Why is Little Rock such a shit hole?

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Posted: 6/14/2011 12:05:21 PM EDT

Just wondering. I was born there, but moved off at a young age. I live in Mayflower, and I feel its still to close. I don't even go there.

Posted: 6/14/2011 1:24:00 PM EDT

[#1]

Really? You think it is ok to come into the Arkansas forum and ask why the place many of us call home is a "shithole?"

Let's just agree that your opinion of Little Rock is just that.... your opinion. You are entitled to it, just like I am entitled to my opinion of you (hint: you arent off to a great start).

Posted: 6/14/2011 1:25:19 PM EDT

[#2]

I worry just as much about Mayflower meth heads as I do Little Rock ghetto rats. I lived near Mayflower till last year and moved back to the Little Rock area.

I worried much more then about robbery, arson and general jackassery than I do now.

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Posted: 6/14/2011 1:27:16 PM EDT

[#3]

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He's from here and lives here. I think he's allowed

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Posted: 6/14/2011 1:31:36 PM EDT

[#4]

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He's from here and lives here. I think he's allowed

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No he isnt. He said:

Just wondering. I was born there, but moved off at a young age. I live in Mayflower, and I feel its still to close. I don't even go there.

Living in Mayflower does not = living in LR.

Posted: 6/14/2011 1:42:28 PM EDT

[#5]

He lives in Arkansas, 20 minutes from LR and he's right. Little Rock is a shithole. Its why I pay to send my kid to private school.

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Posted: 6/14/2011 1:52:32 PM EDT

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He lives in Arkansas, 20 minutes from LR and he's right. Little Rock is a shithole. Its why I pay to send my kid to private school.

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So the private school is somehow annexed outside the LR City limits? Is the school its own municipality?

Posted: 6/14/2011 2:27:22 PM EDT

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He lives in Arkansas, 20 minutes from LR and he's right. Little Rock is a shithole. Its why I pay to send my kid to private school.

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So the private school is somehow annexed outside the LR City limits? Is the school its own municipality?

Its outside the city and insulates my kid from shitty little rock or county schools.

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Posted: 6/14/2011 2:31:10 PM EDT

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My brother lived off of University and had 2 black dudes killed by cops outside his apartment.

He's in the process of moving to Bryant, hopefully won't be bad there.

I couldn't live there, Russellville is almost too big a town for me and its tiny

Posted: 6/14/2011 3:14:37 PM EDT

[#9]

Just be thankful you aren't closer to Memphis... Or Pine Bluff...

Posted: 6/14/2011 3:26:15 PM EDT

[#10]

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Just be thankful you aren't closer to Memphis... Or Pine Bluff...

I live between LR and PB

. Good mix of white trash and ghetto rats. My "neighborhood" is safe but the routes to it suck.

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Posted: 6/14/2011 3:38:21 PM EDT

[#11]

There are shit holes every where, watch where you step. One man's shit hole is another man's castle

Posted: 6/14/2011 10:14:07 PM EDT

[#12]

I was in Little Rock on vacation week before last. The area in LR that our hotel was in was pretty decent but the hotel itself sucked and became Ghettofabulous as the weekend got closer. Being from Detroit I don't normally have a problem with blacks, but the ones that came in from TX and LA were trying real hard to one up the shitheads I live around. I wouldn't have stayed there if I knew it was going to get that bad-there were two room break-ins while we were there with people inside the rooms.....

The event I came down for was in Wrightsville. Someone coming to the event hit and killed one of the locals with his car. Happens all the time, apparently. You would think that given how much time was spent by deputies, state police and the coroner there it would, i dunno, pay for a traffic light or stopsign or something. Guess they don't care about welfare rats down your way....

I can't say my experience in LR was bad all around, but I can say I saw enough to know I wouldn't want to live there.

Posted: 6/15/2011 4:19:57 AM EDT

[#13]

I've been in AR for about 15 months now. The first year I spent in Maumelle, which was nice. Now I'm in WLR and it can get a little tense around here sometimes. But that's what situational awareness and guns are for. My neighborhood is mainly elderly white folks, but the surounding city pretty much begs me to keep an eye out at all times. That said, I've never had any problems.

Posted: 6/15/2011 5:43:33 AM EDT

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He lives in Arkansas, 20 minutes from LR and he's right. Little Rock is a shithole. Its why I pay to send my kid to private school.

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So the private school is somehow annexed outside the LR City limits? Is the school its own municipality?

Its outside the city and insulates my kid from shitty little rock or county schools.

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Just be thankful you aren't closer to Memphis... Or Pine Bluff...

I live between LR and PB

. Good mix of white trash and ghetto rats. My "neighborhood" is safe but the routes to it suck.

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So, you dont live in LR either. You live just outside the city limits so that your tax dollars dont help improve the LR school districts. And then you bitch about the state of the Little Rock school districts.

Posted: 6/15/2011 6:33:03 AM EDT

[#15]

Little Rock born and raised, it is indeed a shithole. But it's my shithole. I was called Little Rock a lot in the Army so I must be a shitty guy. That's debatable. I will say the schools take more heat than they should, there are some good ones here, believe it or not. Of course if black people scare you, Little Rock might not be your cup of tea.

Posted: 6/15/2011 6:59:03 AM EDT

[#16]

I too was born and raised in LR and still live here. I don't see it as bad as othere I guess. Sure, parts of LR are less desirable but that is true with probably every city some where. If you don't feel comfy going to Baseline and Geyer springs road then by all means don't go, Overall LR is a pretty good city compared to a lot.

Posted: 6/15/2011 7:55:07 AM EDT

[#17]

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So, you dont live in LR either. You live just outside the city limits so that your tax dollars dont help improve the LR school districts. And then you bitch about the state of the Little Rock school districts.

Money won't fix little rock's problem. Tommy Robinson could have . . .

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Posted: 6/15/2011 8:13:52 AM EDT

[#18]

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I too was born and raised in LR and still live here. I don't see it as bad as othere I guess. Sure, parts of LR are less desirable but that is true with probably every city some where. If you don't feel comfy going to Baseline and Geyer springs road then by all means don't go, Overall LR is a pretty good city compared to a lot.

At least we're not the most dangerous city in America anymore

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Posted: 6/15/2011 8:49:26 AM EDT

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So, you dont live in LR either. You live just outside the city limits so that your tax dollars dont help improve the LR school districts. And then you bitch about the state of the Little Rock school districts.

Money won't fix little rock's problem. Tommy Robinson could have . . .

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Gosh. I hate agreeing with you. But i do.

Posted: 6/15/2011 8:50:51 AM EDT

[#20]

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I too was born and raised in LR and still live here. I don't see it as bad as othere I guess. Sure, parts of LR are less desirable but that is true with probably every city some where. If you don't feel comfy going to Baseline and Geyer springs road then by all means don't go, Overall LR is a pretty good city compared to a lot.

I grew up out in Woodland Ridge (Geyer Springs and Baseline area) , which is / was a shit hole within itself in the late 80's into the 90's. The welfare village opened up, ghetto rats moved in, people started getting murdered. Ah, the memories.

I can't comment on the LR school district, but I can comment on Pulaski County SD. It was definitely a shitty school system, My parents moved me to a private school in 7th grade because the schools were so bad educational wise, not to mention the few white kids that were there were getting into fights damn near everyday with the blacks mostly because the blacks didn't want them there.

I am now, and have always been a pretty friendly person, but I still ended up in a fight at least once a week in junior high. Me against 3-4 other kids, and then I am the one getting suspended. Ha, the hell with that! So i ended up in a private catholic school for a year. Didnt like it either, so then I moved up to Northeast AR to live with my grandparents and go to school there until I graduated.

Amazingly enough, I went from a failing student all my life, to a B student the first year. And guess what, I never was suspended again, because I wasn't constantly having to defend myself any longer.

So growing up with SWLR myself, I will say that it is and has been for a long while a real shit hole. And in my opinion, WLR will be the same way within 5 years. Although closing the Walmart on Chenal has helped a small bit.

Posted: 6/15/2011 8:59:40 AM EDT

[#21]

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I too was born and raised in LR and still live here. I don't see it as bad as othere I guess. Sure, parts of LR are less desirable but that is true with probably every city some where. If you don't feel comfy going to Baseline and Geyer springs road then by all means don't go, Overall LR is a pretty good city compared to a lot.

I grew up out in Woodland Ridge (Geyer Springs and Baseline area) , which is / was a shit hole within itself in the late 80's into the 90's. The welfare village opened up, ghetto rats moved in, people started getting murdered. Ah, the memories.

I can't comment on the LR school district, but I can comment on Pulaski County SD. It was definitely a shitty school system, My parents moved me to a private school in 7th grade because the schools were so bad educational wise, not to mention the few white kids that were there were getting into fights damn near everyday with the blacks mostly because the blacks didn't want them there.

I am now, and have always been a pretty friendly person, but I still ended up in a fight at least once a week in junior high. Me against 3-4 other kids, and then I am the one getting suspended. Ha, the hell with that! So i ended up in a private catholic school for a year. Didnt like it either, so then I moved up to Northeast AR to live with my grandparents and go to school there until I graduated.

Amazingly enough, I went from a failing student all my life, to a B student the first year. And guess what, I never was suspended again, because I wasn't constantly having to defend myself any longer.

So growing up with SWLR myself, I will say that it is and has been for a long while a real shit hole. And in my opinion, WLR will be the same way within 5 years. Although closing the Walmart on Chenal has helped a small bit.

Same thing happened when Brad and I went from Mabelvale to Conway. Grades shot up. Teachers had time to teach instead of trying to control ghetto rats.

Posted: 6/15/2011 7:52:41 PM EDT

[#22]

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I too was born and raised in LR and still live here. I don't see it as bad as othere I guess. Sure, parts of LR are less desirable but that is true with probably every city some where. If you don't feel comfy going to Baseline and Geyer springs road then by all means don't go, Overall LR is a pretty good city compared to a lot.

I grew up out in Woodland Ridge (Geyer Springs and Baseline area) , which is / was a shit hole within itself in the late 80's into the 90's. The welfare village opened up, ghetto rats moved in, people started getting murdered. Ah, the memories.

I can't comment on the LR school district, but I can comment on Pulaski County SD. It was definitely a shitty school system, My parents moved me to a private school in 7th grade because the schools were so bad educational wise, not to mention the few white kids that were there were getting into fights damn near everyday with the blacks mostly because the blacks didn't want them there.

I am now, and have always been a pretty friendly person, but I still ended up in a fight at least once a week in junior high. Me against 3-4 other kids, and then I am the one getting suspended. Ha, the hell with that! So i ended up in a private catholic school for a year. Didnt like it either, so then I moved up to Northeast AR to live with my grandparents and go to school there until I graduated.

Amazingly enough, I went from a failing student all my life, to a B student the first year. And guess what, I never was suspended again, because I wasn't constantly having to defend myself any longer.

So growing up with SWLR myself, I will say that it is and has been for a long while a real shit hole. And in my opinion, WLR will be the same way within 5 years. Although closing the Walmart on Chenal has helped a small bit.

Same thing happened when Brad and I went from Mabelvale to Conway. Grades shot up. Teachers had time to teach instead of trying to control ghetto rats.

I've pulled both my kids from PCSSD- one is going to a charter school, and we're homeschooling the other. The sad thing is, I know teachers in the district who have pulled their kids out too.

Posted: 6/15/2011 7:57:57 PM EDT

[#23]

The wife and I lived in LR for a couple years (99-00). We lived in the neighborhood across from Chips BBQ on Markham St (IIRC). I'm told the quaint little neighborhood we lived in is now a ghetto dump hole. I suppose I'm glad we didn't keep the house we bought there as a rental unit. I don't miss LR one bit. I apologize if that offends those that love it.

Posted: 6/15/2011 8:14:44 PM EDT

[#24]

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My brother lived off of University and had 2 black dudes killed by cops outside his apartment.

How much did that cost him? Was this an off duty gig? Did he have to pay for disposal and clean up? Do you have a contact number?

Posted: 6/15/2011 9:47:29 PM EDT

[#25]

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My brother lived off of University and had 2 black dudes killed by cops outside his apartment.

How much did that cost him? Was this an off duty gig? Did he have to pay for disposal and clean up? Do you have a contact number?

Posted: 6/16/2011 10:35:58 AM EDT

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My brother lived off of University and had 2 black dudes killed by cops outside his apartment.

How much did that cost him? Was this an off duty gig? Did he have to pay for disposal and clean up? Do you have a contact number?

I guess that was worded badly

Posted: 6/16/2011 11:04:33 AM EDT

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My brother lived off of University and had 2 black dudes killed by cops outside his apartment.

How much did that cost him? Was this an off duty gig? Did he have to pay for disposal and clean up? Do you have a contact number?

WINNER!

Posted: 6/16/2011 12:41:03 PM EDT

[#28]

I was told by a LRPD officer "if you'll stack them up, we'll pick them up".

Posted: 6/16/2011 3:34:46 PM EDT

[#29]

Because we have allowed stupid liberal social policies to be abused for several decades which rewards people to be unproductive. On the bright side at least you still have your State.
I recently moved to NWA from Texas where we have almost completed the process of giving the State back to Mexico. To continue this thread in English press 1

Posted: 6/16/2011 9:30:31 PM EDT

[#30]

Little Rock is extremely liberal, that's my biggest problem with the town. If I ever need to just get in a vicious, ferocious, fierce-asses mood I just read the Arkansas Times for two minutes. Or hell just think about it. Great weight room motivator.

Posted: 6/17/2011 4:07:42 AM EDT

[#31]

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I was told by a LRPD officer "if you'll stack them up, we'll pick them up".

That's priceless. He was probably serious too.

Posted: 6/17/2011 6:40:52 AM EDT

[#32]

I was born and raised in Va., and lived overseas alot as a kid, Dad was career Navy, I joined the Army in '71 and moved around every three years before getting assigned here (JRTC) in '87...while LR is not my favorite place (or any city for that matter) I be digging me some Arkansas...shitholes are everywhere, assholes are everywhere...seems to be less here...

Posted: 6/18/2011 10:03:48 AM EDT

[#33]

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My brother lived off of University and had 2 black dudes killed by cops outside his apartment.

How much did that cost him? Was this an off duty gig? Did he have to pay for disposal and clean up? Do you have a contact number?

x10

Posted: 6/18/2011 11:36:37 AM EDT

[#34]

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Just be thankful you aren't closer to Memphis... Or Pine Bluff...

Or Freakin Blythville!!!!!!

Posted: 6/18/2011 6:43:32 PM EDT

[#35]

I was born and raised in Camden. I prefer Little Rock.

Posted: 6/19/2011 1:00:24 PM EDT

[#36]

Lol, I was born and raised in Dumas. I preferred LR to that too. Still, IMO there are better parts of Arkansas in which to live.

Posted: 6/20/2011 11:31:26 AM EDT

[#37]

You should spend some time in Blytheville, if you were going to give Arkansas an enema you'd stick the hose in the Blytheville area

Posted: 6/22/2011 3:48:36 PM EDT

[#38]

NOT QUITE A GHETTO DUMP YET. MAYBE 5 % MAKE THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK BAD. LIVED AT RAYMOND AND STEVENS SINCE '67.

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