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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pure comedy gold, people!  I'm not sure what I love most -- the flat accent, the gum chewing, the inexplicable obsession with scented candles, or the air quotes.  Or, when she takes a sniff of the Peach Bellini candle lid to calm herself down. LOL.  However, I really wish she would've somehow managed to work "pop" into the rant a few times!

As funny (and true to life) as a lot this is, I have to come to the defense of my fellow Midwesterners!!  Obviously, not everyone in the Midwest acts or sounds like the person on this video.  [u]And they are hands down the nicest people anywhere in the country[/u][i][b].  [/quote]

No, they really are not.  I've lived both on the East Coast and in the Midwest, and I personally think this is often said, but not really borne out in personal experience.  [/quote]

Not PP, but I grew up in the Midwest. I think it really depends on where you are in the Midwest v. East Coast.  [u]I think most Midwesterners are always more polite than most East Coasters, but not always "nicer." They can be stand-offish and provincial and in their own world. If you move to a lot of Midwestern cities from elsewhere, you will have a hard time making friends.[/u][i][b] Minneapolis, especially, is a place that is socially cold. On the other hand, Chicago gets a big influx of new blood and is both polite and warm.

Most East Coasters strike me as less polite, but warmer and more social and less reserved. A New Yorker is perfectly happy to talk to you and give you an opinion. They  might be really blunt about it, but it's meant with honest intentions.  Folks in Boston and Philadelphia struck me the same way. [/quote]

Yes, this has been exactly my experience.  See part above where I have bolded.  If I was not from the Midwest, they didn't really quite know what to do with me, and so, ignored me.  And chose to hang out with other Midwestern people.  [/quote]

I am the PP who made the initial comment about Midwesterners being nice.  I can understand both of the points made above, and it may very well depend on where in the Midwest you are.  I can't speak to Minneapolis, for example, but I've lived in various cities large and small across the Midwest and have always found people to be very polite, genuine and warm.  People in DC generally are not.  I also travel to NY, Boston and Philly a lot, and while I really like those cities, I definitely do not get a sense that people there are generally "warmer" or "nicer".  More talkative?  Sure.  More social?  Depends.  In my experience, if you are warm and friendly to people in the Midwest, you will get warm and friendly back.  If you are full of yourself or insincere, they may still be polite but they aren't going to go out of their way to befriend you and invite you into their lives.  Obviously we're speaking in generalities and everyone's experience is different, but that's just my two cents.[/quote]

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