Raised in a Small Town, Grew Up in the City

[asmallsmackerel]

After looking over a couple of entries on my f-list that were the "You Know You're From (insert state here) When..." meme, I decided to do one myself! I have plenty of time to kill anyway. Though, like some people have chosen, I'm just going to list the ones that I know/apply to me instead of pasting them all and bolding. STOLEN FROM A BUNCH OF

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[cerrad]

25,000 does seem sizeable. From the time I moved from Michigan to Illinois up to when I left for college, I lived in a town of 500.

You were right about a lot of these being similar/the same for the region.

LOL the farmer wave. I remember when we moved down (from Detroit), I was like, why are all these people waving at us?

[asmallsmackerel]

My hometown had 500 too! South Dakota has less people in the entire state than Tulsa has in its metro area, haha.

The Midwest just seems to be so out-of-place compared to the rest of the US to me. There are bigger cities, sure, but they're nothing compared to the West/East Coast. The Midwest culture is just really simple, I guess, if I had to apply a word to it.

HAHA. Farmers are so friendly. :) And in smaller towns, you just wave at everyone, even if you don't know them. It's pretty much rude not to. BUT THE GOSSIP IN SMALLER TOWNS IS HILARIOUS. Everyone is up in your business.

I'm not sure if I'll ever leave the Midwest. Everywhere else seems so...overwhelmingly different.

You lived in Detroit? My mother would lock us in the house if we ever were to move there. Is it as ~bad~ as the media portrays it?

[cerrad]

We lived just outside of Detroit (like, Detroit city limits were across the street). I don't know. One of many reasons we moved down here was because of the lesser crime. You'd see a lot of crime on the nightly news, and I remember our garage got broken into once. My parents still let us play outside and with the kids around the block and everything (we were restricted to the block though - when we moved to Illinois, you had the run of the whole town and some of the outskirts.)

I would guess that a lot has changed in Detroit. I don't know if crime ever improved, but the whole state and especially the city is a lot more economically depressed than when we lived there.

[asmallsmackerel]

That's scary. :/ I know that Detroit is considered to be one of the most dangerous cities, so it doesn't seem that it's getting any "better," but I don't think that many bigger cities have a "good" crime rate, so.

Oh, the world today~

[onepunkymisfit]

I will never understand people using the word coke for soda. IT MAKES NO SENSE. WTF.

How are the two Miami's pronounced?

[asmallsmackerel]

I know, right? Coke is a PRODUCT/COMPANY, not the same as any drink/pop/soda. D:

Well, there's Miami, Florida, which you know is like My-am-ee.

And there's Miami, Oklahoma, which is My-am-uh. Which makes no sense, but there you go~

[onepunkymisfit]

Exactly!!! I mean, I can understand people calling tissues "kleenex" because no matter what the brand is, it's still the same thing, but Coke is not the same thing as Pepsi/Sprite/Fanta/etc! D:

Ooooooooooooooooh. That's interesting!