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Marie: I grew up in LaJunta and when I hit college, I learned that I had gotten a great education. I was far ahead of the other students in math and science and history. ......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 8 by Scott Sargent

Gamester: I too just found this page after searching for "too old skateboarding" in Google. I am 23 years old and work as a technical support agent in Boulder, CO. Right now, here is......

in response to: I\'m Too Old for Skateboarding by JJ

kms: My life got flipped turned upside down. I want to type this up and tell you all about how I came to the town called Bellaire. In Cabrini Green, where I grew up and played on......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

TRANS KOF 2008 : Hey all this talk about Paterson brings back alot of memories I grew up in Paterson on Main st. and Wiess St.a block from St.Josephs hospital. my neighborhood was known as little San Juan......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

anon: Scott, urgent, contact me. I am stuck in Hutchinson, I am from Florida and I believe my life is in danger. I keep reaching out for help but its slow coming. I am disabled, use......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 13 by Scott Sargent

CatLegger: Nice skylines. But what's it look like inside Sydney's {Chinatown}?...

in response to: Chinatown by Ross

Outside the box...: When you hear and see what is going on down in that part of town I find it difficult to feel sorry for the majority of those folks. The previous post hit the nail on......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

living in Hutchinson: Wow. Interesting website. I would like to comment too. I live in Hutchinson. I have been here my entire life. I moved to big cities in other states for a few......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Jerrod the "Wildchild" Racerboy: Hutch Really isnt as bad as some make it out to be. Great paying jobs arent plentyfull but there are plenty of jobs out there if you REALLY want to work!! Most people in this......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

adr: im not gonna read any of these comments, all i know is that the pics were all of one area by the old hospital, not the church, i dont know what year, but now they......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Me: Re to surviving You go into any town or city,and you will find many women with a dozen kids,milking the system.Happens everywhere,all the time,not just in Hutchinson Kansas.But I understand how you feel.I have been upset......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Cecilia Midiri: All the people up there who are talking about when Kensington changed are talking about when the neighborhood became desegregated and people of color started moving in. Anyway...I work every day and so does......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Peter: if i had a dollar for every time ive heard someone from a hard/bad/depressed/rebuilding neighborhood comment something like ##"_______ is really that bad and has been for years"##... [[76:cabrini green]], [[1727:henry horner]], [[4368:hutchinson]], [[646:bushwick]], to......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

serlingrod: In response to the last post - first of, let me say that I live in Philadelphia and have worked as a community organizer in Kensington for the past several years. I mention this to......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Devil's Advocate: Tex, maybe you're a part of the problem! Owning property and making an income from Hutchinson while not putting anything back into the town!...

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Hutchinson Escapee: That's it? That's all you got? Knowing Hutchinson to be the seething cesspool of child rapists and pedifiles that it is, I am going to suggest in the strongest language possible that the Dateline NBC people......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Me: Re to Hutchinson Escapee That sick pervert lived in Pretty Prairie,as you stated,not Hutch,the sick pervert who sexually assulted and killed an elderly woman this past month also was from out of town,Mcpherson to be exact.They......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Me: Re to Hutchinson Escapee Actually the Dillon Grocery Store chain was founded in the Sterling and Lyons area. As far as the judicial system being corrupt,show me one that isn't.The men who run this country are......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Hutchinson Escapee: I'm not a religious person, but if there is a town in this county that truly is cursed, it's hutchinson, KS. The corruption at the judicial level is staggering. The forces that be actually got the......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Me: Re to Tex and Peter I would post pics here,but I do not know how.Maybe I can get my 17 year old to do it for me,but she is usually too busy,like many other folks here......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex: Here's another one, this is the Kansas Cosmosphere, one of the recent winners in the "Wonders of Reno County". It was started my Max Ary, who stole space artifacts from his own museum and......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Me: Re to Peter Can't say I wouldn't blame you after reading so much negativity,but people like Tex who don't even live here but keep posting negative and slanderous comments,especially about the man who committed suicide,is enough......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

RN1980: My question to all you HATERS is: What makes your town/city so much better? Every community in this country as problems with drugs and poor "white trash" or "illegal immigrants". The photos posted......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

John (aged 44 and a bit): Ahh so many memories. I left irlam in 1985 not i may add for the sandy beaches and climate of a far off land but the more mundane surroundings of Oldham. I grew up on......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Peter: you know, pow, i didnt even notice that but youre right- the one on the left is much nicer and more unique. curiously, i grew up in a town down south that had a huge us......

in response to: Hydrant to Hydrant by POWcityblog

hugglez924: I have lived in Hutchinson nearly all my life and it is a wonderful place to live and raise a family. My children are grown and dont plan on moving to any other town.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

B Street: I grew up across the street from one of the few working factories in Kensington starting in 1965 until I was forced out 22 years later. While I too have fond memories of wall ball, swimming......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Andie: Dear Yep its me, There is a difference between a "job" and a "career where you can make a living and support your family on. Hutchinson offers plenty of the former and not the latter. This......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

AL G: I have to go to this place in two weeks for a wind turbine project. This place seems like it's going to suck big time, I mean come on Ironman just came out last......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 9 by Scott Sargent

Tom Montvydas: Hi Hairsy glad to hear from you. Do you remember big H & C ( Jacks corner) and small H & C. I saw Bobby Price the other day. I got married last......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

eric guerra: Its me again. No matter how bad it is, it is still my birth place, St. Josephs Hospital, lived on Preakness Ave for half my life, then moved one block away to Ryerson ave. I......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

joey: Chicago Midway Airport (MDW) is located just ten miles from downtown Chicago....

in response to: Midway Airport by joey

RAY ALAN: I have lived in jacksonville fla. all my life 51yrs. to be exact.First I cant belive Jacksonville fla. is being called a small town because there est.800,000 people reside here and it is......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

jaime: it's great to hear of a town that takes the time to know there neighbors i love it. although i've never been there it sounds great. my husband visited yesterday and he said it was......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 9 by Scott Sargent

Miss_1989: I had lived in hutch for 12 years growing up as a child, but my family ended up moving due to my parents job transfers and also because Hutchinson (even in the middle class neighborhoods)......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

James cashan: hi norma , yes i remember brian,may know your brothers by face,we would get anywhere from 1 to 2 hundred people down at tarzan bridge,crossie was a regular face at our shin digs and would often......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Andie: Cody, I know you and your family personally. I grew up in Hutchinson and attended church with you. You are not representative of the average Hutchinsonian. Your mother is a hospital administrator and your father is......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

omabradshaw: Hello-I was born at Grace Hospital(8th & Main);went to Central Grade School(it was on 5th Street by the Catholic Church);Faris grade school;Sherman Jr High;Hutchinson Sr. High School.I enjoyed my years growing up in Hutch.Of course,that......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Me: I would rather stay in my hometown to eat and shop,because everyday you hear of a shooting or some other violent crime happening in Wichita....

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

67502 May 7, 2008: Hutch has not grown since I came here in 1978. It's a retirement town with lots of low income housing and those people DO NOT support our downtown or help us stay in business.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

balloonhedz: thatd be a heaven sent experience. That sounds so...correct me if Im wrong....Damon Runyon??? Almost like a scene from Guys & Dolls if it wasnt a musical and if it WAS set in......

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

brightflight: I'm not sure. I've eaten at a Nim Wah dim sum place in Chinatown but we might've just mispronounced Nam Wah. The food was really, really good but some old guys were smoking cigarettes indoors and......

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

Eric from Port Richmond: A Richmond boy with a few comments. Its NOT just Kensignton that took a turn for the worst in the area. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s in Port Richmond. The neighbors would sit......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

CartLegger: Yes. this is a fine spot, an old fashioned joint that is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Chinatown. It always looks empty, but you feel like a real important customer with undending offers of......

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

grisser: I think I remembered it being the oldest tea shop in China town according to the pamphlet they give out in one of those Chinatown festival....

in response to: Nam Wah Tea Parlor by Peter

Me: I agree with you Carrie. All the boo-hooers want a town to make them happy,they want a job to make them happy,they want a slim chick to make them happy,when will they realize that happiness......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Bob Cratchitt: I have posted on this site previously, but it never seems to show up. Perhaps this site prefers negative verbiage. and what's with, slamming a little town yet most all the posts seem......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 9 by Scott Sargent

imon: jacksonville has a cove ,yeah its looking decent,yes its trying to compete with other major cities,but it is a racist city ,it has the good ol' boy mentality, paysucksno matter what you say, housing might......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

Tex: Since Hutchinson is such a great and growing town (LOL), and no one really wants to go there, they lost their airport traffic years ago, then they lost the bus depot which is really a......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

WTF: How do you get out of here? I can't take a bus and there's no train depot anymore.Can I call a taxi? How do I get a train ticket? How do I get North or......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex: Statistics show the murder rate is almost nothing, but the non-violent crimes such as burglary, arson, theft, basically property crimes where people are looking to steal to get by, are higher than the national average.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

SH*THOUSE: Zack: You are insane, Hutchinson is not full of good looking girls. It is far from known for that. Most of the women in this town are pigs....

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Paul: I live in downtown Toronto and I think our downtown is quite impressive, with the coloured lights on the Skydome and CN Tower it really enhances the night view and the Royal Bank Plaza glitters......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

GuRu: The Do-ers are the ones wreckin the place! and i dont just mean the ones doin meth either. ever wonder why city council got thier butts audited? HHHMMMMMMMMM, i wonder????? Latest example is that dirty......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Yes: 'So just move and all will be better' So does that mean when everybody moves out and the town is empty, Hutchinson will be at its' best? Sounds like that's what people are doing since the population......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

yolanda deberry-franklin: wow, memories, memories,memories. my family and i moved into the henry horner projects when they were completed around 1956-57. i was about 4 years old at the time. we thought that we......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Arnie Magraner: I used to work on Varick st. Near Chinatown circa 1965....

in response to: Going to the Tunnel on Varick by jack

what it is: Boring is for the bored. No jobs are for those who are not looking. Happiness comes from within,your town can not make you happy. Are things great here? Absolutely not. But quit "yer bitchin" and......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

SH*THOUSE: You need to move from Hutchinson. There are alot of meth users in this town. It is sickening. I have seen it before, you try to quit but there are some many people that......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

D.B.: Whats good people i`m back again just tryin to put down some of the negativity to pay hommage to some of the friends and family who are no longer here and most who......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Sheila Hilton: Hi Cyril, I came across some (confusing to say the least)information relating to Woolden Hall. Make of it what you will: "Woolden appears as Vulueden in 1299.......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

re: me: No it is not happening everywhere in the USA. I have lived in large cities for the last 20 years and my prosperty and job income has always been better in a larger town......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Hutchinsonian: You said it, Tex. I'm with you on that completely. I only wish the rest of our town's citizens were as pragmatic....

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex: You are absolutely right, we should be thankful for what we have and the great country that we live in. We are very blessed and fortunate to live in a country where we have......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

This note is for you: What lucky people in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA, to be able to have a place to live and call it "home". Do you know how much a person earns in a "third world" country?, did you know......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex: I actually had to journey up to the fair city of Hutch a couple of weeks ago. I made a visit to your Hutchinson Mall. Do you remember the scenes from 'Dawn of the Dead'......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

a person: The good folks of Hutchinson must care about their town one way or another,good or bad. This post keeps getting more and more input,the posts on Salina don't,nor does the Oklahoma post get very much......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

optomystic: Hutchinson is an awesome town. Please move here and discover what you are missing. You will be AMAZED!...

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

~^JICK^~: Man...whoever took these pics i thank alot. All i want to say is great job. But another thing is that, i have lived in hammertown all my life, i am 13, i am a beginner......

in response to: Graffiti in the Hammer by TIMDOG

Stuck also: Yep!! It sux. I have lived in Hutchinson for a long time and believe me it sux! There is an ass hole complex here. No......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Stuck in Hutchinson: I need some advice on getting out of this hell hole. I'm pretty lazy, like most of the people in this town, but I still have some hope that maybe I could make something......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

optomystic: why,oh why,oh why can't folks realize that hutchinson is a wonderful town ? the opportunities in hutchinson are simply amazing. please move to hutchinson- you will just love it! can't you hear the bells ringing......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

noname: Blank Responder. You are the king of petty comments. I could careless what you think or say. What I can't figure out is why Hutchinsonites like blank responder have to resort to name calling etc.......

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noname: To the blank responder: I would like to argue points with you about hutchinson, but you are to good to even post a name. I am not going to respond to your comments about the......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Re to Tex: You are so right Tex. I love reading your comments because you are right about everything and know what you are talking about because you have lived here.You also are man enough to post your......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex: Here's a sad example In the Hutch news, was this story, "Owner of Wiley building leaves tenants in the cold" "The coffee group can joke about it - but the tenants of the Wiley building aren't......

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Peter: so... perhaps we can get past all the pointless name-calling and someone who actually lives in {hutchinson} can post some photos that prove their point? otherwise, this thread is just becoming a big, endless argument......

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noname: Mcpherson's downtown has nothing to do with it's economy. If you tried to take that as a indication of economic growth you would not see anything. Downtowns are dieing as towns spread out. The fact......

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serlingrod: [[img:26158]] EvilGentleman - I just so happened to snap this one on Avenue Papineau in the Plateau. I love the old sign though...it's like the ones you'll find in small-town U.S.A. that still say "Kentucky Fried......

in response to: Poulet Frit à La Kentucky by EvilGentleman

S.S.: Tex must love and miss Hutchinson and Kansas in general,or he wouldn't keep up with whats going on in our town....

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

GuRu: Anyone who loves this town is either old, or an ineffective middle manager making 10 bucks an hour and bossing around brown people. Wake up peeps! We have nazi cops, child molesters on every block,......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Pierre: Yre's is the best chicken I ever tasted. It was a real treat to get some when I lived in Gloucester. Unfortunately, I moved 70 km east of Ottawa. I haven't been to Charlotte St.......

in response to: Save Yre\'s! by EvilGentleman

Mahaney: I've spent a good bit of time in Salina and it's a great place to live if you are retiring or raising a child. However, if you are in your 20's, 30's or even......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 7 by Scott Sargent

j.smith: Shiny unhappy people All is not well in the world of pearly royalty. Beneath the peacock feathers and rhinestone finery is stirring a nasty battle for the soul of the kingdom. In Guildford county court this......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Still in Hutchinson: McPherson is thriving with business because it is right off the interstate and that is what big business owners want. The cost of living in Hutch is less than most places around here,......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex: Re Hunter's request: "Both Tex and Noname seem to think I have labeled others as "stupid", "ignorant", "dumb", etc.. I would invite them to cite a single example of such boorish language on my part" How about this statement......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

noname: Hunter, First off I am self employed. I have not needed to explore other towns. My complaint comes from the lack of people with money in this town. Thank God for the internet... I do......

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Hunter: My, my, you fellows (Tex, Noname, and former Hutchinsonite) have certainly grown suddenly very touchy. You raise so many points with so much overlap I'll try to answer by point, rather than address each correspondent......

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Tex Re: Hunter: Hunter, I'm tired of you giving out false statements. As I said before, I did not come up with the crime statistics, they came from the F.B.I. You can review them at this......

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noname: Re: Former Hutchinsonite. I have to agree. Seems odd to has some asshole in California commenting about a town that he does not inhabit. Hutchinson is truly the worst of the worst. These statistic that......

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Former Hutchinsonite: Gosh Hunter, sounds like you're a hypocrite. If you thought the town was so great, why did you pack up and move out to California to find a job? And as far as......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Hunter: I'm back again, and will comment again on Tex's "statistics". Tex your reply to my criticism of your use of crime statistics was simply to attribute the data to the FBI, but I did not......

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noname: I work in a business that allows me to see the finest of Hutchinson and surrounding areas. Hutchinson it's surrounding population consist of the following: Retirees, poor families, meth addicts, leeches. No more no less.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Re: Cody: Sounds like you're pretty self centered. As long as everything is fine for you and your family and business, that's all that counts isn't it? What about all the underprivileged people in your......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

noname: Tex, you have brought up very good points. Hutchinson is a poor example of a city even when compared to other towns in Kansas. Hutchinson has been on a steady down fall for years. People......

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Tex Re: Hunter: My crime statistics come from the F.B.I., and I would say that they probably have well qualified statisticians who know how to report said facts fairly with the proper comparisons, so that 'apples' are not......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Hunter: I'd like to make two points at this time. First, it seems that most of the dissatisfaction with Hutchinson revolves around the lack of "good", i.e. well-paid jobs. As I mentioned earlier, there are no......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Tex : Oh, But despite all of the above, Hutch is a nice safe place to live........NOT!! According to the 2003 FBI crime statistics. Arson = 2.89 times the national average (why?, people are setting their homes and businesses......

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Tex: Ok, lets start with the facts instead of people's 'opinions' about how great life is in Hutch. city-data.com/city/Hutchinson-Kansas.html Median Household Income for 2005 Hutch residents: 33,300 Kansas residents: 42,920 Hutch govt. employees: 53,604 !!! Hutchinson compared to Kansas state average:......

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Hunter: After a month or so of reading the comments in this column (thread?) i am wondering what it is that the critics think is missing in Hutchinson. It can't be movies-Hutchinson has several: it can't......

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