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Anonymous-Turtle-25 t1_j9em6vb wrote

Avoid Downtown/MSU campus at night if you can (or the North side in general).

Other than that heres some things to do Try cashew chicken (yum yum bowl is my personal fav) During the summer/warmer days go to Nathaniel Greene park, very great place to enjoy nature and escape (also during summer days they have a free butterfly house. Its the only free butterfly house in the state so if ur gf likes butterflies I would highly reccomend) Fun acre is a cheap mini golf course and batting cages if you want something fun to do for cheap (3$ a person for 9 holes I believe and .25¢ for 5 swings) Hammons field where the Springfield Cardinals play is a great place to go watch some pro sports (Double A affiliate of the STL Cardinals) Jordan Valley ice park is right next to Hammons field and you can go ice skating there or watch hockey depending on the day 1984 in downtown (classic arcade) Lamberts Cafe (in Ozark but still fun) Missouri Sports hall of fame Silver Dollar City in Branson is not too far and very fun. The mall is an obv thing to do (small mall tho so don’t expect like a multistory supermall)

Theres plenty of other stuff to do but idk your interest and hobbies so i’ll leave that research up to you

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bradleysballs t1_j9eujg2 wrote

You can definitely go to downtown and the MSU campus at night lol what are you talking about? People on here act like it’s downtown St. Louis

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disturbed_beaver t1_j9h3n76 wrote

I'm not even worried about walking around downtown St Louis at night. Generally, if you don't start no shit there won't be no shit.

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Anonymous-Turtle-25 t1_ja00buh wrote

I worked near downtown and msu for multiple years. I usually got off work at midnight and ive seen too many dangerous situations to consider them places i’d rather not go to at night alone. Downvote me all you want, but Spfd being a top 10 Violent Crime city per 100k people in recent years does mean there are dangerous areas that you should at least be careful in.

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bradleysballs t1_ja7raew wrote

or maybe you should realize your anecdotal experience is not reality? one look at the downvotes and upvotes on your thread should give you a pretty good idea that you might be wrong

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Anonymous-Turtle-25 t1_jad2d6k wrote

I guess suddenly stats are overturned by majority opinion (appeal to majority)? https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-violent-cities-in-america. Everyone I speak too feels the same way about downtown and MSU. Note that a majority of people on reddit are a significant minority of the people in and around spfd so to use their majority beliefs as the majority springfield belief is not accurate in any way (political example: majority of people on here are blue voters while green county went red in the last two elections by 16%+)

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