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[quote=Anonymous]I am one of the PPs who has lived both in the Midwest and in this DC area.  And have family in both area.  The thing is:  of COURSE there are educated people (and cultured people, thoughtful people, etc.) in every region of the country.  Of course, this goes without saying!  But in my own PERSONAL experience, there are certain areas where there is a greater percentage of overall educated (and thoughtful and cultured) individuals, and you need to reach a certain tipping point, and I find that more in the DC-metro area than in other areas I have lived in the Midwest.  There may be exceptions:  Chicago is one that immediatley leaps to my mind.  OF course!  I am also thinking of Ann Arbor or, I have never been to Cincinatti, but what other friends have told me and what some of you have said here, yes, it sounds this way too.  But I have also lived in South Bend, and let me tell you:  you'd have to be smoking crack if you tried to tell me you get just as many educated (and cultured and thoughtful) individuals living there as in the DC area, and that's even with Notre Dame, St. Mary's, and other educational institutions taken into account.  Amongst the general South Bend populace, there is NOT the same amount of educated (creative, thoughtrful, etc.) individuals.  There just isn't.  I have other relatives who live near Valparaiso and I have been to neighborhood and community gatherings with other folks in their neighborhoods and towns:  it's not the same and the conversations are NOT the same as ones I have had with my neighbors around here.  There is NOT enough of them to have reached that "tipping point" for my own personal tastes.

One really interesting book to read about this topic is:  THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS by Richard Florida.

I like living in areas where is a large enough creative class to pass that threshhold where the community decisions are largely made by and affected by creative class individuals.  [/quote]

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