Indiana, My Indiana
Monday, 8 September 2008 by Jacob TomawA fellow IU-Alum co-worker passed along this story about how popular Indiana is becoming to folks from the New York area. It details some of the trials and tribulation of moving to Bloomington. The whole thing is worth reading, but I really felt for this girl,
Indiana was the only school that New Yorker and Dalton graduate Amanda Sidney even considered last year, though she was in a bit of culture shock last week and homesick for Central Park. “I grew up in a place where everyone politically agreed with me — liberal Democrats — so this is a whole new dynamic. It can get annoying, but it makes you think harder,” she says.
If she thinks the folks in Bloomington are not “liberal Democrats”, woah! I would not encourage Miss Sidney to deviate from IN-37 and I-465 when she goes to and from IND. While in Bloomington she should also stay in the area bounded by the Bypass, IN-37, and 3rd St. I just don’t think she will be able to handle the shock of meeting real Hoosiers.
I know how she feels though. It is a lot how I felt when I moved to Bloomington. Bloomingtonians are so different from Hoosiers.
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September 10th, 2008 at 14:06
Could be worse. You could be Floridian and spend all of eternity telling people that “No, where I’m from really isn’t much like Miami at all.”