The Midwest What's It Like?

When I was young, I spent time in a town called Fairborn, OH, and it could have been "Small Town, USA" from any 1980s horror/sci-fi film. Just extremely pleasant on the surface, the kind of town where 8 year old kids wandered all around the place alone during the day, but at night, you'd sit awake in your bed and wonder if something sinister wasn't going on. Wright Patterson AFB was just next door. The entire thing gave me Return of the Living Dead Part 2 type vibes. Or Night of the Creeps
 
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.
I was in Kenosha for a couple of days, and it was a nice little city. I could see myself living there. The people weren't super friendly, but I chalked this up to the fact that it was late March and snowing. They seemed really sick of snow at that point.
 
Born in Missouri, near Ozarks.
Great memories as a kid.
Spent time on my uncle’s farm in Minnesota.
Hard work, lots of food.

You're from Missouri near The Ozarks? From what I have seen it's beautiful there. I would like to learn more than just what I saw on the NetFlix show that was total fiction. Maybe a guy like me from Los Angeles could take a relaxing vacation there. Seems definitely like a nice change of pace. Ozarks are spread out over several states. How did they get to be called Ozarks?
 
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.
But that s not true is it? I think the North around Minneapolis is very much like Canada while the Ozarks would resemble more the South of the USA?
 
I was in Kenosha for a couple of days, and it was a nice little city. I could see myself living there. The people weren't super friendly, but I chalked this up to the fact that it was late March and snowing. They seemed really sick of snow at that point.
Go farther north - Appleton, Neenah, Oshkosh - the whole Fox Valley is much nicer and friendlier. I've fallen in love with the area.
 
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