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I never met anybody who actually hated the midwest, this post is hilarious. The only negative I heard heard about the Midwest is that the landscape is flat and boring. Almost everyone I ever met loves Chicago and thinks its one of the best cities in the country, as for Detroit, St Louis, Cleveland I don't think anybody hates them.. they are just not big tourist attraction cities.
The Midwest gets a lot of hate due to so much of it being full of ghost towns and significantly emptied out cities, all of which serve as reminders of a time when the US was an industrial and middle class power house.
The Midwest gets a lot of hate due to so much of it being full of ghost towns and significantly emptied out cities, all of which serve as reminders of a time when the US was an industrial and middle class power house.
Bad weather and crime don't help.
Are you talking about the plains states? I have never seen a true ghost town in Michigan. Most of our small towns are nicer than what I've seen out west or down south. Same with Wisconsin, Indiana, etc. We probably take a back seat when it comes to small towns in New England or elsewhere in the northeast, but that's about it.
The Midwest gets a lot of hate due to so much of it being full of ghost towns and significantly emptied out cities, all of which serve as reminders of a time when the US was an industrial and middle class power house.
Bad weather and crime don't help.
What a goofy post!
Ghost towns? Parts of some cities (ie Detroit) have abandoned houses, but youre overexaggerating here, bud.
Crime? In some cities, yes. Its nothing different than anywhere else in the nation.
Are you talking about the plains states? I have never seen a true ghost town in Michigan. Most of our small towns are nicer than what I've seen out west or down south. Same with Wisconsin, Indiana, etc. We probably take a back seat when it comes to small towns in New England or elsewhere in the northeast, but that's about it.
They are making incendiary comments about Midwestern cities to try and gode people into getting pissed off. Definitely not referring to actual ghost towns.
Well, neither is Duluth. Or Dubuque. Or the entirety of the Driftless. Or the Iron Range, or Black Hills or vast areas of the northwoods. But it's certainly much flatter than the Mountain West, for starters. Not to mention the Appalacians.
SE Ohio is in the midwest. But it is also Appalachian. It is also hilly. Now I am confused.
The rude comments I've noticed are from west or east coast snob types. The ones that think or wish they were something and see themselves higher in status by bragging about "the coast". These are also the types that speak of the Midwest as "flyover country".
From an article and map entitled Rank Order of States (continental 48) by Percentage of Area in Flattest Category, it's interesting that while Nebraska is the 20th flattest state, California is 24th. Missouri is in 21st place, Michigan 22nd flattest, and Wisconsin, 25th. Then there is New Jersey in 14th place, Maryland, 18th and Delaware is 6th. Out of the top 5 flattest states, 3 of them are in the south. Even the fair haired child, Colorado (ranked 31st), has some flatter areas of the state.
Michigan does have some nice small towns, they tend to look more northeastern, than southern or Midwestern. I see nothing wrong with what Michigan83 said. Reference Ohio, it would depend what part of the state they live in as to whether they identify more with the Midwest or the east. Just like the Panhandle of western Nebraska tends to identify more with Wyoming than eastern Nebraska.
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