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I'm Texan by birth and have lived in Missouri for a decade. There's so much to choose from in terms of favorite northern states. I love big northern cities, especially New York, Chicago, Boston, and Seattle, but as to states? I'll say Iowa. I'm suually there midsummer before the corn is harvested, so so much of the state is covered in a green carpet of ripe corn. The landscape tends to be gentler than Missouri, more rolling but on the whole, not entirely flat. The in-state rivers (not the Mississippi) tend to be gentler and the riverbanks are kind of flatter coming up to the water, like those in England.
I love Fairfield because of the extreme wierdness of having Maharishi Int'l U. there, and that you can get a terrific vegetarian buffet on campus and really good Indian and Thai food in downtown. I love Iowa City and UI for so many reasons, starting with Prairie Lights and the literary culture it reflects. I love Cedar Rapids for the Czech influence, especially the food. Machine Shed is my favorite midwestern chain restaurant-- I keep agitating for one to open in Columbia. I love that NPR is on AM radio there and you can listen to it pretty much state-wide. I've met farmers who listen to NPR on AM while working their fields in their tractors-- that image is just so cool. I love their tradition of generously supporting public education for their children, even knowing that most of them will leave as soon as they graduate.
I don't think I could live there but in 1-2 week doses, as the dialogue in "Field of Dreams" went-- "Is this heaven?" "No, it's Iowa."
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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I have only been to Buffalo. Strangely as it sounds i highly reccommend it. Friendly people, beautiful lake Erie coast, Pretty nice and fun downtown
I've found the industrial cities of the Great Lakes to have some of the most down to earth and friendly people in America. I actually people in Cleveland and Buffalo are friendlier than the people I've seen in Charleston or Savannah
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