The Midwest is the most horrible area of America.

[chequita guevara]

I second Ming.

[SlowwHand]

Asher....

[Ming]

Originally posted by H Tower
and what about people from the south?

Overall... nice people. They just talk a little slow

[Arrian]

Sloww,

Boston? You're not missing a whole heckuva lot. IMO, of course. Then again, I'm not big on cities. Even NY.

-Arrian

[GePap]

The Midwest has a sort of bland charm: like a big quilt, boring but warm.

For people form the more frantic East, it is somewhat maddening. As for the Far West Coast...crazy hippies.

[monolith94]

I go to Grinnell College. the worst part is, I feel like I'm stranded here - I don't even know how successful I would be in transferring.

My main complaint, I guess, is against midwestern BOSSES. They don't have ANY communication with you whatsoever. On the surface, they appear to be friendly, but what they really think of you is a mystery until it's too late.

We're selfish, greedy jerks? Perhaps on the surface we may appear that way, but when you've made a friend in an Easterner you've made a friend for life. I'd take a bullet for my friends, and I'd expect the same from them. My tendency is to think that midwesterners make good aquaitances, but I wouldn't want to make one my best friend - I don't even know if I could. new Englanders can make poor aquaintances but when you've broken through with one, you've found a really good friend.
this god damn college... am I going to be stuck at it for another three years???

[SlowwHand]

The Boston area. I like historical sites.

[monolith94]

exactly, gepap!

[Nubclear]

Re: The Midwest is the most horrible area of America.

Originally posted by monolith94
Why is it? Is it there complete lack of personality? Is it the way they can look at you in the face and smile, while hating you at the same time? Is it the way they crush individuality? Is it their complete lack of a culture?

Perhaps it's just their underlying distrust of outsiders, like me.
I hate them soooo much.
I tried to make this relationship work out but I'm seriously considering transferring to another university - any university other than this one.

I love the land, hate the people. These people don't deserve to live on this land - we should give it back to the Native Americans. After all, the majority of the few midwesterners I DO respect are Native Americans...

god dammit! They have no sense of reality either... GAR!

I desperately wish I could get out of here

[mactbone]

Pffft, trolling midwesterners.

We're too busy working our asses off to care

You obviously haven't met many people from the younger generation - my age ~20. We're generally more like most americans. As evidence for that I can safely say that even though most of us are more conservative than the average young adult we still get along fine with the enormous international population at Purdue. Only problem is with foreign TAs... "Yes no people!"

[Drake Tungsten]

I love the land, hate the people.

This is one ass backwards statement. The land out here is desperately boring; the people are the ones who make life worth living...

[KrazyHorse]

I've driven through the Midwest. I had this desperate feeling every time we stopped that for some reason or another we'd get stuck there.

I can decisively state that both the land and the people are desperately boring.

[Arrian]

Says a Canadian.

-Arrian

[KrazyHorse]

Go to Montreal and tell me how boring you find it.

[Drake Tungsten]

Go to Montreal and tell me how boring you find it.

Montreal may not be boring, but it's still full of French people. I'll take boring over French anyday of the week...