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I’m thinking about a possible move to Omaha from Atlanta. What are the pros and cons?

Omaha is a hell of a lot colder than Atlanta.

Hmmm...there's not really a lot of overwhelming pros about living here...housing prices are decent and traffic isn't terrible, you can get to just about any part of the city in 20 minutes or less most times of the day. On the flip side there aren't really any overwhelming cons either. The winter is going to be worse than in Atlanta, and some of the taxes are higher than other places in the midwest.

If you could be more specific about what you'd like to know more about I'd be more than happy to answer any questions.

Pro: Nebraska has the lowest insurance of the lower 48 states.

Con: Very limited sea turtle research jobs.

Here's a link to a great Omaha message board, there is a ton of good information about what's going on here. You can also ask questions on the Welcome to Omaha page without registering.

http://eomahaforums.com/phpBB/index.php

I'm getting ready to head out for the day, I'll check back here this afternoon but feel free to PM me anytime with any questions.

Thanks, how are the schools, What areas should I look at moving to, staying away from?

Stay away from North Omaha, I'll tell you that right now.

Pros- excellent outdoorsman-type activities, fairly low crime rate, good community involvement and an excellent place to raise a family.

Cons- cold weather, (this was one of the worst years ever) the husker kool-aid and if you have allergy problems you can look forward to daily snot activites in the late summer months.

I like it here, our job market is fairly good too, (especially I.T. jobs).

Feel free to pm me as well.
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No more Gladys Knights Chicken & Waffles.

a lot of hot chicks for some reason

NE Omaha is a little rough, and you'll want to avoid SE unless you're fluent in your Espanol. District 66 (west central Omaha) has the best schools but you'll pay more for a home in that area and our property taxes are a bit higher. Ralston, Papillion/LaVista, Millard and Bellevue all have good schools as well. Omaha Public Schools aren't terrible, but they of course have the most funding issues since they serve the more economically depressed parts of town.

IMO the best places to be are either SW Omaha or Sarpy County.

lol...there are some rough areas up that way, but it's not like you're going to get killed if you drive down the wrong street.

[QUOTE=Sofa King;6623995]Papillion was recently #3 on the top-50 best places to live in US News. I live near there, work in Bellevue at Offutt AFB, NE. Be glad to converse with you on specifics. Good schools, bad schools, taxes, etc. Papillion is also the location of the new Omaha Royals stadium being built.

I work at the base but live in Iowa, on purpose. Property taxes is the reason. For instance, I have a cabin on 5 acres in the woods and hills and pay about 2800 in property taxes on a 250,000 valued home. My old boss had a 300,000 value home and paid over 6000 in property tax in Bellevue, (Sarpy County).

Free orgies with Gonzo. That's a plus.

Iowa schools are excellent too. Top 3-5 in the Nation. (Iowa Basic Skills Test sound familiar).

As others have said stay out of North Omaha. South Omaha is getting pretty rough too...as is some places in CouncilTucky.

Yep, I pay around 2800 for a house valued at 144K, but I'm in District 66.

Couldn’t be any worse than some areas of Atlanta. Thanks for all the input. One major reason for wanting to move is the piss poor schooling here in GA. Just want the best for my kids and I may have a job Opportunity in Omaha.

you want to live out in west omaha... stay away from North Omaha. and South Omaha for that matter

Pros: Plenty of choices of places to go eat and drink, a nice cold winter (I like winter so I see it as a pro) overall the seasonal changes are great, great outdoors activities, jobs seem to be available, easy to get around the city, for the most part you feel safe in most places, decent schools, a local music scene that is OK with a lot of good local bands, College World Series and some pretty good events at the Qwest Center

Cons: High taxes, not only homes but it cost us $500 to plate a new car and that was not including the sales tax, you have to listen about the Cornhuskers 24-7, potholes! Omaha's streets have never been that great but in the winter it is a mess like this year, some pretty humid days in the summer, lack of good fireworks for 4th of July (have to to to Missouri or South Dakota to get some good stuff), great grilling weather most of the year, home prices are decent.

As for where to live...I live in NW Omaha and think it is very nice. So is Sarpy County and Papillion.

From what I saw, there's not a whole lot of diversity in Omaha.

Whether you take that as a pro or a con is up to you.

Oh and the women are easy

LOLmaha

The traffic is a hell of a lot better!

I don't know a hell of a lot about Omaha really. Been through there a few times, but not with much time to explore much. Did get to check out the Omaha Zoo one time. That's pretty damn cool if you ask me. On a side note, what do you think of Atlanta? I might be moving out there soon, myself from ND. Not quite sure yet.

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Cons: It's in Nebraska

Pros:

:D

Damn right...

I just got home from visiting the in-laws in Wichita.
What a shit hole.
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I'm sure that's a link to a blank page.

Pros: Niles Paul is from Omaha

Cons: You'll have to wait a few months before you can celebrate Nebraska winning the title.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!! THAT IS SOOOOO FUNNY! HE'S IMPLYING THAT THERE IS NOTHING GOING ON HERE!!!!


Actually it's funny because the only thing KC has that Omaha doesn't have is two loser professional sports franchises and a lot more people.

That's bullshit. Omaha is underrated and getting better all the time but to act like Omaha is KC's equal as an arts city or a food city is a heaping helping of horseshit.

Oh like you know a damn thing about it anyway.

Two Words...GO BEEF!

But seriously, I've been here for 25 years and I love it here. The taxes blow ass, but that's because there's only like 6 people who live here so people get squeezed. It's pretty conservative, but I don't think it's overbearingly so.

I live in Papillion, I do recommend staying out of the city. The mayor is a ****ing idiot.

Omaha Rocks though. It's a good town.

I used to go up to Omaha a fair deal when I was living an hour and 40 minutes away from it (in Maryville). Its absolutely laughable to think that Omaha offers anything close to what Kansas City does. I say that as a person that likes Omaha.

Reaper16: Expert on everything that no one gives a shit about.

LMAO

I hear that Papillion is THE place to live in the area.

The only drawback to Papillion is that it's so far south of everything else and there's no freeway serving the area. I have no idea what part of town you'll be working in but if it's going to be downtown or midtown you're going to have a rough commute. Do you have any idea where your prospective employer is located?

Stay away from West O. Seriously. Soccer moms are vicious. :D

Any small town on the outskirts of the Big O is a good move.

Papillion is a nice area. Bellevue used to be the asshole of the metro but it's a lot better now. I think we graduated to like a gland or perhaps a nipple.
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ROFL Well... not exactly free, (we need to pay bills, ya know).

Nope, the nipples are located on the roof of the Crossroads, you guys are more like the appendix, just hanging out and being generally useless. :D

Pros: Nice part of the country to live

Cons: Gawd Damned Nebraskans

Kansas City North for the most part. KC is more metropoltion that Omaha. But its not a bad city at all.
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Pros: Less traffic

Cons: More snow

Pros: Its not Council Bluffs

Cons: Its not Kansas City

Cons: Omaha Royals

Pros: They are better than the Kansas City Royals

This...

Actually, the O-Royals games are a good time. Fairly inexpensive and rosenblatt is a nice stadium. Its quite a shame that they're tearing it down this year.
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Here are some more pros:
Alexander Payne films all of his movies in and around the Omaha metro area.
We have corn.
The Henry Doorly Zoo kicks ass!
There are a lot of cornfields.
Hunting is great... plenty of deer, pheasant, turkey, etc.
Did I mention we have corn?

Omaha looked just like the Santa Barbara wine country in Sideways. Impressive.

I just visualized Bubba describing all of the ways to cook corn.

We have corn vineyards. FTW
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Corn syrup
Corn on the cob
Corn chips
Corn flakes
Corn tortillas
Creamed corn
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Ah, yes. The 2007 Mackey Farms Sweet Corn. That was a good year.

It has a slight pecan after taste. Smooth, with just a hint of grasshopper urine.
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Ok, so maybe a portion of that film was shot elsewhere. But the majority of the shots in his films take place in Omaha.

"If anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any ****ing Merlot!"

You forgot the egg and corn; egg, bacon and corn; egg, bacon, sausage and corn; corn, bacon, sausage and corn; corn, egg, corn, corn, bacon and corn; corn, corn, corn, egg and corn; corn, corn, corn, corn, corn, corn, baked beans, corn, corn, corn and corn; or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and a fried egg on top and corn.

CORN MOTHER****ERS!

We has it.
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has someone mentioned snow? Im' too lazy to read the entire 4 pages of thread.

Weird. That quote from Sideways has been posted on Chiefsplanet twice in the last day.

OK I HAS CORN, WAT DO?

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HUSK

EATS CORN DO NOW BUTTER SALT, REPEAT.
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Weird
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Really? Did they build a new stadium? I went there back in the late 1990's I gotta say dude it was very crowded and I didn't really enjoy it. I guess i'm just used to Kaffmaun Stadium.

:spock: The 'blatt was crowded for a Royals game? The only time that place fills up is during the CWS and fireworks night.

Anyway, the City of Omaha is building a new downtown stadium for the CWS, and the Royals are building a new one in Sarpy Co.

Yea the game I went to had fireworks after. So they're building 2 stadiums wtf?

Heh...don't get me started. The NCAA insisted on a 20K seat stadium for the CWS, and the Royals don't want to play in that big of a stadium and have always been butthurt that they get kicked out of the 'blatt for two weeks every June. There was simply no compromising between the two entities and the mayor caved to the NCAA, so now we're going to have a beautiful $130M downtown stadium that is going to be largely unused for 50 weeks out of the year, and another one out in the middle of a bunch of cornfields south of town.

So Omaha is alot like KC after all.

I went to school at Creighton for awhile, so I do know what I'm talking about with Omaha (which my friends and I called "Ohmigod" because we wondered, "what the hell did we do wrong in our lives to end up here?"_

My sister lived in Omaha for years b/c her husband was stationed at Offut.

Omaha is a bloated small town whose residents act like small town people but they think they're a city. Hence they look down on "Iowegians" from Council Bluffs. And, they're obnoxious about the Cornhuskers. Its like they can't imagine anyone in Nebraska liking anyone else.

When people would ask my sister if she was a Cornhusker fan, she'd answer, "No, I'm a catholic".

Well you seem like an obnoxious prick yourself so I'm surprised you didn't fit in here.

Oh wait, you said you attended Creighton, so there's no doubt you're an obnoxious prick.

LAWLZ.

I'm an obnoxious prick, but I have no kin in Omaha.

I've been there 8-10 times, so perhaps that's the reason.

I also love it when people give us crap for all being Husker fans, just what in the hell would you expect when coming to...uhhh...Nebraska?

OMG I WENT TO AUSTIN TX AND ALL THEY WANTED TO DO IS TALK ABOUT THE LONGHORNS!!! IT WAS SO OBNOXIOUS!!!

I read that Nebraska is the 2nd most hated football team behind Notre Dame.

Corncakes
Cornmeal
Popcorn
Corn ethanol
Cornhuskers
Corn cob pipes

In their defense, the NU fans have calmed way down since the Callahan era hit. Bug, you have to admit that in the late 90's and early 2000's the kool-aid was flowing and there were a lot of obnoxious dick holes in the area.(When they play the game on the pa system at Bakers and all employees were required to wear red on Fridays).

That type of thing is a rarity now. Even though the program is starting to turn itself around.
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