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Admit it - even people living in the most cosmopolitan cities live normal, boring lives for the most part. I mean, come on...what are you doing right now? You're not at a museum, you're on city-data! When I lived in the metro, I didn't go out to nightclubs every night and festivals every day - I just hung out and did normal, boring stuff like everyone else in the country. The "fancy" stuff was a once-and-awhile treat. That's how it is for most residents.
Ummmm 619/San Diego all the way! The ocean is beautiful!
palm trees galore
unless you like tipping cows dont move to the midwest haha (j/k ...but yea ya know what i mean, its not really fun therre lol)
Obviously, you have never been to the Midwest before. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, even Iowa are all beautiful in their own ways. Sure, we don't have mountains but we still have three of the largest FRESHWATER lakes in the world, beaches, sand dunes, big rolling hills, beautiful rivers, etc. Plus, our small towns could possibly the most beautiful in the country. Take a look at Chicago's suburbs' picture thread. If Chicago was so boring, there wouldn't be over 9,000,000 people calling it's metro home. (which extends into three states)
San Diego is quite a bit older than Chicago having been founded on July 16, 1769. Chicago came along 60 yrs later in 1830.
Many people don't realize how old many cities are in California [at the same time as the Revolutionary War]. Its just that the cities in California didn't really get developed until the 1900's [except San Francisco].
Right, San Diego was established earlier, but it really didn't have any people for decades.
Chicago had grown very quickly by 1880 to well over 500,000 people, while San Diego had just broken the 2,000 mark.
I did live in the region for 15 years, you know. Both Milwaukee and Chicago. And for many young adults (and honestly, even older adults), that is the culture. Pretty buildings don't change that. And the presence of "high culture" doesn't mean that utilizing it is an everyday occurance.
That's very much the culture of young adults in Manhattan, too: sitting around and drinking. At some dive or bar that sucks.
Anyways, it's worth noting that when I lived in Chicago, I did go out every night and party and raves, clubs, warehouse parties or wherever else music was being played. In Manhattan I worked from dusk till dawn and was lucky if nightlife consisted of a shower, and here in LA I'm too tired to consider anything once I get out of my car.
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I never said the midwestern culture was a bad thing, though. Just that it's not for everyone. Someone coming from another region could be rubbed the wrong way by it.
That wasn't meant to be a "diss" or whatever. Just an observation.
It is a diss in a sense, because the vast majority of people in the midwest would be surprised that people thought they lived on farms. Most live in suburbs built on farms that existed two hundred years ago. Most have children who live in college towns and never intend to return... And won't. They don't think of themselves as rural people in any more of a sense than those who live in suburbs anywhere else in the United States. Are there some rural people? Yes. And yet, take a trip anywhere a little easterly in California or outside New York City and you immediately hit Rural Woods Central. This is pretty much the same pattern everywhere, except for Los Angeles which is nothing but suburbs and long stretches of freeways.
Admit it - even people living in the most cosmopolitan cities live normal, boring lives for the most part. I mean, come on...what are you doing right now? You're not at a museum, you're on city-data! When I lived in the metro, I didn't go out to nightclubs every night and festivals every day - I just hung out and did normal, boring stuff like everyone else in the country. The "fancy" stuff was a once-and-awhile treat. That's how it is for most residents.[/quote]
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Obviously, you have never been to the Midwest before. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, even Iowa are all beautiful in their own ways. Sure, we don't have mountains but we still have three of the largest FRESHWATER lakes in the world, beaches, sand dunes, big rolling hills, beautiful rivers, etc. Plus, our small towns could possibly the most beautiful in the country. Take a look at Chicago's suburbs' picture thread. If Chicago was so boring, there wouldn't be over 9,000,000 people calling it's metro home. (which extends into three states)
