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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's just no way to talk about "the Midwest."  Small towns are not the same as larger cities.  College towns are different from Rust Belt towns.  Chicago is not Ames is not Kansas City is not Indianapolis.

And frankly, there is plenty of "keeping up with the Joneses" in the Midwest--people are still people.  The specifics of how you keep up might differ, but you can't escape competitiveness and one-upmanship.  The pace of life might be slower, unless your husband is trying to build his own business from scratch, in which case, he might be working and networking all the time.  People might be friendlier and welcoming, or they might be natives who grew up in that town are are uninterested in making new friends.  Basically, there's no monolithic culture.  It will depend on where you move to and your circumstances once you're there.  [/quote]

The keeping up with the Joneses is especially pathetic in the Midwest.  It's like that terrible saying about the short bus (I just can't think of another example now).[/quote]
Hey, their houses are probably bigger than yours!  [/quote]

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