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Okay I'm not saying everywhere else in the Midwest is bad. I'm saying if you take someone like that to a more typical Midwest place, such as...Fort Dodge, Iowa, or let's say Fargo, ND or hmm....Lafayette, IN...it's going to be a lot different than Chicago. I have lived in a few cities in the midwest that were under 100,000 people and I always laugh when people think that Chicago is typically Midwest.
I always laugh when people think that Chicago is typically Midwest.
Well, it doesnt feel solid west coast, nor does it feel overly eastern, and it sure doesnt feel southern. So Id say its fairly safe to say it feels rather midwestern.
Do you have anything more intelligent to say? No offense, but if you were to take someone from LA, put them in Chicago for a few days and then drive them to a place like Fort Dodge, Iowa, I guarantee you most would beg to go back to some place like Chicago and I've seen it happen first hand. I remember when I had to take my ex from a large city in Asia to a wedding in a small city in Iowa. The first thing she wanted to do was go back.
The fact of the matter is that Chicago is easily the lease midwestern place in the Midwest. Most people who think it's the same as a Des Moines, IA have not spent time in the real midwest. It is a good deal different.
Here's another one, because each region has cities that may not typify what people's typical idea of a region might be...take someone from Chicago, put them in LA for a few days, and then drive them to Stockton, CA...guaranteed they would want to go back to LA. What you say, applies to every region, not just the Midwest.
Well, it doesnt feel solid west coast, nor does it feel overly eastern, and it sure doesnt feel southern. So Id say its fairly safe to say it feels rather midwestern.
Well, it doesnt feel solid west coast, nor does it feel overly eastern, and it sure doesnt feel southern. So Id say its fairly safe to say it feels rather midwestern.
As someone else said - Midwest light. It has shades of midwest qualities in some areas, but it's not typically midwest on the whole at all. Take it from someone who's spent a lot of time in small and medium sized places all around the midwest.
Here's another one, because each region has cities that may not typify what people's typical idea of a region might be...take someone from Chicago, put them in LA for a few days, and then drive them to Stockton, CA...guaranteed they would want to go back to LA. What you say, applies to every region, not just the Midwest.
I never said Chicago was alone in this in a region. However, the point is that it's not "typically midwest" as people like to think it is.
I never said Chicago was alone in this in a region. However, the point is that it's not "typically midwest" as people like to think it is.
You should have said just this, and stuck to it. I agree with it, and I think most would. When you expounded, a whole mess of obvious personal biases sprung out and took your point well off course.
You should have said just this, and stuck to it. I agree with it, and I think most would. When you expounded, a whole mess of obvious personal biases sprung out and took your point well off course.
I don't agree that most people would agree with it. People assume because it's in the midwest, that it's stereotypically midwest. I've met countless people who have thought this. I met a girl 6 months ago who moved to Chicago who last lived in NYC and was from Miami originally. She told me when she got the job (and a good one) in Chicago, she took it but dreaded moving there because it was in the midwest..only to find out that it was nothing like she thought it would be like after spending a week there.
I don't agree that most people would agree with it. People assume because it's in the midwest, that it's stereotypically midwest. I've met countless people who have thought this. I met a girl 6 months ago who moved to Chicago who last lived in NYC and was from Miami originally. She told me when she got the job (and a good one) in Chicago, she took it but dreaded moving there because it was in the midwest..only to find out that it was nothing like she thought it would be like after spending a week there.
That's because people buy into stereotypes....that's actually pretty common (and provincial). That anyone would think an entire region is of one mind, doesn't reflect on the region, it reflects on the narrow-minded person.
Right, and you're only fostering those same misguided stereotypes if you then project them elsewhere.
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