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Old 07-29-2007, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Texas!
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I swear everytime people say something about Waco they always seem to bring up the Branch Davidian thing (Which didn't even happen in Waco!) I wish people would give Waco a chance and quit bashing it just because the lack of people downtown and something that happened more than 10 years ago.

Why do people hate it so much?
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Old 07-29-2007, 03:09 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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I don't hate it but I don't care for it either. I lived south of it in Killeen and I've been to Waco many times. My mother works in Waco and has made that trip from Killeen to Waco going on 13 years. She nor I does not care for it.
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Old 07-29-2007, 03:37 PM
 
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It's a great place to be if you're the type who goes to church on Wednesday night, if you know what I mean...
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Old 07-29-2007, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Texas!
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Actually their are a lot of people here who don't attend church.
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Old 07-29-2007, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Deep In The Heat Of Texas
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I don't hate Waco, and I don't believe people who don't like it are really relating it to the religious cult catastrophe. That's like relating JFK's assassination, Lee H. Oswald, and Jack Ruby to Dallas. Nuts live everywhere.

I wouldn't want to live in Waco, but I don't like the city. I go there every now and then when I have to do so and it's fine in many places. Like any other city, it has it's really bad and crime-filled parts.

Good grief...Waco is too big for anyone to care who goes to church on Wednesday, Sunday, or any other day of the week. That's ridiculous. They hardly care in the podunk Texas towns or at least in the one I live in. Live and let live.

It was actually 14 1/2 years ago, but you were close.

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Old 07-29-2007, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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While I cannot claim to know much of anything about Waco, I know that around the country, it used to be known as "Whacko".

Otherwise, it's acronym during the Branch Davidian days was affectionately known as "We Ain't Comin' Out"!
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Old 07-29-2007, 09:39 PM
 
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And now you have the even more dangerous nuts with a ranch not too far towards Crawford . . .

I think the whole Waco area might benefit from a No-Nuts zoning ordinance. Do you suppose they could put that in a deed restriction?

But for real, the Ranger Museum is mighty fine. And so is the old "circle" with the Elite Cafe.
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Old 07-29-2007, 10:42 PM
 
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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^^ You know what goes real good with nuts? Dr. Pepper, the national drink of Texas.
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Old 07-29-2007, 10:55 PM
 
Location: San Antonio Texas
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I swear everytime people say something about Waco they always seem to bring up the Branch Davidian thing (Which didn't even happen in Waco!) I wish people would give Waco a chance and quit bashing it just because the lack of people downtown and something that happened more than 10 years ago.

Why do people hate it so much?

it's too christian and conservative. it's driveby territory on the way to austin or dallas.
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Old 07-29-2007, 11:10 PM
 
Location: Texas
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i would take Waco over ANYWHERE in South Texas anyday. dont know much about it. all i DO know is that when i worked in a prison, it seemed like whenever they shipped inmates in from McLennan County, they just happened to be the MOST throwed off inmates on the prison farm. dunno why...something in the water? maybe just a coincidence. aint no tellin.
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