Unless something big happens in the next week or so, I got a pretty good job offer in Jefferson City. What little bit of info I have dug up so far, it looks perfect for me. Small city, reasonable house prices, property taxes don't look bad, etc. I'll be taking a pay cut, but nowhere near as severe a cut as what I have found around here. Any dragstrips in the area? Hunting/fishing/camping? PDQ67, looks like this is right in your backyard!
Any Missouri members here?
travis
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Well Lamberts must be DAMN good because after we finally found it (we rushed off friday morning and I left my notebook of phone numbers and addresses on my desk 
) this evening (Saturday) just off of 65 there in Ozark, there was 60+ people standing in line OUTSIDE of the place And quite a few more in their cars listening for their names to be called over the outside loudspeaker. I am not a very patient person anyway and wasn't even going to stop, but the wife thought it was worth a shot. HAH!!! Expected wait was going to be about 90-100 minutes We ended up eating at (I can't remember the name now) someplace with "world famous" chicken and bisuits right across the street. Not exactly what what we was wanting to eat after starving all afternoon...
Jefferson City has a very different layout than anything we have around here. Seems like a nice enough place...and the downtown area is beautiful.
MO has got to be the most billboard happy state I have ever seen. Miles and miles of unpopulated country...and you can't see hardly any of it thru all the freaking billboards. I was very impressed how clean the whole state is though. No trash on the sides of the roads, lawns were mowed and trimmed, not even any roadkill
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I have been thru almost every state in the US and never have experienced anything like this. As soon as we crossed over in Arkansas heading home, we was dodging LARGE roadkill everywhere. Maybe MO takes all theirs right over the state lines?
The Lake of the Ozarks was one of my ideas of hell though. Beautiful lake...with probably the highest concentrations of boat per square inch I have ever seen. I wished I could scan some of the pics we took. One place we crossed the lake at there was one boat for every 50 square foot of water...no joke. And not fishing boats either...I'm talking high end, big engined performance boats. It would be like taking a top fueler thru a packed walmart parking lot. Lots of power...and no room to use it.
Branson was another rendition of hell...even worse than the lake. Of course we drove thru on saturday evening, around the time all the shows was getting started. When we FINALLY was able to snake our way thru traffic and head out of town, there was a line of cars over 3 miles long sitting at a stop light that led into town. And as we was passing the 3 mile long line of cars (that wasn't moving an inch) there was still literally hundreds of cars piling up on the rear. I had never been to Branson before...and don't ever care to go again.
We did go see Fantastic caverns because the wife just HAD to see it. And planned on going to the bass pro shops headquarters (which I hear is awesome), but that will have to wait for some other time.
Now just waiting on this companys HR department to make their final salary offer.
) this evening (Saturday) just off of 65 there in Ozark, there was 60+ people standing in line OUTSIDE of the place And quite a few more in their cars listening for their names to be called over the outside loudspeaker. I am not a very patient person anyway and wasn't even going to stop, but the wife thought it was worth a shot. HAH!!! Expected wait was going to be about 90-100 minutes We ended up eating at (I can't remember the name now) someplace with "world famous" chicken and bisuits right across the street. Not exactly what what we was wanting to eat after starving all afternoon...Jefferson City has a very different layout than anything we have around here. Seems like a nice enough place...and the downtown area is beautiful.
MO has got to be the most billboard happy state I have ever seen. Miles and miles of unpopulated country...and you can't see hardly any of it thru all the freaking billboards. I was very impressed how clean the whole state is though. No trash on the sides of the roads, lawns were mowed and trimmed, not even any roadkill
The Lake of the Ozarks was one of my ideas of hell though. Beautiful lake...with probably the highest concentrations of boat per square inch I have ever seen. I wished I could scan some of the pics we took. One place we crossed the lake at there was one boat for every 50 square foot of water...no joke. And not fishing boats either...I'm talking high end, big engined performance boats. It would be like taking a top fueler thru a packed walmart parking lot. Lots of power...and no room to use it.
Branson was another rendition of hell...even worse than the lake. Of course we drove thru on saturday evening, around the time all the shows was getting started. When we FINALLY was able to snake our way thru traffic and head out of town, there was a line of cars over 3 miles
long sitting at a stop light that led into town. And as we was passing the 3 mile long line of cars (that wasn't moving an inch) there was still literally hundreds of cars piling up on the rear. I had never been to Branson before...and don't ever care to go again.We did go see Fantastic caverns because the wife just HAD to see it. And planned on going to the bass pro shops headquarters (which I hear is awesome), but that will have to wait for some other time.
Now just waiting on this companys HR department to make their final salary offer.
Dang it -- you should have waited at Lambert's. All that time screwing around at Lake of the Ozarks and you could have been eating throw'd rolls LOL
Bass Pro Shops is good too. When we visit we always go to the breakfast buffet there (forgot the name of the place) on Saturday mornings. It's not like the Big Boy thing at all if you know what I mean . . .
Anyway, good luck with the job and move. Funny how when I get talking about MO all I can remember is the food . . . LOL It's probably a good thing that I don't get down there too often or I'd need a bench seat in the Camaro -- if you know what I mean
All that time screwing around at Lake of the Ozarks and you could have been eating throw'd rolls LOLBass Pro Shops is good too. When we visit we always go to the breakfast buffet there (forgot the name of the place) on Saturday mornings. It's not like the Big Boy thing at all if you know what I mean . . .
Anyway, good luck with the job and move. Funny how when I get talking about MO all I can remember is the food . . . LOL It's probably a good thing that I don't get down there too often or I'd need a bench seat in the Camaro -- if you know what I mean
If it would have been a 30-45 minute wait we probably would have waited. But the family was getting mutinous 'cause we hadn't ate anything since 8:00 that morning. Apparently people come from miles around to eat there. There was a guy parked next to us that had already been there waiting 40 minutes and was sitting in his car reading a book. He wasn't expecting to get in for at least another hour. This guy said he drove almost an hour just to get there and swore it was well worth the drive and wait. He did suggest that if we try again to be there around 11:00 am since that is about the only time you can get in without a 30+ minute wait. We will try again one of these days
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Travis, I live at lake of the ozarks, You are right on the high dollar boats with now where to go, but What you don't know is the bridge you went over to get to JC on the lake of the ozarks is right by PARTY COVE where anyting does nudity etc.so they have idle speed only at that part of the lake on week-ends only, thats why you saw so many boats when you went over the bridge.The lake has 1300 miles of shoreline and no speedlimit,With lots of high dollar boats. They have a shootout once a year to see who has the fastest boat on the lake I have seen a pontoon boat go 68mph and the fastest go so far 203 mph on water in 2003 its a sight to see! Miss budweiser ran 198 mph in 2002 and its a ocean going boat. But its a big lake and its close to JC 30 minute drive if your on the north shore if you need any help let me know. Jerry
Welcome to Missouri Travis. I understand where you are coming from on the job front. It has taken me almost 3 years to find a position that will pay close to what I was making prior to the downsizing post 9-11. I will say my wait has been worth it though, because I just landed the position I have been after for several years in the high performance automotive aftermarket. Good luck to you in your new job, and if you need info on StL., give me a shout.
Thanks for all the replys guys. The plan at this point is to be there sometime thursday with the camper in tow. Its going to be a long, stressful drive though. I got the trailer wired up today with the suburban and took it for a test run. The 'burbon drives very well with it (much better than a 1/2 ton truck does) but man that weakling 6.2L diesel was NOT made to pull any weight. It gets awesome fuel economy, but with a 21' camper on the back it struggles to do anything more than 45mph
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Looks like it will be back roads all the way.
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