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Old 02-21-2022, 10:41 AM   #1
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I loved Iowa.

Coming from AZ, I had never seen so many shades of the color green.

My kids ran free from sun up to sundown.

1000 people. 3 bars. 7 churches.

Everyone gets taught how to weld.

Faith is everywhere and when they're handing you a pulled pork sandwich it's hard not to listen.

Walking tacos.

County fairs.

....

The bad stuff.

Every single line in the opening of The Music Man is truth.

Every single person within shouting distance is deathly curious about your life.

The ice that freezes in November is still there in April.

Your weed costs $50 1/8.

As a population, Iowa drinks a pony keg of Busch Lite per person.

The humidity and the bugs.
your personality on this board for the last (we won't say) however many years, are unmatched! You have always had a way with words. <3
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Old 02-21-2022, 10:51 AM   #2
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your personality on this board for the last (we won't say) however many years, are unmatched! You have always had a way with words. <3
I love you too
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Old 02-20-2022, 09:22 AM   #3
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It's 183 miles from the greatest brewery in the world, so I feel like that should be taken into consideration.
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Old 02-20-2022, 09:50 AM   #4
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It's 183 miles from the greatest brewery in the world, so I feel like that should be taken into consideration.
Which one is that?
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Old 02-20-2022, 09:50 AM   #5
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Old 02-20-2022, 10:45 AM   #7
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Fold in some Pulpit Rock sometime.
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Old 02-20-2022, 09:06 PM   #8
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I make a pilgrimage to Decorah every summer to visit friends… and oh yeah, there’s also Toppling ****ing Goliath
Great little authentic mexican restaurant in downtown Decorah now.
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Old 02-20-2022, 09:41 AM   #10
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Old 02-20-2022, 09:43 AM   #11
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If you are from Wichita, Des Moines won't be a culture shock, but it is a lot colder in the winter.

Pella is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Do get the Dutch letters there though. Good stuff.

Plenty of outdoor activities if you like that kind of thing.
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Old 02-20-2022, 10:20 AM   #12
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I wouldn’t think the difference would be that shocking. Weather is obviously different.

I was through there in the summer and I just as well have been in a different planet. I went through a hilly spot and the corn at the top, on the side and at the bottom all looked the same. With that I’m sure comes humidity. But you’re in Wichita so that’s not astronomical a change. They don’t get over 100 much. Like at all. (See hilly Corn comment)

The winter though. That’s different. I stayed in Cedar Falls for a week and it was foggy the whole ****ing week. And it wasn’t even a coffee shop talk item. Nobody cared so it’s obviously not that abnormal. I’m like Superman. I need the sun. It’s further north and that matters in the winter.

The distance from family thing is on you to pick. Kids matter. I just don’t know where your head is there. Obviously it’s not a total deal breaker or you wouldn’t have interviewed. Google machine says it’s 5 hours from Wichita. That’s closer than I thought it was. That’s about how long it is to my in-laws. And while we don’t get back there maybe as much as we’d want, I also work a reeruned amount of hours compared to a normal-type job. A weekend trip isn’t bad. A 3 day trip is better but a weekend thing isn’t bad at all.

That’s also about how long it was for us to my family from Sidney before we had kids and from my family to college. Once your kids are out of the house the trip is really pretty light. Plus you’re all interstate I haven’t ever been.

I will say when we were in Sidney it was about 7.5 hours to my in-laws and that’s much different. That makes weekend trips harder, the extra 20% seems like 40%. That was a little tougher. But as context, I’ve always been 5 hours from anywhere. So my perspective is different probably. My Brother is about 9 hours away, so if he comes, he’s doing a week. Which to his credit he does at least once a year.

As far as the job, I’d fire away if I were you. I’ve never been tethered too close to family, despite running the family farm. I lasted 2 years at a corporate job with limited upside. And that was in 09 when the job market was saturated with skilled labor. One thing I will say is negotiate. My businesses and the businesses I am in touch with (and trust what I’m being told), is the price elasticity of demand for labor is high. I’d say the ceiling on what we’d be willing to pay a guy is probably 20% higher than it was 18 months ago. So negotiate. And maybe it isn’t cash. Maybe negotiate a work from home day a week or something. If you could throw in a WFH day and make it a 3 day weekend on a day your kids have off or something that could really move the needle from a personal utility standpoint. Maybe that’s not doable in a factory setting so maybe it’s a bit more PTO to compensate the distance from family. If they nuke that Maybe you toss a little cash back their direction, I don’t know, but negotiate. I don’t know if anybody that’s happy with their staffing situation.

If I were in your shoes I’d probably be gone. The only hold up would be picking up my kids if yours are still at home.
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Would I want to live in Pella? No.

But if you lived somewhere like Altoona, Carlisle, or Pleasant Hill you’re looking at about a 40 minute commute. Not terrible but could be a change depending on what you’re used to.

Other than not having the Chiefs or Royals, I would take Des Moines over KC. Plenty of places to eat and things to do, a little smaller and more manageable, and I really have never lacked for things I am wanting here.
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Des Moines is quite a bit nicer than Wichita IMO. I would not recommend you move to Pella.

Good people in DSM. Cold weather and moving away from family would be the two draw backs.
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Iowan here and I love it.
I’m in the northeastern part of the state so all the things I love to do such as trout fishing, motorcycling kayaking are at my doorstep.
The Driftless area is stunning and sparsely populated.
The people are nice and I can’t think of a better place to raise kids and grandchildren.
Great public schools with educators and more importantly parents that care.

As I age I am becoming tired of the longer winters but you just need to keep occupied and continue to search for opportunities outside, like hockey, skiing and winter trout stream runs.
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