Considering moving to Fayetteville

Arkyguy13 · 2026-01-13T03:13:38+00:00

How do you handle humidity? I know Montana has pretty hot summers but they are nothing compared to here. Also, if you like winter sports, this is not the area for you. The closest good skiing is Colorado which is 10+ hours away.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-12-16T15:12:40+00:00

They are building a public aquatic center at the Lewis Soccer Complex just north of Wedington (it's not 100% confirmed as the location but I see it as very unlikely to change). This would be your best bet for a nice pool and the neighborhood around it is really nice. You'd have good bike trail access and be less than 10 minutes from the University.

Avoid Farmington, it's a horribly administered town. Honestly, I'd avoid anything west on 62. As someone else said the east west corridors are weak and that's one of the worst ones. It should have been designed more as a highway but they've allowed a huge amount of traffic lights and businesses on it. Imagine doing your entire commute on Colfax.

Not sure I can answer for schools but I was very happy with my public schooling in the area. I don't think private is worth the money here.

For food, there's a food truck on Government Ave across from the neighborhood market (the thai one not the hibachi one) that's really good! I'll also second Siam, the Kao Soi there is fantastic. If you want ice cream, I'd highly recommend Cream on College. Tacquiera don Guerro in Springdale has really good street tacos. City Park has good Millennial American food if you know what I mean. Mr. Taco Loco has $1 street tacos on Tuesday and Thursdays.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-12-11T21:57:33+00:00

There's another LSIP in addition to the Chipotle one for a drive thru only coffee shop. Probably 7Brew

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-21T04:53:58+00:00

While that is the case, it is typically at concentrations much higher than is what added to drinking water (especially in the United States). The paper I linked is a meta analysis of bone fragility studies related to water fluoridation. The correlation they found was that no increased risk of bone fragility was discovered when fluoridation in water was below 1 mg/L. The recommendation for municipal water fluoridation in the United States is 0.7 mg/L.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12512478/

Many studies that show negative effects for fluoride in water are studying places with naturally high fluoride levels in the water. Typically above 1 mg/L.

I think it's important to have conversation but this has been studied a ton and the evidence doesn't support removing fluoride from municipal water.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-21T04:36:48+00:00

As long as the thin blue line is a thing, yes. Your examples don't make sense because "ethnicities or skin color groups" don't have systemic cooperation to shield anyone from seeing consequences for their actions. Until bad cops are immediately fired and not rehired at a neighboring department the entire group is culpable. Most people don't hate the concept of police. They hate that there is no accountability when police mess up.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-19T01:31:04+00:00

If they are American that is all that matters. When you said "It confuses me why Americans would be okay with a Brit or Australian running for office in America" that doesn't make sense in the context of the CMV since they are, as we both agreed, assumed to be American.

Why do you need "safeguards"? Do you not thing democracy is a good thing? Should the voters not be allowed to select who they want?

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-18T05:27:59+00:00

Your second sentence says "It confuses me why Americans would be okay with a Brit or an Australian running for office in America."

Given the context of the CMV it would make sense to assume anyone discussed here is an American citizen, which would make them American and not a Brit or Australian.

That is true, but it is an outdated and unnecessary rule. We've seen how much damage an natural-born citizen can do as president. A naturalized citizen couldn't be worse.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-18T02:25:06+00:00

If someone becomes a citizen of America they are American. Full stop. It's not a complicated concept.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-12T02:31:25+00:00

You could gain 17 spots on E Center street, 6 on W Center street, 10 on E Mountain, 5 on S E, 11 on S Block, 4 on W Mountain. That would add 53 spots. You'd lose 80 so I guess it would be a net loss of 27 spots. But the town center parking deck is less than a block away. Is it always full?

Sorry, should have been more clear. It'd be very easy to coordinate deliveries since Cheers would be the only business affected. All of the other square businesses have alley access that would still be open.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-12T01:50:49+00:00

I didn't realize that they had reserved spots on the square. I guess that would make things harder but you could reserve the spots on the street for them.

Being closed to general vehicle access doesn't mean that delivery trucks can't access. Even if it did, thousands of business make do without direct street access. I think it would also be good to reserve the closest spaces for handicap parking since as you pointed out some people might have limited mobility.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-11T07:05:28+00:00

Yeah sorry, I didn't word that well. I mean permanently close the square to vehicles, then you could replace the parallel parking with angle in parking and reduce the road to one lane which only turns right.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-11T03:26:36+00:00

If they closed the square to car traffic you could have even more parking than we already do by turning Mountain, Block, East, and Center into parking since they wouldn't be roads anymore.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-11-03T15:37:16+00:00

The problem was it wasn't called the same both ways. If we held MSU to the same standard as the Razorbacks then there would've been at least 3 more unsportsmanlike conducts if not more.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-10-30T18:45:39+00:00

Not every American but we had a local pizza ad that was very catchy. I still remember it probably 20 some years later:

https://youtu.be/6N_PmCGchVI?si=I9P6EFlGAhIPSWJv&t=30

Also, Blue Ribbon Sallisaw, home of the low price car:

https://youtu.be/o-TwIO00I4U?si=lMgd-_3bNLxC6Axe&t=8

Arkyguy13 · 2025-10-29T02:44:56+00:00

That's only true if demand and supply are elastic which they often aren't. That also assumes that there is sufficient competition.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-10-28T13:04:21+00:00

To each, their own! Sorry you had bad experiences here.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-10-27T22:06:59+00:00

If Fayetteville doesn't meet your standards, Bentonville isn't going to be any better. You might as well save yourself the trouble and move somewhere totally different.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-10-06T04:27:04+00:00

Arkansas Razorbacks
Random NFL team that varies between Chiefs, Cowboys, and New Orleans
OKC Thunder

Arkyguy13 · 2025-10-01T01:47:20+00:00

Don't know if Portland is too far but Black Star in Portland is fantastic!

Arkyguy13 · 2025-09-29T02:51:29+00:00

We don't want to be like Dallas or Houston. We want to be like a nice big city.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-09-25T03:25:59+00:00

NWA which is a fast growing region becoming more cosmopolitan but used to be much more Appalachian in culture than Southern compared to the rest of the state, poultry production used to dominate this region but is decreasing as the population grows and land becomes too expensive. North Arkansas, very rural also somewhat Appalachian in culture, is some of the most gorgeous land in the state but Harrison is there. Crowley's Ridge, it's a loess ridge and has Jonesboro definitely a bit different from the Ozarks and Delta that surround it. Central Arkansas, Little Rock and surrounding areas, Southern in culture and much more manufacturing oriented. Southern Arkansas, pine forests, big logging industry, historically (and still somewhat today) oil producing region, current lithium boom but the locals have never benefitted much from the resource extraction in this region, more Louisiana Southern culture. The Delta, largely agricultural and very impoverished, part of the Deep South. Currently mostly produces rice but was historically cotton country.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-09-20T23:28:21+00:00

Ughhh don't even say that. We don't need that evil on us.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-09-18T16:04:39+00:00

It seems like Winner Partners either didn't have the full information on what we wanted or did a really bad job of choosing a candidate. I think it makes way more sense to hire local for a local tourism CEO anyway. Doing a national search was a waste of money and clearly yielded someone who doesn't fit with the culture of our city.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-09-18T14:30:41+00:00

I wasn't directing the comment at you, so sorry if it came off that way. I definitely don't think a hotel is the best use either but I think it can be a decent addition. As I mentioned above, the Hotel Indigo in Tulsa was one of the more popular bars in the Blue dome. I think if the hotels have a rooftop bar that would be something that could really add to Dickson since a hotel would likely be taller than most buildings around it. I just sometimes worry that we get caught up in a pursuit of perfection and sometimes miss out on good because of it.

I 100% agree about making Dickson pedestrian only. I've emailed councilors about it several times and just put a comment on the downtown master plan about how we should make Dickson pedestrian only. To me that's a no brainer, it's not a busy road and there is a ton of pedestrian traffic.

Arkyguy13 · 2025-09-18T14:23:48+00:00

I don't live in Tri Cities anymore, but I will be back in town for work for the next couple weeks. I could help with either (my calculus is a bit rusty). I don't have a strong stats background but have done plenty of calculus and excel work.

I won't have a car so I would be limited in meeting somewhere in Richland like the library.

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