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Old 06-29-2009, 04:11 AM
 
Location: Lynchburg, VA
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It's simple for me: the midwest is devoid of mountains. Most of the rivers are muddy and dirty looking outside of the Ozarks and a few other isolated areas. The great lakes are nice, but again the topography doesn't compare to the rest of the country. That being said, I do like the people since I graduated in Gower MO!

 
Old 06-29-2009, 04:46 AM
 
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Agree with the river. The Mississippi river in Minneapolis (especially the section across the U of M)is very dirty. The Chicago river doesn't not look pleasant either, except in photos. Smaller cities in Midwest don't have as many jobs as small cities in California or the Northeast. In Midwest there is a big distinction between cities and small towns. Most states have a large land area, but only one or two big cities and the rest are very isolated therefore attract less jobs. The big cities are not close to the sea or the mountains (except Chicago and Milwaukee are close to Lake Michigan). The weather is the harshest here except maybe Alaska, hence the worst road conditions, full of potholes even on highways and not well lit. Most housing and buildings in cities look as grey and crappy as the old Northeast cities, but with less density and don't provide as many amenities. Lots of Industrial wastelands in cities are identified as having historic value and have to be preserved but in fact look ugly as hell. Living costs and job options fall short compared to rising Texas cities and the Sunbelt area in general.

Generally speaking, most cities in the Northeast are old and grey looking but they are dense and walkable, have superb rail transit, a lot more to offer. They have really beautiful historic buildings, with longer history, but better maintained and better looking than some warehouse or industrial wasteland. They are also clustered together, forming a very urban region. Cities in the South and West are newer and more colorful and more pleasant looking. California is uniformly dense, is the largest job market and the largest retail market as well. The cities in Pacific Northwest have developd well (Both Seattle and Portland are considered examples of what a city should be). The South are also developing all the amenities fast according to their growth. The largest cities in the South already surpassed most Midwest cities in terms of retail, transportation and art options. On the contrary, most Midwest cities are anti-development and backwards. And everywhere else in the country have better weather (except the Dakotas and Montana, of course, but these states don't actually have any reputation because most people only visit there and know very little about them). I guess that's why Midwest (except Chicago) does not get a good reputation.

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It's simple for me: the midwest is devoid of mountains. Most of the rivers are muddy and dirty looking outside of the Ozarks and a few other isolated areas. The great lakes are nice, but again the topography doesn't compare to the rest of the country. That being said, I do like the people since I graduated in Gower MO!

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Old 06-29-2009, 09:40 AM
 
Location: St. Louis, MO
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And to me, I don't find Columbus and Cleveland that alike. Columbus is pretty midwestern in it's look and charm. Architecturally, Cleveland has an east coast/mid-atlantic feel.
Cleveland does NOT have an east coast or Mid-Atlantic feel...absolutely nothing like the east coast. It feels far more like Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Chicago than New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. I agree it doesn't feel all like Columbus, but only because it is a Great Lakes city. And it doesn't feel that different from Columbus either.
 
Old 06-29-2009, 09:42 AM
 
Location: St. Louis, MO
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It's simple for me: the midwest is devoid of mountains. Most of the rivers are muddy and dirty looking outside of the Ozarks and a few other isolated areas. The great lakes are nice, but again the topography doesn't compare to the rest of the country. That being said, I do like the people since I graduated in Gower MO!
Have to disagree here. The unglaciated part of the Midwest (i.e. The Porcupine Mountains, Northwestern Illinois, Southwestern Wisconsin, Northeastern Iowa, Southeastern Minnesota, the Missouri Ozarks, and the Shawnee Forest of Southern Illinois/Illinois Ozarks) are quite hilly to mountainous. Not to mention some of the river bluffs along the Mississippi and Missouri can be mountainous too.
 
Old 06-29-2009, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Southern Minnesota
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Also, don't forget the black hills in South Dakota.
 
Old 06-29-2009, 11:29 AM
 
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It's simple for me: the midwest is devoid of mountains. Most of the rivers are muddy and dirty looking outside of the Ozarks and a few other isolated areas. The great lakes are nice, but again the topography doesn't compare to the rest of the country. That being said, I do like the people since I graduated in Gower MO!
I disagree. Everything you said is pretty dependent on where you are in the region. The Metroparks in Ohio (aka the Valley), rolling Appalachian hills in South east Ohio. There are so many beautiful parts of Michigan I don't even know where to begin.... I don't know, my feelings are most people haven't been to most of the midwest, only isolated areas where they get their impressions from. That OR they drove through a region and assumed to much. Northeast Ohio in general is pretty hilly as well..

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Cleveland does NOT have an east coast or Mid-Atlantic feel...absolutely nothing like the east coast. It feels far more like Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Chicago than New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. I agree it doesn't feel all like Columbus, but only because it is a Great Lakes city. And it doesn't feel that different from Columbus either.
Well I am entitled to my own opinion, and having lived in Washington DC and NYC for some extended time, I find more similarities to those areas then say anywhere in the midwest outside of Chicago or Detroit. Even the commercial architecture boom was similar to NYC and Chicago in design an layout of the region. I guess my nostalgia is that of cities like Shaker Heights, Cleveland Heights, and Lakewood - all inner ring suburbs of Cleveland.
http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.com/...fghistory.html

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Old 06-29-2009, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Southwest Suburbs
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The midwest is great. Lots of nice people. I don't like the cold weather there and I think many areas are too conservative for my liking. Otherwise I would definently consider moving there.
I think that is one of the reason why Midwest get a reputation of being boring, because of places like Indiana(conservative country) and the whole cornfield thing that I think is not a good look for the Midwest.
 
Old 06-29-2009, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Englewood, Near Eastside Indy
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I think that is one of the reason why Midwest get a reputation of being boring, because of places like Indiana(conservative country) and the whole cornfield thing that I think is not a good look for the Midwest.
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota............. they ALL have rural farmland, not just Indiana.
 
Old 06-29-2009, 02:44 PM
 
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It's just another misconception in a long line of misconceptions...people with little or no information about the Midwest get an image of it in their little minds, and the only way to squash that image is personal experience.
 
Old 06-29-2009, 04:20 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota............. they ALL have rural farmland, not just Indiana.
We don't have nearly the cornfields in Michigan people picture though.
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