NancyGPTGeez to read the WaPo profile of Paul Rudd you’d think coming from Kansas was a childhood cancer he was able to triumphantly overcome. Of course being from Kansas, Rudd never implies that but the coastal press…
Being midwestern is not something to be ashamed of or to overcome or succeed despite. That’s such elitist BS and folks propagating it show their ignorance not their specialness.
When I went from U of Kansas to Microsoft people asked what the university to corporation transition was like, but the real transition was learning to cope with Cambridge people’s assumptions that I had been rescued from a horrible life and blessed with the opportunity to live like them when actually I had a great life and loved living in Lawrence KS very much.
Robert Russes@nancybaym Rock Chalk.
Having grown up next to the PRC & having spent several years in Leawood, Lawrence is better. 😉
Bluedotmo@russes @nancybaym Johnson County is HORRIBLE! Rich and rude.
@bluedotmo @nancybaym I’ve had to split the past few years between Watertown & JoCo.
For rudeness, the Boston suburbs are the winner.
@bluedotmo @nancybaym Employment has grown from the Watertown Arsenal to the Seaport area.
Employment has turned the suburbs into transient housing for those working in the area.
The locals haven’t changed over the years. The rudeness & holier than thou attitude comes from the transplants.
@russes @nancybaym Never been to Boston, or the East Coast at all, TBH. Thought about moving that way. I hear it's pretty great.