Hey Jow Forums,
so I've been clicking around on JewTube for some emo/math rocks compilations and a lot of those were called "Midwest Emo".
Since I'm a German scumbag, I have no idea about area-specific lifestyles in the US, so maybe someone can explain, what life in the Midwest is like and what impact it has on the music.
Thanks guys.
Off topic, but is Oklahoma in the Midwest or the South? I've seen southern threads that disown it and this map disown it from the Midwest.
lived in ohio for a year, its boring and flat and full of strip malls
Theres a bunch of corn and a weird identity clash. Its a mix of old people and zoomer culture. Its quite easy to feel lost to be honest.
What's wrong with strip malls?
Pretty simple user
You have cities which in many cases contain run down parts (ghettos) with crime (these areas can include shopping malls) and other parts of the cities are being revitalized/hipsterize (ie: you bring in high price coffee shops, weird clothing stores and such)
If you leave the cities it is mostly flat fields that contain corn and soi beans.
Entertainment in the rural areas typically means either doing stupid shit (like climbing the goal posts at the football field) or driving into a town that is close to the city to eat/do stuff, or driving into the city it's self.
As far as music, there have been some rock bands from the region (John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, etc) and Michael Jackson
t. Indiana fag
its flat, its huge, cities are all spread out except for chicago, which is the only true city in the entire region. there are many german americans in the midwest but no one speaks german anymore. the rural areas and small towns are white while the minorities are quarantined in certain neighborhoods of any city of significant size. people are nicer than other places in the USA, but also less hip. lots of places in the sourthern part of midwest such as southern ohio, illinois, missouri, are actually more southern than midwestern. oklahoma has more in common with the south than the midwest
Ok, I see, so you guys think it's pretty boring and depressing, which combines pretty well with emo music.
However, maybe it is because of my naivete or whatever, I kind of like the idea of big empty areas and rather small boring towns. It sounds kind of romantic and simple to me, especially because I dislike big cities.
Would you guys recommend to visit the region?
Yeah this. It's especially amusing when you're on the edge between the suburban and the rural. I can walk to a farm and there are local farms you can buy all kinds of crops from. But the plus side you see pumpkin farms in the fall. My area used to be almost all dirt roads and I remember it as a kid.
I remember how awesome the creeks were as a kid, filled with lots of frogs and toads. The endless fields we'd play in, the woods I'd pick berries in as a teen and see the streams flowing. I'd go walking to my local creek to feed the ducks. They'd be so many walking around and swimming all over. The many mallards would crowd around there all the time and I'd always go there to feed them. Lots of nature trails to drive to and rivers to kayak.
It's boring if you live in the pure suburbs with no woods or fields or creeks. If there's a lot of nature around it's fun and you see lots of wildlife. Deer are something I've seen around walking and driving. Rabbits come to my yard all the time. I've seen turtles crossing the road, geese all over. There are even lots of coyotes roaming around and people take pics on the neighborhood app. I've heard their howls before but never saw one in the wild.
Sadly too many people are moving too my area and rapidly taking away the charm and making the city move to me.
Visit the upper Peninsula of Michigan. That's the best part of the Midwest.
>Ok, I see, so you guys think it's pretty boring and depressing, which combines pretty well with emo music.
I don't find it depressing. Ive been going out of the region for school, and I can tell you, there is no better feeling than leaving a concrete jungle, and coming home to the small town in the corn field and getting to see friends and family again.
Yeah, I'd recommend a visit. The rural areas can be very nice, and it is definitely small town America outside of the cities.
>Sadly too many people are moving too my area and rapidly taking away the charm and making the city move to me.
Know this feel. Indianapolis is doing the same thing to my hometown. Its becoming suburban now, rather than the more rural community it was. Depressing to see actually, but I still love where Im from. No matter where I go, I can feel better when I think of home
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ND user here, its literally the fields of asphodel here, honestly. You could spin 360 and see nothing but beet fields in summer and in the winter the entire world would just a flat white. Really fucks with you
Ohio here. The state has been on decline since industry collapsed. Most people here have no ambition, and those who do, leave as soon as they can. The landscapes are nice in the eastern half of the state, hilly and forested. The western areas are flat and farmed. The only large city still growing is Columbus. Cincinnati and Cleveland are dying slowly. Most people want to gtfo of Dayton, and Toledo. Many of my friends have left, and I have no money.
its ugly, at least where I live now we have mountains and lots of conservation land along with small towns that preserve historical buildings. I lived in a major city in ohio where it was just ugly poor people stores and nothing nice to look at.
Dayton, maybe?
I hated columbus, worthington was a nice suburb but everywhere else is trash
columbus, moved around a lot until we settled in worthington for a bit which is a nice town reminds me a lot of where I live now in new england
The problem with Columbus is that most of Its growth was recent, suburban shit.
Cincinnati and Cleveland are prettier due to having grown into large cities early on. Dayton is just gray and empty.
I lived in North Dakota,
Bad injuns live there.
Yeah bad things like near genocide of them occurred but, nowasaydays they do it to themselves.
Like committing a serious crime and doing at least a year in prison is a rite of passage.
Food was bland, not much to see or do but the snow was comfy.
The Midwest is literally the worst part of the United States. It's where the ignorance and bigotry of the South and the poverty and crime of the Northeast meet.
>North Dakota contains the tallest human-made structure in the Western Hemisphere, the KVLY-TV mast
>Additionally, North Dakota has the highest percentage of church-going population of any state
That's something.
from missouri. its literally just northern yeehaw states and suburbs
Am a Texan but all my other family lived in Iowa so we'd always visit and was always comfy but I bet without big family meetings or friends there it could get boring quick. Also doesn't internet suck cock up there?
Literally from Indiana, and this is it. You drive into downtown for fun. Smoke weed and hope you don't get pulled over for a headlight out and get fucked by cops.
Also, they have all the wastelands and modern ghost towns in America.
Legit yehaaw area
How bad is the incest there?
Cleveland was looking a lot better last time I was there. When I went a decade ago it was almost a ghost town.
That's more west by god virginia than midwest. We just have meth.
It's southern in geography and in mentality.