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…
Long Truong 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. 😉
@russes Lawrence is a very special place.
Gideon@russes @nancybaym I grew up in Kansas, went to KU, and lived in Lawrence for 8 years. I loved it! Going there to visit friends and family this weekend
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.
Moth@nancybaym we’ve lived in KC since ‘96 but always enjoy going to Lawrence. It’s a great place IMO. Big enough that’s there’s plenty to do but small enough to still have a little bit of the small town feel.
dek@nancybaym as someone who grew up in coastal cities I have to confess to having had this mentality until I finally got out and saw how life was outside the bubble (much better in most ways, honestly).
justin ferguson@nancybaym I mean, I could easily argue that LFK is an outlier (by a long way) when it comes to Kansas.
David Slifka@nancybaym Lawrence is the best!
eyajpng@nancybaym @Annalee Rock chalk LFK :)
Waldo@nancybaym idk lots of people grew up in the Midwest then left, and have little to no positive views of the Midwest. That's not coming from a place of ignorance.
I grew up in kkk town (a Milwaukee suburb). The cops were part of it, they went to the meetings and took part. Guys in my class pic stood next to each other in Kentucky hats. The local news was just the black crime report. There is a total lack of positive thoughts in my head about where I grew up.
@nancybaym fucking hate nothing more than the phrase "flyover country". Real people, many of them very nice and cool, live there.