"Keeping Iowa's Young Folks at Home After They've Seen Minnesota." Read it before the seven days are up! This article was the most emailed today on the New York Times online. I think it hits the nail on the head--what do you think? Of course, the main problem with Iowa is that it lacks a major metropolitan area. But I would hate to see a string of suburbs across the state's midsection. Actually, there are a few reasons I think Des Moines might take off in the next ten years, but I don't have time to detail them now. To be continued . . .
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This is sooo upsetting! Mostly because I think much of it is false but also because there's the minute chance that some of it may actually be true! But this Iowan is staying--and I've been to Minneapolis. Okay, so I currently live in Chicago where all the excitement supposedly is but quite frankly, it's not all it's cracked up to be and I realize everyday all that I miss about Iowa. So as soon as I'm done with school, I'm moving back...regardless of what the New York Times says.
Way to stick to your guns! A few of us have to stay to make improvements! We won't bail out on our homeland! Laura
I'm bailing. The author has the audacity to speak the silent truth of Iowa: for a young person, its a lifeless corpse. For the aspiring college graduate, Iowa is a future of poverty and settling for second-best. You can say that you're returning "as soon as I'm done with school." But returning to what? Unemployment and low-wage oppportunities?
The adventure of urban and all that it promises; the retreat of mountains and beaches; top soil just isn't enough to soothe such waunderlust. Chicago, properly lived, meets the its expectations and more. The Northwest may soon fulfil a few more of those nature expectations.
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