Rapid City

Rapid City

Rapid City, South Dakota. Home of the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, and multiple caverns and sites. With all of these wonderful places to visit in Rapid City, you'd assume that I would say Rapid City is the best place to live. That I am content with staying in Rapid City my entire life. That would be a false statement though. In truth, I think Rapid City may be a great place for people of younger ages to dwell. If you grow up in Rapid City, you will understand when I say that teenagers and adults find it hard to live in Rapid City.
The reason that younger ages would dwell well in Rapid City is because they have open room to adapt, yet everything is close to home. If the kids wanted to get out and be active, they could walk to Sioux Park and it would take them five minutes. Everything a kid could want or need is within a five to twenty minute drive in Rapid City. Adults would find it hard to dwell for many reasons though.
Some reasons that adults and teens would find it hard to prosper in Rapid City is because of limited job opportunities, little living space and low-paying jobs. Rapid City, or just South Dakota in general, is filled with stressed teens who work thirty plus hours a week during school, full-time during summer, and get low pay for it. Adults work full-time normally, if not two part-time jobs with forty plus hours a week with low income, making just enough to pay for a roof over their head, clothes, and food. I believe that if a minor export in the United States was brought to South Dakota for work, South Dakota would become a better place for adults to prosper. The wage pay would increase, the job opportunities would increase, and the state's wealth would definitely increase. Until that happens though, kids of young ages, I believe, are the only ones that would thrive in Rapid City.