how bad did it suck? im considering it.

10/8/2006 9:48:53 PM

currently living in heartland holler

i lived in illinois for 3 months

been in kansas for going on 6 months

the people are very genuine and the beef, chicken and dairy products are fucking delicious

they seriously taste better than they did on the east coast

10/8/2006 11:16:04 PM

Where are you looking? I lived in St. Louis for three years...had a lot of fun. Good bars, great music scene, and very affordable. To people outside the city it is known as the backdoor to the east because it feels similar to industrial cities from the northeast.

10/8/2006 11:57:47 PM

NOT EVERYTHING IS FLAT IN KANSAS

10/9/2006 1:29:57 AM

I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS

10/9/2006 4:17:50 AM

lived in grand rapids, michigan. very depressing in the winter because you'd rarely see the sun once a week.

10/9/2006 6:41:36 AM

I lived in Kansas. Good beef, good bar scene in Lawrence, not much seasoning in the food (beef bbq as the exception), and you are a long way away if you want to see the mountains or beach.

10/9/2006 9:43:09 AM

I lived in Kansas City. Sucked ass. The steaks were good. That's about it.

[Edited on October 9, 2006 at 9:56 AM. Reason : .]

10/9/2006 9:55:55 AM

more along the lines of wisconsin or illinois , but this is telling so far.

[Edited on October 9, 2006 at 10:23 AM. Reason : job offer in madison, applied at places in chicago and michigan. i've lived in the NE before]

10/9/2006 10:05:42 AM

madison could be one of the most fun cities in the us.

10/9/2006 10:36:06 AM

good to hear, im leaning that way as it is.

[Edited on October 9, 2006 at 10:58 AM. Reason : though my poor chiuaua will have to take one for the team]

10/9/2006 10:57:50 AM

I'm from cleveland. I enjoyed it. Not everyone does.

10/9/2006 11:04:41 AM

Lived in Wichita, KS for about 6 years before coming here. As was stated earlier, the beef is awesome. I loved the storms. Weather goes to some extremes (easily hits 105-110 in summer and well below 0 in the winter). Learn to love the wind. One major thing that sucked was that it was a 3 hour drive to the next large city (OK City or KC)

[Edited on October 9, 2006 at 2:13 PM. Reason : .]

10/9/2006 2:11:11 PM

I live in Kansas right now and have been here for 2 years. I live about an hour west of Wichita in a town called Hutchinson. The people are nice, the weather is unpredictable, and there is not much to do compared to NC (beaches and mountains in NC, lakes are about as good as it gets here). I'm looking forward to getting back to NC one day, but Kansas is not bad. Traffic is never a problem and life is relatively unstressful overall. Its also a good place to raise a family.

The worst part about living here for me and my wife is that you have to fly back to the East Coast to see family which can get expensive. There is no "weekend trip home" here. You have to plan that shit and buy the flights which are costly out of a small airport like Wichita.

10/9/2006 2:57:48 PM

^ I'll agree with that

weekend trips are a thing of the past and flying home to the east coast gets expensive quick

but if you're looking at Chicago you have nothing to worry about- Chicago is one of my all time favorite places

10/9/2006 6:18:20 PM

I live in St. Louis now (originally from charlotte)...have been here for 3 years. Can't complain...its a great sports town with tons of bars...the weather is worse than NC and you cant drive 3 hours and be at a beach or the mountains....but other than that its a fun place to live..and Chicago is a drive away which is good also...

10/10/2006 3:11:35 PM

since when is st louis part of the midwest? I'm not too sure about kansas either.

10/10/2006 3:29:24 PM

since folks started calling colorado west

10/10/2006 3:48:44 PM

Quote :

"since when is st louis part of the midwest? I'm not too sure about kansas either."

Since the US expanded to the West Coast. Oklahoma, kansas, nebraska, missouri, illinois, and iowa are all part of the midwest. some even include SD and ND. I've heard people refer to Kentucky, ohio, and Michigan as the midwest, but most people I know don't consider those when referring to the midwest

10/10/2006 4:38:30 PM

Quote :

"I live in St. Louis now (originally from charlotte)...have been here for 3 years. Can't complain...its a great sports town with tons of bars...the weather is worse than NC and you cant drive 3 hours and be at a beach or the mountains....but other than that its a fun place to live..and Chicago is a drive away which is good also..."

This sums up St. Louis well. Great town, but bizarre extremes in weather. Lots to do, but I still love the ocean. (Just don't let anyone from STL know that you like Chicago)

10/10/2006 4:44:56 PM

^^that's funny, bc the midwest is actually michigan, ohio, illinois, etc....

10/11/2006 8:16:57 AM

as is Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc.

All I'm saying is that if you ask people living in those states if that is the midwest, they would say yes. They would also most likely (going off of my experience of living in KS, nothing official) say that Ohio is not part of the mid-west.

10/11/2006 9:03:38 AM

ill give you my definition since it is the thread. i agree there is the "actuall" midwest which is Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and generally the states above them (MI,WI though generally less so that the aforementioned). then you have the supposed midwest, which i still call the midwest, which includes places like missouri, iowa, and the like.

when i went on a plant trip the ppl from wisconsin told me those werent the midwest, but i dont think they are far enough over to constitute the plains like kansas. plus do you actually know anyone who uses the great plains as a regional description anymore? seems like your choices (some overlap) are:

West
South
East Coast
New England/NorthEast
Midwest
maybe SouthEast

which is why people around here call Colorado west and Kansas midwest

[Edited on October 11, 2006 at 11:04 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2006 11:01:18 AM

It isnt the midwest, but dont move the Texas, it is hotter than hell for 3 straight months(100 degrees), looks like a desert, and is completely flat. Only positive is it that housing prices are good and Dallas/Fort Worth area has alot of different industries.

I have been here for like 6 and a half months, for my job(staying in a hotel), thought about moving here but I dont think i could stand three months of hell. Also, a "cold front" here is when the high is 70. Although, since I was here the last part of "winter" last year, they did get a trace of snow, and everything shut down even though it just stuck to the shrubs.

[Edited on October 14, 2006 at 9:09 PM. Reason : w]

10/14/2006 9:09:12 PM

currently in bloomington, indiana.

summers, as far as temperature/humidity, feel just like nc. winters are pretty dismal and gray, but it's kind of nice to get more than one big snow per year. storms can be pretty vicious: lightning every 3-4 seconds, each bolt sounding like a gunshot. biggest upside for me is the laid back atmosphere and beautiful natural spaces; both are pretty hard to come by in the triangle these days.

oh yeah, and being like an hour away from colts/pacers games is pretty nice too.

10/14/2006 10:57:38 PM

I spent almost half a year in Indianapolis and I never want to go back.

June Gloom sucks.

10/15/2006 1:09:19 AM

I like that I live in the same time zone as Pittsburg & Philadelphia & Boston & Miami, that its near the atlantic ocean, and that at new years I can celebrate at the same time as everyone in New York, Disney world, & nations capital, and the same time that most of my friends/family/people I know are.

10/15/2006 9:02:40 AM

there could be lots of hotties of scandinavian descent. oh ya you betcha.

10/15/2006 4:50:32 PM

Quote :

"I lived in Kansas City. Sucked ass"

visited there in college neat town but it shuts down at 9:30... DEAD

10/15/2006 5:20:30 PM

Quote :

"madison could be one of the most fun cities in the us."

i live there...lots of great things to say about it but its not very big

10/15/2006 8:13:52 PM

living in FL for the past few years makes me worry about the cold, besides that madison seemed enjoyable when i visited.

10/16/2006 1:46:21 PM

I grew up in Milwaukee. Pretty fun town. Good music and bar scene if you can get past how cold it is. The downtown is really being built up with a lot of cool areas to live in.

10/16/2006 3:54:46 PM

BTW, the midwest is technically defined as in this map:


Basically the States that made up the old Northwest Territory. I prefer the midwest to the southeast but have
no plans of moving back to either anytime soon.

[Edited on October 16, 2006 at 4:10 PM. Reason : x]

10/16/2006 4:09:19 PM

Just watch out for:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/jesuscamp/

[Edited on October 22, 2006 at 2:22 PM. Reason : http]

10/22/2006 2:21:11 PM

the midwest rocks the party

10/27/2006 6:45:27 PM

Minneapolis is dope, if you can handle the winters

10/27/2006 10:16:59 PM

been living in chicago for 2 years now going on 3. a BLAST!!! you will not be disappointed - so much to do

10/30/2006 9:07:53 PM