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Originally Posted by Rider
I can tell you that after growing up on the west coast and then moving to the mid west that it's a huge culture shock and that the people of the mid west are far more judgmental, unaccepting of outsiders and constantly gossiping about each other. Cedar Rapids, Iowa sounded very much like this town in SD except it was much larger I couldn't stand it after 3 years. Michigan has been far better than Iowa but the people are still very quirky and it's hard to make it into the "circle" as a transplant. Fortunately we moved into a neighborhood where 95% of the residents are from out of the area so we've made our own circle. We really don't have many friends outside of our neighborhood, maybe 4 or 5 families, but we are such good friends with many of our neighbors, there is no need to leave the neighborhood to find friends. If it wasn't for the friends we have in our neighborhood we would have said fuck you to MI long ago and headed back west.
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And I thought that was just the south