Seeing these Twitter replies reminds me of a friend’s wedding we went down to in Florida. We were seated at a table with some of their coworkers in Orlando and once they found out my SO and I were from Iowa, it was as if they smelled blood in the water and immediately seized attention on us, asking us things like “so what is there to DO in Iowa” in derisive tones. They seemed to lose interest once we told them we were from the Des Moines suburbs and lived a typical suburban lifestyle.
We’ve been all over the country and have met a lot of good people who’ve ranged from neutral to genuinely interested in where we happen to live but Floridians are the only people we’ve met that seemed to have a strange fixation on putting us down. There’s a unique population of people down there for sure.