ha hah ah aha ha ......... probably a LOT better than poor old
Covington ......which has gone down hill so much. I liked the nice
river area development in Louisville ... where I live would be
a desert if it wasn't for irrigation.

pretty green hardwood trees out there too ...... !!! oddly enough
( as if there wasn't enough odd things about California to
start with ) ...." everything " here ... all the plant life , for the
most part , is man made and artificial. nothing to do with the
natural local or terrain in any natural way. sure it's fragrant
flowering and green , year around .. and don't get me wrong , thats
nice too ..... BUT ...it's ALL artificial, and unnatural ..kinda
like Disney Land or something. those beautiful hardwood forests and
natural surroundings are quite nice and feels good after so much
stuff like we live in , out here. ( liked the vibrant and LOUD
at night insect life too ..out here we nuked everything for the
farmers and have nothing like that , it adds a lot to the pleasant
natural ambiance )


k....................




On 11 Apr 2004 22:12:21 GMT, ocom (Michael Bryant)
wrote:

From: krackula

hummmmmmmmm .......... I must have missed something ! I drove
through Louisville , on my way to Covington , Ky last september
and it seemed deshelved , poor ( people didn't have avery high
standard of living ) ...and rather smallish. where are all those
people, prosperity and growth located at ?

Sounds like you drove through the old city's West End. You need to visit
Louisville's east end. All cities have good and bad sides.

Just had a beautiful drive across town today on Louisville's Gene Snyder
Freeway out on the edge of Jefferson Co. Nothing like what you describe.

Still laughing about being dissed by someone from Covington, KY! ;-)I can't
even find Louisville on this
list of top 48 cities / metros of population

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa122099c.htm

this site says that Louisville is the largest city
IN KENTUCKY ... and 16th in the USA .......
( course it is the CC site ah ahaha , possibly stating that from
some measurement technicality )


Yes, the technicality of total population.


http://www.gotolouisville.com/

hummmmmmmmmmm ......... must be something amiss
somewhere.

Yep. You hit the nail on the tip of your pointy head.

Louisville seemed quite tiny to me ... and rather
poor .... ( low cost houses average price of a house in
my little town is about $387,000 beat cars most old cars
are illegal polluters , out here ...and ... undeveloped metro
spaces , lots of oldish urban decay ) ......... I kinda felt sorry
for many of the towns I went through and Louisville was
definitely one of them. hey what do I know ..??? ...maybe
I misjudged the place !!! haaah ah ahaha ha


The part you saw on your trip through to Covington could fit that description.
But that's nowhere near most of Louisville.

k.....................

btw: I was born in Ky in Covington and lived in harlin county
when " they shot the sheriff " , got my first radio license there
too. the " entire " town of Covington has turned into slums
nowadays .... only about a 3rd of it , was slums when I lived
there. sad to visit my old blue collar neighborhood now ........
everyone probably moved to Louisville

No, just into the other slums of Cincinnati, one of America's most quickly
deteriorating cities.

Louisville's no Nirvana. Good and bad sides. But it does have the 16th highest
population in the US. It's the city's official PR line.


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