06/02/2026
ABSOLUTELY!! I love Pueblo! I wish people who complain would get involved and help! We have some of the best people on earth here!!
ANYONE CAN CRITICIZE A CITY / BUILDING ONE IS HARDER - By Joey Sais - Pueblo deserves better than constant ridicule.
Lately it feels like every time Pueblo is mentioned online, the comments turn into insults, mockery, or hopelessness. Anonymous posts aside — those mean very little — it’s still disturbing to see so much hatred aimed at our own city.
Pueblo is not a perfect city. No city is.
But Pueblo is also far better than many people give it credit for.
Part of the problem is perspective. Pueblo is a large city by most standards, even if we sit south and smaller than Denver and Colorado Springs and often miss out on some of the “big ticket” attractions and investments that naturally flow toward larger metro areas. I’ve traveled through beautiful towns all over the country that people proudly call cities — yet many of them are a fraction of Pueblo’s size and have plenty of their own struggles too. The difference is that when you’re just passing through, you don’t always see the problems.
Social media magnifies everything negative. It pushes crime, conflict, frustration, and outrage directly into our faces every single day until people begin to believe that’s all Pueblo is.
It isn’t.
Pueblo is filled with hardworking, generous, resilient people. Some of the best people I’ve ever known are right here.
People also forget Pueblo’s geography and identity. We live on the edge of the Great American Desert. We have tumblew**ds, dry air, wind, open skies, and rugged beauty. Those tumblew**ds people complain about? Around the world people literally buy them because they’re exotic. Here they’re just another thing we overlook because we see them every day.
And while people praise greener places, they forget that grass is simply their w**d.
Pueblo has character. Pueblo has history. Pueblo has grit.
Our police officers and firefighters are incredibly well-trained and deeply committed to this community. Anyone who actually talks to them, watches the training they go through, or knows them personally understands that.
Our city government has problems — of course it does — but I honestly don’t believe most people serving this city are trying to hurt it. More often than not, they simply have different ideas about how to improve Pueblo.
One thing that absolutely does hurt Pueblo is apathy.
Too many people complain endlessly online while refusing to get involved locally, vote consistently, attend meetings, or think long-term about the direction of the city. Civic decisions matter. Leadership matters. Standards matter. Community involvement matters.
If we love Pueblo, then we should help shape it instead of constantly tearing it down.
Anybody can criticize a city.
Building one is harder.
And Pueblo still has a lot worth building for.
Source - FB post by Joey Siaz