infested, low income, low education town that THINKS it is something it is not! Every attempt that is made at getting this town on track is screwed off by people like yourself who try and ignore the REAL truth! You talk about people being ignorant... let me ask you a question... WHY ARE YOU IN HUTCHINSON? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LEAVE LA AND OTHER GREAT CITIES!

BTW I currently reside in Hutchinson, I am a Network administrator for a major telecom firm. I only live in Hutchinson because it is a midway point between the East and West Coasts, Where the economy is!

Bulls**t: 13th Sep 2007 - 18:25 GMT

I live in Hutch, Wish I didn't. I keep praying for the day that I will be able to afford to leave this toilet skid mark. I am going to an online college so that I can get the hell out! I am hoping to land a job in KC or Springfield.

Mega mommas: 13th Sep 2007 - 20:08 GMT

I was looking around on the internet for women In Hutchinson. I noticed on all the the dating sites and bars (other places also) that the wide majority of the ladies are fat? Why is that? This is not a town for singles, that is unless you like fat ladies.

Big Momma Becky: 14th Sep 2007 - 00:43 GMT

There are other ways to find women here in Hutch. Join a singles group,join a church,walk around the mall or the park,etc. The women you meet in bars are probably drinking too much beer,thats why they are fat. I guess if you dont like fat women,you can always find you a skinney meth head woman,which everyone seems to think this town is full of.

jeeff: 14th Sep 2007 - 15:15 GMT

well, all you lovers and haters of hutch can be comforted by one thing at least. through citynoise, hutchinson has finally achieved some worldwide fame. this thread just keeps going and going and going...

Joe: 14th Sep 2007 - 18:01 GMT

I know it just show how bad this town really is.

Hutchinson Come share our space, because we have lots of it!

Hutchinson Sucks: 14th Sep 2007 - 18:09 GMT

Let me just restate what Donald Walters said above--

I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special". And not stuff like "it's a good town! the people are cool!" but real, specific things.

I find it very telling that with all the comments here, no one has been able (or willing) to do this. As a matter of fact, I live in Hitchinson, and can't even do it! This town really sucks that much.

Big Momma Becky: 15th Sep 2007 - 01:26 GMT

Got me there!!! I'm having a hard time comming up with 10 myself. Does suck when you think about it. Come on people, help us out. My 17 year old daughter is comming up with a few of the usuals,but she also is having a hard time comming up with 10.

Momma' Becky's daughter: 15th Sep 2007 - 02:10 GMT

Well, I actually Don't think that Hutchinson Is all THAT terrible... I mean, I know it's really not a whole lotta' fun, and there isn't much to do here... but the beauty of becoming an adult is, getting a job, and moving the heck away! You don't HAVE to be stuck here all your life. If you hate it so bad. THEN MOVE. Yes, indeed, Hutch is some-what a retirement community, a lot of old farts do live here, and yeah, there is a lot of nursing homes, but thank god for those nursing homes because a lot of people would otherwise be stuck with relatives that they couldn't possibly take care of themselves. It has it's good, and it's bad. Yeah, places like Wichita Kansas are a lot FUNNER, but also more drugs run through there (partly because it's a bigger city I suppose) More gangs are there, and much more violence. Yeah, I know this site is "Boring Hutchinson," But that isn't the same as "Terribly God-Awful Fuckinson Kansas." This place is my home. Yes drugs do run through here, But If you have a problem with it, don't associate your self with it, rise above the drugs, get a great job, and focus on something worth your time. A few of the things I PERSONALLY like about Hutchinson are:
1. The Kansas State Fair. We hold the state fair year after year, and it's one of the highlights of the year. Instead of turning to drugs to get my dopamine production up, I turn to "natural" highs. Mind blowing fair rides such as the TWISTER. Fun, fun, fun...
2. We have the Cosmos Fair,which has the 2nd largest collection of US space artifacts in the world, second only to the National Air and Space Museum. That's pretty cool. Take your kids to The Kansas cosmosphere and teach them something interesting! Kids Love to hear about space.
And while I can't come up with 10 GREAT things about Hutchinson, I can come up with many that I personally Enjoy. I Like Swimming, And we have the Salt City Splash here. It has fun slides, a Great Kiddy Pool and infant area, as well as a lap pool, and a low dive, high dive, and red "shoot" slide. Not to mention the best Stuffed pretzles and pickels ever. That's not boring, It's a whole lotta' fun in my opinion.
I Guess my point Is, while Our logo might Not Be "Hutchin-FUN" we aren't all that bad. We have things people like, and things people dislike, just like any other place!

Yoda: 16th Sep 2007 - 23:32 GMT

You are so wise for your age of 17. Your parents must be so proud. To bad all the points you have brought to light have been stated many times on this forum. Sure the Cosmosphere and the Fair... But really who cares?

Big Momma Becky: 17th Sep 2007 - 05:04 GMT

Bless her,but personally I cant stand the fair and all the traffic and dust and all the bullshit associated with it.

Limmpy: 18th Sep 2007 - 14:15 GMT

I tell you want, just go to walmart and see the quality of the Hutchinson People.

Also, I just read the Hutchnews about the housing market! I cannot believe what I was reading. Hutchinson is not having a problem in the housing market? It is not suffering as EVERY other city in the US is. If anything the reason that it has not be hurt is because it SUCKED to begin with!

average joe: 19th Sep 2007 - 07:15 GMT

it's fairly easy to make people believe that hutch is a shithole, well for one because it is,but yet you only show photos of a building on 20th and monroe. thats where the AA meetings are held at and lets face it no building where alcoholics go is going to be in good shape. Other than that i actually live in that neighborhood and its quite nice. if you were to show pictures of downtown past ave. A then you could have been more believable 'cause lets, well thats where all the meth head tweekers live and the never know how to keep shit nice. hutch is slowly trying to make it look better but i still don't think that will hell with the shitty ass crooked cops that are there. even the shelter where children who get taken from there home because they are victims of neglect by their parents get treated like shit by the staff, who might i add are a bunch cock suckers who abuse their power just like the police in hutch. it's like if your not ritch then your looked down on by everyone and if you ask me that just isn't right. So i guess in a sense i disagree with you about the looks and the boredum of hutch, but then again it's judicial system is what makes it so fucked up.

Choad: 19th Sep 2007 - 13:45 GMT

Thank GOD THE FAIR IS GONE!! What is joke! THE KANSAS STATE FAIR, FULL OF THE ELDERLY AND RETARDED! (also the unemployed)

defandum: 20th Sep 2007 - 15:34 GMT

regarding Hutchinson; Time will tell,and shit will smell!

Choad: 20th Sep 2007 - 20:10 GMT

What are you talking about, Hutchinson Already smells like white trash and shit.

observer: 21st Sep 2007 - 22:58 GMT

through the years i've known many great people in Hutchinson.Sadly, most of them are gone now but memories of them remain close. There also are people in Hutchinson whom I learned to loathe.You will not find a shortage of these small-minded,petty politically motivated individuals either.Some little people enjoy others hardship,struggles and failures. This is human nature. It has always been so.Hutchonians just seem to project an attitude of false superiority to other persons they deem "below their class" I am glad to be seperated from the depressive stress of this community.I left years ago.Good luck to all who are caught in this cycle of despair!

Big Momma Becky: 1st Oct 2007 - 04:12 GMT

This post is dying out,just like Hutchinson.

Choad: 1st Oct 2007 - 16:31 GMT

Yes, it is much like Hutchinson. Nothing but nothing. Hutchinson KANSAS sucks, now that I think of it, Hutchinson AND Kansas Sucks.

Yeah I live in Hutch, so what.: 3rd Oct 2007 - 17:57 GMT

Quoted earlier: I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special".

I can't name ten traits about ANY town that make it special, but to name a few:

If you like space and aeronautical museums, the Kansas Cosmosphere is one of the best in the country. You can even see the actual Apollo 13 command module there. A new underground salt mine museum has also recently opened. The state fair is a big draw every September. People flock to the NJCAA tournament in March. Several softball, baseball, and basketball tournaments are held in Hutch throughout the year. Not too shabby for a "boring" town.

Personally speaking, I don't know what is so wrong with Hutch that isn't also wrong with Salina or Hays or Dodge City or Manhattan or Emporia or in towns of similar size in neighboring states. If there's anything that makes Hutch truly boring, its that there's nothing terribly exceptional, either good nor bad, about it.

Exactly what is it folks, that Hutch has that makes it "exceptionally boring", or needs to be "not boring"? I mean you can snap photos of abandoned buildings in most any locale.

Choad: 4th Oct 2007 - 14:39 GMT

Re: Yeah I live in Hutch: You have stated the same things that everyone else has. What makes Hutchinson boring to me is the lack of any good looking women. You go anywhere to meet women in Hutchinson and you will find obese women.. That or they are married. Let me ask you, would you go to the cosmosphere twice a week or more? Would it be a social event of any every week.

Also, all the NJCAA does it bring in old retired assholes in Hugh RV's. They don't stay here and even if they did they would just add to the fat old people that rot here already.

Mcpherson, Emporia, Salina and other towns In Kansas Either have Large businesses or a college or both. Hutchinson has very few large companies to speak of (salina has GE so don't compare Collins to Salina) and has a poor excuse for a Junior College.

Basically they way I see it is this, if you fail or are rejected by a larger more progressive city then you can always fall back on Hutchinson.

joe: 4th Oct 2007 - 19:59 GMT

I live in South Hutchinson-I am so poor, hungry, trying to find some more food but I can't get enough food nor emergency help, etc. Please don't move to Hutchinson, Kansas area. I was from Arizona State. I was born at Salina, Kansas. I moved to South Hutchinson. It is very high crime infested, too. Not enough help from Medicaid, etc. Please watch out before you make a big wrong decision. Many wishes.

Hutch Hater Too: 5th Oct 2007 - 03:02 GMT

I agree that Hutchinson is a hell hole. The writer who mentioned how those in charge are nothing but a bunch of snobs is right. Money grubbing, ignorant snobs at that. I'm not just talking city officials but county too! The city and county commissioners are lazy, ignorant, haughty, and out for themselves and no one else. The voters are all too drunk and stoned to even be able to pay attention and notice they are being ripped off. It is too much to ask that they get out and vote the crooks out of office. The few that do notice are quickly silenced by these crooks using taxpayer money. Yes, Hutch is shrinking. That is why the bozos decided to spend millions tearing up a perfectly good Main Street and put in wider sidewalks with benches and flowers that no one uses. It was supposed to draw people to downtown. But alas, they haven't noticed there are no people left to go downtown except the same crooks and snobs who are trying to draw people downtown. Take a drive and you will see taxpayer money being wasted everywhere! Every other street in town can't be driven down because they keep ripping them out and then leaving them tore up for months on end. They put in new street and then a few months later rip out the new street to put in pipe under it and leave it with a poor patch job that throws your car around when you drive over it. Just once I would like to see one so called, "road construction" job get finished before they start tearing the hell out of another street. The greed, incompetence, indifference, self-seeking, and just plain outright arrogance that prevails here is sickening. Yes Hutchinson is a stinking hell hole and the motto,"Come Share Our Space" is just to lure in unsuspecting new meat to prey upon.

defandum: 5th Oct 2007 - 12:17 GMT

The secret to sucess in Hutchinson is to devise a great con-game or lucrative Ponzi scheme.Many have done well with this approach over the years and are doing quite well presently.Research will bear this out. Greed is a driving motivator. There is an abundance of this commodity in Hutch! Good luck in your endeavors to rise socially and financially. Don't forget that in Hutch - money is'nt everything- it's the ONLY thing!

Hutch Hater: 5th Oct 2007 - 18:15 GMT

Hutchinson is a poor ass excuse for a city. What a joke.

hutch sucks: 6th Oct 2007 - 21:19 GMT

i happen to live in this shit hole, or the asshole of the united states. im always afraid im going to run over a crack head at night. im sorry for those who think its awsome but face it, its shit, never mind its better than dodge city, ks. at least it has that i guess

defandum: 7th Oct 2007 - 11:22 GMT

I enjoy the panhandlers in Hutchinson. They are so creative! Have you noticed the advanced works of graffiti taggers? How resouceful and uplifting!Which is it :high art or art when high? O.K. I'm convinced- "Let's go to Hutch motherFutch!

Country Club Snob: 10th Oct 2007 - 01:27 GMT

I have always said Hutch is the negative vortex of the world and having lived on both coast I speak with some knowledge of this. I was born & educated here, left for K-state and was gone for 12 years with marriage & travel. I returned in 1997 to raise my children near family. I will be moving the end of this year back to the west coast. The Hutch I grew up in is gone. I graduated in 1985 so I am not elderly in my recollections. Drugs, they are everywhere. unemployment? IF you want a job you can get one. Most people are to lazy to do a decent days work. The spend their days watching MTV and want to live like a Rock Star. I do see Hutch as a microcosm of the economy at large, a shrinking middle class. I do not pretend to have the answer and I am fortunate I can leave.

think about it: 10th Oct 2007 - 03:06 GMT

hell try living in miami,, go out at night to go to the store and not worrying about geting shot by a drive by,,i swear people,, i view your comments,and laugh, hutch is boring yes i know,, but i know im not going to get shot if i go for a walk at night,,i have lived here for a short time and i am grateful that i can let my kids go outside and play and not worry that they will be shot or abducted,,u can always drive some place around hutch if u are desiring fun,, i lived in dallas, miami, stlouis,, and to go and do anything,, u had to drive 30 min or and hour ,, just to get away from the cities,, how often do you really stay in your town to do anything fun,, think about it

Re: Think about it.: 11th Oct 2007 - 15:08 GMT

Okay, let me break this down for you. Look at www.hutchpd.info and you will see how many shooting that occur in Hutchinson. Not to mention stabbins, meth finds and other "big city" crimes. I live in Brooklyn NY. I walk from work every single night and have never been robbed, shot or even looked at wrong. In Hutchinson I have had cars stolen, houses broke into and meth heads stealing the air conditioning coils from a rental property I own in HutchiSuck...

Also, why did you move from Miami?? Let me guess, You could not afford it! I may be wrong, but it sounds to me like you are a mother or father with 50 kids, who lives on social assistance (which is abundant in Kansas) and moved to Hutchinson to raise your kids.

Noneya: 13th Oct 2007 - 11:24 GMT

Hutch is truly a crime-infested, drug-ridden hell hole. Hutch PD has not the man-power nor the finance to rid this city of its problems. I can speak from experience that Hutch PD has some crooked-ass cops on the payroll. Some cops have been accused of using steroids, others have been accused of dealing drugs while off duty. Whether any of it is true, I don't know... but I will say that the facts do not lie. If you want to clean up this shit-hole of a "city", then start with the police force. That's where it all begins.

Choad: 15th Oct 2007 - 00:54 GMT

Wow, This website is sure getting alot of press. I wonder if any of the city fathers have seen this website.

I think that Hutchinson is full a problems and to all you people trying to defend Hutchinson Just stop it is not worth your time.

flyby: 16th Oct 2007 - 14:54 GMT

Hutch just lost another opportunity ! Air ambulance maintenance went to Newton instead.Greed was probably a factor. Oh well...

Choad: 17th Oct 2007 - 01:34 GMT

livin it up:

All of your thoughts were great! WOW. Hutchinson is shinking. LOOK AT www.census.gov and look at the FACTS. Hutchinson has shunk 2.2 percent in population. Not to mention it has shunk even more in job growth.

Big Momma: 17th Oct 2007 - 05:46 GMT

The new underground salt museum is allready in trouble. Not making any money. This town needs some serious help. Whats the answer?

Tex: 19th Oct 2007 - 17:42 GMT

I was born in Hutchinson, Ks. (in fact it was at the Grace Hospital, which is the second picture from the top). Back in the 70's Hutch was a going jessy, vibrant downtown, lots of people, things to do. It's sad to say about my birthplace, but I have to agree with most of the negative comments that I've seen on this board. The city is nothing like it was 30 years ago. I moved out after college and went to Texas, better paying jobs, more friendly and beautiful women, I couldn't be happier. The first thing the people in Hutch need to do is to fire or vote out of office everyone that is in city and county govt. and the chamber of commerce. They have failed the community miserably, by promoting their own pet projects, and failing to bring industry and jobs to the town. (and I'm talking about jobs that pay better than min. wage!) The city is now basically a city for the elderly, unemployed and parolees and most of the jobs are centered around taking care of those three groups. My advice for those who live there is to get out, things are much better elsewhere and it's past time that you found out!


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browse by city New York, NY (721) Toronto, ON (720) Brooklyn, NY (709) Montreal, QC (376) London, UK (286) complete city list popular articles Ditmas Park from: Peter Coast from: Peter Shad Crossing from: Peter South Philly May 4th: Art, Indicators, People, Etc. from: serlingrod Is America a Hotel from: joey what's hot this month? recent articles I Could'nt Think of a Title for This Because a Pictures Is Worth a Thousand Words. from: jack The Shady Lady of Notre - Dame St. West from: Montrealbunny Understanding the Mungiki from: mnguru Outta My FACE! from: JoeyD Chillin' at The Waterfront from: JoeyD Wedgie!!! from: Montrealbunny South Philly May 4th: Art, Indicators, People, Etc. from: serlingrod Coast from: Peter Time Travelling from: elaine Film Noir-esque Don Valley by Night; Paddle the Don By Day from: Michelle read all today's articles browse by author Peter (738) joey (262) EvilGentleman (261) hool (242) jack (218) complete author list hot topics graffiti Justo Gallego JA One graf trux parkour fuck neck face wheat paste nyc sane smith graf hool sixy harlem banksy brooklyn	America's Most Boring Towns: 10 Hutchinson, KS - Scott Sargent - Thursday, June 29th, 2006 : goo [previous] :: [next] So closed-off and vacant for such a welcoming sight This odd church/apartment building was situated directly across the highway An open door? Let's look inside. It's abandoned Which seems to be the case for most of this town Chairs with no one to sit in them Which seems to be the running theme for Hutchinson, Kansas as a whole. This article has been viewed 98201 times in the last 57 months Peter: 29th Jun 2006 - 14:49 GMT hutchinson, at first glance, looks about as boring as all the other towns, but when i got to the last few photos, it started looking downright creepy... t@ngent: 29th Jun 2006 - 15:16 GMT i like how there's no people in any of these photogravures. Susannah : 30th Jun 2006 - 13:25 GMT I think Belleville seems to be by far the most desolate on the list....is everyone related in these towns? TheHutchinsonCityzen: 8th Jul 2006 - 01:20 GMT Eh, the last photo is the AA hall. It comes alive with people at night, cuz all we have to do here is drink and recover.... Or on days like today, we get to host a thousand rich folks who like to watch golf. A truly telling photo essay. Alexa: wow i live there and umm....its not that bad Chavo: 7th Dec 2006 - 19:32 GMT This is a pretty bad place to live it sucks to live here... If u r suggesting on living here dont. There nuttin to do here. Jerri Lee KlonDYKE: 20th Dec 2006 - 23:39 GMT This town does suck, no changes for employment unless you want to work at arbys, mcdonalds or an old folks home. The police do not do there job and METH is all over the place. Hutchinson is Nothing but DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS and unemployed lazy VERY FAT "MAS GORDO en español" people. tt: 11th Jan 2007 - 15:07 GMT "This odd church/apartment building was situated directly across the highway" It was originally a Hospital, my younger brother was born there... At one time it had a baseball card shop in it. Joan of Ark: 12th Jan 2007 - 21:16 GMT I used to live in Hutchinson Kansas. It is truly just full of trailor trash. Also unemployment in very high. What a pitiful town. Kane: 22nd Mar 2007 - 02:00 GMT yeah those old apartments arent across from the highway.....i live in kansas iman: well there's a reason why people abandon places. Cobi Cipoopbutt: yes, hutch is a POS town. sbfskillz: 4th May 2007 - 02:23 GMT How can you judge a town by a few bad pictures and comments from losers who think that living anywhere else will make them happy or better than anyone else. You dont have drugs in your town? That seems to be a nationwide epidemic that has spread acrooss the US like wildfire. It probably started in your city! Don't be so pathetic to judge when your city is probably full of the same CRAP!! aubie: 4th May 2007 - 03:27 GMT Hutchinson, Kansas is a wonderful place to live the theme is "come share our space" I think it's because we have the Kansas Cosmosphere Space Center located on 11th & Plum. The college is a great place to learn and this is a pErfect place to raise children and the job I obtained is the best one ever~! I make more than ever in my past. I'm not mad because people are hating on Hutch I just want my opinion to be heard speaking from Hutch. Take care and "Come share our Space!" Sally: 4th May 2007 - 19:14 GMT You can go to any town in the USA and shoot photos like this. Part of my family lives there and they are far from trailer trash. We always find something to do and manage to have fun. Why don't you show pictures of the active areas of Hutch? Yo!: 4th May 2007 - 20:56 GMT Hutch is boring! I lived there for over 3 years and it was lame. I wouldn't raise my family there. It is a shrinking town. The high school went from the biggest class to the one right below that. So you tell me if the photos show the real Hutchinson or not. Me: 8th May 2007 - 22:02 GMT Who is this Scott Sargent anyway? There is more in this town than the one building he photographed. CartLegger: 9th May 2007 - 10:37 GMT Scott: Maybe you should incorporate the innovation of Google mapping so we can all know just where all this spatial boredom is located. William Metz: 16th May 2007 - 17:28 GMT Who are these people who are promoting Hutchinson. I have lived here my entire life and it sucks. Plus it is shrinking. Donald Walters: 16th May 2007 - 18:08 GMT I agree. I lived in Hutch until I was twenty two and moved away the split-second that I had saved enough money to do so. Best decision of my life. All you folks here that are getting your undies in a bunch because some other person called our town boring need to open your eyes and realize that the person who posted this makes a very good point. You are all just partial and stubborn. Get out and see the world a little and you'll no doubt agree with me that Hutch is really nothing special. sbfskillz: 17th May 2007 - 16:51 GMT Hutchinson is not a POS town. I have seen the world and lived in many different locations on the globe. To say that Hutch is really nothing special is shallow, and indifferent. I guess everyone has their own opinion. But I still say that, no matter where you live, you can find peace and happiness. .....Hutch is shrinking? Your just being negative. Show me the statistics! Donald Walters: 17th May 2007 - 17:43 GMT I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special". And not stuff like "it's a good town! the people are cool!" but real, specific things. William Bordden: 25th May 2007 - 02:51 GMT If you want stats, go to the hutch news. Look up that job growth stats for last year... It was published in the hutchinson news. Plus if the population of hutch is growing, It must be retards and elderly people. ihatehutch: i live there. it is so freakin boring. Lady Fualk: 6th Jun 2007 - 15:42 GMT Hutchinson is a joke. I wonder why there are so many people posting on this site? I had to search for Hutchinson Kansas Sucks on google to find it.... People must a tired of it. Also I no criminal, but I feel like I am living Nazi Germany with all the police presence in this town. I can drive down the street any time and see unmarked police cars, sheriff and city police. Why is that??? Is this a crime infested sesspool? local : 14th Jun 2007 - 22:28 GMT If the recurring theme is Hutchinson is shrinking then why has there been so much devolpment? From 11th and Hendricks to east 30th ave and everywhere in between. It occurs to me that those who are unhappy with the town will make themselves miserable whatever their location, eyes watering and feeling sorry for themselves in the process. Local ASS: 16th Jun 2007 - 15:46 GMT Hey, Hutchinson is growing! With old folks homes and fat women having worthless children. READ THE HUTCHINSON NEW ASSHOLE. LAST YEAR THE JOB GROWTH IN THIS TOWN WAS 1 JOB!!! WOW it is growing! And yes, Hutchinson is growing with OLD RETIRED ASSHOLES who want to play golf! And Drive slow. Why would anyone move to hutchinson? I don't see any places for good employment, no large plants for people to work at. Also maybe you need to give this a thought... Maybe the old retired asses from Hutchinson are moving from their old houses to new! I know that I am personally from out of a town, and I am going to be moving out of town again. ALso Every town is growing because people are havhing children!!! Look at the facts, there are no good jobs in this town, also if you want facts go to www.census.gov and look at the unemployment rates in Hutchinson. If you factor in all of the retired, retarded and disabled people in this town you will see that 38% of this town does not have a job or cannot have a job! Also, would you care the guess who that largest employer is in Hutchinson? THE CITY!!! It sounds to me that "Local" thinks he/she is doing well. GO TO ANY MAJOR CITY AND COMPARE YOUR LIFE AND INCOME LEVEL TO THOSE CITIES. OPEN YOUR EYES DUMBASS! Local ASS: 16th Jun 2007 - 16:35 GMT I know that theirs plenty of pathetic places to live. Ever day I deal with Hutchinson Kansas, I never got lucky and got out. Hutch is a trash hole,infested with lazy non-working money sucking users. Ask any clerk in a grocery store, they see the lazy money sucking over fed (obese) moms,dads, and children. These state@gov. thieves know how to work the system. they eat,our money up,while we are watching our budget. For our population we have dead people driving around. (to old to drive) . the small percent of hard working people,lucky enough to find a job. The rampant percent 78% of our drug dealers. Our lovely city is a breeding ground for drug dealers. PEOPLE WAKE UP...... our town is a joke!!!!!!!. Why is the drug traffic so big, and we keep putting more police, detectives, etc out on the street.maybe something is not on the level,or someone. It is known in other states ,that hutch has plenty of meth. I just got a positive thought!!!!. I think I'll stay in hutch go on food stamps,eat like a king,and make meth!!!!!. Also I can get doctors for free , when I need diet pills, or my teeth rot out from all the drugs I used. WELCOME TO HUTCHINSON,,,, COME SHARE OUR SPACE local : 18th Jun 2007 - 16:15 GMT Point made. Get the tissue and wipe those eyes. local: 20th Jun 2007 - 14:49 GMT I know Hutchinson is a dumpster.. There ain't Much in Hutch... I don't know why are speak highly of this place... I am retarded salt: 26th Jun 2007 - 01:02 GMT Take a moment and notice how many people who hate Hutch kant rite so good and think the town is soooooo boringk. Can you guess why they were/are so bored/boring? Now, go take a walk in the Dillon's Nature Center. Or visit the old folks--who really do know a lot--at the Delos Smith Center. Have you heard of Delos Smith? Check him out at imdb.com. Or take a walk through Carey Park. Yeah, I've read Mysterious Skin. Have you? Scott Heim writes fiction. He's honest. Hutch is still okay. Read a William Stafford poem about Hutchinson? Have you read William Stafford? Watch a full moon rise over the State Fair. Yeah, the photo shows the grounds closed. You think every theater on Broadway is always open? Man, go have a coffee at Metropolitan Coffee and listen to a band. It's like Austin. Have you been to Austin? Talk to a Mennonite. They're really cool and they like to take care of people who need care. Yeah, that's boring. Have you heard of Darfur? Okay, enough already. You didn't notice that cottonwoods are beautiful? Did you ever read PrairyErth? Ever read a poem by Steven Hind? Ever listen to the wind? I know. It's all crap. It's boring. Life. You. Me. Or. Maybe not? proud2serve: 26th Jun 2007 - 19:42 GMT What about Hutchinson is boring? I really am interested in your thoughts and how we can make it better. What would make it exciting? I know that most young people think that about Hutch but I can't figure out what it is that they would like to do - I like living here and I work for the City of Hutchinson but would really like to pass on to city officials how we can improve it. I would like more nightlife here and there isn't much shopping to do - the mall is fading fast. I do agree there are not many job opportunities and we need more big businesses here but hopefully with Dave Kerr on board with the Chamber - we will see some growth. confused: 27th Jun 2007 - 14:03 GMT The City of Hutchinson is boring for several reasons, 1. NO ECONOMY, NO GOOD attractions. There is plenty of Night Life in Hutchinson, but most of that involves drinking. It has been made very clear that the Hutchinson Police have nothing better to do than wait outside of Bars "nightlife" and get new DUI cases. Not to mention that every bar I have been in and I mean EVERY bar is full a people high on meth! or Cocaine or some type of "energy supplement" (you can see it in their eyes.) Hutchinson is also unsafe! I read every single day about businesses getting ripped off all over Hutchinson. Stolen cars, motor fuel.... the list goes on. These are the facts. 1. Hutchinson Has no job base, this drives the scum of this town to steal. 2. Hutchinson has a small population, this keeps big business out. 3. Hutchinson has a large population of people who simply choose not to work. (get on social services) This also keep big business out because of the lack of educated workforce. 4. Hutchinson has no major interstate running into the city, and Never will... This also keeps the town from growing (look at Mcpherson, Wichita, Newton, Salina, Manhattan, Emporia or any other city along the interstate. Then compare those cities to Hutchinson foremost, Kingman, Pratt... These cities have no major interstates running into them, and they are shrinking. 5. Hutchinson has refused in the past to accept large businesses and refused to give these business a reason to move to Hutchinson. Case in Point: I personally know of several large companies that have wanted to move into to Hutchinson, but the city refused to give them tax discounts if they moved in. This has put Hutchinson on a black list, these business know not to mess with Hutchinson because the people here a stubborn and will not work with them. Hutchinson has made it's own destiny. It is to late and the world and nation has passed it by. Kansas as a whole is not doing well. philly_jawn: 27th Jun 2007 - 16:16 GMT you couldn't pay me to live in a shit-hole like Hutchinton, Kansas returned_farmboy: 29th Jun 2007 - 19:18 GMT I was going to go to all the trouble to refute some claims about Hutchinson made in this post, but then I cam to the realization that: 1) If the author was doing a serious listing of the most boring towns in America, Norman, OK wouldn't have been higher than Hutchinson, and 2) there are plenty of dull towns not in the geographic center of the country. My only guess is that the author isn't as well-travelled as some would think. Honestly, I will agree that Hutchinson isn't the most exciting place in the world, but compared to the major metropolitan area I worked in prior to moving back to Hutch (where I was tired of the daylight murders down the street from my previous employer), it's a worthwhile tradeoff. It's interesting that the worse a person's grammer/spelling is, the less they like their hometown/former hometown. Honestly, I used to think Hutchinson was a crummy town also, but compared to what many people call home (Gary Indiana, Flint Michigan, Camden New Jersey come to mind, as well as most inner cities) it's not really that bad. Finally, any one I've come across that couldn't find a respectable job here were limited more by their personal "attributes" (lazy, slow, etc.) than by their geographic locale. While Hutchinson may have gained only 1 job last year, that's still better than most Plains communities that are off the Interstate system & under 45,000 people. I guess it's all a matter of perspective. Wannabe-Farmboy: 29th Jun 2007 - 22:27 GMT I always love it when someone makes remarks about grammer/spelling. This is a cheap comeback or stab. But maybe you don't have enough common since to think that it may have been a typo.. Not a direct reflection of the persons ability to speak or spell. Yes, it is true that other towns may have the same problem, not a single person here has stated that Hutchinson was the ONLY town like this. My personal dislike for Hutchinson comes not from it's geological location, but it's stubborn community of upper class scum that run this town. They always have. Also the one poster that talked about other town's located in this area and comparing them to Hutchinson was correct. Hutchinson is not as progressive or aggressive in attracting new business, They want to think of Hutchinson as a retirement community/vacation Destination. This does not build a good economic base either, it makes a transient community with low paying jobs. Also who wants to visit Kansas for Vacation? Hutchinson is failing, it has been for years. Despite the supermen and women that are trying to save this town, no one else cares. They are leaving. I get the feeling that Farmboy is an employee for the city. Maybe he is retired. Who cares about how well traveled anyone is? What does this have to do with anything? Facts are Facts. Even the mighty farmboy cannot dispute the facts that have been posted! You can see the proof in the near by towns and cities. (ie. mcpherson, salina etc..) Jersey: 30th Jun 2007 - 14:39 GMT You compared Camden, NJ to Hutchinson. Yes they are both crummy towns, atleast camden NJ has an economy. nothingtown: Hutch Sucks. Get over it. Mr Low Income: 2nd Jul 2007 - 21:55 GMT Well here we are, 8 homeless/Low income housing projects in Hutchinson now. 1. The Clusters 2. The apartments on 11th and Porter 3. Commerce Gardens 4. The Apartments behind K-mart (off 33rd St). 5. Hidden Villages 6.The Duplexes behind and to the west of Hamilton Lagreca. 7. The Revonvated/defunct Hotel in downtown (off of 1st or 2nd street). AND DRUM ROLL PLEASE! NUMBER 8! NEW CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN ON AVENUE A, IN THE FORMER LOCATION OF NEW BEGINNINGS! WOW what a success, we are sure doing a good job of burning tax payer money on people who want to have children and not work! GO HUTCH!! NO WONDER TAXES IN HUTCHINSON ARE SO HIGH!! YEA!! realworldgirl9: 4th Jul 2007 - 01:10 GMT You know, the reason our entire country is in a shit hole right now is because of the lousy attitudes of people today. I have lived in many places in my life, for instance: Derby ks. kingman ks. Savannah Ga. Korea, San Antonio Tx. so, I feel I have experience enough to make some comments about living here in Hutchinson ks. "There is no night life" Your right, if you are so ignorant that you can't find anything to do but go drink or screw around. Call me crazy, but going to the HISTORICAL fox theatre. taking a walk with my sweetheart, going to friends houses for get togethers to spend some good quality time with people I like and love before they are gone, going to the salt mines,(where the origanl film gone with the wind is stored), going to the farmers market, taking a cruise with the top down on a cool evening, or God forbid spend some time with my family, and ride bikes or play with my children etc. etc. I could go on for an hour. Until you have lived in a big city, or a different country, where you go to bed wondering if you or your nieghbor are going to be awakened by a knife to your throat, or a bullet in your chest in the middle of the night, you really shouldn't talk so much smack. I'm not saying it cant happen here, but i garantee you don't go to bed every night in this town, wondering if you are going to be next. I can understand wanting more. More, seems to be the only thing everyone wants anymore. I think most of the: I am not happy, I need to be entertained, I want more attitudes, come from people who eighther had everything handed to them from mommy and daddy their entire lives, or from someone who wants to bitch about how bad everything is, but is to stupid or lazy to change it or pack their belongings and get the hell out of here. If you don't like it here, get a pair, and change it or Kick Rocks. After working double shifts, and paying my way through college, I joined the military as a Helicopter crew chief. I got the hell out of my little pissy town, and after everything, came back and found that some of the silence, boring days, and small town B>S> was refreshing compared to what I've experienced. I have seen more good, bad, and ugly in my young life than some see in thier entire lives. Most of you making these comments need to grab ahold of your lives and make them what you want them to be, instead of blaming a town for your own lack of desire to make a change for yourself, or your surroundings. And, for Gods sake, read people. not just Bullshit magazines, read a newspaper, read some books from authors that can be documented in our history. Read and educate yourselves about more than tabloid B.S. "Knowledge IS power", and you get real knowledge from educating yourselves and . . . wait for it, wait for it, TALKING TO "OLD" PEOPLE. Hutch has a Plethera of "old" people who are willing to talk to you and open your eyes to some truths onlythey can tell. Hear those stories before they are lost forever. So, all you Hutch Haters, Fish, or cut bait. Good Intentions to all who read this! Hutch1: 6th Jul 2007 - 23:15 GMT To the original poster of the photos. You took photos of only the worst of the town. What state has a year round State Fair? The old hospital is not across from a highway. I do agree it is ugly and needs done away with. The apartment complex had an out of state owner who died before completing it and it is now tied up in estate problems. Very easy to point out the worst problem areas. Every place and person has problems. I have traveled all over the world and every town/city has a run down section, homeless and just plain lazy. Your worst town choices show you haven't been anywhere to speak of. Just an sad little man crying about what he doesn't like but doesn't understand. Hutch is a dying town. Like many across our country. The population is old. There are few good jobs. This is a sign of our times and not unusual for small midwest towns. If you don't like it change it or move on. Not everyone is looking for a good time. The drug problems exist everywhere. You sure seem to be able to find them. Maybe you are looking in the wrong places and finding just what you want to see. Hutch-2: 7th Jul 2007 - 13:09 GMT Yes there are alot of problems in the United States with small towns. But you say they are all dying, then let me ask you this question. WHY IN THE HELL IS MCPHERSON, SALINA AND OTHER TOWNS IN KANSAS GROWING WITH JOBS AND COMMERCE??? I think you are a stubborn ass just like the majority of Hutchinson. THIS is why Hutchinson is dead. Hutchinson has NO good large employers. It has no factories, manufacturing jobs or anything else. Just some fast food dumps and other low paying jobs. HUTCHINSON SUCKS. I have moved on, you are not smart enough to do so. HUTCHPD: 14th Jul 2007 - 14:48 GMT Hutchinson is a crime infested shit hole. The police do nothing but take reports and do nothing. from there: 18th Jul 2007 - 03:09 GMT Hutch does suck, and is full of drugs, It is a C.I.P.O.S.(crime,invested,peace,of,shit) That is why I left all those years ago. papergirl17: 18th Jul 2007 - 22:42 GMT Hutch may not have all the ammenities the larger towns have, but here are the "10 Specific Things That Make It Better" for you losers who don't have anything better to do than to rag on probably the first place you lived. 1. The Cosmosphere (since there are only like 2 or 3 in the whole United States) 2. State Fair is here 3. Several different schools to put your kids in 4. Renovation of downtown 5. The help that goes towards the less fortunate (like housing) 6. Carey Emerson 7. Two cities in one (Hutch and South Hutch) 8. VFC program at the local Health Department (does YOUR Health Dept have that?) 9. Several car dealerships 10. The murder rate is lower here than most every other place (One murder in the last 23 years) Yeah, there are drugs here, but there are drugs everywhere. Maybe instead of complaining about it you should help clean it up you mamma's boy. If you don't like it here, go somewhere else and shut up. Me: 19th Jul 2007 - 12:23 GMT Well, I for one moved back here after being gone for 23 years in a place that was so dang expensive(California) rent 1,400 a month. Median home prices 600,000 and that would get you something with maybe 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. I saw million dollar homes that sat on the ocean that was comparable to houses in the south end of town ( no offense, because I grew up in the south end), but there are worse places to live. Try living in South Central Los Angeles where you have to wear protective gear just to go outside of your home. My nephew and cousin visited there in the 80s and was shot at just returning to the aunt's home! No rhyme or reason for it. Yes, it is hard to get a job here, but I am lucky that my job is in on the internet and it came with me. (Medical Field). My daughter tried to work at the hospital and clinics, after working in those fields in California and they would not hire her. But, there are worse places to live other than Hutchinson Bass Girl: 19th Jul 2007 - 13:41 GMT I moved here from a town of 2500 people about 7 years ago, and I've watched this town die around me. Many businesses have come and gone, major industrial places for large employment have closed, or are tetering on keeping their doors open or not. I think there was more to do & more opportunity in my hometown of 2500 than there is here. Yeah, there is the Cosmosphere, free water parks, the college, etc., but after 1 or 2 trips to the "sites" here and you've seen enough. I won't take my kids to the free water parks anymore because the quality of people that frequent those places has diminished greatly. I don't like the thought of my kids playing in someone else's bath water. The property taxes are outrageous here as well. My husband moved here from Salina about 8 or 9 years ago, and when he had to renew his tags in Reno county, his fees doubled. I'm guessing our taxes are so high here so that the "attractions" of Hutchinson can be funded. I could go on and on about how the "old money" keeps its control over this city.... It was sad to hear that a development company designed to investigate how to grow communities came to spend 5 years researching on how to grow Hutchinson, but after 1 year they packed up and said that there was no hope. Now the county is offering you $100 per person that you can get to move into Reno County from out-of-state. That's sad. I wonder when the city commissioners will realize it's going to take more than dressing up the delapitated downtown area to get people to want to stay here / spend money here? People can't afford to go out when the jobs pay so lousy around here - IF there are jobs available..... Things just don't sound promising and that makes everyone's attitudes dwindle. Bass Girl: 19th Jul 2007 - 14:47 GMT Oh my gosh PAPERGIRL17....do you live in the salt mine hundreds of feet under Hutch or something? Lets try coming to the surface and having a cup of reality.... 1. The Cosmosphere (since there are only like 2 or 3 in the whole United States) Woo frickin' Hoo. Once you've visited there a couple of times, it's a done deal. And how many of us saw that same stuff when we were in grade school? I don't know about other residents here, but I find that the Russian space program is intensely boring to read about. 2. State Fair is here Once a year for 2 weeks. That leaves 50 weeks of nothing going on around here. Unless you count Hutch Fest, which is yet another feeble attempt at coolness. 3. Several different schools to put your kids in And this is supposed to be unique in some way? 4. Renovation of downtown So now we can sit on a chair and look at the empty and/or rundown buildings. Maybe others can sit there and get even larger eating the junk food they bought with their Vision Card because they don't have a job to go to (or because they don't WANT to work). 5. The help that goes towards the less fortunate (like housing) They are less fortunate because they either A)Can't find a job, or B)Don't want to find a job because they are catered to as it is and aren't given any motivation to work. How does this benefit those here that are working and willing??? 6. Carey Emerson Are you serious???? The guy is dead. I don't see how he is making an impact on the community NOW...except for a park for all the "less fortunate" to make their drug deals and have sex. 7. Two cities in one (Hutch and South Hutch) That's like having 2 boobs in 1 side of your bra. It's all one big boob when you step back and look at it. 8. VFC program at the local Health Department (does YOUR Health Dept have that?) Google "VFC program" and the list of cities that provide that service goes on and on. 9. Several car dealerships This is the real reason why anyone would want to move to Hutch. All those car dealerships! LOL Too bad the jobs don't pay what most other cities have their standards set for the same types of jobs, or that there aren't more jobs available for those who need them. Then maybe more residents could afford to spend their money at ALL OF THESE AMAZING DEALERSHIPS. 10. The murder rate is lower here than most every other place (One murder in the last 23 years) They just haven't found the bodies of the people who supposedly "moved away." Maybe other dogs will start digging them up like the one that drug that dead newborn up in the yard of that family. Remember? It was the one where that girl didn't get CONVICTED of murder because of legal red tape. I think you forgot about the guy that shot another other guy over losing a poker game too. Or the woman they found dead in her house over a bad drug deal..... So, despite your desperate attempt to make Hutchinson so like such an amazing place to live, that list just doesn't provide VALID reasons. Good try though. CE: Ha! "Several car dealerships" That's classic! John Humperdink: 19th Jul 2007 - 16:42 GMT What's that smell? oh, it's the living sewer town of hutchinson, with all the people drowning in their own scum. Papergirl, you are living in your own little dream world...I think you are smoking some good stuff to be that disillusioned. Don't you read the paper? And who cares if we have car dealerships? You make it sound like a convenience...like a grocery store or something. Oh, it's Friday again, time to go buy a car. Which place should I go to? Also, the renovation of the downtown was like dressing up a turd. There's nothing anymore to go see, most of the stores are closed anyway and the one that are there are nothing but junk stores. Bass girl, you rock! You hit that nail on the head. John Humperdink: 19th Jul 2007 - 16:55 GMT Sally, tell us about the "active" area's of hutchinson, We'd all love to know since they aren't obvious. I think the most active place is the highway out of town. Usually trailer trash doesn't know they are trash cuz they are dumb and living better than most of us on welfare. Aubie, is that the best you can do? Why would having the cosmosphere and a catchy them be reason to live in hutchinson and raise a family. I don't want a kid that can tell me everything that's in one space museum because that's all there was to do. Besides, it's mostly Russion space stuff anyway. Who Cares to see that more than a couple of times? And if it's so popular, why is the lot always empty and they struggle to pay staff? Hutchinson is dead: 19th Jul 2007 - 18:11 GMT John, You hit it right on the head. I don't know why these idiots have to get on here and prop hutchinson up. Do they work for the City? Why do they love Hutchinson? Hutchinson is dead and will not come back from the grave. Reply to me: 20th Jul 2007 - 01:19 GMT Me, There is more and more bad things happening in Hutch. IT is no mayberry. Plus cities have plenty of jobs, Hutchinson and other towns like it are not good places to make money or advance yourself. Do the Hutchinson.: 20th Jul 2007 - 15:57 GMT I would like everyone in Hutchinson to think of the 70's hit "do the hustle". Replace Hustle with Hutchinson and you have "Do the Hutchinson". This what I think about everytime I am behind someone at Walmart or Dillons using a vision card or driving extremely slow or wandering down the street on their gov't bought electric wheelchairs. Hutch sucks. Why does anyone try to prop it up? That is truly a loosing battle. Bass Girl: 20th Jul 2007 - 20:30 GMT LOL @ "Do the Hutchinson"!! I have seen the dude who cruises around in his electric wheelchair pulling another electric wheelchair behind him! It's attached with a bungy cord, no less. LOL!!! And for all you Hutch Fans - no, he's not pulling it as to give someone "a friendly tow." Do the Hutchinson.: 21st Jul 2007 - 15:46 GMT Yes, it is a great adaptation to that great 70's hit. EVERYTIME I drive I get behind some old fossil who is driving 10 to 15 Mph under the legal posted limit and randomly hitting their breaks. And to keep from getting road rage I start thinking of "Do the Hutchinson" as I pass these old fools. I also use it everytime I see some old/retard/non job wanting person driving around on a $10,000 electric wheelchair. THEY ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE, Like Flies! And the thing that really pisses me off is the fact that I am paying for this shit as a taxpayer! Also, a previous poster brought up the 8 low income housing projects in this GREAT town of 35,000 people. I would like to bring notice to another! I think that I have spotted another free housing area! 1200 Block of west 11th, these look like gov't housing projects to me! Also I have thought of another way to spend more tax money(that we don't have), that will make this town more inhabitable. Instead of taking out stopsigns and stop lights, Just put mini over passes on every intersection! This will allow the huge community of old/retarded drivers in this town that don't know how to operate car/electric wheelchair at an intersection to pass freely instead of clogging the intersections. new at Hustle Hutchinson: 22nd Jul 2007 - 21:59 GMT Does any-one know of some jobs around Hustle Hutchinson? I know I will need three part time jobs to make ends meet. I am new here,and I was told to get on this site to search for a job. I have found out how much employees get paid. I am thinking I screwed up moving here, HELP!!!!! I hate Hutchinson: 25th Jul 2007 - 04:12 GMT Hutchinson is full of thieves, drug heads, drunks and general losers. All the people with any promise move from this town and get a life. I was happy to see this website, Exposing the nasty truth! If you have any property in Hutchinson you had better keep tight hands on it. Go to www.hutchpd.info and just take a look for yourself, Major thefts are an everyday happening in this shit hole. Also the Hutchinson channel is a JOKE! The producers of this channel should be sued for false advertising and false representation. Angela Watkins~ Harris: 6th Aug 2007 - 03:24 GMT I was born in Hutchinson, Kansas back in 1960 and I lived there for a while I did 1/2 of 9th grade at Sherman Junior High School and then attended 10th & 11th at Hutch High 1977 & 1978 and then graduated in 1979 from Elmira Free Academy in 1979 in Elmira, New York after graduating. I moved back to Hutchinson, Kansas and live there until returning back to Elmira, New York in 1986 I have to say I love Hutchinson, Kansas I had good jobs while living there my grandparents taught me well my grandfater retired from Cargill Salt Company and grandmother from Wiley's Department Store I owe everything to my grandparent's may they R.I.P. because from 1986 I have a job on going and wouldn't know how it would fill to be layed off I made good money in Hutchinson, Kansas I now work in a Business Office at a Hospital and the last 17 years and enjoying it thats what my grandparents taught me how to work and thanks to them for allowing me to live with them because I wouldn't be where I'm at today if it wasn't for them I cannot know Hutchinson, Kansas was just there last year for The Emancipation Day and it was lovely its not the town its how you live in it yourself I know back then I hanged out at Page 1 & Page 2 I use to go to the NJCAA Tournaments and I use to throw parties at the Knights Of Columbus and other buildings its what you make it if you want to sit around and not work or do anything you will become bored but that wasn't my problem I will be going back to visit relatives again in 2010 if the good lord is willing so don't bash Hutchinson, Kansas it sure was good to me Angela From Elmira, New York Hutchinson=Poor Town USA: 6th Aug 2007 - 21:52 GMT Angela, You must have not had a good english teacher. Your grammer is very bad. I am glad to hear that you are doing so well in New York. I live in New Jersey and moved from Hutchinson at a young age. Hutchinson is a dead town and it is not getting any better. I have not lived in that hell hole for 9 years and still to this day it gives me a bad feeling. If your thing is drugs, drinking or unemployment it is a town for you. Hutchinson has a wide variety of extremes. Either Drug users, drunks or Super Religious fanatics. From one extreme to the other. One thing I can say about Hutchinson, if you want to be lazy and fat, sit on your ass and do nothing then it is great! BelRoC: 6th Aug 2007 - 22:33 GMT The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson has the 2nd largest collection of US space memorabilia anywhere and the largest collection of Russian space memorabilia outside the former Soviet Union.. Also has an Amtrak station on E. 3rd Ave.. & N. Walnut St. Plus alot of train activity near S. Whiteside St. & Ave D. Thats what I heard.......... Hutchinson Kansas=Poor Town USA: 7th Aug 2007 - 13:28 GMT Belroc, Who cares about the things you stated. Does the Cosmosphere employ large amounts of people? NO!! And I have never ever seen an amtrack train in Hutchinson. Newton Kansas Has alot of train activity also. Alot more than Hutchinson does... Your comments make no sence..... That's what I read.. Forehead: Who cares about Hutchinson. serlingrod: 7th Aug 2007 - 14:47 GMT we should all take a virtual field trip to Hutchinson, via Google Maps. Once they get their Street Views covering the whole nation I say we take a group tour to each of the several car dealerships. Bass Girl: 7th Aug 2007 - 15:00 GMT I have yet to see someone come up with a valid reason why Hutch is a prospering community with anything to offer.... Hutchinson=Poor Town USA: 7th Aug 2007 - 16:38 GMT Bass Girl. I know it is just like Hutchinson. People live in dream world and think they are the ONLY ones that are right! jeeff: "Your grammer is very bad." lolz! Kristen from Hutchinson: 7th Aug 2007 - 19:13 GMT "I always love it when someone makes remarks about grammer/spelling. This is a cheap comeback or stab. But maybe you don't have enough common since to think that it may have been a typo.. Not a direct reflection of the persons ability to speak or spell." Just cause you asked for it...it's SENSE, NOT SINCE. And the people that said that building is not near the highway are correct...it's off Monroe Street. The people who say their aren't many jobs are right---there aren't. But you know what, Hutch really isn't that bad! I know of and have been to many "cities" that are much, much worse.Kr Kansan: 7th Aug 2007 - 20:27 GMT I just want to say I have a great job in Hutchinson. Anyone who has been to Hutch knows these photos are not all there is to the town. I don't think Hutch deserves this ranking, but then again, this list is questionable anyway. The comments on this site are very entertaining, though! cbdi: 7th Aug 2007 - 20:36 GMT proud2serve: if you think dave kerr and the chamber will get anything done you are in for a surprise. what did kerr do for reno county when he was a state senator representing reno county for 20 years. he gets a nice state pension, a check for being president of the chamber, and is building a multi-million dollar ethanol plant in rice county. get past the "spin" they try to spoon feed you and start doing some research on kerr's record re; reno county, the "real" facts about ethanol and subsidies and you may have the same questions that the chamber and it's execs are not wanting to talk about. who needs them! this town will never be what they are trying to promote. any one with any sense that has been anywhere around the country laugh at the feeble attempts these leaders come up with. there is not enough space or time to rant on about this town, it has been left in the dust and will never be what it once was. Dojo: 7th Aug 2007 - 21:13 GMT With all due respect to the above posters, I'm also from Hutchinson, and I couldn't agree more that its a shithole infested with worthless humans following pointless lives. I just can't wait to turn 18 and move out of here! Literally, I'm gone the second midnight of my 18th birthday comes. And it can't come soon enough. DITTO: 7th Aug 2007 - 22:07 GMT Has anyone paid attention to the people in this town? FAT mega beasts setting around eating pizza a Cici's Pizza or one of the other major buffets in town. I noticed that someone has posted about the large amount of low income housing projects in town. I would like to bring light to the large amount of nursing homes! MY GOD! They keep builing more and more. To all of you posters that are Pro-Hutchinson. You must have nothing better to do than sit around and prop Hutchinson Kansas up. Because your life is meaningless and you have been left behind just like Hutchinson. cowgirl82: 8th Aug 2007 - 05:31 GMT Yes Hutch can be very boring. But we do have a few things to do. And the person that said the Hidden village was low income housing...not even...I used to live there and I am paying less to live in a four bedroom house now. We do need a lot more things to do. For one we need to have somewhere for young people to hang out that will actually stay in business. But we need more big companies first. Unfortunantly that will probably never happen due to the facdt that people here are so stubborn. There are good points and bad points to every city or town. Some people just choose to look over the bad if they are truly happy in that place. Others move on and find somewhere they can be happy. And they could have shown a few more pics. The ones here are all in residential neighborhoods...never to exciting. PimplePuss: LOL Hutchinson..... blah is good: 9th Aug 2007 - 03:35 GMT Drugs, drinking, crime, unemployment - doesn't sound boring to me. Boring is under-rated. City Council's Fault: 10th Aug 2007 - 00:52 GMT The City Council in Hutchinson will NOT do anything that the citizens want done. Hundreds of people can complain about fireworks in the city limits, stop lights being taken down around the busy post office, vandalism, and so much more. This town does not cater to the residents who live here, our opinions mean nothing!! The City does what they want to do, not what is good for the citizens of Hutchinson. Until they pull their heads out of their asses and realize the citizens have good ideas for change, nothing will ever change. Let's throw the people in charge, out of charge. Not from Hutch anymore: 12th Aug 2007 - 03:18 GMT I would like to say that I do not live in Hutchinson anymore. I have, however, lived all over the country since I left. This includes New York, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Florida, Texas, Arizona, and Colorado to name a few. Let me tell you, if most of you had experienced life in other parts of the country, and reading a few of your comments I would say most of you are under the age of 25 and dying to get out of the city, you would not be so quick to mark down Hutchinson. While it is in the Midwest, which I would say is entirely being affected by the flight to larger cities, there are many qualities that I respect. Hutchinson provides a stable living environment for families and others, a respectable school system (I am a graduate student so I turned out ok),public and school activities, good public recreation and recreational systems, cheap (yes, I say CHEAP! Move to CA if you have a complaint about housing) housing. Don't complain about the drug problem until you REALLY know what a drug infested city is (LA). To be boring, as you mature, you realize means safe, secure and a stable environment. You make your life as "exciting" as you want it to, it doesn't matter where you live. Life on the streets of New York City can be just as boring as life in Hutch. Trust me, I know. The question is, is your life what you want it to be? The town doesn't matter, you will always find fault with where you are, it is your attitude that counts. And no, I don't live in Hutch anymore and realize there are many problems, but make your life what you can, regardless where you are. In retrospect, Hutch is a pretty good place to be. Hutch=LOW INCOME: 12th Aug 2007 - 14:39 GMT I question people like you who list these many cities they have lived in. You must travel alot, because if you lived in that vast number of cities you must stay for less than a year at a time. This tells me that you would have a hard to getting to know the city before you left. All you have to do is look at Hutchinson like this. Compare it to Mcpherson, Salina, Manhattan, Newton, Kansas City, Springfield MO and Joplin MO. These cities offer a safe living area, things to do and the most important of all JOBS! Hutchinson has job but they are low paying. Manufacturing jobs and other jobs that produce $18.00 per hour or more do not exist in Hutchinson. If you want to work in a nursing home or Mcdonalds then every thing is great. I am a business owner and a pretty successful one. However if I counted on Hutchinson for my revenue I would be screwed. Hutchinson's residence cannot spend money they do not have. The majority of the residence in Hutchinson are just making it, affording luxuries is not something they can do. Plus there is a large large part of this town that survives off gov't paychecks. A few things that make Hutch special: 12th Aug 2007 - 19:51 GMT Let's see, we have the Hutchinson Salt Museum (the only one in the Western hemisphere), Senior's Open and the Women's Open (famous golf tournaments if you didn't know), NJCAA (basketball tournament again, if you didn't know what that is), Kansas Cosmosphere, Kansas State Fair, car racing, Fun Valley Sports Complex (many baseball/softball/fast pitch teams visit each year), Hutchinson High School football team has won the state champanionship three years in a row (doesn't sound like they're bored), Fox Theater (brings in plays from all over the country), Children's Flag Theater, Grand Prairie Splashdown (indoor water park), Salt City Spash and the YMCA. Guess if you don't like doing any of these things, maybe it would be boring. You challenged someone to find 5 things that make Hutch "special", well, we found around 15 things we feel make Hutch special, which isn't bad for a small town. As other's have posted, you can take pictures of the worst part of any town and project the image you have of it but there is so much more to it than what you projected. As I've always said, if you're bored, your the one not looking for something to do. Anyway, this is only my opnion. Hutch=LOW INCOME: 12th Aug 2007 - 22:42 GMT The person that posted the "special" things about Hutchinson. Let me ask you a question. DO ANY OF THESE THINGS BRING EMPLOYMENT ON A LARGE SCALE BASIS THAT PAYS OVER MINIMUM WAGE??? NO!!! AND ALSO I SUPPOSE THAT NO OTHER TOWN THE SIZE OF HUTCHINSON HAS MUSEUMS AND WATER PARKS? THAT IS WHAT MAKES THIS TOWN A SHIT HOLE IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU! You are to stuck up and ignorant to see that we can have all the little attractions in the world and it will not cause this city to grow! People will come and see the stupid attractions ONCE and never come back! Look at Sturgis South Dakota, it has one of the most well known attractions in the world and it is not growing. People come in spend some money and leave! But this is on a much larger scale then Hutchinson's great attactions. Yet still the town does not grow. Now look at Kansas City. This town has made an attempt to bring in large business and has done well. It is growing and people are spending money. In HUTCHINSON THEY ARE NOT, unless you count wal-mart. The vast majority of this town is financial broke and cannot afford to leave that is the only reason they stay. I personally know more people that have had to leave Hutchinson because they could not find a job that pays well, they are forced to leave before they lose everything! THE POINT IS, you have have all the State Fairs, Underground salt shit and space museums. This does not pay the bills. Hutchinson has a poor economy if you compare it to any town that has industry that supports employees. Keep in mind when I am speaking of employment I am not speaking of Mcdonalds, Arbys, Walmart, officemax or the cosmosphere. Plains of Despair: 20th Aug 2007 - 19:21 GMT Hutchinson Kansas Sucks=Plains of Despair Western Kansan: 20th Aug 2007 - 20:14 GMT If you think Hutch is bad, you should come to western Kansas. Take your pick of Garden City, Liberal, or Dodge City; they are all being taken over by the Mexicans, many of whom are probably illegal immigrants. After visiting any or all of these cities, Hutch will be very attractive to you! Plains of despair: Western Kansas Has always sucked. Plains of Despair: 21st Aug 2007 - 13:23 GMT Go watch The Factor some more. I can refute your comments. With this statement. HUTCHINSON KANSAS IS SHRINKING. YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY OR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. IT IS YOUR JOB TO PROTECT THIS SEWER OF A CITY. Why is it that you cannot understand, you said yourself that Hutchinson has a huge population of people living at the poverty line or BELOW! This is enough to make our point and it came from your sphincter of a mouth. I encourage you, just go people watch. You will see all the Meth heads, crack heads, drunks and losers that make up this great town. We can all tell that you are an uptight asshole who had to settle for his current position in life. When all else fails move to Hutchinson and that is what you did. You did not have enough talent to land a job outside of Hutchinson. And as far as opinions.. You have done nothing but spout your own opinion. You have not addressed the problems that curse Hutchinson. You live in make believe land where everything is peaches and cream. THAT IS YOUR OPINION. The jobs that you listed do not put a dent in the problems in this town. Any town in America and say the same thing. "well we have jobs". THESE ARE THE FACTS: 1. Hutchinson is a retirement community, which does not accelerate growth. 2. Hutchinson is a substandard town, because of years of mismanagement. 3. Hutchinson has no major interstate and NEVER WILL! 4. Hutchinson is full of drugs. 5. The idiots that run this towm (much like yourself) only do it so they can look special in everyone's eyes. 6. Hutchinson has a substandard Justice system, which has has been full or corruption for hears (i.e sheriff Leslie and other scandals.) 7. Hutchinson has a large population of handicap persons (they cannot hold down a job). 8. Anyone that does get an education in this town, leaves as soon as they get the chance! 9. There is not a large community of educated people to fill any jobs that are highly technical or highly paid. These are not opinions, These are facts. You sir are just a puppet in a circus of idiots, doing what he is told to get a paycheck. one more comment: 22nd Aug 2007 - 22:36 GMT ok, i got to this site by accident but it caught my attention so I continued to read. I should have gotten out the dictionary to make sure I spell everything right so you dont slam me also. Both sides have valid remarks. I used to hate the town also but that when i was getting in trouble with the law, cheating on my spouse, screwing up at my job and looking for every reason i could to try to get out of here. Funny though - i went to prison for awhile and Hutchinson looked really good when I came home. Ok, so there you go- maybe it is good place for an ex-convict! But now that i dont use drugs, or do anything illegal i have started taking time to enjoy the things that the town has to offer ( not a whole lot) but it is really where i know i will be the rest of my life so i have learned to not try to "escape" to the other side. just deal with it fools! oh, but the idiot that made the remarks about the Mexicans-he must be jealous cuz all they do is work the jobs the white boys wont take because they can draw the welfare check. And.. the Mexicans are paying in taxes and they dont file tax returns so where do the white folks get all the tax money to cover their welfare checks? Right, the illegal immigrants support our welfare system so girls can have babies or drug addicts dont have to work and they can sit back and receive the welfare money ...it is all how you look at it. And fyi- no i am not a Mexican. one more comment: 22nd Aug 2007 - 22:42 GMT not that I am sticking up for Hutch because i do know that it has a lot of "respected citizens" that are running most of the government here, and almost all of the boards of directors have the same people on them, the "people with money" and they control almost everything. But i dont think it is probably worse than lots of other towns. the rich people run them too, there are just more of them. so either pack up and leave if you have the education and money to re-locate or put the crack pipe down and get a minimum wage job here in Hutch and enjoy it. Funny though, the druggies in the town think there isnt enough dope here! John Doe Jr.: 23rd Aug 2007 - 13:31 GMT That is some of the problem. the PRISON! Hutchinson is a great place for convicts. Miss Positive.: 23rd Aug 2007 - 14:52 GMT Those who live in Hutch need to help change Hutch. What can you do to make Hutchinson a better place? Can you volunteer to plant flowers on a street corner? Can you volunteer to arrange a group to pick up street trash? Can you get a Christian group to help paint someone's worn down home? One person can start a program to make Hutchinson a better looking place to live. Miss LALA LAND: 23rd Aug 2007 - 18:06 GMT Hutchinson has plenty of people that want to plant flowers and join church groups. That has nothing to do with the bad economy. That is the biggest problem this town has. How about a christian group to attract a large employer? Or a Christian Group to get people off their asses and stop sucking of hard working tax payers. saltbake: 24th Aug 2007 - 06:10 GMT I´m afraid to say that this town is the worst place I´ve ever lived. I grew up in a really small town in South Dakota, and I can say that Hutchinson does not even have the charm of my hometown, which was likewise terrible (about 1200 people). I´ve lived in Europe for 4 years of my life, and I´ve lived around the United States as well. The Middle West of the United States is one of the dumpiest places in the civilized world, though nobody could have predicted it would turn out that way. And it gets worse when you go south, and Kansas is where that starts. The problem with Hutchinson, at the bottom of things, is not economy like so many folks are suggesting. The problem is that like the rest of this wasteland, everything was built according to profitable principles. This includes making ugly, crummy buildings. This includes the American concept of excess with space as well... the design of the city cripples social interaction. But this is no different than so many American towns. I can tell you, there are some poor cities out there in the world that are excellent places to live, for example Sevilla, Spain. I read alot of posts, and I´d like to respond to the fellow that mentioned LA. That guy has no frame of reference, because to compare Hutchinson, Kansas to Los Angeles, California, is like comparing two big pieces of shit. I´m really sorry, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, for all the people who grow up here and never leave to see how beautiful life can be, to get to know other cultures, to participate in the vast exchange of ideas and cultures that is taking place all over the world. I´m really sorry that people here probably don´t realize the possibilities in front of them. I´m just really sorry for everyone, including myself, that has to be here. I´m sorry if I offend anyone. Please, if I offend you, let go of your pride and think past the city limits. Nobody can save this city. It started going wrong long before it was built. La: 24th Aug 2007 - 15:51 GMT I happen to love Hutchinson.It may not be the prettiest, but the photos you show are from the very worst building in town. Yes we have attractions, a world renowned space museum, the underground salt museum, the Kansas State Fair and on. I am proud to live here and raise my children. I happen to make a very nice living here and live in a nice neighborhood. Maybe you need to get out of the south side for a change and experience some of the good things. John Doe Jr.: 25th Aug 2007 - 01:01 GMT Saltbake you had some good points. Hutchinson is a sad place. John Doe Jr.: 25th Aug 2007 - 01:03 GMT LA. Hutchinson is a good place to race childem (ok?)AND who cares about that? We are talking about the economy here. Raising children has nothing to do with it. What is someone wants to do something beside raise kids. What would you say then? Peter: hutchinson, kansas... home of "racing childem". John Doe Jr.: 25th Aug 2007 - 01:32 GMT HEHE... Peter... I am glad to see Hutchinson is not enough of a concern for a CAPITOL "H" Look here Mr. Fact: 25th Aug 2007 - 15:47 GMT www.hutchnews.com/Editorials/location Yet something else that we have been saying is true! Hutchinson is falling apart. Amanda: 28th Aug 2007 - 00:00 GMT yes hutch maybe lonley and desolant in those photos but hutch has the state fair cosmosphere and lots of other fun things to do and you dont know what hutch is like till youve lived there for 8 yrs...or more!!!!!!!! mike hawk: gay .... yep real gay mike hawk: 28th Aug 2007 - 21:38 GMT "FUCK YOURSELF YOU FUCKING NOTHING PUDDLE OF FUCKDEW. YOU DRIPPING STICKY BLEACH SMELLING MASS OF EXTREME UBER-MENTAL RETARDATION. SOUR JIZZ FUCKASSFACE. EAT MY FUCK WITH AN EXTRA SIDE OF FUCK FRIES. YOU FUCKHOLE." What Amanda ?: 29th Aug 2007 - 14:40 GMT That post is a complete explanation of a big majority of the residents of Hutch. You bring up Hutch has "lots of other fun things" FUN DOES NOT PAY BILLS!!!!!!! I have lived here more than 8 yrs. It has gotten so much worse every 8 yrs of living here !!!!!!. I know other places are in trouble also, but if you have worked hard your whole life in this shit hole, you have seen our city officials, ( the complete spectrum of all city employees screw with our money. You start to see the games they play while abusing their place they have been appointed..... Again FUN DOES NOT PAY BILLS. By the way. I am stuck here in this shit hole. yes I have a job, I am on a budget . So I can support the looser people that need to live off us so they can have FUN. OH! this Mike hawk dude that wrote the very colorful and creative post using a certain word starting with the letter [F]: must be a resident of hutchinson ks.; He is just going through a level of frustration, depression, to his braking point. I hope he can hold on.. What your reading is a victim of the city of Hutchinson . He has fallen into the hostage of hutchinson crisis.. And its not FUN!!!!!!...... Bass Girl: 30th Aug 2007 - 15:12 GMT LOL @ all of the comments made since I last stopped by. I can't help but shake my head when I see people hanging on to the "but we have the Cosmosphere, the free water parks, the museum, the...the..." mindset. Like I've said before, those are attractions that you visit once, and then you've seen it. No need to revisit and revisit, unless you like to stab yourself in the eye with a fork repeatedly too. Besides, you have to have extra money to do a lot of those things anyway, and who has that with the crappy salaries the few jobs here have to offer?? I am in my early 30's, raising a family of 3 in a middle class home, and hoping that my kids don't fall to the entertainment of drugs because of a lack of things to do. It is definitely hard to keep your head up and stay positive after a trip outside of the house. Even my family has noticed a decline in the quality of people here when they visit from out-of-town and go to local businesses. They say our Wal-Mart reflects a pathetic example of what Hutchinson is made up of compared to other cities (like Manhattan, Salina, Emporia). I could go on and on, but it's really futile to do so. The experts agreed when they came here to stay for 5 years and come up with a plan to grow Hutch......they left after 1 year saying there was no hope. Bass Girl: 30th Aug 2007 - 20:28 GMT P.S. Has anyone mentioned the sky high property taxes in this county? I was in the courthouse renewing my car tags, and there was a college-aged guy renewing his tags at the neighboring station. When the clerk told him his total, he looked at the check he was holding and said, "How much again?" She told him again and I heard her say that the taxes in Reno County were a little bit 'different' than the taxes in McPherson County. Apparently his mother had written a check for the total stated on his renewal form.....for McPherson County. He said he would have to come back to take care of his tags and taxes because he did not have enough. How much more did he owe compared to what he would have had to pay in McPherson County??? I heard the clerk figure up that he owed 75 more bucks. My husband had a similar shock when he moved here from Saline County. His car tags/taxes almost doubled. Now why is it that we pay more, yet appear to have less?? Hmmmmmmmm...... Former Salt Hawk: 3rd Sep 2007 - 17:23 GMT I read this multitude of comments with bemusement, shock and sorrow. I was born and grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, and, like the old familiar Neil Young lyric, "All my memories are there". It is true that Hutch has a drug problem, but what town in America does not? The standard of living also appears to be declining, but that also is probably a State-wide problem and endemic to the agriculture-based states. It is also true that there is not very much to do in Hutch, exept for what I would consider to be more wholesome types of entertainment. But what Hutch has to offer is not found in the variety of entertainment resources. Hutchinson, Kansas is about the people who live there; and I'm not talking about all the losers who have been posting to this response column. I know that sounds harsh, but anyone who professes hate for the community and still lives there can be decribed in no other way. The people in Hutchinson, who make up the backbone of that community, are some of the finest, most decent, and creative people in the world. They have intuited that life is far more meaningful than constant engagement in leisurely distractions such as going to the concerts of big name entertainers. These peple know that the most precious and rewarding aspect of life is casual conversation and daily involvement with people that you love and respect; and they have found the rich bounty of the rewards that come from human interaction. In my view, there is no one more creative than the person who does not need to be entertained. So I am shocked to see how many people from Hutchinson have posted to this response column with nothing but anger an venom in their spirits that has somehow become directed toward the community. And I am saddened to see the place where I grew up, a place where many people that I love and respect still live, to become the focus of such ridicule. Yahoo!: 3rd Sep 2007 - 23:14 GMT Hutchinson Kansas is a bad place period. Again Hutchinson has lost more chances for employment. It will not change. Hutch may have some good people in it. But it has far MORE SHIT. observer: 6th Sep 2007 - 19:30 GMT leaving Hutchinson, Kansas about 20 years ago was a decision i've never regretted.The mindset of the business community is that you OWE them for a minimum wage existence.GOOD jobs are hard to find and unless your'e related by blood or politics --you will not advance in any meaningful way.Don't make the mistake of giving this town your youthful and best years. Get out while you can! The economy is not set up for the working average Joe. Everything seems to be slanted to keep the "old order" of things firmly fixed. There is a wide boundry between "UPPER CLASS" and "lower class". The "middle class" element is very small and continues to diminish. Wal-Mart,nursing homes,liquor stores,the medical community, pawn shops,pay-day loan firms, credit collection agencies and the like appear to be prospering. Fast food joints are in abundance. Granted -Hutchinson has some good qualities; but unless you are "born and bred" here you will not-"fit in" Enough said.If you enjoy golf you will find a wealth of it-also a wealth of politicl B.S. that you will also enjoy!Hindsight is always 20-20.Let the "city fathers" have it!!! HushUp: 6th Sep 2007 - 23:39 GMT Is all the messages a person tries to leave show up as spam? HushUp: 7th Sep 2007 - 00:11 GMT Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I want to prove a point. I wasn't born in this city. I moved here for the first time in 1990 and left after 2 years of pure hell. I have lived in Phoenix, LA, Dallas, Kansas City and Europe (5 years). I moved back here because my husband is originally from here and all of his family is here. I wasn't in the least bit thrilled about moving back here, just for the record, but it was based on a previous bad experience that I didn't want to feel like I was going to have to relive over and over. I agreed to come back here, only because of a certain situation. Prior to moving back here, I was living in Kansas City. Now for the person that compared Hutchinson to Kansas City, just so you know, Kansas City (on the Missouri side) is without a doubt the most drug infested and gang infested place I have ever been to, next to LA. The reason I left Kansas City? My son, 16 at the time, his best friend was shot by gang members. Although they were gang members, they went looking for my son and his friend because some kids at school didn't like them, so they told these gang members that my son and his friend called the cops on them, which wasn't true. So my son's friend is dead. You better believe we left and left quickly, it was enough to have SWAT at our apartment complex on a weekly basis, and that is without exaggeration. The drugs up there are worse than Hutchinson could ever think of being. At least here all you have are 'gang wannabees'; which if they were to go to Kansas City, I'm relatively sure they would be killed inside of a month. Sure it's nice in Kansas City if you live in one of the richest counties in America, which happens to be where Olathe and Overland Park are, good luck affording the cost of living though, on a medium income. Otherwise you are stuck in the area's that I described above, whether you like it or not. I'm well educated and had an incredible job as a Regional Manager, so you aren't talking to someone who is in the least bit interested in hearing all of the 'uneducated' guesses at what a city should or shouldn't do, if they aren't willing to stand up and do something about it. You want to do something about the problems, GREAT DO IT!! If not, then you have absolutely no right to be an armchair politician and voice your opinion and spread hatred. No I'm not some rich person, My husband makes average wages around here, and currently I'm unemployed (my choice). For all the armchair politicians out there though, I took the liberty of putting together a list JUST FOR YOU (although i'm not sure why i'm wasting my time); this is a list of all the companies in this city and the number of employee's they have here as of last year; the list does NOT include companies that have LESS than 150 employees. Hutchinson Hospital - 1536 Dillons Companies - 1,098 Hutchinson Public Schools - 939 Hutchinson Clinic - 610 Tyson Prepared Foods (omg a manufacturing company??) 536 Hutchinson Correctional Facility - 508 Reno County - 420 Wal-Mart SuperCenter - 420 City of Hutchinson - 398 (as you can see they are not largest employer in Hutchinson) Hutchinson Community College - 340 Lowen Corporation (oh no not ANOTHER MANUFACTURER) 330 Collins Industries (WOW ANOTHER MANUFACTURER?) 300 Eaton Corporation (I just cannot believe it; another manufacturer - well what do you know?) 300 Wesley Towers - Health Care/Retirement 260 Data Center - 240 Mega Manufacturing (Metal Fabrication MANUFACTURER) - 225 Mennonite Manor - 219 The Medical Center - 190 Krause Corporation (yes you guessed it; another manufacturer) - 171 TECH - Education & Training for Special needs; although you guys like to refer to the people that need these services as retards, the majority of their students are brought from out of town because of the program TECH has to offer them; I hope you never have a family member that needs their help since you seem to hate them so much. - 169 employees Kroger Convenience Stores Division (Corporate office) 168 Portfolio Recovery Associates (i would bet this bothers some of you because i'm sure they have had occasion to call you to collect money from you and that is why you're so upset; get over it, they are needed for thieves and dead beats) - 165 APAC-Kansas Inc. Commerical Contractors- 156 First National Bank of Hutchinson - 150 Ok, so am I making my point yet? What the hell will make you happy? To see an entire list of MANUFACTURING COMPANIES on here that will bring people to this city and we wind up like Wichita? Where the crime rate is so high for such a small city; Is that what you people want? Or do you want to suck it up and realize that there is more out there than what you realize, but it's people like you that are purposely making things worse, because we don't fit into YOUR idea of what A PERFECT city should be. Friend of your idea of a perfect city is Kansas City, HAVE A NICE LIFE AND I WILL TAKE HUTCHINSON ANYTIME. By the way, although I have a college education, my husband doesn't, and neither do any of my kids, but they don't seem to have a problem finding a job here that pays enough for them to live comfortably. You people are just too greedy, that's all your problem is. Have a nice day, and either do something about it, or hush up. HushUp: 7th Sep 2007 - 00:35 GMT Oh, and by the way, that list was only about 25 companies; and of those 25 they are employing over 10,000 people around here. Excuse me, they aren't all manufacturing companies, but I happen to be ok with that, and apparently at least 10 thousand others do too. And just for the correction, I had written about my son and his friend; I put in there they were gang members, that was a typo (please forgive my lack of education and lack of editing skills) - but no they were NOT gang members. I'm not saying this town is perfect, I'm not saying we don't need more business in here, but what I am saying, is you have a right to vote, you have a right to help make changes, no matter how corrupt you think (and I think) this city is; we all know who runs this city, there is no doubt about that, but instead of looking at what we are lacking, and how bad it is how about people start getting off the backs of the elderly and the handicapp, and put heads together to see what can be done. I would love to see this city grow as well, but within reason, I certainly would hate to see this city get as big as Wichita, because like others around here, I enjoy being able to walk out to my car without fear, and sleep at night without constant sirens going off from police cars. I think it would behoove the city to offer better tax cuts for businesses wanting to move in, although I know no city likes doing that but if they did it they could still reap the rewards by boosting the economy either way they would get tax money (and Lord knows we all know the taxes are incredibly high here). The cost of living here is about 80% of the national average, which I think is too high for a city this small as well for no more than they have to offer. I was watching the city council last summer, talk to a group of individuals who didn't want their taxes raised in order for new development next to their property. One of the City Councilmen (which i won't say his name) - told them they can say what they want, but he already had his mind made up, so it didn't matter. The only reason why they were allowing the people in that neighborhood to speak was because of protocol. I would highly suggest getting individuals off of the City Council that have that mindset, it hurts the city more than help it. Our country has always had a majority rules society. There is always a loophole for most anything, and that includes getting people off of the council if they are not performing their jobs in the capacity that they were hired to do. You can start with petitions or I'm sure there are plenty of avenues to go. With that, I'll shut up now, just some things to consider and think about. Thanks for your time. Re. Hush up: 8th Sep 2007 - 02:42 GMT If you delt with the economic conditions of this town (LIKE I DO) on an everyday basis you would see the truth. Hutchinson is a low income area! PERIOD! Why do you demand attention, you know you are fighting an up hill battle. Hutchinson is not the worst place in the world, but it is not the best. You must have nothing better to do than defend Hutchinson. By the way, Did you read the artical in the Hutch news about why the petrochemical company overlooked Hutchinson??? No interstate highway and other factors. I live in Brooklyn NY now, I bet you think this is a dangerous city. I walk down the street every night from work. Never had a problem. You are like the majority of people in the US, making up stories and taking things out of context to suit your needs. Also generating fears that should not exist about large cities. Perhaps the deal with your son and his buddy is not what you see.. 16 year olds and stretch the truth to suit their needs also. Perhaps you did not hear the side of the ¨gang member why not: 8th Sep 2007 - 15:50 GMT Why not place a large meat-processing plant in Hutchinson? It would create lots of decent paying jobs and enlarge the tax base as well.Empty apartments would be a thing of the past and overall business would most certainly increase.Thanks for listening. Big Momma Becky: 10th Sep 2007 - 17:38 GMT I am going to straddle the fence,so to speak,about my hometown,which happens to be Hutch. I am a middle aged woman,so someone younger might not have my same opinion,which is understandable. I have lived here my entire 53 years,so I know what I am talking about. Yes Hutch is dying. Anyone who disagrees just needs to go out to the mall and see how many empty spaces there are. The mall used to be so festive and fun,especially at christmas,with all the decorations,and Chris Moose. What the hell happened to Chris Moose? He even left Hutch,for petes sake!!! Downtown is and has been dead for years. I remember when a person would have to drive around the block over and over again to find a parking space,you dont see that anymore. Look at how our phone book is shrinking,that in its self tells you all you need to know. If you cant remember how big our phone books used to be,go to the library,upstairs,in the Kansas room,and compare what the phone books looked like 10,20,30 years ago. Yes,Hutch is dying. I really do not know what has kept me here all these years. I guess I am afraid of change. Plus I do like the big beautiful trees here, the Antique district is pretty cool,Hutch does have some good restaurants for a town this size,we do have a fun and entertaining coffee shop,some pretty cool bars,if that is your thing. Plus many beautiful churches to choose from to attend,if that is your thing. I really do not know what this town has to offer for our younger folks,that has always been a problem. The skate park and Salt City Splash is only a seasonal thing,so what are our pre-teens and teens supposed to do? I ran into that problem years ago myself,nothing to do. So I got high. Honestly,if there would have been something around this town to keep me occupied,I probably would have chose a different recreation, but there was none. I think thats why drugs and alcohol are such a problem in Hutch,there is nothing to offer our youth here. Hutch has its good points and its bad points.I love the Houston Whiteside area, Hutch has some grand homes. Its fun to walk around and look at the beautiful older homes,but again,something like this would probably not be fun for a younger person. I have been a single mother most of the time I raised my daughters,I have been able to buy a modest home and a new car on my income,and my income alone, I have just recently sent my 17 year old to Hutch Jucco as a full time student,she evidently got a good education here because she was through with High School and enrolled at Jucco at 16 and now attending at 17. And you know what??? I have made my living working in Nursing homes and no where else. Yes nursing homes. I am not a nurse making big bucks, I am a CNA-CMA and have made a halfway decent living off of it for over 20 years. I really have rambled on enough. I guess my point is,is that Hutch has its good with its bad,like all places do. Big Momma Becky: 10th Sep 2007 - 17:46 GMT Oh I almost forgot. Our new slogan should be "Come to Hutch,its a BLAST" or "Come to Hutch,its a GAS" I know this is a cheap shot,sorry. Born in Hutchinson: 11th Sep 2007 - 04:36 GMT That weird church/apartment building you describe used to be called St. Elizabeth's Mercy Hospital. I was born there. I lived for several years about three blocks east of that building, in a very nice neighborhood. I have very wonderful memories of that town, but also very dark memories as well. I left Hutchinson in 1978 and I've been back only three times. It now feels flat and baked, almost shrunken. The downtown is a pathetic shell of what it used to be, but I have memories going back to the late 60's, when there were still department stores downtown and a Woolworth lunch counter. For a kid who didn't know anything else, it was exciting to go downtown. But like everyone else I yearned for the big city and I got out, living in various big cities like San Francisco and New York. I learned that these places can be shitholes, too. Life is what you make of it. There are no boring towns...only boring people. Here are some pictures...St. Lizzies in her heyday and the Wiley building, ca. 1930's. Bass Girl: 12th Sep 2007 - 15:41 GMT I love those old photos above! It's good to see Hutch had a good start. I wonder what happened? I had an interesting visit with a neighbor who has been trying to get something wonderful started for kids and teens. He has been working on this project for about 5 years. In that coversation, it was mentioned how hard it is for change and "new" to come into Hutch. Since the city won't budge on giving new developments a tax break (can you blame them for asking since Reno Co. is the 2nd highest in the state?), we've missed out on quite a few new job ops. Dell wanted to put a call center here, but the city wouldn't work with them. Hospira, now located in McPherson, was originally wanting to locate here, but the city wouldn't budge for them either. Many years ago, when Hutch was asked if they'd rather have a State Fair, or a State College, look at what they chose. What the ???? And Eaton.... still clinging to life here after weeks of begging them to stay.... Sure, as mentioned above, there are 10,000 jobs occupied in major companies in Hutch right now. What about the other 30,000 people living here? Granted, some of that population includes children, but given the average age of habitants is 40+ here, they probably don't make up very much of that 30,000. Some of those people are working the random lower salaried jobs (most likely floating around min. wage), which forces them to depend on the state (our tax dollars) to provide the gap between what they make and what it takes to live above poverty level here. Employers (mostly owned by deep-rooted money) are not willing to pay more when they aren't given any incentive too - such as new comapanies with the same type of jobs that are willing to pay more and put a little competition in the market. I've noticed there is a new group starting - the Young Professionals Association. I could not make it to their initial meeting, but if they are about making Hutchinson an improved city, and not a dieing one, then I am all for it. I just hope the "old money" and City Council are willing to go along with fresh ideas. Historically, they have not. I wonder if any of them read this post?????? Maybe someone should email them the link so they can see what residents REALLY think, and then take that to heart..... HushUp: 12th Sep 2007 - 19:46 GMT For the person who thinks that someone should ask the side of the 'Gang Member' on why they shot and killed my son's friend - It's obvious you have no clue what it's like to live in a City that suffers - so I think anything further you have to say from this point on is irrelevant. Maybe you didn't understand what I was saying, so let me say it again, I never said that Hutchinson wasn't a dying city (learn to read), what I said was it doesn't have to have or be over run with Large Manufacturing Companies in order to survive. There are other avenues to go. No, I'm not defending Hutchinson, but I'm not willing to sit back and watch low lifes make their pathetic posts about this city in which they DON'T LIVE - I'm not sure why you would want to try and condemn this city over and over and over. You must be the one that posted those ridiculous pictures about Hutch as well at the begining of this thread. Go back to your city, and let the people of this city try and do something about it. Your anger and frustration does no good to anyone to try and help solve any problems. As for the others that posted in this thread - I think it would be a great idea to send a copy of this link to the City Council, they need to know what a small handful of people think of how they handle themselves around here. I was watching them on t.v. the other day talk about some woman and her daycare, and how it is she didn't 'care' to show up at the City Council Meeting, and how they would never send their kids to her daycare because she doesn't care. I think them voicing their personal opinions in a public forum like that, instead of just moving on with their next agenda should be cause for City Council Members to be removed from their seats. It was a statement that was uncalled for. I know a person who know's the woman that was trying to open that Daycare Center up, she said the reason the woman didn't go was because the City Council had already denied her the license because of no off street parking, the City denied her AFTER the City Engineer said it would be fine - seem's to me the City works against itself instead of working together. So why would the woman show up in front of the City Council Meeting? What? So they can tell her to her face 'NO'? It's rediculous - I wouldn't have gone either. Apparently they told her she had to have a significant plan for parking before they would change their mind about her permit. The problems with this City, start with the City Council, and it's time for a drastic change. People are right, it is a dying city, but it can be stopped if the right people are in place. Yes we lost out on another company due to lack of Interstate Access, that's to be expected by large Companies. The City has been taking steps, such as expanding 96 Hwy out like they have, and their plans for 61hwy to McPherson. As for the companies that I listed - and talking about the 10,000 people that are employed, the only point was, that was only 25 companies here in Hutchinson that are employing more than 150 people - that doesn't include all of the other companies that we have in town that employ less than 150, but I understand your concern, and your right, there are a lot of people that are unemployed. Just by chance (and not because I get into the middle of anything) I know a little bit of the revitalizing of downtown, and am excited about what they are wanting to do down there. Although it's not enough to bring in jobs, it is a start. I don't see Hutchinson as having any other problems as any other major city - they all have attractions that you visit once and then your done, or they have seasonal type entertainment for our kids. Growing up in L.A. and Phoenix (for me), it was no different there either, except if they did have more to do it was too expensive for our family to really enjoy (like a majority of the population there as well). My kids aren't into drugs or anything like that here (and yes I have one left at home that is a teenager). He seems to find things to do with his friends that quite frankly I think are creative, and don't always involve the computer, t.v., or video games. Seriously, think about it, what did you use to do when you were a teenager? Ride bikes, hang out with friends, go to parties, go to the mall, go to the park (winter is always a cause for cabin fever, not just with adults; lol).. I just don't see that much difference. Although I don't have my head in the sand either, I do know there is a huge drug problem here as well. My son and I both try hard to show kids that they can have fun without drugs and alcohol. He makes pacts with other kids not to smoke dope and do drugs or they beat eachother up if they do, that kind of thing (that was suppose to be a joke). Anyway, it is good to see others from Hutch posting on here (and trying to be positive without ignoring the truth). As for those who don't live here, who want to bash this city. If you are so concerned about it, how about giving some idea's. You seem to be really good with your words and bashing, lets see how good you are with your words in a positive note, ok? Just an idea. Have fun :) Re : Hushup: 12th Sep 2007 - 23:04 GMT First of all I live in Hutchinson. I do not bring up points that are pointless or stabbing. I am only trying to show this town has many problems. It is not the happy little haven of prosperity that you try and convey. It is a drug infested, crime infested, low income, low education town that THINKS it is something it is not! Every attempt that is made at getting this town on track is screwed off by people like yourself who try and ignore the REAL truth! You talk about people being ignorant... let me ask you a question... WHY ARE YOU IN HUTCHINSON? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LEAVE LA AND OTHER GREAT CITIES! BTW I currently reside in Hutchinson, I am a Network administrator for a major telecom firm. I only live in Hutchinson because it is a midway point between the East and West Coasts, Where the economy is! Bullst: 13th Sep 2007 - 18:25 GMT I live in Hutch, Wish I didn't. I keep praying for the day that I will be able to afford to leave this toilet skid mark. I am going to an online college so that I can get the hell out! I am hoping to land a job in KC or Springfield. Mega mommas: 13th Sep 2007 - 20:08 GMT I was looking around on the internet for women In Hutchinson. I noticed on all the the dating sites and bars (other places also) that the wide majority of the ladies are fat? Why is that? This is not a town for singles, that is unless you like fat ladies. Big Momma Becky: 14th Sep 2007 - 00:43 GMT There are other ways to find women here in Hutch. Join a singles group,join a church,walk around the mall or the park,etc. The women you meet in bars are probably drinking too much beer,thats why they are fat. I guess if you dont like fat women,you can always find you a skinney meth head woman,which everyone seems to think this town is full of. jeeff: 14th Sep 2007 - 15:15 GMT well, all you lovers and haters of hutch can be comforted by one thing at least. through citynoise, hutchinson has finally achieved some worldwide fame. this thread just keeps going and going and going... Joe: 14th Sep 2007 - 18:01 GMT I know it just show how bad this town really is. Hutchinson Come share our space, because we have lots of it! Hutchinson Sucks: 14th Sep 2007 - 18:09 GMT Let me just restate what Donald Walters said above-- I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special". And not stuff like "it's a good town! the people are cool!" but real, specific things. I find it very telling that with all the comments here, no one has been able (or willing) to do this. As a matter of fact, I live in Hitchinson, and can't even do it! This town really sucks that much. Big Momma Becky: 15th Sep 2007 - 01:26 GMT Got me there!!! I'm having a hard time comming up with 10 myself. Does suck when you think about it. Come on people, help us out. My 17 year old daughter is comming up with a few of the usuals,but she also is having a hard time comming up with 10. Momma' Becky's daughter: 15th Sep 2007 - 02:10 GMT Well, I actually Don't think that Hutchinson Is all THAT terrible... I mean, I know it's really not a whole lotta' fun, and there isn't much to do here... but the beauty of becoming an adult is, getting a job, and moving the heck away! You don't HAVE to be stuck here all your life. If you hate it so bad. THEN MOVE. Yes, indeed, Hutch is some-what a retirement community, a lot of old farts do live here, and yeah, there is a lot of nursing homes, but thank god for those nursing homes because a lot of people would otherwise be stuck with relatives that they couldn't possibly take care of themselves. It has it's good, and it's bad. Yeah, places like Wichita Kansas are a lot FUNNER, but also more drugs run through there (partly because it's a bigger city I suppose) More gangs are there, and much more violence. Yeah, I know this site is "Boring Hutchinson," But that isn't the same as "Terribly God-Awful Fuckinson Kansas." This place is my home. Yes drugs do run through here, But If you have a problem with it, don't associate your self with it, rise above the drugs, get a great job, and focus on something worth your time. A few of the things I PERSONALLY like about Hutchinson are: 1. The Kansas State Fair. We hold the state fair year after year, and it's one of the highlights of the year. Instead of turning to drugs to get my dopamine production up, I turn to "natural" highs. Mind blowing fair rides such as the TWISTER. Fun, fun, fun... 2. We have the Cosmos Fair,which has the 2nd largest collection of US space artifacts in the world, second only to the National Air and Space Museum. That's pretty cool. Take your kids to The Kansas cosmosphere and teach them something interesting! Kids Love to hear about space. And while I can't come up with 10 GREAT things about Hutchinson, I can come up with many that I personally Enjoy. I Like Swimming, And we have the Salt City Splash here. It has fun slides, a Great Kiddy Pool and infant area, as well as a lap pool, and a low dive, high dive, and red "shoot" slide. Not to mention the best Stuffed pretzles and pickels ever. That's not boring, It's a whole lotta' fun in my opinion. I Guess my point Is, while Our logo might Not Be "Hutchin-FUN" we aren't all that bad. We have things people like, and things people dislike, just like any other place! Yoda: 16th Sep 2007 - 23:32 GMT You are so wise for your age of 17. Your parents must be so proud. To bad all the points you have brought to light have been stated many times on this forum. Sure the Cosmosphere and the Fair... But really who cares? Big Momma Becky: 17th Sep 2007 - 05:04 GMT Bless her,but personally I cant stand the fair and all the traffic and dust and all the bullshit associated with it. Limmpy: 18th Sep 2007 - 14:15 GMT I tell you want, just go to walmart and see the quality of the Hutchinson People. Also, I just read the Hutchnews about the housing market! I cannot believe what I was reading. Hutchinson is not having a problem in the housing market? It is not suffering as EVERY other city in the US is. If anything the reason that it has not be hurt is because it SUCKED to begin with! average joe: 19th Sep 2007 - 07:15 GMT it's fairly easy to make people believe that hutch is a shithole, well for one because it is,but yet you only show photos of a building on 20th and monroe. thats where the AA meetings are held at and lets face it no building where alcoholics go is going to be in good shape. Other than that i actually live in that neighborhood and its quite nice. if you were to show pictures of downtown past ave. A then you could have been more believable 'cause lets, well thats where all the meth head tweekers live and the never know how to keep shit nice. hutch is slowly trying to make it look better but i still don't think that will hell with the shitty ass crooked cops that are there. even the shelter where children who get taken from there home because they are victims of neglect by their parents get treated like shit by the staff, who might i add are a bunch cock suckers who abuse their power just like the police in hutch. it's like if your not ritch then your looked down on by everyone and if you ask me that just isn't right. So i guess in a sense i disagree with you about the looks and the boredum of hutch, but then again it's judicial system is what makes it so fucked up. Choad: 19th Sep 2007 - 13:45 GMT Thank GOD THE FAIR IS GONE!! What is joke! THE KANSAS STATE FAIR, FULL OF THE ELDERLY AND RETARDED! (also the unemployed) defandum: 20th Sep 2007 - 15:34 GMT regarding Hutchinson; Time will tell,and shit will smell! Choad: 20th Sep 2007 - 20:10 GMT What are you talking about, Hutchinson Already smells like white trash and shit. observer: 21st Sep 2007 - 22:58 GMT through the years i've known many great people in Hutchinson.Sadly, most of them are gone now but memories of them remain close. There also are people in Hutchinson whom I learned to loathe.You will not find a shortage of these small-minded,petty politically motivated individuals either.Some little people enjoy others hardship,struggles and failures. This is human nature. It has always been so.Hutchonians just seem to project an attitude of false superiority to other persons they deem "below their class" I am glad to be seperated from the depressive stress of this community.I left years ago.Good luck to all who are caught in this cycle of despair! Big Momma Becky: 1st Oct 2007 - 04:12 GMT This post is dying out,just like Hutchinson. Choad: 1st Oct 2007 - 16:31 GMT Yes, it is much like Hutchinson. Nothing but nothing. Hutchinson KANSAS sucks, now that I think of it, Hutchinson AND Kansas Sucks. Yeah I live in Hutch, so what.: 3rd Oct 2007 - 17:57 GMT Quoted earlier: I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special". I can't name ten traits about ANY town that make it special, but to name a few: If you like space and aeronautical museums, the Kansas Cosmosphere is one of the best in the country. You can even see the actual Apollo 13 command module there. A new underground salt mine museum has also recently opened. The state fair is a big draw every September. People flock to the NJCAA tournament in March. Several softball, baseball, and basketball tournaments are held in Hutch throughout the year. Not too shabby for a "boring" town. Personally speaking, I don't know what is so wrong with Hutch that isn't also wrong with Salina or Hays or Dodge City or Manhattan or Emporia or in towns of similar size in neighboring states. If there's anything that makes Hutch truly boring, its that there's nothing terribly exceptional, either good nor bad, about it. Exactly what is it folks, that Hutch has that makes it "exceptionally boring", or needs to be "not boring"? I mean you can snap photos of abandoned buildings in most any locale. Choad: 4th Oct 2007 - 14:39 GMT Re: Yeah I live in Hutch: You have stated the same things that everyone else has. What makes Hutchinson boring to me is the lack of any good looking women. You go anywhere to meet women in Hutchinson and you will find obese women.. That or they are married. Let me ask you, would you go to the cosmosphere twice a week or more? Would it be a social event of any every week. Also, all the NJCAA does it bring in old retired assholes in Hugh RV's. They don't stay here and even if they did they would just add to the fat old people that rot here already. Mcpherson, Emporia, Salina and other towns In Kansas Either have Large businesses or a college or both. Hutchinson has very few large companies to speak of (salina has GE so don't compare Collins to Salina) and has a poor excuse for a Junior College. Basically they way I see it is this, if you fail or are rejected by a larger more progressive city then you can always fall back on Hutchinson. joe: 4th Oct 2007 - 19:59 GMT I live in South Hutchinson-I am so poor, hungry, trying to find some more food but I can't get enough food nor emergency help, etc. Please don't move to Hutchinson, Kansas area. I was from Arizona State. I was born at Salina, Kansas. I moved to South Hutchinson. It is very high crime infested, too. Not enough help from Medicaid, etc. Please watch out before you make a big wrong decision. Many wishes. Hutch Hater Too: 5th Oct 2007 - 03:02 GMT I agree that Hutchinson is a hell hole. The writer who mentioned how those in charge are nothing but a bunch of snobs is right. Money grubbing, ignorant snobs at that. I'm not just talking city officials but county too! The city and county commissioners are lazy, ignorant, haughty, and out for themselves and no one else. The voters are all too drunk and stoned to even be able to pay attention and notice they are being ripped off. It is too much to ask that they get out and vote the crooks out of office. The few that do notice are quickly silenced by these crooks using taxpayer money. Yes, Hutch is shrinking. That is why the bozos decided to spend millions tearing up a perfectly good Main Street and put in wider sidewalks with benches and flowers that no one uses. It was supposed to draw people to downtown. But alas, they haven't noticed there are no people left to go downtown except the same crooks and snobs who are trying to draw people downtown. Take a drive and you will see taxpayer money being wasted everywhere! Every other street in town can't be driven down because they keep ripping them out and then leaving them tore up for months on end. They put in new street and then a few months later rip out the new street to put in pipe under it and leave it with a poor patch job that throws your car around when you drive over it. Just once I would like to see one so called, "road construction" job get finished before they start tearing the hell out of another street. The greed, incompetence, indifference, self-seeking, and just plain outright arrogance that prevails here is sickening. Yes Hutchinson is a stinking hell hole and the motto,"Come Share Our Space" is just to lure in unsuspecting new meat to prey upon. defandum: 5th Oct 2007 - 12:17 GMT The secret to sucess in Hutchinson is to devise a great con-game or lucrative Ponzi scheme.Many have done well with this approach over the years and are doing quite well presently.Research will bear this out. Greed is a driving motivator. There is an abundance of this commodity in Hutch! Good luck in your endeavors to rise socially and financially. Don't forget that in Hutch - money is'nt everything- it's the ONLY thing! Hutch Hater: 5th Oct 2007 - 18:15 GMT Hutchinson is a poor ass excuse for a city. What a joke. hutch sucks: 6th Oct 2007 - 21:19 GMT i happen to live in this shit hole, or the asshole of the united states. im always afraid im going to run over a crack head at night. im sorry for those who think its awsome but face it, its shit, never mind its better than dodge city, ks. at least it has that i guess fuck Ks :** fuck Hutch defandum: 7th Oct 2007 - 11:22 GMT I enjoy the panhandlers in Hutchinson. They are so creative! Have you noticed the advanced works of graffiti taggers? How resouceful and uplifting!Which is it :high art or art when high? O.K. I'm convinced- "Let's go to Hutch motherFutch! Country Club Snob: 10th Oct 2007 - 01:27 GMT I have always said Hutch is the negative vortex of the world and having lived on both coast I speak with some knowledge of this. I was born & educated here, left for K-state and was gone for 12 years with marriage & travel. I returned in 1997 to raise my children near family. I will be moving the end of this year back to the west coast. The Hutch I grew up in is gone. I graduated in 1985 so I am not elderly in my recollections. Drugs, they are everywhere. unemployment? IF you want a job you can get one. Most people are to lazy to do a decent days work. The spend their days watching MTV and want to live like a Rock Star. I do see Hutch as a microcosm of the economy at large, a shrinking middle class. I do not pretend to have the answer and I am fortunate I can leave. think about it: 10th Oct 2007 - 03:06 GMT hell try living in miami,, go out at night to go to the store and not worrying about geting shot by a drive by,,i swear people,, i view your comments,and laugh, hutch is boring yes i know,, but i know im not going to get shot if i go for a walk at night,,i have lived here for a short time and i am grateful that i can let my kids go outside and play and not worry that they will be shot or abducted,,u can always drive some place around hutch if u are desiring fun,, i lived in dallas, miami, stlouis,, and to go and do anything,, u had to drive 30 min or and hour ,, just to get away from the cities,, how often do you really stay in your town to do anything fun,, think about it Re: Think about it.: 11th Oct 2007 - 15:08 GMT Okay, let me break this down for you. Look at www.hutchpd.info and you will see how many shooting that occur in Hutchinson. Not to mention stabbins, meth finds and other "big city" crimes. I live in Brooklyn NY. I walk from work every single night and have never been robbed, shot or even looked at wrong. In Hutchinson I have had cars stolen, houses broke into and meth heads stealing the air conditioning coils from a rental property I own in HutchiSuck... Also, why did you move from Miami?? Let me guess, You could not afford it! I may be wrong, but it sounds to me like you are a mother or father with 50 kids, who lives on social assistance (which is abundant in Kansas) and moved to Hutchinson to raise your kids. Noneya: 13th Oct 2007 - 11:24 GMT Hutch is truly a crime-infested, drug-ridden hell hole. Hutch PD has not the man-power nor the finance to rid this city of its problems. I can speak from experience that Hutch PD has some crooked-ass cops on the payroll. Some cops have been accused of using steroids, others have been accused of dealing drugs while off duty. Whether any of it is true, I don't know... but I will say that the facts do not lie. If you want to clean up this shit-hole of a "city", then start with the police force. That's where it all begins. Choad: 15th Oct 2007 - 00:54 GMT Wow, This website is sure getting alot of press. I wonder if any of the city fathers have seen this website. I think that Hutchinson is full a problems and to all you people trying to defend Hutchinson Just stop it is not worth your time. flyby: 16th Oct 2007 - 14:54 GMT Hutch just lost another opportunity ! Air ambulance maintenance went to Newton instead.Greed was probably a factor. Oh well... Choad: 17th Oct 2007 - 01:34 GMT livin it up: All of your thoughts were great! WOW. Hutchinson is shinking. LOOK AT www.census.gov and look at the FACTS. Hutchinson has shunk 2.2 percent in population. Not to mention it has shunk even more in job growth. Big Momma: 17th Oct 2007 - 05:46 GMT The new underground salt museum is allready in trouble. Not making any money. This town needs some serious help. Whats the answer? Tex: 19th Oct 2007 - 17:42 GMT I was born in Hutchinson, Ks. (in fact it was at the Grace Hospital, which is the second picture from the top). Back in the 70's Hutch was a going jessy, vibrant downtown, lots of people, things to do. It's sad to say about my birthplace, but I have to agree with most of the negative comments that I've seen on this board. The city is nothing like it was 30 years ago. I moved out after college and went to Texas, better paying jobs, more friendly and beautiful women, I couldn't be happier. The first thing the people in Hutch need to do is to fire or vote out of office everyone that is in city and county govt. and the chamber of commerce. They have failed the community miserably, by promoting their own pet projects, and failing to bring industry and jobs to the town. (and I'm talking about jobs that pay better than min. wage!) The city is now basically a city for the elderly, unemployed and parolees and most of the jobs are centered around taking care of those three groups. My advice for those who live there is to get out, things are much better elsewhere and it's past time that you found out! Tex: 19th Oct 2007 - 18:34 GMT And while I'm on my soapbox, It looks like to me that a lot of crime that is committed in Hutchinson is done by the 'elite' members of society. Here is an example of two of Hutchinson's finest representatives and what they got caught doing: "Max Ary, former Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center President was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for his role in stealing and selling space artifacts from the his museum." "Witness the jailing of former Reno County Sheriff Larry Leslie for accepting $284,000 in payments from a private firm that used to operate a jail annex." I think the feds are going to be the only ones that can clean Hutchinson up. Re: TEX: 19th Oct 2007 - 20:27 GMT You hit it right on the head. Hutchinson a sad place. It is truly full of the elderly, handicapped and prisoners! Bill Johnston: 19th Oct 2007 - 21:25 GMT Very funny that so many people would spend so much time commenting on something being boring. You all must have nothing else to do! I'm out of here this discussion is boring. ILiVeHerE2: 20th Oct 2007 - 00:17 GMT Hutch is like living on "Fantasy Island". Don't you know? I love this town. I wouldn't live anywhere else. This place is truly an amazing place to live. The people are great. Kind of like you people posting on here. Gut-wrenching Love. :) lila22: 24th Oct 2007 - 16:38 GMT Hutch was a nice town to have my baby, but my husband and I can't wait to leave this town and move back to a real city, CHICAGO!!!! Here we come! Hutchinson Stain: 25th Oct 2007 - 14:47 GMT Hutchinson not maybe the most boring town in the USA. However it is one of the poorest. With low incomes and lots of retards. Another Former Salt Hawk: 27th Oct 2007 - 04:39 GMT As someone who grew up in Hutchinson (HHS Class of 1970), it saddens me to see how the tow

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