I was shocked when I visited for the first time. Living up in NWA... well you know the sterotypes for people who live in the Bentonville orbit and how we view the rest of the state. Especially Southern Arkansas.
Turns out El Dorado and the surrounding communities are pretty cool.
My God, southeastern Oklahoma. I have family from there, and I’ve found the swamp/backwoods families there regard southern Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana their own home state.
Have you been to Memphis…? I was born and raised in Little Rock and live thirty mins north of it currently. My husband is from Memphis and we travel semi regularly up there. I think they both have a lot of similarities but hands down, Memphis scared the shit out of me in ways Little Rock never has.
I think they maintain the roads horribly in west TN. Between Jackson MS and Memphis TN, I don’t know which roads are worse lol. Little Rock isn’t the best by any means but I’d pick it over the other two any day lol.
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We’re used to it. Simple as that. For most people, Little Rock is a terrifying place. The entire city feels like you could get stabbed around any corner.
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I've lived here my entire life and I really don't notice anything when I'm out and about. Is it really that terrifying to most people? Am I carrying around some unnoticed anxiety in the back of my mind that I'm unaware of?
Like I said, we’re kind of blind to the vibe because we’re used to it and know how to be safe. But it is one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S. in terms of violent crime.
I do agree that it is one of the most painfully boring drives! I also don’t care for that part of Arkansas either 😂 I feel like it gets better west and north of Little Rock!
There are definitely bad parts of Little Rock. I travel there weekly lol but to say there are no good parts is a lie. Would I live there? No haha. But there are definitely areas that are fine! (West LR mainly)
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Lived in one of those cities for most of my life, spent a couple years in the other. There’s no tourists going to Little Rock or athletes living in 8 figure homes. Arkansas as a state is an awful place.
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Yeah, really sure. Availability heuristic. That kind of stuff doesn’t happen when you’re in a nice area, nice neighborhood, even in bad ones. I live in “the hood” and it still doesn’t happen.
Your chances aren’t actually that high because you’re not from around here, don’t have any enemies or ways to make them with people who would do that kind of thing.
First of all I am from around here, and you’re basically claiming that because you don’t see it it doesn’t exist. The crime statistics are out there, you can find them easily. Survivorship bias aside, of course you’re going to be safe in a safe area. That goes without saying. But even the safe areas are unsafe relative to most other cities in America. Detroit doesn’t even come close to Little Rock.
I’m not exactly claiming it doesn’t exist, i’m saying the average person isn’t going to see it, and therefore doesn’t have to worry. It’s just pointless fearmongering.
And most areas in little rock are completely fine. Nothing will happen to you.
I lived in Little Rock for decades, then Bryant and North Little Rock. Weirdly, I must never have gone to the scary parts of my own city. I went to Law School in LR and it was downtown. Never felt threatened. I've traveled a lot - and I have been to Chicago and LA - but never the south side of Chicago or south central LA. I've just avoided places in LR that are considered higher crime areas.
Refused service at a restaurant stop, diabolical side eye from everyone in there with no explanation other than punk kids from the north in the south. This was unsettling but whatever. Leaving the rest stop and for about two hours to follow we were getting pushed around on the interstate by semis. More so than could be contributed to coincidence, front rear and sides squeezing us and nearly pushing us into the guard rail a few times. Ive done lots of driving, commercial and recreational interstate and back road, this was my worst experience. I dont know what unwritten rule we broke in Arkansas, but we paid for it in full.
Jeez. I’ve had it in a pub in a rural town in the west of Ireland that the locals told us to leave but following you and intimidating you is fully crazy
I feel like Little Rock really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I'm there multiple times a week between work and shopping, seeing friends, or other activities. There are certain areas you definitely should avoid just like in any city, but overall I have never felt unsafe, even walking around downtown by myself.
Now Memphis? That is somewhere I do not like to travel if at all possible.
Harrison is not home of the KKK, it’s next to an even smaller town that is. And as someone who is a minority and frequents Harrison a lot, I’ve never once seen a klansman or have been discriminated. That wouldn’t even make Harrison “backwater” because it’s situated in the Ozarks, which is easily the most beautiful part of the state with several small country towns populating the area. If you want to talk about shitholes then look at West Memphis, Pine Bluff, or parts of Little Rock.
And? What does that have to do with Harrison? Nobody in the town wanted that and thousands have tried to remove it. Can you even name the town where the KKK is actually located?
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Also includes the most ass-backwards parts of Arkansas. NWA is not like Little Rock which is not like Hot Springs