r/Carbondale

I cannot express the rage I experience when I see, "Stand up for Choate workers."

To everyone that that is mad about Choate Developmental Center closing their developmental disability side and downsizing the number of beds on the forensic unit, turn your rage towards the right people.

Shame the people who couldn't stop abusing folks with disabilities.

Shame the administrators that upheld a code of silence.

Shame AFCSME for protecting these losers and only speaking up when *the jobs* were in jeopardy.

Shame Tyler Tripp for folding when he had a chance to protect the most vulnerable among us.

These are the people who lost those jobs. Choate had 20+ years of warnings, and they just couldn't stop abusing people. Jobs caring for vulnerable people is a trust, not an entitlement. It was willfully forfeited by terrible people.

I moved here a couple months ago
And my experience has been stressful.
Theres no jobs and when jobs do pop up they are given to the college students and their friends and if you somehow get lucky and land one, its more than likely going to be minimum wage/low pay. while many people, I've noticed are under the impression that cost of living and rent here are cheaper, its not. Electric is so high it's insane. We pay the same amount in rent here we did living 30 minutes from the beach in a city. The people are ok, some of them are cool and some of them are not (like you can find anywhere.) taxes are high, groceries and gas are high too but that could be everywhere. Overall it's been plain, expensive, boring.
What're y'all/ experiences since moving here?

Are there any recreational volleyball leagues in town/on campus I could join?