me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO
 ·VOIPo
1 edit | reply to S_engineer
Re: Connect America
I am not whining just saying, if they want my money they need to give me something.
"They also don't have the 2 hour daily commutes, or potholes that will break an axle upon impact, or a crime rates that are through the roof." ok you got me on the commute its only 1hr here, BUT our road is 25% pot holes BIG ones both in depth and diameter. We don't have many burglaries, but a teacher @ the local highschool got taken away for a pervert crime last week. and every summer 28-ish% of the mailboxes are bashed in with a bat or pipe bombed. and a few yrs ago there was a kid who killed his dad, and a body found in a pool. |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
 ·Comcast
| said by me1212  : and a few yrs ago there was a kid who killed his dad, and a body found in a pool. A few years ago huh...
Chicago Murder rate
Homicides 1990-2008
1990: 851
1991: 927
1992: 943
1993: 931
1994: 929
1995: 827
1996: 789
1997: 759
1998: 704
1999: 641
2000: 628
2001: 666
2002: 647
2003: 598
2004: 448
2005: 449
2006: 467
2007: 442
2008: 510
Now I know your probably thinking, "well why don't you just move if don't like the violence" to which I would reply, "why don't you just move if you can't get broadband!" |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO
·VOIPo
| I can't move I still a kid.  And I'm not asking for like 20m I would be happy with 1.5m. And for half of my life I live in KC there were quite a few murders there. And I do have wireless broadband, it just cost a lot. Its not so much that I don't have access to faster speeds it that they r taking my money and not giving my anything, and I don't like socialism, so I do not want them to spend your money for something for me, but I do not have a problem with them spending my money on me. I would get my neighbors to pay(my family would for the whatever it is that gets us higher speed and we would cause we all want higher speed. Hopefully we will get it soon as we live in the middle of comcast and embarq, so which ever one gets here first gets the money. |
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marigolds
Gainfully employed, finally
Premium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO
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Quick point, but that Chicago murder rate is approximately 5 per 100,000/year.
That is equivalent to less than 1 murder every 4 years in a town the size of Pleasant Hill. me1212 might actually live in a town with a higher murder rate than Chicago. |
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