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Are you me? Also in NYC and also dream of a quiet place in Montana. My team has actually had discussions about Montana specifically.

What is it about Montana?

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NYers flooding MT would be worse than OHians flooding NYC.

Ted Kaczynski did some awful things because of things like a road being built through Montana near his cabin. I don't dare think about what he would have done if a New York people flood came through.

I'm willing to bet you wouldn't refer to other groups as "flooding" NYC. Why do New Yorkers find it acceptable to say such things about Midwesterners?

Because you can make fun of mostly-white yokels without the PC police coming for your scalp the way they would if you were to criticize the influx of any other demographic.

Au contraire, you'll be celebrated for it!

> I'm willing to bet you wouldn't refer to other groups as "flooding" NYC.

Actually I would. In fact NYC has a great history of groups flooding into each other. Before I dive more into that though...there seems to be an airplane overhead?

The Midwest is pretty culturally distant from NYC, or at least it can be. There’s a long list of things that are different, and a shorter one of things that are similar.

Source: Am Midwestern, lived in NYC once upon a time

More so than Aleppo or Mogadishu? I think not. Sounds like a cop out to me.

Mogadishu is probably a bad example because there are actually an enormous amount of Somali immigrants in the Midwest. But I was really restricting my comment to intra-US comparisons.

You're missing my point. My point is that those places are even more culturally distant from NYC but no one ever tells them to "go back where you came from".

Btw, also a Midwesterner. Recently left NYC. Finally took the advice of the locals.

Because they're not a race group.

It was possible, when a single individual could write a popular bit of software. Ask https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp who

> wrote Apple Writer alone in a small cottage he built himself atop a hill in the woods of Oregon ..

Ha! I've never been but from all the pictures I've seen it's stunningly beautiful. I think I'm imagining it to be something of a blend of the Pacific Northwest and Yosemite, but more remote. Someday!

Anyone else thinking of Sam Neil’s last words in the Hunt for Red October?

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