I swear its true.

I met my sweet heart down in texas. It was going so great and then I had a great opportunity out in California helping out my friend's business. He was sick at the time and his night club needed work, we were lucky and put a lot of work into it and actually made it turn a profit

We met these two idiots who happened to be good with computers..well its a longer story than that.


Anyway, back before we moved out there I had met with this lawyer, he told me this story about a couple of guys who had made a million dollars in one month. Of course I took his word for well..his word

needless to say, I didn't believe him

That was until I turned in a favor for my friend at the Hard Rock Hotel right off the strip.

He told me this story about how these guys on the top floor were going crazy and unable to pull it together. Suddenly I realized these might be the guys my friend was talking about.

Long story short, these guys had invented some sort of algorithm that enabled websites to charge by their credit card. Talk about a revolutionary type of idea

I just wish the Russian mafia hadn't gotten involved. If it wasn't for the

I got laid off this year and ended a 10-year cohabitating relationship 2 years ago, but I don't see Iowa City as a viable recovery option.

I'll stick with living in O.C, thank you very much.

/not recently divorced

//not recently laid off

///no negative life changing events

////loving life in O.C.!!!

Take me down to Iowa City
Where the folks are hayseeds
and the beers are shiatty.

Oh won't you please take me home!

what if the negative event was moving to iowa city?

I can see myself trying to pick up an older woman saying hey, I got a job, how 'bout it?

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: I'll stick with living in O.C, thank you very much.

/not recently divorced

//not recently laid off

///no negative life changing events

////loving life in O.C.!!!

I like you. Came in here to say some of these things. I love my wife more than anything and am glad I don't have to think about things like this.

/sad people problems

Iowa City native... seriously it's a great town.
I have a tendency to defend Iowa when people tear into, but then I realize Iowa City /= the rest of Iowa.

The next cities in line are Fargo, N.D., Lincoln, Neb., Lawton, Okla./Logan, Utah (tie) and Sioux Falls, S.D.

So basically, move to the middle of freaking nowhere.

Is this Heaven?

FTFA: Iowa City made No. 1 for being "home to the University of Iowa, which helps contribute to its 4.7 percent jobless rate and 16.1 percent singles population," the article reads.

So, if you're a 40-year old divorcee who has been laid off from his union job after ten years with the same company, you should move to Iowa City, because it has a high availability of unmarried college girls and plenty of academic jobs above your head.

This study needs more work.

I'm a nerdy Asian American who was an outcast in California. People were always rude and pushy with me. I was called names all the time by White frat guy types in Orange County.

After losing my IT job and getting dumped by my gold digging Vietnamese girlfriend, I took all the money I had and ran away to Iowa City.

In Iowa, I met a supportive hot blonde who became my wife, got an IT job that pays the same as it did in California, but with a substantially lower cost of living, and learned the true meaning of community, friendship, and that the American dream is still not dead.

Dadoody: I'm a nerdy Asian American who was an outcast in California. People were always rude and pushy with me. I was called names all the time by White frat guy types in Orange County.

After losing my IT job and getting dumped by my gold digging Vietnamese girlfriend, I took all the money I had and ran away to Iowa City.

In Iowa, I met a supportive hot blonde who became my wife, got an IT job that pays the same as it did in California, but with a substantially lower cost of living, and learned the true meaning of community, friendship, and that the American dream is still not dead.

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You want to be like me? You want to have a yacht with many beautiful women?

I used to be poor like you. But I learned the secret to making money without risking any money!

Call today for more information!

Gosling: The next cities in line are Fargo, N.D., Lincoln, Neb., Lawton, Okla./Logan, Utah (tie) and Sioux Falls, S.D.

So basically, move to the middle of freaking nowhere.

small pond - medium size fish

like the Porn's where the female is tiny and the average guy now looks huge

Sort of similar to forced perspective sort of thing

video man: Gosling: The next cities in line are Fargo, N.D., Lincoln, Neb., Lawton, Okla./Logan, Utah (tie) and Sioux Falls, S.D.

So basically, move to the middle of freaking nowhere.

The rent is cheap, the food is cheap, the pay is good... I can deal with it.

/Oh, and our housing market didn't explode either.

Plus you can get some awesome corn front property. Fark all that beach and water nonsense, corn front is the way to go.

what they fail to mention is there isnt anywhere to farking park in iowa city. its the only reason anybody other then me lives in cedar rapids..

/is just broke.

Since Iowa is 2 years before everywhere else, I ten to agree with the headline.

cheap_thoughts: College towns.

Where's lawrence?


While Larryville is a fairly cool place and the economy is strong enough that there are $7.50 service jobs in windows, wages for anything above that are pathetic even for the midwest. Home of the $15/hour IT/programmer job. Just enough to get people who don't want the hour commute into KC.There are a number of BLS job categories where Lawrence, Columbia, MO, and a couple other similar towns have lower pay than San Juan, Puerto Rico. For various reasons, Lincoln and Iowa City don't have 'big city' salaries but pay comparatively decently.

Usually stories about Iowa at this time in the election cycle are by NY or Calif writers trashing the state because they don't think middle America should have anything to do with electing a president.

Aulus: Seriously?

The Peoples Republic of Johnson County?


I'll take "Peoples Republic" as meaning they don't hate the gays, they're not religious nutjobs, they're not afraid of the brown folk, and they care about the environment.

Sounds good to me.

/Lived in the original "People's Republic" of Boulder

Lawton representin'!

/if you don't mind the gangs, of course

So it starts with "I owe a lot of money" then on to "Iowa city"?

I would like to point out that in Iowa, you can buy hard liquor at pretty much any grocery or convenience store up until 2am, almost every day of the year.

Fargo can make you chipper.

Feeling unloved? Move to Iowa, where presidential wannabees will visit you and make you feel wanted for a year. (Offer not valid between January 4 2012 and December 2014)

/never been there

As someone who regularly travels to Iowa City for work, if I have to go to somewhere in Iowa, Iowa City is pretty nice.

Dadoody: I'm a nerdy Asian American who was an outcast in California. People were always rude and pushy with me. I was called names all the time by White frat guy types in Orange County.
After losing my IT job and getting dumped by my gold digging Vietnamese girlfriend, I took all the money I had and ran away to Iowa City.

In Iowa, I met a supportive hot blonde who became my wife, got an IT job that pays the same as it did in California, but with a substantially lower cost of living, and learned the true meaning of community, friendship, and that the American dream is still not dead.

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congrats, btw. glad to see somebody is having fun these days.

video man: The rent is cheap, the food is cheap, the pay is good... I can deal with it.

/Oh, and our housing market didn't explode either.

This. We have four real seasons, fuel is cheap, homes are nice, public schools are very good, and if it takes you more than 15 minutes to commute to your job, it's by choice.

/Des Moines resident - would have no problem relocating to Fargo or Lincoln if I had to.

Yea. City on a floodplain linked to the Mississippi.

I'll pass.

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Fargo can make you chipper.

Came for this. Leaving satisfied.

/oh yah

Jubeebee: I'm considering moving to the boonies sometime in the next couple of years. Not because of a negative life-changing event, but because it'll be easier to be self-employed if I have a lower cost of living. Iowa and western Michigan are the current leading candidates.

Based on my own experience, I live in Michigan and I have an aunt and uncle in Iowa City, I'd pick western Michigan. Western Michigan has the Lake Michigan shoreline, a lot of good breweries, and it's only a couple hours to Chicago (my brother used to live in Grand Rapids, he said Chicago was about a 3 hour drive from there). Iowa City is nice (Prairie Lights is a great bookstore, good schools, nice community, good pheasant hunting) but even with the University of Iowa there I've never really seen anything that excites me. I don't know if you ski, but you really can't do that in Iowa. In my opinion, watching the sun set over Lake Michigan with a bottle of Founders in your hand can't be beat. Also, you'd have to worry about cougars in Iowa City (I mean the kind with four legs and a tail). I'm not kidding, my aunt and uncle's kids got sent home from school early back in October because a cougar walked through the playground and they shut down the school because of it. No, they didn't make the kids walk home, each child had to be picked up by an adult inside the building.

city (comma) state

Was suicide not an option...?