Who lives in the midwest?

I've been living in Kansas City for 7 months now.

8/5/2005 11:57:23 AM

Just moved to Denver, CO. Very homesick for the south.

actually, on second thought, I'm not really in the midwest ... but I'm still too far from NC, does that count?

[Edited on August 5, 2005 at 3:03 PM. Reason : I'm retarded, can't wait to drink tonight]

8/5/2005 3:01:54 PM

All I would have to do to get to Colorado is take the inclined plane I'd like to call Kansas.

You're close enough

8/5/2005 4:03:44 PM

thank you. all I know about Kansas is that it was the longest part of my trek to here from home!

8/5/2005 4:20:23 PM

will be in bloomington, indiana starting tuesday

^^ how do you like kc? seems like a pretty cool city.

8/5/2005 5:57:51 PM

KC leaves a bit to be desired to tell you the truth. It's very spread out (440 is like 20 miles in circumference, 435 is 80 miles). Downtown has it's nice bars, but there's a lot of crime which is why I live up north. All in all, I suppose it's not bad. The traffic is pretty bearable, not too many problems.

8/5/2005 10:56:42 PM

^Most of the bars are in midtown. Downtown is pretty dead after 5. Lawrence (Univ. of Kansas) has a pretty sweet stretch of bars, etc. on Mass St., but that is 30-45 mi. east. The biggest problem is there really isn't much to do other than drink.

8/6/2005 8:39:40 AM

The plaza isn't so bad and they're putting more and more stuff up in the northland (which is where I live). I'm mostly at Tanner's downtown. There's always a motley-crew out there. EIther that or Johnny O'Quigleys up north or Tomfooleries.

Yep, drinking is all we have.

8/6/2005 3:20:01 PM

I'm from Missouri. I'd love to live in KC or anywhere in Missouri again.

8/6/2005 5:24:16 PM

I would love to move out of Missouri, personally. Not that Missouri is bad, but the south east is where I was raised and I would love to go back.

8/6/2005 10:30:45 PM

madison, wisco

represent

8/7/2005 5:54:49 PM

Florrisant represent!!!

8/7/2005 7:21:02 PM

I am fron St Louis, MO but I'm living in Chicago now and I hate it. I like St Louis pretty well I have family there, but I would much prefer to move back to NC when I'm done with podiatry school

^HAHAHAHAHAH

NORTH COUNTRY HOLLAR

[Edited on August 7, 2005 at 7:22 PM. Reason : .]

8/7/2005 7:22:19 PM

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"Lawrence (Univ. of Kansas) has a pretty sweet stretch of bars, etc. on Mass St., but that is 30-45 mi. east west (oops)."

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I moved from Lawrence in May. Yes, there is more starting to pop up in the Northlands, and some decent stuff in the Plaza, but still not a ton. They may put in a few bars near the 25 arenas they are building for minor league hockey teams.

8/7/2005 7:30:09 PM

Well, I'm from Wichita, KS, but now live here in Cary.

8/7/2005 8:34:32 PM

fuck Florrisant

Chesterfield RULES

8/7/2005 8:58:33 PM

all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is in West Co. for sure.

8/7/2005 10:06:47 PM

Central West End.

Or, Central Rear End, as they call it.

8/8/2005 12:43:08 AM

oh I've never even been west of Cleveland, let alone to Missouri.. I think my roommate was from Florissant or something. I'm surprised I even spelled it right..

8/8/2005 9:32:44 AM

^^^^^^
Have you been to Zona Rosa? It's like Plaza North. It's got a few bars, some nice stores, etc. It lacks the "bum factor" that's on the plaza which is a plus and it's only 7 miles from my house instead of 40.

8/8/2005 9:48:51 AM

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"oh I've never even been west of Cleveland"

wow you picked a crappy place to stop

8/8/2005 1:04:46 PM

I went to Zona Rosa, after completion of "Phase One". Tomfooleries was the only bar there then, and it seemed OK. I thought the general idea was pretty good, but the development seemed a big "fake" and poorly constructed to me (i.e. box shopping center building with a facade pasted on the front). It is way up there if you don't live in the Northlands.


Haven't been there in a good 6 months or so, and I'm sure it is changing as they build more of it.

8/8/2005 1:46:22 PM

Yeah, they're putting in an O'Dowds and a few other bars. It's actually nice. It's not the plaza, but I don't know what we can expect. The plot of land Zona's on is rather small, kinda bunched up there on I-29 and and Barry.

8/8/2005 1:48:48 PM

^^^ It wasn't too bad. I went to a baseball game there.. They had some decent bars in The Flats area..

I heard back in the day it absolutely sucked though..

8/8/2005 8:28:22 PM

Drew Carey tells me that cleveland rocks. Did he lie?

[Edited on August 9, 2005 at 10:30 AM. Reason : ]

8/9/2005 10:30:02 AM

I have a good friend from Cleveland, she would kill me if she knew i posted that

8/9/2005 10:31:13 AM

At least cleveland isn't detroit...

8/9/2005 10:35:52 AM

i have never made it to Detroit, but I don't really think I've been missing anything.

8/9/2005 10:49:23 AM

I travel a bunch with my company and I was so fortunate to be put in the Great Lakes region (sarcasm). I support Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. I'll be in Grand Rapids next week and I have a feeling I'll be seeing Detroit sooner or later.

If I come back alive, I'll give you the report.

8/9/2005 10:51:44 AM

ahaha i am looking at the Great Lakes Naval Base outside my window right now

great lakes sux0r

8/9/2005 10:55:17 AM

The city of Detroit is 85% minority (80% African American). Well I guess I should say majority. But you know what I mean. Not that there is anything wrong with that but it's interesting.

8/9/2005 10:59:15 AM

Maybe I could show my cracker ass up there and pull off an EIGHT MILE BITCHES!

[Edited on August 9, 2005 at 11:04 AM. Reason : .]

8/9/2005 11:04:33 AM

^^^^Just wait until winter when you get 6.02214199 × 10^23 flight delays.

8/9/2005 1:19:03 PM

^ I'm on the clock... I don't care

8/9/2005 8:30:18 PM

I am moving to St. Louis on Friday of this week, only spent about 5 total days in the Midwest my whole life so I am a bit apprehensive..... (2 in chicago, 3 in st louis)

any advice/recomendations/tips would be welcome

8/9/2005 8:35:03 PM

St. Louis is more like an "east coast" city... dc, baltimore, ny... not really a midwest city. it's gonna be a lot quicker than you would think the midwest would be. If you go further west, kansas city, for example, it's a bit slower, people tend to be a little nicer (not southern nice, but not ny asshole).

Get used to not having sweet tea... I'm still not used to it...

[Edited on August 9, 2005 at 9:01 PM. Reason : .]

8/9/2005 8:59:29 PM

yeah, i lived in Miami for 2 years of grad school.....sweet tea/bojangles/bbq/char grill/speaking english were all things that i missed

i am gonna try to get out to kansas city as well as memphis/chicago and hopefully madison, wi on some weekend trips

8/9/2005 9:01:45 PM

Let me know when you come down. It'd be nice to see some NC state around here... I'm tired of Jayhawk blue...

8/9/2005 9:03:35 PM

yeah, i lived with two kids in miami from big 10 country, and it was all i heard about....i am not looking forward to being pumped full of Iowa/Michigan/Ohio State propoganda

8/9/2005 9:06:36 PM

You'll hear plenty of Big 12 bullshit out here... Mizzou is in Columbia... KU is 45 minutes from the Missouri border, then you got iowa and iowa state... k state is at the other end of kansas... you'll get tired of it. People don't realize that the ACC is the best conference ever.

8/9/2005 9:16:50 PM

^i agree

is big 12 shit/big 10 shit worse out there, just had big 10 on the brain and had not even considered that i would be in the thick of big 12 country as well

you been to any college football games out there?
can you find ACC televised anywhere other than a sports bar with ful satelite coverage?

8/9/2005 9:22:49 PM

Not too much Big 10 here... there might be more of that in St. Louis... But big 12 is every-fucking-where.

I haven't been to any football games (only been out here since late January). I was gonna try to hit a few mizzou or KU basketball games but never got around to it.

I had a hard time trying to watch NC State play basketball in the tourney... with all the local coverage, they would play teams around here before they would play NCSU. I did see the Connecticut game (I don't think that one had any local teams battling it for the CBS spot)... and I got to see our loss to the Badgers... Besides that, I'm subscribing to ESPN game plan and XM satellite radio to make sure I get the NC State football games.

8/9/2005 9:32:52 PM

Denver, CO as of the upcoming weekend

8/9/2005 9:47:05 PM

^^i have XM, do not know what my cable situation is going to be like out there yet

8/9/2005 11:13:59 PM

melissa midwest

8/9/2005 11:26:40 PM

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"Denver, CO as of the upcoming weekend"

I just moved to Denver in June. I'm homesick but getting used to it. As Abonorio said, be prepared for no Bojangles, no sweet tea, no real bbq ... and no nice southern people (other than me & Climberman). There's an active Wolfpack Club here at least.

8/10/2005 9:11:31 AM

^that is nice, i dont think that exists in St. Louis

8/10/2005 9:15:53 AM

I definitely missed the bojangles, but I went to KU games, kept my own stockpile of sweet tea at my apartment, and subscribed to ESPN Gameplan (I think I only missed 1 or 2 games...it shows everything on JP, ABC Regional, any ESPN). And it was definitely 100% Big 12.

People have a chip on their shoulder about ACC hoops.

8/10/2005 9:22:30 AM

East St. Louis represent!

8/10/2005 9:28:18 AM

dont think i will be spending to much time on that side of the river

8/10/2005 9:43:44 AM