News Grand Forks named 'worst city to live in in North Dakota' by Wall Street Journal

[@MrSpeakeroth]

I wonder if those stats are like that solely because of the large college student population.

[@amyjones8114]

d ellingson ...bullshit.

[@marjoriemorris5849]

I love how she’s like, “You might think you live in the worst town, but a new report by the Wall Street Journal says ***Grand Forks*** is the worst city to live in...” So... I guess she wasn’t addressing me, since I do live in Grand Forks...?? Or...I think right...??

[@amyjones8114]

Marjorie Morris ...you’re splitting hairs. If I was you I’d walk every step of the way if I had to...right the fk out of there. I escaped and had nightmares about being back there for years afterward. Oh...enjoy your winter ✌🏼

[@aaronb6843]

It IS absolutely the worst damn town I've ever lived in. I moved away from there over a decade ago and never looked back. I grew up in GF/EGF and the place is a cesspool of poverty. The same few last names have run EVERYTHING in that town for generations. The local businesses and city councils (which are run by those same local business owners mostly) keep the wages horrifically low. They openly work together to keep wages pathetic out of pure greed. Add to that the fact that nobody told the landlords that their properties are in "flyover country", so they charge ridiculous rents to people who make the lowest wages in the nation and GF starts to look like Hell on Earth. The BEST decision I ever made in my life was getting the hell out of that place. I tell anyone who asks about living there or even visiting to just forget it. Once you've lived ANYWHERE ELSE, you never want to go back. The leadership all sucks, the wages suck, the housing sucks, the weather sucks and there really isn't a "silver lining" to living there. Whenever I talk to my friends that still live there, I'm constantly telling them how much better life is once you leave that place. The pathetic wages alone are enough to make any sane person say "nope". Why would you want to work 60 hours a week at half the damn pay you could get anywhere else for the exact same job? Grand Forks is a microcosm of everything that us wrong with America, all rolled into one package. The "haves" have everything and everyone else is just plain suffering. You couldn't pay me a million dollars a year to move back to that place. No freaking way.

[@IbukiMioda2001]

If you think Grand Forks North Dakota is bad I'd like to introduce you to Akron Ohio (don't get me wrong Grand Forks is horrible too but Akron is on another level of bad)

[@CamdenBloke]

My late Grandmother and Great Grandmother lived there. The family went there most winters, but we spent most of our time at her house, at Columbia mall, and at some other restaurant nearby. Also, a couple playgrounds. When I got a little older (late grade school) I started exploring the neighbourhood by myself on foot, met some local kids (to hang out with for a day or two and then forget about forever), etc. There was a playground a few blocks from my grandmothers house in the yard of a former grade school. There was another one that we had to drive to that had this huge red rope climbing structure. The trips tapered off a bit into high school except when I went down there a little after graduating from high school to consider attending the university. When I was little it was a neighbourhood like any other (with random things that were unique - more sidewalks, a fire hydrant painted like a dog, houses looked a little different, etc), but as I got older I started to notice that it was probably a bit boring. That trip to check out the university would have probably been around 99.

[@joshuadavis3307]

It’s funny I rank Grand Forks as a pretty good place to live it’s way cleaner and friendlier than any of the cities I lived and grew up in the south

[@Jayhaley2385]

Southerner here too. It’s a hell of a lot nicer than where I grew up (south Mississippi). It all depends on perspective I think.

[@nodak81]

I lived in GF from '89 to '94 and I liked the town a lot but the elementary school made me and my mother's lives hell. Lake Agassiz sucks big time. Nothing but psycho abusive teachers. I remember being locked in the closet by the teachers.

[@TheRatlhed]

Wall Street Journal just looks at the numbers and doesn't actually visit the cities. They've obviously never been to Williston...

[@slash2456]

Facts, Williston sucks so bad

[@sallymorris5633]

Most of what the city government does makes it worse. You want a nice city to live it? Lower the tax rates across the boards, stop favoring one business over another - picking winners and losers - and let things happen organically. If you lower the taxes for EVERYONE, businesses as well as ordinary property, stop over-regulating everyone and everything, businesses will compete to be here and there will be no need to run around recruiting unsuitable businesses (such as Chinese-owned industries). Most people are very nice. It SHOULD be a nice place to live. It is this over micro-managing by city government that makes people enemies of one another and of the city.

[@larisforschen1356]

God bless all people and form dunseith ND Native American Chippewa ❤ 🙏 💙

[@nodak81]

The Chippewa don't believe in God.

[@CatalinaFOIA]

@@nodak81 This is a shameful comment 😑

[@shealy486]

High crime and drugs. Not the peaceful place it used to be

[@dellingson4833]

@cat king there is, they are using them to change our dema graphics for voting reasons. Notice our governor or North Dakota is 11th on the list of states wanting to settle new immigrants (drive wages lower) except the state capital of course. They will take none. Just wow and thank you, gov. Douglas James Burgum.

[@amyjones8114]

d ellingson you’re fkn crazy. I think your gd brain is frozen from living on the tundra. Grand Forks is the only place God turns his face from. You live in hell, fkn idiot.

[@LandonsVlogs]

I love living in GrandForks but, it just has nothing left in the mall, no really good stores you can go to just to have fun for a while, but it is a really good state

[@casualobserver620]

Grand Forks absolutely sucked in the early 70's when I was stationed there. The townspeople hated "basers". Thing is, much of their economy came from "basers". And those potato processing plants made the place smell like open sewage.

[@lagodifuoco313]

It's the beets not potatoes.

[@IbukiMioda2001]

They still hate basers/outsiders 50 years later... We made the major mistake of telling people in GF we're from Ohio and we've been treated like social outcasts ever since

[@hlwification]

Grand Forks populations are in, and Out. I think 20% of the population are students, but the city has a lot of warehouses those needs. I have seen people complaining about mandatory overtime for companies like Simplot, LM, Crytal sugar, Philadelphia, and some more. The city doesn't have a lot of part-time jobs though. Months like December, January, and part of February most of these employers are down due to the weather and holidays, however, the city is getting better.

[@mistervacation23]

After some discussion, the matter of grading the streets was carried over until the next meeting of the Club.

[@lagodifuoco313]

Um....Fargo.

[@snake57]

Bisonville will be all over this.

[@yourfriend8052]

The reason for these numbers is because every other town is small as I was a resident for 2 years

[@amyjones8114]

Leia Organa oh please. Grand Forks is forsaken by God.

[@adhdbookworm]

​@@amyjones8114 the math checks out tho

[@IbukiMioda2001]

@@amyjones8114 Bro compare the population of Nelson County (literally just west of Grand Forks County) to Grand Forks and tell me they're wrong 💀

[@Alexmercer344]

this town is not what it was back in like 2012-2013... something must be in the water now

[@747-pilot]

You're talking about 2012-2013? I lived there from 1989 to 1993, and it was absolutely PRISTINE. It was crime-free. You could literally leave your car doors unlocked, and things like that! I lived on University Avenue and 18th street, and would often go to the Valley Dairy on Washington and University. I was in my early teens back then. I visited once in 2001, and that was the last time I was there, and it had changed a bit.

[@CatalinaFOIA]

@@747-pilot a lot of changes occurred after the historic 54.11 ft. flood of 1997. Whole neighborhoods were leveled (Lincoln, Riverside, Sherlock in EGF). I left in 2001 and only go back to visit family a few times per year.

[@sharlajohnson1033]

it's not the worst city to live in but, it could do a lot to improve itself. As far as the unemployment almost every place in town is hiring so don't give me this I can't get a job sob story. You find people out on the street holding signs saying anything helps, get a job that helps.

[@nodak81]

Why get a minimum wage job when begging pays more?

[@Saturns_Return]

Apparently HVAC up there averages 28$/hr. Have my eyes set on moving to there or williston after i get out of trade school. Is it possible young ppl up there are just pussies who dont wanna do blue collar work?

[@DuaneHHLyon]

Who cares what the Wall Street Journal thinks? Clean up Wall Street .....stay out of GF

[@nodak81]

Pretty sure they have no problem with staying out of the middle of nowhere.

[@Amy-xo2xn]

Weird... I miss living in grand forks.

[@Alexmercer344]

oh no it's not the Grand Forks you knew anymore it's HORRIBLE now

[@kdolo100]

@@Alexmercer344 What's horrible about it now?

[@k1ngisahooper887]

@@kdolo100 absolutely nothing to do here other then go to Minnesota or fishing by devils lake. If you want to play any sports other then football or hockey you have no chance at anything

[@kdolo100]

@@k1ngisahooper887 Ok, I been hearing crime is bad there. Is that true?

[@k1ngisahooper887]

@@kdolo100 idk I live over in the suburbs and not much happens here over by by where I live (close to Ben Franklin elementary) but one of my relatives had someone break into their house and they live kinda close to canad inn

[@lionelbetancourt5296]

I don't agree that Grand forks north dakota is a bad state I live in Grand forks and it is a good place to live in

[@denisehill1215]

Try living in Massachusetts for a bad experience especially Lowell which is a very dirty city at least North Dakota is clean

[@1stooge782]

Just like the way they want it....???

[@richardestenson7799]

Well... Meth.

[@foreveryactionthereisacons1683]

Meth is everywhere... Hitler and the Nazis were in meth... It's an old drug.

[@cosmokramer5387]

Fargo is the worst by far. We all know this.

[@thomashodges6896]

Mattie Hjelseth's accent. 😁😁😁

[@robbspinosa9777]

Made🇺🇲Here +8.8M Silicone Jobs 🍎 🌉 Valley 🗽

[@tokiisradical5760]

grand forks does suck, its boring as shit

[@미해군장교]

By far the worst states

[@alexisczajka1100]

Bruh

[@justinwoodward3413]

That sounds weird considering our McDonald’s pays $17 an hour, so things must have changed post-COVID. It would be difficult to find a job that pays less than $15 an hour now, and if you did, you shouldn’t take it. Plus it’s dirt cheap to live here. That said, it can quite boring to live here.

[@betz0041]

Hahaha

[@cdcuworld9008]

More like one of the worst cities in America. God and Jesus is the answer. God and Jesus love all.

[@lagodifuoco313]

Jesus is not real and you've obviously never been around America. GF is not even in the top 100 worst cities.

[@lagodifuoco313]

And god isn't real either. You have no business even commenting since you're obviously delusional.

[@bauerj3398]

cdcu: not even remotely close, but nice try. If you think G.F. is even in the running, that simply means you have either never been there, or never looked into a myriad of U.S. locations that are exponentially worst. Hell, you have places like Makaha in Hawaii which combines a median home of over $400,000 with 30% poverty, 10% unemployment, and high crime rate.

[@Joelard87]

@@lagodifuoco313 bro chill tf out people can habe opinions lol

[@wakeup9225]

@@lagodifuoco313 Gesh someone is firery today....

[@DakotaBeerDrinker74]

It is the worst!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Guaco_YT]

Grand forks is the best place to live which is my opinion