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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grew up in Michigan, spent my early adulthood in Chicago. Have now lived in NoVA and worked in DC for 20ish years.

The Midwest in a nutshell for me:

People are much friendlier
It's cold (in MI and Chicago, anyway). 
Far less obvious social striving 
Far less striving with respect to income (the way folks talk about money here in the DMV would be considered extremely rude where I'm from)
People can be frumpy
The Protestant work ethic is in full force, and you can rely on people
Food/taste is bland, outside of the cities at least (I never had Thai, Indian, or even falafel until I moved from MI to Chicago as a young adult)
Creative types are respected 
But on the flipside to that, most people are relatively unsophisticated
Pace is reasonable
The pressure to conform can be intense (especially outside of the large cities)
Commuting isn't as bad (well, if you are in Chi, it can be bad, but still not like the hell that is the Beltway)
Much, much lower COL
The architecture is better. Housing, whether it be SFH or apartments, is much more charming
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If you reference Heraclitus or Henri Bergson, people will stare at you blankly, and then aggressively, and then call you pretentious behind your back[/b]

DMV: 
Very solid job market
The opportunity to make a lot of money
The opportunity to advance to national-level policy work in certain professions
Access to the Smithsonians
People are, generally, more highly educated here
Pace feels frenzied much of the time
Commuting is horrific
It's sooooo expensive to live here
Feels very white bread to me
I guess people are quite frumpy here, too 
[b]If you reference Heraclitus or Henri Bergson, people will pretend to know what you are talking about, and then call you pretentious behind your back (or maybe to your face, if they feel like they can get away with it)[/b]
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HA! Thread=over. This sums it up.[/quote]

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