Louisville? Think again (Richmond, Dayton, Hurstbourne: apartments, rental, loans)

[staywarm2]

We were visiting in Louisville in early September for a week. We were shocked at how bad the drivers are. Having grown up there, we thought the drivers would still be polite and careful. WRONG! We saw 2-3 cars at a time run red lights on a number of occasions. Also, we were almost in an accident when a driver ran a red light and came within 6 feet of crashing into the side of our car. We commented to various friends and relatives about the carelessness of the drivers, and they all agreed. Since our trip there, a relative had a hit and run driver hit his parked car. Luckily, a kind person saw the incident and took photos of the accident. Hopefully, the police will find that person.

We thought the food was good, and the service was friendly, but a bit slow. People in general were very pleasant.

[censusdata]

If Peter doesn't post a response soon someone needs to contact the police and put out a Silver Alert.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by censusdata

If Peter doesn't post a response soon someone needs to contact the police and put out a Silver Alert.

Well, it's not quite the season for Silver bells yet, though.

[creeksitter]

If Peter doesn't post a response soon someone needs to contact the police and put out a Silver Alert.

You'll notice the original poster is new. Is it possible Peter really did lose a job at the chamber of commerce and this is his revenge?

[Mr. In-Between]

Originally Posted by New2lou

I will give you that the drivers in Louisville are bad. They scare the daylights out of me! I have lived in DC, NYC, Chicago, and a few smaller cities and I have never seen so many large objects fall of vehicles. I was behind a Culligan water delivery truck where the driver forgot to shut the side door. At least a dozen water cooler jugs tumbled out right in front of my car and I had to swerve and brake fast. The driver never slowed down. In general, I see people pulling dangerous moves just about every day. It seems many are drunk or high and others are just jerks in over-priced trucks.

Yeah, that's a good way to put it. It's not so much that the drivers are "bad" in the sense that they lack skills; there's just a lot of them who do really, really stupid things. I can't count how many wrong-way drivers I've seen on the highways, and i came within 2 or 3 feet of being destroyed by one a couple of years ago when he came over the top of the hill in my left lane at dusk with no headlights ( I guess he thought two wrongs make a right). I mean, how stupid do you have to be to not notice you're on the wrong side of the damned highway???

You often get stuck behind some pretty slow drivers in the country, too. It's like the driver thinks, "OK, I know this is a highway, but I'm only going 5or 6 miles, so there's no need to go any faster than 4 miles an hour if I'm just going to slow down again anyway." That gets exasperating. A good rule of thumb is that the guy ahead of you always wants to go 15 miles under the limit, and the guy behind you always wants to go 15 miles over. A lot of these winding, hilly country roads, I wouldn't go over 35 mph - i mean, people live there, and some of them have children that they're probably pretty fond of. But no matter how hilly the road is, if the speed limit is 55, then there's going to be someone who by god is gonna go 55, and that's that. I always try to pull into the first driveway and let him go. It's not worth it.

One thing I learned fast was never, ever follow too closely behind a truck carrying those big hay rolls. I see a lot of those on the sides of the roads, and the last place on Earth that I want to be is right behind that truck when the moron loses his load.

Same goes for the guys who load up trailers with branches and tree-clearing debris. Great big giant branches are always blowing off those things and landing right in the road. I've never seen that before anywhere, but I see it all summer long here for some reason. Those guys are a menace, but the problem is, people just don't give a damn. They just don't seem to think.

Edit: As someone who learned to drive in Northern Wisconsin and lived almost my whole life there and Minnesota, I have to put in a word for the winter driving skills of Kentuckians. Winter drivers here are much better than in Minnesota and Wisconsin. I remember a few years ago when Lexington got buried by a blizzard, and the radio station said there had been something like 17 accidents. In the Twin Cities, any kind of snowfall at all during rush hour would have over a hundred, sometimes more. I remember more than once, we'd have over 250 accidents in one afternoon during a storm.

It's like the people up there are so arrogant, they think "I'm from Minnesota, and I can handle any snowstorm. Get outta my way." People down here, on the other hand, seem to know that they can't. So they slow the heck down, or just stay home if the weather is beyond their skill set. People in Minneapolis don't have the good sense to do either one.

Originally Posted by New2lou

However, the road planning is fine. It’s pretty common in DC that newcomers have several horrible experiences their first year getting so lost that the trip across town ends in tears and nearly busted bladders. You’ll drive by your own home six times, you can see it, but you just can’t figure out how to get to it!

I don't understand what's bad about the road planning either. I don't think they're very well maintained, because nobody wants to spend a nickel on infrastructure here, but the actual layout of the roads is about as good as you could probably expect. You have to keep in mind that all of the main roads were wagon trails from one farm to another 250 years ago, following the contours of the land and winding around geographical features, and they just gradually evolved over the centuries to become major roads. You're just going to get that in a major city in a hilly area.

A couple of things I really don't like about the roads are the stoplights and the fact that that so many streets don't have street signs. I mean, jeez - spend a buck or two on signs so people know what street they're on, OK? It's like they figure "if you live here, you already know what street you're on - and if you don't live here, go back home and stop bothering us."

And the stoplights... all my life, I lived in places where they not only hung stoplights over the intersection, but also mounted them on poles on the corners. I'm 6'4", and if I'm the first car stopped at a red light, it's sometimes impossible for me to see the stop light above my car without getting out or rolling the window down to stick my head out the side of the car. Those damned overhead lights are almost directly above my car. That one really ticks me off; it's just so damned stupid. I'm going to slip a disc in my spine trying to stand on my head on the dashboard.

Originally Posted by New2lou

Doctors are either huge snobs or maybe they just deal with so many uneducated people they speak to me on a sixth grade level. That is very weird.

I don't care much for the doctors here in general, because I don't think most of them are any brighter than most of their patients. We've been lucky in terms of GPs, because my wife is exceptional at researching them and finding good ones, but specialists are hit or miss. And yeah, a lot of them do have attitudes. They don't like being asked questions, but neither one of us will tolerate that crap from a doctor.

Originally Posted by censusdata

If Peter doesn't post a response soon someone needs to contact the police and put out a Silver Alert.

Well, there's a lot of information to dispute. He'll probably be typing for days!

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by censusdata

If Peter doesn't post a response soon someone needs to contact the police and put out a Silver Alert.

I don't respond to trolls. This was the OP's first post and it's clearly a bait post, even the username. They are looking for reasons not to like the city and I recognize their style as most likely a reincarnated troll. I could make a similar post about any city in the USA, including overhyped places like Nashville. #FACTS For some reason, Louisville doesn't have alot of passionate supporters here. That's a shame. But the fact is, despite population estimates which I am almost sure are off, Louisville is booming in every way. There is so much commercial growth that my time evangelizing for Louisville is coming to an end. I've been spending alot of time in Birmingham lately as I only really like underdog cities.

I’d be curious to see what happens to a user named “I hate Lexington “ lol

[Oldhag1]

Originally Posted by Peter1948

I don't respond to trolls. This was the OP's first post and it's clearly a bait post, even the username. They are looking for reasons not to like the city and I recognize their style as most likely a reincarnated troll. I could make a similar post about any city in the USA, including overhyped places like Nashville. #FACTS For some reason, Louisville doesn't have alot of passionate supporters here. That's a shame. But the fact is, despite population estimates which I am almost sure are off, Louisville is booming in every way. There is so much commercial growth that my time evangelizing for Louisville is coming to an end. I've been spending alot of time in Birmingham lately as I only really like underdog cities.

I’d be curious to see what happens to a user named “I hate Lexington “ lol

The exact same thing as happened with this one. People are allowed to identify themselves as they wish provided it does not cross vulgarity lines or into blatant “hate crime” territory. Sorry, as much as I realize people probably don’t like it, the OP’s name does not cross that bar.

[The Dissenter]

I will have to agree on the drivers. DC drivers are extremely aggressive, but Louisville drivers are more incompetent with a slight hint of aggression. I noticed the West End in particular has a major problem with red light runners.

On the doctors, I will share my experience with my mother’s situation. At first she used doctors primarily on Ft Knox and Hardin County. She ended up being misdiagnosed and was put on medication she didn’t need. It wasn’t until she went to Louisville to get a second opinion that she was able to get off the unneeded medication and actually started to improve. That reversal is probably going to allow her to work 2-4 more years like she wanted before retirement.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by The Dissenter

I will have to agree on the drivers. DC drivers are extremely aggressive, but Louisville drivers are more incompetent with a slight hint of aggression. I noticed the West End in particular has a major problem with red light runners.

On the doctors, I will share my experience with my mother’s situation. At first she used doctors primarily on Ft Knox and Hardin County. She ended up being misdiagnosed and was put on medication she didn’t need. It wasn’t until she went to Louisville to get a second opinion that she was able to get off the unneeded medication and actually started to improve. That reversal is probably going to allow her to work 2-4 more years like she wanted before retirement.

Did you see where Louisville got ranked the #2 best drivers? Everyone is laughing about it.


https://www.wlky.com/article/study-r...-best/29477300


Hey, at least it was a study lol. Honestly, Louisville drivers are average IMO. I have seen some realllllly bad ones but any major city has that. At least we have objective (or subjective?) data saying it's great drivers.

Doctors are excellent...I work in healthcare for my main gig and know MANY personally and they are competent, outstanding, and caring. Rural Ky doctors on the other hand? They are SCARY and atrocious. The fact is, any good doctor is going to live in a major metro area, or a nice college town at the least.

[staywarm2]

I’ve been in lots of cities, but the drivers I saw in Louisville’s East End were terrible. I never saw so many people at one time run red lights. Even 3 at a time in one instance.