Possible move to the Pittsburgh area

[Katarina Witt]

I agree about the climate, and the more reserved nature of the people. I do not, however, agree that midwesterners are somehow less "real" or "down to earth" than Pittsburghers and New Englanders.

I am a native Pittsburgher, though not a "full-blooded" native as my mom was from Wisconsin. In any event, of course I don't see the area in the eyes of a transplant, but the same things that people say about Pittsburgh (people hang out a lot with their families, aren't looking to widen their circle of friends b/c they have lived there all their lives, etc) are also said about the midwest. There is a post on another Pittsburgh thread that talks of grown adults still going to Mom's for Sunday dinner. My DD went to college in Minnesota, and said that was often the case there, as well.

There are cultural differences everywhere in the US, but I don't think you can say any one group of people from a certain area area more or less "real".

[WILWRadio]

Katiana, I've lived here in the Midwest long enough to know. The most shallow people I've ever met have been in the Midwest. This is not to say that everyone out here is shallow but in terms of a % of the general public there is a greater number of plastic people in this region than the Northeast or New England.

[creepsinc]

I love that people come to Pittsburgh and see the wonderful twisting, turning streets and complain that there's "no grid" here. I love it. It takes all kinds.

It amuses me that some people hate this city so much. It makes me love it even more.