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ZooCougar said:
What you don't want to live in a place that has one bar that serves pickled eggs and cheese curds?
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While that stuff doesn't appeal to me, neither does fried bologna and onions, beef on weck, and now increasingly I'm sick of buffalo wings. So, I've put up with a lot already. Honestly, it was the utter lack of living that depressed most in that movie.
 
August_West said:
Des Moines is cooler than Hartford. Heresy, I know, but I'll call a spade a spade. Hartford really, really sucks right now and has for the last decade. New Haven has it all over Hartford right now and this is coming from someone who grew up in the Farmington Valley. It's a shame what Hartford has become.
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Hartford makes Kansas City seem like Disney World.
 
MattMang23 said:
You just described the Hartford area. Iowa sounds nice, but I'll keep megalopolis. I'd rather not have to rely on Des Moines for entertainment purposes when I can live here, be just as miserable, and drive to NY, Boston, the ocean, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington all within 5.5 hours.

Oh and that doesn't mention Canada. Quebec, Montreal, and Niagara Falls are all within 6-7 hours.
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Way to sell it matt.
 
tazclone said:
ISU fans hate the hoks and hate the Jayhawks. I don't think you will find anyone in iowa with good things to say about Lawrence.

Ames is a nice small town and has City leaders that want to keep it that way. Shopping and entertainment are in Des Moines which is 20 min away. I would guess people from the East Coast would find Ames boring. Des moines not so much

Nebraska fans are nice hawkeye fans are asses, jayhawk fns are pompous asses.
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I will take Jayhawk fans over Mizzou fans. Living in KC I get exposed to both.
 
I had family that lived in Tennessee (now in NC). I remember being asked if I wanted to go and get ice cream once with them. We drove, about an hour and a half to the nearest store. The only thing that sucked worse than the drive was the ice cream.
 
upstater said:
Des Moines isn't bad, but I have to admit that once when I came to Drake U., I was picked up by a local and everyone was really excited about the opening of Krispy Kreme.
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That was a big moment in the North East too, iirc. Lasted about six months til people realized those things take decades off your life.
 
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upstater said:
While that stuff doesn't appeal to me, neither does fried bologna and onions, beef on weck, and now increasingly I'm sick of buffalo wings. So, I've put up with a lot already. Honestly, it was the utter lack of living that depressed most in that movie.
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The Twin Brothers in Nebraska are really a pretty accurate stereotype.
 
August_West said:
Des Moines is cooler than Hartford. Heresy, I know, but I'll call a spade a spade. Hartford really, really sucks right now and has for the last decade. New Haven has it all over Hartford right now and this is coming from someone who grew up in the Farmington Valley. It's a shame what Hartford has become.
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Completely agree. But the description little city with enough to do generally applies.
 
MattMang23 said:
You just described the Hartford area. Iowa sounds nice, but I'll keep megalopolis. I'd rather not have to rely on Des Moines for entertainment purposes when I can live here, be just as miserable, and drive to NY, Boston, the ocean, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington all within 5.5 hours.

Oh and that doesn't mention Canada. Quebec, Montreal, and Niagara Falls are all within 6-7 hours.
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I can be to Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas City, St Loius Madison, Omaha in less than 5 hours? What's your point? I can fly round trip to Denver for $160, Pheonix for $200 and San Antonio for $300. And get there their quicker than you can get to Montreal. What's your point?
 
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ZooCougar said:
Once you get east of Livingston, MT the whole plains region is like that until you hit Minneapolis or Kansas City.
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I looked up the town where they filmed the movie, it's called Plainview, Nebraska. How imaginative. But an article in the local newspaper about the movie had this comment at the bottom:
David Ingram • 24 days ago
I grew up in Plainview, glad they have something else to talk about besides their neighbor.

I once threw a party in Ann Arbor, and mostly midwesterners were invited (from Indiana and Wisky). They showed up 10 minutes early while my girlfriend was still showering and while I was on an ice run to the local package store. As I pulled up, not only were 15 of them early, they were standing in LINE!!
 
ZooCougar said:
So we have a few UConn fans over there being incredibly cordial and the Iowa State people began complaining that this behavior is kind of boring.

So I start a thread congratulating them on making the sweet 16 and then I posted some smack that was so over the top that you would have to be pretty dumb to not see it was tongue in cheek.

I remarked on how they would be lucky if we didn't break Cy's other arm, and that I hope that they didn't waste 1/5th of their net worth on air travel and tickets because they would be headed back to Iowa empty handed and that they should expect two more months of winter/polar vortices and the best ice fishing for Walleye on earth...

I guess Iowans don't have much of a sense of humor.

Times like this make me appreciate the lack of an itchy trigger finger over here when it comes to bans..
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What are you a Providence fan? That is the type of behavior I expect from Sean or FriarJ but come on, grow up
 
MattMang23 said:
You just described the Hartford area. Iowa sounds nice, but I'll keep megalopolis. I'd rather not have to rely on Des Moines for entertainment purposes when I can live here, be just as miserable, and drive to NY, Boston, the ocean, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington all within 5.5 hours.

Oh and that doesn't mention Canada. Quebec, Montreal, and Niagara Falls are all within 6-7 hours.
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I do think it is funny that you don't mention anything good about the place you live except it is within 5 hours of other areas.
 
tazclone said:
I can be to Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas City, St Loius Madison, Omaha in less than 5 hours? What's your point? I can fly round trip to Denver for $160, Pheonix for $200 and San Antonio for $300. And get there their quicker than you can get to Montreal. What's your point?
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You can get to Omaha and St Loius Madison in less then 5 hours? Sorry we stand corrected - sign us up- I'm in!!!
 
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tazclone said:
I can be to Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas City, St Loius Madison, Omaha in less than 5 hours? What's your point? I can fly round trip to Denver for $160, Pheonix for $200 and San Antonio for $300. And get there their quicker than you can get to Montreal. What's your point?
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My point is I live next door to NYC. I'll take NYC over all the places you named combined.
 
MattMang23 said:
Honesty. Hartford may be my city and I like living in this general region- for the most part- but the city still sucks and still makes me miserable. It's just that our surrounding area makes theirs look like Siberia.
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A couple weeks ago I drove the family down to Conn., and we listened to a young adult book on tape called "The Witch of Blackbird Pond." It was cool because it was a 7 hour tape and we were almost finished when we decided to pull over and see Old Wethersfield on the way down to New Haven. Looked very nice. Anyone live there? Stopped for a soda at the pizza shop, but decided to make straight for Pepe's in New Haven (please, no pizza tangent!!!). Conn. really is for small town living.
 
tazclone said:
I do think it is funny that you don't mention anything good about the place you live except it is within 5 hours of other areas.
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Because that's all Connecticut is good for. This place sucks. But it's close to good places.
 
upstater said:
A couple weeks ago I drove the family down to Conn., and we listened to a young adult book on tape called "The Witch of Blackbird Pond." It was cool because it was a 7 hour tape and we were almost finished when we decided to pull over and see Old Wethersfield on the way down to New Haven. Looked very nice. Anyone live there? Stopped for a soda at the pizza shop, but decided to make straight for Pepe's in New Haven (please, no pizza tangent!!!). Conn. really is for small town living.
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Funny you should mention that. I live around the corner from Old Wethersfield. You should try Aroma Bistro next time you're in the area. You just missed it. It's nextdoor to Village Pizza.
 
Isn't Iowa an acronym for "Idiots Out Wandering Around?" They left out "on trailers" just because Iowaot was too hard to pronounce.
 
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I never understood harsh opinions of where others live. 75% of the time it is out of their control ... and the other 25% just brag about where they live because they couldn't move away even if they wanted to.

- I can't change where I was born or grew up.
- I chose my college because they offered the program I wanted to get a degree in.
- I choose to live within a 15 minute drive to where I am happily employed.

You could find something you like or dislike about any region in the country ... what's the big deal ...
 
upstater said:
A couple weeks ago I drove the family down to Conn., and we listened to a young adult book on tape called "The Witch of Blackbird Pond." It was cool because it was a 7 hour tape and we were almost finished when we decided to pull over and see Old Wethersfield on the way down to New Haven. Looked very nice. Anyone live there? Stopped for a soda at the pizza shop, but decided to make straight for Pepe's in New Haven (please, no pizza tangent!!!). Conn. really is for small town living.
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That book is set in Old Wethersfield I think. Great area to stroll around, my ancient ancestors on my mom's side are under the first row of gravestones in back of the Congregational Church.
 
MattMang23 said:
I like the ocean and being within an hour of NYC and Boston. But thank you.
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You sure you're within an hour of NYC and Boston? Or do you have a 737 in your driveway ... Mr. Travolta ... :p
 
MattMang23 said:
Because that's all Connecticut is good for. This place sucks. But it's close to good places.
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Disagree. There's crappy places to live in CT and really nice places too. I loved growing up in southern CT.

Then I wised up after college and moved to Boston, but still ;)
 
Kgun7 said:
You sure you're within an hour of NYC and Boston? Or do you have a 737 in your driveway ... Mr. Travolta ... :p
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Lol. I embellished. But I live about 1.5 hrs. No exaggeration.
 
Kgun7 said:
I never understood harsh opinions of where others live. 75% of the time it is out of their control ... and the other 25% just brag about where they live because they couldn't move away even if they wanted to.

- I can't change where I was born or grew up.
- I chose my college because they offered the program I wanted to get a degree in.
- I choose to live within a 15 minute drive to where I am happily employed.

You could find something you like or dislike about any region in the country ... what's the big deal ...
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Yeah. Living in San Diego, I totally get why someone would like Iowa or Hartford.

People mistakenly believe its sunny and blue skies every day here. It's not.

We're lucky to get 300 days a year like that.
 
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