2nd Best Town in Kansas

[EMAWmeister]

ICT-the biggest and the best. No more discussion needed.

Wichita rough ridin' sucks. Sorry, denied.

[the_ugly_clown]

Meade makes all towns on highway 54 and highway 23 and in KS look like complete jokes

Ford, KS

Home of the Blue Hereford. The best pit stop on my way to Colorado every single trip. Great selection of beef jerky.

[ben ji]

Did someone really suggest Silver Lake? Man that place is awful.

Shut up. It's better than whatever place you think is good.

I think Manhattan is good.

Not even Topekans will defend Topeka. After JC gets fired I say we at goEMAW aim our powerful political actions at moving the capital of Kansas to Manhattan. Centrally located and doesn't smell like garbage or shoot police officers.

I'll defend my hometown. (Topeka)

My sister works in Topeka...When she has to stay late for meetings the capitol security people wont let her walk to her car alone if it is after dark...

[OK_Cat]

Meade makes all towns on highway 54 and highway 23 and in KS look like complete jokes

Ford, KS

Home of the Blue Hereford. The best pit stop on my way to Colorado every single trip. Great selection of beef jerky.

i once had explosive diarrhea in the bathroom there.  like, everywhere.  awful experience.

[star seed 7]

while topeka is def not in the 2nd best town discussion, it certainly is not as bad as you small town yokels seem to think it is.

and silver lake sucks.

[Rage Against the McKee]

while topeka is def not in the 2nd best town discussion, it certainly is not as bad as you small town yokels seem to think it is.

and silver lake sucks.

I think most people have it pegged about right. Just take a drive around the slums some time. It's awful.

[Stevesie60]

The main reason I don't like Topeka is that it doesn't have an identity. If I had to pick one, it would be chain restaurants, and I hate chain restaurants.

[star seed 7]

The main reason I don't like Topeka is that it doesn't have an identity. If I had to pick one, it would be chain restaurants, and I hate chain restaurants.

fair enough, but personally i'd rather live somewhere that had too many chain resturants than some place that has none and no longer has a sonic.  (sorry SD)

i'm a city person though, MHK is absolutely the smallest place i'll ever live.

[Rage Against the McKee]

The main reason I don't like Topeka is that it doesn't have an identity. If I had to pick one, it would be chain restaurants, and I hate chain restaurants.

fair enough, but personally i'd rather live somewhere that had too many chain resturants than some place that has none and no longer has a sonic.  (sorry SD)

i'm a city person though, MHK is absolutely the smallest place i'll ever live.

Well, they still have townie restaurants, so it's not a big deal.

[steve dave]

The main reason I don't like Topeka is that it doesn't have an identity. If I had to pick one, it would be chain restaurants, and I hate chain restaurants.

fair enough, but personally i'd rather live somewhere that had too many chain resturants than some place that has none and no longer has a sonic.  (sorry SD)

i'm a city person though, MHK is absolutely the smallest place i'll ever live.

PIZZA HUT IS A CHAIN RESTAURANT ASSFACE!

[8manpick]

Topeka losers:

Worst Small Cities for Crime (<200,000 pop.)

 Topeka, KS
    Topeka has the highest rate of property crime among cities with fewer than 200,000 population. The rates of larceny and robbery are especially high.

[slobber]

The main reason I don't like Topeka is that it doesn't have an identity. If I had to pick one, it would be chain restaurants, and I hate chain restaurants.

If I had to give it an identity, it would be: Topeka, damn the rest of the economy, we are going to grow at .001% annually and you can't stop us!

[DQ12]

I'd say Silver Lake is third best.  Makes every other town on 24 (including especially Topeka) look like an absolute joke.

I like how 24 curves back and forth a couple times through Silver Lake. It's as if the highway wants to take its time as it makes it's way through such a beautiful little town.

Yeah.  There are three great things about silver lake.  The first is the two mailboxes, one a k-state one and the other a ku one, on the west side of the road as you cut through the town.  i just love imagining those two are hattfield and mccoy types. "DID YOU SEE THAT bad person, JIM, NEXT DOOR PUT UP A K-STATE MAILBOX?!"

Second is the cups in the football field fence.  love seeing those on a fall morning en route to mhk.

Third: Lon Krueger's auto shop thing.

[tdaver]

This place in Meade has good food.  I stopped there for lunch last time I drove through.

http://www.smokehoss.com/

[nicname]

Did someone really suggest Silver Lake? Man that place is awful.

Shut up. It's better than whatever place you think is good.

Yeah, if you are going to live in a small town, being like 10 minutes from Topeka, living in a decently nice town with plenty of delicious loval eat's (Avila's), not to mention kicking ass all year long in high school sports (this is big if you are in a small town).  would take.

[_33]

Topeka losers:

Worst Small Cities for Crime (<200,000 pop.)

 Topeka, KS
    Topeka has the highest rate of property crime among cities with fewer than 200,000 population. The rates of larceny and robbery are especially high.

Hilarious how all the small town yokels (thanks seven) are afraid of Topeka.

[kitten_mittons]

Driving through Silver Lake, I can only deduce that business owners are pretty unoriginal with their business names.

[steve dave]

This place in Meade has good food.  I stopped there for lunch last time I drove through.

http://www.smokehoss.com/

YES! Owned by KStaters

[8manpick]

Topeka losers:

Worst Small Cities for Crime (<200,000 pop.)

 Topeka, KS
    Topeka has the highest rate of property crime among cities with fewer than 200,000 population. The rates of larceny and robbery are especially high.

Hilarious how all the small town yokels (thanks seven) are afraid of Topeka.

<----Not a small town yokel.

[_33]

Well I lived in Topeka for the first 18 years of my life and only saw one person murdered the whole time. So it must not be as bad as you hillbillies think.

[steve dave]

I witnessed zero in Meade. Actually everyone witnessed zero.

[star seed 7]

Well I lived in Topeka for the first 18 years of my life and only saw one person murdered the whole time. So it must not be as bad as you hillbillies think.

About the same amount of time for me and I never saw a single murder, that's an average of one murder per 36 years.  Pretty good for a city that size!

[Stevesie60]

I think Wamego would be in this discussion if it weren't for its obsession with The Wizard of Oz.

[_33]

Actually I was just kidding. I do that joke in real life whenever someone mentions Topeka and crime.  Gets a pretty good reaction.

[steve dave]

I think Wamego would be in this discussion if it weren't for its obsession with The Wizard of Oz.

but the LSD stuff redeems some of that