Midwestern Cities (Chicago, Virginia, Kansas: statistics, architecture, area)

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Chicago and Detroit. Thats it from the list. Imo.

Id agree. The other cities listed are not midwestern.

[aragx6]

I agree with Avenger on this one. If Omaha is Midwestern, so is Kansas City, and I don't count Kansas City as Midwestern... it's way too flat.

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by aragx6

I agree with Avenger on this one. If Omaha is Midwestern, so is Kansas City, and I don't count Kansas City as Midwestern... it's way too flat.

Too flat? Chicago is flat (in the city). Champaign defines flat. There is a saying down there "If it doesn't look flat anymore, you've lived here too long." I got out when it still looked flat, after 7 yrs. Much of the midwest is flat.

Omaha is hilly and wooded.

[ekrz44]

I always pondered why the mid-west isn't considered the mid-east.
Everything in the mid-west is geographically closer the east coast anyways.

Semantics I suppose.

[jm31828]

Originally Posted by Libertine

In my opinion the Midwest consists of the following states: Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. So the cities within those states are Midwestern cities, otherwise, they're east coast or plains states cities. Conversely, one could argue Missouri a Midwestern state, but I think only northern Missouri should count (southern Missouri is too close to Arkansas).

Actually, according to most who live around here, the Midwest is North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri (some question on all of Missouri), Wisconsin, Illinois. The rest to the east of there would be more considered the Great Lakes Region, though I know folks on the east coast refer to that area as the Midwest. So that definitely includes Omaha (Omaha is right in the heart of it) as well as Chicago, but definitely not Pittsburgh.

[jm31828]

Originally Posted by aragx6

I agree with Avenger on this one. If Omaha is Midwestern, so is Kansas City, and I don't count Kansas City as Midwestern... it's way too flat.

Why would flatness rule those areas out? That is in many ways the definition of the midwest- flat, plains farmland in the middle of the country. That's why places such as Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa are considered to be right in the heart of the Midwest!

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Too flat? Chicago is flat (in the city). Champaign defines flat. There is a saying down there "If it doesn't look flat anymore, you've lived here too long." I got out when it still looked flat, after 7 yrs. Much of the midwest is flat.

Omaha is hilly and wooded.

Welcome back pittsnurse! How many times you gonna change user names?

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by ekrz44

I always pondered why the mid-west isn't considered the mid-east.
Everything in the mid-west is geographically closer the east coast anyways.

Semantics I suppose.

I find the midwest to be drier, less trees, less mountains than in the east. The midwest has more in common with the plains that are found west of the Mississippi than anything out east if you ask me.

[aragx6]

I disagree that Nebraska and Kansas are the definition of the Midwest. I think it's fair enough to say that the Great Plains is probably a part of the Midwest, but when I think of the Midwest I think of tall trees, rolling hills and river bluffs.

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

Welcome back pittsnurse! How many times you gonna change user names?

I've been Katiana for quite a while now. I was trying to avoid a troll. Also wanted to get away from the nurse thing, as I got a lot of requests for infor about jobs. I've only had two names, BTW.