“I’m just looking to get out of the Midwest…”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say that this week. I went on college visits this spring break, in the Pacific Northwest, and everywhere I visited, there was that one lost yet naive boy or girl who thought that all their problems would be solved, if only they could just escape this worthless land and move to one of the Utopian coasts!
Oh, fickle children…
Sorry for the rude awakening, but no, all of your problems will not be solved, and you will not become cooler just by moving a few hundred miles away to either the Northeast or the West coast… This seems to have been the mistake that several of my fellow college visitors had. One (ignorant) guy, who claimed that Ohio, his home state, was the center of the Midwest, said, before one of our class visits started, “Ok, I’m having a dumb moment, but where is Missouri? I’m trying to picture it on a map…”
Sorry sir, but I don’t think you’re quite ready for college, let alone moving hundreds of miles away from your town, which is probably the only place you can identify on a map, might I add…
Also, please remember that the Midwest is NOT BORING! I know San Francisco, New York, LA, Seattle and every other city on either coast seem way cooler, but there’s not much in those places that you can’t find here. We do have something unique to the Midwest, however: nice people who live at a slower pace, usually with less stress…
In the words of a native Midwesterner, Bob Dylan:
“The country I come from is called the Midwest.”
What’s not to love?! Rep’ your home-country!!!
I love the Midwest…
