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Old 12-22-2012, 08:10 AM
 
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Stuff can only bother you if you let it.
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Old 12-22-2012, 12:21 PM
 
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Stuff can only bother you if you let it.
Then you should learn to like the snow.
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Old 12-22-2012, 01:46 PM
 
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You could replace "Iowa" with ANY city in the country and that statement would be true. There are always huge rivalries between the downtowns and the suburban office markets. The only cities that don't have them are cities where the downtown is too far gone and depressed (which Des Moines is not) and the downtown doesn't have anymore fight left in it.
Every high school in the country has at least 1 huge rivialry.
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Old 12-22-2012, 02:37 PM
 
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Obviously it does. Just because you won't admit it doesn't mean everyone else can't see it.
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Old 12-23-2012, 10:41 AM
 
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Then you should learn to like the snow.
Um, no. Not the same thing. I'll never like it, but I don't LET it truly bother me.

Of course you wouldn't understand then difference. A person doesn't have to LIKE everything or everyone. But you can choose how they effect you.

I choose to ignore things/people that annoy me.

By your logic, you should just learn to like Des Moines and all the stuff about it you don't. Wait, that's everything!
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Old 12-23-2012, 02:35 PM
 
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You've stated before several times your strong dislike for snow & cold. You don't it bother but you mention it a lot. Maybe you are bored. Really no point to argue semantics here.

So you know...

I did learn to like chili when I was younger.

Yes, it is possible to learn to like things. lol.
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Old 12-23-2012, 07:08 PM
 
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For the record, I don't like snow or cold either. Not sure how anyone does.

It's ok to dislike the weather, but you have to like Iowa, lol.

That actually sums up the mentality in Iowa very well.
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Old 12-24-2012, 03:42 PM
 
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Old 12-24-2012, 04:45 PM
 
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Old 12-25-2012, 04:31 PM
 
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Yes, downtown Chicago and Schaumburg are in a definite rat-race.

Even if they were, it's not as noticed. It's like in Des Moines people choose sides (you can't like both), then you have these "downtown only" people who think they are better for avoiding WDM. It can get very frivolous, but that is how the culture of Iowa generally is.
What do you mean? There's a massive rivalry between the Chicago suburbs and downtown to get the jobs. The suburbs won out and grabbed hundreds of thousands of jobs from the city starting in the 1960's and peaking in the late 1970's. The city has started grabbing back a lot of those jobs, especially within the past 5 years or so, and the suburbs are screaming mad blaming the city for "robbing them". The city reminds them where they got the jobs in the first place.

Happens everywhere, especially where the suburbs and the city are both fairly attractive places and there's an even battle - like Des Moines and Chicago. Go to places like Youngstown or Detroit and it's a lot harder for the city center to battle for those jobs. Go to places like New York and it's a little harder for the suburbs to compete with Manhattan for the coveted high-paying white collar jobs.

It has nothing to do with Iowa at all, except it's a more heated battle since in most metro areas of 500-600K people the downtown doesn't have as much punch to land the big developments and large employment centers. Des Moines has an unusually high downtown employment base for a city of its size. Generally because of the white-coller makeup in the metro and having it be an insurance hub.
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