Overall, this town is the pits, especially on the West side of town. Belleville just doesn’t have a great mix of the best and the brightest. Anyone who has enough intelligence and sanity is likely to flee the place.

The main problem is that a few too many of the longtime residents have inherited the worst traits of their German farmer ancestory. (Racism, VERY tight with money, suspicious of “outsiders”, general small mindedness among other things) That doesn’t make for a very pleasant place.

I’m sure the problems Belleville has isn’t so unique, but it certainly made my time there pretty unbarable.