<story><title>Midwest Developer</title><url>https://lanie.dev/tech/midwest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vineyardmike</author><text>As a new englander, living in the PNW, dreaming of returning to california sun, I sure do miss my time in the midwest (although i&amp;#x27;ve never been to Minnesota specifically).&lt;p&gt;Obviously you can&amp;#x27;t generalize everyone, but the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast. I&amp;#x27;ve been invited into many strangers homes as if i was a close friend. Very few people seem to be captured by a blind viral drive towards success the way you find in places like NYC or SF, and instead people are just happy and enjoy their position in life. (not to say people don&amp;#x27;t do good work, or don&amp;#x27;t succeed at goals). If you dream of a nice middle class life, with a quaint house and a nice family, and all that jazz, it seems like a great place to be, and a culture that wants you to have it... if you&amp;#x27;re straight and white and &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The weather sure does suck though. Hot summers, cold snowy winters. Worse than new england, with less money to keep roads and infra in shape. That said, i find myself every fall on the west coast missing &amp;quot;real fall&amp;quot; where the leaves change and the brisk wind cools you down outside as you can see your breath. Throwing on a soft flannel and grabbing something warm to drink while you stand outside and enjoy nature...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wincy</author><text>The “if you’re straight and white and normal” sure doesn’t track with my experience. I’m a software engineer in Overland Park, Kansas, and live in a middle class neighborhood in the suburbs. Cows a mile one way and IKEA the other way. It’s the “American Dream” town, and it’s MORE diverse than when I lived in the city. My neighbors are Indian and Jordanian, Kenyan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Pakistani, African American, Caucasian (some from US, some from other countries). I bought this house from a Nepalese couple based on their names.</text></comment>
<story><title>Midwest Developer</title><url>https://lanie.dev/tech/midwest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vineyardmike</author><text>As a new englander, living in the PNW, dreaming of returning to california sun, I sure do miss my time in the midwest (although i&amp;#x27;ve never been to Minnesota specifically).&lt;p&gt;Obviously you can&amp;#x27;t generalize everyone, but the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast. I&amp;#x27;ve been invited into many strangers homes as if i was a close friend. Very few people seem to be captured by a blind viral drive towards success the way you find in places like NYC or SF, and instead people are just happy and enjoy their position in life. (not to say people don&amp;#x27;t do good work, or don&amp;#x27;t succeed at goals). If you dream of a nice middle class life, with a quaint house and a nice family, and all that jazz, it seems like a great place to be, and a culture that wants you to have it... if you&amp;#x27;re straight and white and &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The weather sure does suck though. Hot summers, cold snowy winters. Worse than new england, with less money to keep roads and infra in shape. That said, i find myself every fall on the west coast missing &amp;quot;real fall&amp;quot; where the leaves change and the brisk wind cools you down outside as you can see your breath. Throwing on a soft flannel and grabbing something warm to drink while you stand outside and enjoy nature...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>&amp;gt; The weather sure does suck though.&lt;p&gt;Ahhhhh you gotta embrace it and find the good in it or you&amp;#x27;ll just resent everything :) St Paulite here. This morning it was 9 degrees F on the way to the bus. The snow has a beautiful, sparkling layer of ice from the rainy drizzle we got the other day. Most of the plants were covered in a thin coating of ice, the streetlights reflecting through them looked like inverted icicles. It&amp;#x27;s snowing now, we&amp;#x27;ll probably get 2&amp;quot; this afternoon, lovely to crunch through.</text></comment>