And, I thought I lived in a nice, quiet town....

[ladyniko]

Okay, the weather change from cold to warm to cold to warm is quite literally bring the stupid idiots out in force!

Two weeks ago on a Friday night, it was some stupid fool firing off a couple of rounds w/ his shotgun outside my building at 12:30 in the morning.

This past Saturday night....  a high speed car chase went flying by my apartment close to

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[ladyniko]

St. Louis is surprisingly overflowing with hospitals for its population size. You pretty much can't go 10 miles without being near a hospital until you get to the outlying areas.

Downtown you have Barnes, Jewish, Christian, Cardinal Glennon's children's, St. Louis Children's, St. Louis U, Wash U., Forest Park. Just a little ways out you have St. Mary's (which is where I was going since it was close to the salon & all that.)... continuing west along I-64, you have St. John's & Missouri Baptist right there at I-270 & I-64. From there you have St. Luke's at 64 & MO 141.

In Kirkwood, you have St. Joseph's (which will be moving out of Kirkwood in a few years time to Fenton to the south & west), in south St. Louis county, you have St. Anthony's.

North St. Louis county you have Christian Northwest up near the airport.

Now out I-70 in St. Charles across the MO river you have St. Joseph's St. Charles along w/ St. Joseph's Hospital West out at Lake St. Louis. (Primary care there, anything more serious gets sent into St. Charles, which has the trauma center & was like the ONLY trauma center in that county.)

I live out in Washington, which is getting to the edge of the St. Louis metro region and we have St. John's which can handle your basic stuff - major traumas they tend to send up to the main hospital in Creve Coeur. Southwest of me in Sullivan, you have another MO Bap branch hospital there.

And, those are just the big hospitals that I can think of off-hand. The way St. Louis, or rather I should say, the St. Charles region is growing, there is another brand new hospital out along I-64 that is already planning on expansion to meet the growing population base.

[parislove27]

In our town you have: Wal Mart, Brookshires, Applebees, Jalapeno Tree(best place in the world to eat food in my opinion-our restaurant is great), McAllister's, Hallmark, Blockbuster, Dominos, Mazzio's, Jack and the Box, Office Depot, the post office, a few car dealerships, a few large churches, the courthouse, the square, the library, Taco Bell, all of the schools, the bus barn, a few more banks, the park, the cemetery, Rounder's, the Cain Center, Curves, the Old Hospital, the creepy Fueller's Park, and the New Hospital.

Not much. We only have 13,000 people I think. . . let me go check. . .

[ladyniko]

Wally World is pretty much a given. I have like a new super duper wally, Target, Lowes, Kohl's & JC Penny took over the old Wally store. I'm waiting for Sam's Club or Costco to go in at the plaza on the east end of town. They've certainly leveled enough of the hillside for either of those.

I think our pop is still under 20k for Washington proper, but we are growing and to both our detriment and benefit, we are getting more of the "big box" stores.

[parislove27]

Ah, I have to drive 35 miles to Tyler to go to Target (awesome), 20 to go to Lowes (sometimes it's a waste of gas), but we DO have a JC Penny, Bealls, and Cato in our town (thank everything for that!) We have a Wal-Mart "superstore" lol.

We're about to get more stores since our pop is growing (I think)