i'm looking for something TOTALLY different from the east coast crunch i'm used to. I spent some time living in Florida, and i love visiting florida, but i really am a Jersey girl at heart, so the laid back life just isn't for me full time. I just recently moved back to Jersey from Boston, and living in a city isn't for me either- i'm a 'burbs girl all the way, growing up just outside of Princeton, NJ, and I simply adore being 30 minutes from the Jersey shore (one of my favorite things EVER- there's no where else in the world like a Jersey boardwalk, for peoplewatching, cheap entertainment, ocean air, sun, music, whatever...), 45 from Philly, and 45 from NY
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heh, i LOVED Boston, the city, but Massachusetts itself.. the rest of the state...blows big hairy monkey balls, in my book ('scuse the phrase), i was just aggravated, because based on what i'd seem, for such a 'liberal' state, massachusetts residents took a very cookie cutter, narrow view of life. It was ok to have these progressive laws on the books, and for OTHER people to lead "out there" lifestyles, just as long as it didn't bother all the other drones themselves. Jersey, from a legal standpoint, is a slightly more conservative state, but the people on the whole are more accepting and open to new ideas and change, most notably, than massachusetts natives it seems.
I should also emphasize that Kansas is NOT flat. People who say it is obviously did not grow up in the Flint Hills, like i did. The flint hills is where the national tall grass prairie preserve is located.
I don't know why I remember, but Kansas has a flatness quotient of .987, wheras a pancake has a flatness quotient of .983 - so KS is technically flatter than a pancake. (Flatness quotient is a phrase I made up - I don't remember the actual term, but the numbers are correct.)
Mind you, the statistics take into account western KS, which has far more territory than the not so flat Easter KS.
yes, i, like all native kansans, know the stats. :)
i just don't think that statistic paints an accurate portrait of the diversity found within the state because the flint hills is much different than western ks...even much different than lawrence and the surrounding countryside.
That's pretty much what i'm looking for... i want to be someplace where there's nothing to see for miles but grass & sky, where I could drive for hours without seeing a turnpike or major highway, and the air smells of nothing but summer or fresh rain.
I've noticed that people on the coasts often don't seem to understand that Kansans don't just live in the fields with the wheat and cows. Like vandalin said below, Kansas City is a city like many others, except I would say the people are much friendlier and laid-back. It sounds to me like you have a pretty romantic notion of what it's like out in Kansas, and I don't want you to be disappointed when it's not everything you thought it would be. That begin said, I'm sure you could find a very empty place, but I doubt it would be 100% void of all signs of human life
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i do suppose there's that romanticised notion, you're right... but my ultimate point is... i haven't been off the coast. i'm freaking 21, and i've had Jersey up my ass my whole life. I tried getting out, but only traveled between Boston and Florida. still east coast mentality, still every bit as cluttered (except, i do know of a small part in florida where there's LITERALLY a family that shares a full set of teeth between them.) I'm still a Jersey girl at heart, in all its gritty, sleezy glory, but i need more. there's... a whole freaking country for me to see, goddammit, it's time.
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i moved to dc after college to work for a nonprofit that i got a job with!
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I don't know why I remember, but Kansas has a flatness quotient of .987, wheras a pancake has a flatness quotient of .983 - so KS is technically flatter than a pancake. (Flatness quotient is a phrase I made up - I don't remember the actual term, but the numbers are correct.)
Mind you, the statistics take into account western KS, which has far more territory than the not so flat Easter KS.
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Yeah. Easter KS. Where all the big heads sculptures are.
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i just don't think that statistic paints an accurate portrait of the diversity found within the state because the flint hills is much different than western ks...even much different than lawrence and the surrounding countryside.
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I've noticed that people on the coasts often don't seem to understand that Kansans don't just live in the fields with the wheat and cows. Like vandalin said below, Kansas City is a city like many others, except I would say the people are much friendlier and laid-back. It sounds to me like you have a pretty romantic notion of what it's like out in Kansas, and I don't want you to be disappointed when it's not everything you thought it would be. That begin said, I'm sure you could find a very empty place, but I doubt it would be 100% void of all signs of human life ( ... )
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I'm still a Jersey girl at heart, in all its gritty, sleezy glory, but i need more. there's... a whole freaking country for me to see, goddammit, it's time.
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