If you go to a good school, then it'll be like a college town.

Anonymous wrote:After a few weeks, my kid called to tell me that she loved it because the people were SO nice! She did well in school, met her future spouse, and is living happily ever after, never to return to the DMV. I couldn’t be happier for her.

You make it obvious you’re one of those College Confidential nutbags with zero connection to this region each time you post. How many posts do you have on CC — over/under 50,000?

Anonymous wrote:PP here. People from there do not mind the term flyover country. It’s kind of a point of pride for them and kind of used tongue-in-cheek by people there. Carry on using it, DCUM.

I’m from there and we think you are annoying and condescending you use it, but we’re too polite to tell you that.

For the most part, college age students interact with other students not the local townspeople. A metro environment will offer more restaurants, but my kids didn’t have the funds for that lifestyle. In my experience, it doesn’t matter.

PP here. People from there do not mind the term flyover country. It’s kind of a point of pride for them and kind of used tongue-in-cheek by people there. Carry on using it, DCUM.

I’m from one of those places but left to go to an Ivy and have always lived on the East Coast as an adult. Most of the people I know stayed, married people from HS or local colleges. I only keep in touch with one HS friend who, like me, left for the East Coast and also got a PHD, but ended up getting a job at one of the colleges near our home town and moved back with her family. She lives on her family’s farm, although they now lease the land to other farmers.

I could not have made the transition back and my NYC-born husband could not live there, but my friend is really happy. On Facebook, I see other people from there and they seem like they have nice families and nice lives. I sometimes think about how much easier life is there-slower pace, lower COL, not such high pressure schools - and wonder if we should consider going back for the kids, but I just never fit in there and know I would fit in even less now.

It’s also really Republican and I was a Republican growing up, but am now a Democrat. I am not really political and could probably ignore it, but it is another difference that would be hard to get used to.

Anonymous wrote:WTF is wrong with you? “Flyover”? Good luck.

I'm from flyover country and went to school there. I refer to it as flyover country. It's a references to Clinton's campaign in the 90s. I thought it was funny then and still use it today.

OP, I had a great experience. I keep on touch with no one and have moved on. I ended up doing a masters then a PhD on either coast and now live in DMV. I wouldn't move back and I wouldn't trade my experience.

In OPs defense, it’s hard to imagine a child of the Big City adjusting to life in a remote dusty cow town like Chicago or Kansas City. Do they even have electric lights in Oklahoma City?

WTF is wrong with you? “Flyover”? Good luck.

A good start would be to not insult the people and their schools by calling them “flyover states.”

No one should give you any info for that reason alone.

After a few weeks, my kid called to tell me that she loved it because the people were SO nice! She did well in school, met her future spouse, and is living happily ever after, never to return to the DMV. I couldn’t be happier for her.

OP seems very sheltered. I would assume that the "little folks" in those states are probably more worldly than her/him.

What a stupid question.

Well there are a lot fewer obvious trolls, which is nice.

What is it like to attend a school in a part of the country with a very small population if you're from a place like the DMV or another major metro area? I'm thinking of states like Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, or the Dakotas. I have friends who went to grad school in those sorts of places, but not college.

Can people who experienced this share what it was like and whether they'd recommend that to their own children? Did you stay in touch with your classmates over the decades even though most of them were from and stayed in that state and you returned to the big city?