jamesbond wrote: ↑April 30th, 2017, 1:39 pm
Signet wrote:Illinois, Minnesota and California are pretty unfriendly no matter what.
Outside of the Chicago area, Illinois is a friendly place to live. For example, in the small towns throughout the state people are friendly and sociable. In the Chicago area, forget it. People don't talk to their neighbors, they drive like maniacs and they are very rude.
I would like to live somewhere where it either does not snow at all or it only snows a little in the winter time. Also, an area where it doesn't get brutally hot or humid during the summer time (like Arizona, Nevada and Florida).
It would also be nice to live somewhere where the people are polite and friendly.
Even far from Chicagoland, Illinois is a statewide social desert, all the way to the Mississippi River.
Sycamore is a small farming community located roughly 60 miles west of Chicago and surrounded by over 20 miles and more of endless cornfields save for DeKalb 9 miles southwest. In October 2004, my parents and I went there for their annual pumpkin festival. I was pretty fresh from my first Florida trip. There was a parade. I was walking around saying "Hi, how are you" to many countless people. Other than a group of NIU cheerleaders passing out flyers for an event at the college, only 3 other people even said "Hi" back to me, let alone had conversation with me. The rest of the locals in Sycamore either ignored me or gave me that cold, mean look. The locals were even anti social with my parents, too.
So Illinois is a statewide social desert, even far out in the rural country areas, I'm sure even places like Byron, Oregon, Freeport, Utica, Peoria, Mount Vernon, and as far south as DuBois and Cairo = Social desert. Nobody makes friends, nobody communicates with anyone except for business reasons and only business reasons.