I'm totally with you, JAM -- I am a Midwestern girl through and through!
Things I love about the Midwest:
- People are so friendly here. Of course it varies from place to place, but I can say that in almost every Midwestern city or town I visit, everyone is super friendly regardless of whether they know me or not.
- There's very little pretentiousness. Most people are very down to earth. People aren't trying to impress each other with their looks and money and status all the time.
- There's a real sense of community, which I have also witnessed in the South but not so much on the coasts. This may be due to the abundance of small towns where everybody knows everybody.
- Beautiful, beautiful scenery.
- We have the least annoying, most understandable accents -- which is why the majority of national newscasters have Midwestern accents.
- The variety in weather. We get four distinct seasons, and where else does it go from 40 below zero to 110 above within a span of six months?
And ditto Betarulz on the awesome thunderstorms, not being one of the more ignorant people from the coasts who asks questions like, "Where's Wisconsin? Is that by Montana?" and the big Greek systems which often have the strength of many Southern ones without the same amount of cut-throat-ness.
