The Midwest What's It Like?

[MLarson]

I never there to places like Ohio, Nebraska ect.

Tell me about that part of the country and the things you and hate about it.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

Born in Missouri, near Ozarks.
Great memories as a kid.
Spent time on my uncle’s farm in Minnesota.
Hard work, lots of food.

 

[mb23100]

Grew up in rural southern Wisconsin. My town doesn't have a single stoplight and no one locks their doors or their cars. Corn and cows everywhere, mostly dairy cows. Now you have soybeans and windmills and the Amish bought up all the farms around my area so they're everywhere now too. Neat place but unless you're a farmer there isn't much to do besides hunt and fish. Lots of woods up north and even a few ski resorts.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

 

[VinceArch]

I'm from the Pacific northwest but have driven out that to meet with friends in the past. Man, their isn't fucking shit out that way except cornfields on each side of the road or nothing but flat terrain. I don't know how those that live out that way can handle it. But the same could be said for those who've never been out to my neck of the woods.

 

[Batjester]

Just like the Mid South, but west.

 

[Rhood]

It's no different than states on the East Coast.
Ever been to rural Maryland, Delaware, rural Virginia or West Virginia?
It looks exactly the same.

Actually for the most part, the United States as a whole is mostly empty.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

A lot of nice, genuine people in my experience.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I’m from the Chicagoland area. We have all seasons here. You want heat? It gets hot in the summer. You want cold? It gets fucking cold here. Rain? Plenty of that shit. Wind? Yeah it’s every fucking where.


And if you don’t like the weather? Give it an hour, it’ll change to something else

 

[Beechwood]

As I used to joke living in central Illinois, it was a frozen wasteland. In the colder months, which can last 6 tp 7 months or about, out in the countryside there are row after row or plain dirt fields with blowing snow everywhere. That is why I would call it a wasteland. It had that kind of appears to it. Every winder was different, but typically winters were painfully long and cold. It wasn't uncommon to go a month with highs in the 20s with the wind blowing, and not seeing the sun that often.

Summers were great. They were short but the weather from June to the first half of Sept was pleasant.

At one time the area I lived in was nice. Now, I wouldn't want to live there. The crime rate had climb much higher when I left. People would frequently comment to me how they were fearful or driving around town, going to the mall area due to the crime. The roads were terrible, really falling apart. When I first lived there the roads were wonderful. As corrupt at the land of Lincoln is I figured someone was taking the road repair money. Taxes kept going higher and higher it seemed.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Its like a bag of sand

 

[Shogun515]

Its pretty midwesterny

"Hard work" typically means long hours not difficulty of work. Everyone thinks they work hard but they are just there for a while with a lot of downtime or slacking off in between.
Good food, not much to do otherwise like in the south. Winters can be brutal.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

It's mid.

Only just kinda west.

 

[BFoe]

Have lived in WI for about 12 years now.

Winters are very fucking brutal. They just last so goddamn long, and you can literally go without seeing the sun for weeks it seems. It was a big adjustment when I moved here, the winters can really take a toll psychologically.

There’s great food out here. Madison for example is only a city of only 250,000 people but has an insane number of fantastic restaurants. I like the trust and old fashioned ways out here though—like in the summer, the sweet corn is amazing, and we buy ours from a vegetable stand run by people who grow the corn in their garden. They leave a coin box out there and you can buy the corn on the honor system lol.
Summers are beautiful.

 

[haysus31]

I drove through Nebraska on the way to west years ago. Always wanted to visit Omaha but didn't know what id do there.

 

[TeTe]

Born and raised in Chicago. Shitty weather, lots of tall buildings, big fucking lake, lots of traffic, great food, great night life.

I also lived in St Louis for three years and that was just an extremely watered down version of Chicago.

 

[Ghost of LBL]

Some people would call the Midwest flyover states, but these are mostly people who've never been.

Cities like Columbus are genuinely nice. Clean, affordable, friendly people who actually make eye contact. The food scene in some of these places is decent. You can find a handful of legitimately good spots. A low cost of living means your money stretches in ways that would make coastal residents weep.

The trade-off is diversity and density. You only have a handful of solid restaurants instead of hundreds, a few hangout spots instead of dozens, and once you leave the city, you might drive hours before reaching anything interesting.

If you're used to constant stimulation, fine dining, and the ability to do something different every weekend without repeat, you'll feel these Midwestern places get small after a few months. If you prefer a slower pace, community, and not paying $4000 for a studio, it might not be too bad.

 

[-Magua-]

Grew up & lived in KC till bout 22.
I liked growing up there, fun enough cow town at times…but glad moved out.
Visited for a month in August last year, it’s expanded & north KC is better, but the Plaza has degraded.
If moved back to US for good, not sure which city I’d pick if had choice, prolly not the MW though.

 

[Midnighter]

Grew up & lived in KC till bout 22.
I liked growing up there, fun enough cow town at times…but glad moved out.
Visited for a month in August last year, it’s expanded & north KC is better, but the Plaza has degraded.
If moved back to US for good, not sure which city I’d pick if had choice, prolly not the MW though.

Supposedly, they'll be building up the Plaza again.

 

[The_Renaissance]

I've been to a few cities in that region, I remember being pleasantly surprised by Indianapolis and Minneapolis but really not liking Omaha.