Why America Needs The Midwest

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[SomethingDifferentFilms]

Thank you for watching my video on the Midwest comeback, if you would like me to talk about a specific city, state, or region in a future video- please let me know here.

[ryanvandy]

The Midwest and Great Lakes Region are severely underrated when the subject of relocation comes up. Not to mention the vast supply of fresh water.

[robertgronewold]

I think the only long term fear I have is too many people moving into the Midwest in the near future. I'm from Iowa, and we are already starting to see the beginnings of land buyouts. You have developers buying up valuable farmland to make housing developments, and it's driving up the cost of the land significantly, to the point where only big corporate farmers can get the land. And at the end of the day, agriculture is eternally the most important industry, because there is not a human on this earth that can get away with not eating food.

[justanothermichigander]

As someone who was born in Minnesota, but raised near Detroit during the Great Recession and currently lives in small town Michigan, people always underestimate the state of Michigan. Are there rough patches? Yes, absolutely. But there’s tons of natural beauty all over, friendly people, and manufacturing in the East and agriculture in the West, a lot of which is connected by brand new highway systems. Don’t count out the midwest

[justindavis]

I hope everyone watching this in the Midwest (Iowa here) joins me in supporting regional rail - high speed rail alliance, rewilding- regenerative agriculture, and strong towns movement. We can support people but we have to heal our land and cities and reconnect our people with public spaces and transit networks.

[thedirtybubble]

As someone from Florida, the Midwest is underlooked and that's a good thing. Most people fleeing Florida are going to nearby states like Georgia, Texas and the Carolinas. If I ever escape Florida I will be going to the Midwest because it's still sort of affordable and best of all no hurricanes.

[Theaqwert]

Pretty surprising that the second largest metropolitan area in the Midwest by economic activity, the Twin Cities, wasn't even mentioned (not to mention the snubbing of Mayo Clinic in favor of the Cleveland Clinic)... Don't think this guy knows Minnesota exists

[wayneanderson]

The thing i like most about the Midwest, the people are real. They are not personable. They often find it strange that a stranger is speaking to them. I am a full time traveler, the highway is my home & I don't belong anywhere. So I will talk to anyone anywhere. But I find Midwestern people are brutally honest once you get them talking, something not true in the South. In the South, people only want to know, "are you in my tribe? Or out? Because if you are in, I will treat you like gold. But if you are out, I will treat you like a pagan heathen". In the Midwest, people treat everyone the same, even people they don't like. I find that heartwarming & fuzzy.

[RareGenXer]

I think the brutally hot summer of 2023 in the western and southern US, not to mention lack of water and frequent hurricanes may finally start giving people who have flocked to the desert and deep south some pause. Personally I love our Midwest and Great Lakes summers! We can actually be outside during the long days instead of spending them in cold air conditioned building. Winter is cold and snowy (sometimes brutally so), but great "hunker in" time with a fire during the short days and long nights.

[iceunelle]

Being from the Chicago area, I’m contractually obligated to say it’s the Sears Tower, not the Willis Tower.

[citylimits]

One question: On your maps, why did you include Michigan's Lower Peninsula, but exclude Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which is just as much a part of the Midwest as the lower? (I lived there for 4 years.) That aside, thanks for defending the American Midwest as a whole. The occasionally dreary and tempestuous winters and lack of balmy year-around conditions or high mountains for skiing mask innumerable advantages for living in the Midwest. We have all of the water that we need, we still have a massive talent base, numerous reputable universities, and the cost of living, while not always dirt cheap, is better than many areas of the country. And just in Michigan alone (both Lower and Upper Peninsulas), there are innumerable beautiful sights to see. As with Wisconsin, Ohio, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and the other regional states.

[devinleonarduzzi]

Why is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan left off of these Midwest area outlines? Half of Michigan is missing! 😳

[CMVBrielman]

A key advantage of the US is that it has so many different regions that are all very easy to get to (relative to how far away they are from each other) so that there’s always some part that is booming and some part that is declining. So, a region to push the overall economy and a region incentivized to figure out “what are we doing wrong?”

[savagewaifu]

As someone who escaped Phoenix Arizona and living in Ohio this video basically highlighted all the reasons I moved.

[margaretames]

I recently moved to Columbus from Denver, which has become crowded and expensive (especially housing costs). There’s lots to do here, Ohio State University, access to first-rate medical care, outdoor activities, etc. The Midwest is underrated!

[TheFixFinder]

The thing I love about where my wife and I ended up in the midwest ( Indiana ) is the extremely affordable housing. We also bought at a really good time and got a low, 2.75 interest rate. Its a simple small ranch style house on a .5 acre, but its home and perfect for us and you cant beat the just under $650 a month mortgage which includes property tax and insurance.

[lukedornon]

I would personally find it hilarious if the Midwest can get high-speed rail networks linking the major metros sooner than California

[Chsoxrk]

I live in a town about an hour from Chicago where nothing major happened economically for the first 25 years of my life and now within the last 3-5 years multiple large national and international companies have developed distribution and tech hubs here. Things are definitely changing for the better.

[cait]

Watching this in Indianapolis (been here 2 years) having grown up in Austin, TX & lived in New England for the most recent 5 years before moving to the midwest. My spouse & I are both WFH so we got to choose our next move, as long as it was in the US. We chose Indy for many reasons, mostly family, but also hugely due to cost of living & relative safety from climate change disasters. We lived through a hurricane on the east coast, it knocked out our water & electric for 10 solid days—that ruled out anything on the east or gulf coasts for us. I never want to deal with another hurricane for as long as I live. We also refused to return to the blistering heat of the south, we got used to winters & I actually look forward to them now but I cannot bring myself to tolerate 100+ days of 100 degree weather. That really only left us with Colorado & the west coast, both of which have their own slew of housing, affordability & climate crises all happening at once. I never thought I’d move to the midwest but we started looking here only after ruling everything else out & honestly, I love it. Even if we lost our WFH jobs, we’d still find a way to stay in the midwest.

[positiveoptimist]

I moved from Texas to the Detroit area. And now after living for a few years here in Michigan, I can say that it's totally worth it.