Taking Sides: Council Bluffs vs Cedar Rapids

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have you been to either?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

oh my god.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't actually, sorry I can't be of any help.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

TS: Sioux Falls vs Sioux City

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Been to both. Council Bluffs gets a lot of bad press from the Omaha mafiosi, but the difference is neglible, really - Omaha has the Old Market, OK, but nothing about Omaha inherently rules over Council Bluffs, which has a casino. (Though I think there's a racetrack in Omaha so it evens out.)

The one afternoon I spent in Cedar Rapids I was getting dental work done, so as far as I'm concerned the whole town rests on a foundation of truly vile sadism & its citizens exist only to mock my pain.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

where do you get this stuff, gareth?

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fun fact: there's (was maybe) a little corner of Council Bluffs on the Omaha side of the river (the river shifted, leaving a sliver of land that technically wasn't Nebraska somehow)

(good god 10th grade geography popping into my head unbidden stop it stop it)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

and yes I've been 'to' cedar rapids (through it). but not council bluffs. gareth, what possessed you to juxtapose these two in particular?

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe he's planning his next US trip.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

best make alternate plans.

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 14 June 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

they have good names.

http://www.ocs.orst.edu/pub/maps/Precipitation/Total/States/IA/ia.gif

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm from Sioux City, Iowa so I've been to both, though i don't remember much about Cedar Rapids....I'll have to go with COuncil Bluffs for its proximity to Omaha.

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Monday, 16 June 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

But Cedar Rapids is The City Of Five Smells!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you name all five?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

normally my radar goes crazy when people start hatin' on Iowa but "The City of Five Smells," that there is some funny stuff

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that was actually an argument in favor of Cedar Rapids; I am so not hatin'. It's also very close to the comparatively hip Iowa City. It might be a nice compare-and-contrast for you, Gareth, if you want to see the difference between a manufacturing-based economy and a college/gov't-based economy in the same geographic region.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

(disclaimer: I haven't been to any of these cities but worked with a guy who previoiusly worked in Cedar Rapids and lived in Iowa City and he told me about all this.)

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

'the comparatively hip iowa city' is actually on the sign as you cross the city limits.

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 16 June 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i have been to council bluffs as part of an lds church history tour when i was 7 or 8, i remember the intereperive center being dull.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 16 June 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

comparatively dull?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 June 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

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