What's your impression of Iowa?

Iowa bout $5,000 to the IRS. :D

CORN. EVERYWHERE.

Aside from the corn, and being in the midwest, white as wonderbread and conservative leaning, that’s about all I know about Iowa sadly.

I’m from SoCal, so any place that has green in it looks neat to me.

I think they have a pretty good collection of colleges.

@King_Pariah . . . that was funny

Honestly, I know next to nothing about Iowa. Same-sex marriage passed a few years back so it’s among the states written on my shoe, which makes it an okay place in my book.

The only thing I know about this “iowa” is that James T. Kirk came from there.

Council Tucky and DeSoto Bends = My entire impression of Iowa. Isn’t it one of those states between California and New York?

I think of Iowa as flat and very far from any sea or ocean. I think of farming, and of my cousin who ended up there at some college. I know it from Idaho and Ohio, but not a whole lot more.

I think of Field of Dreams.
I think of corn and government subsidized ethanol and how other (better) fuel alternatives get she short shrift because politicians have to pander to stupid Iowans and their idiotic caucus.

This guy set the record straight for me.

Iowa:
Absolutely gorgeous in the late summer light.
Free wi-fi at the rest areas!
Is that old Stuckey’s building really a porn palace now?
Not a thing wrong with Iowa.

I think Dubuque. Iowa Falls. Council Bluffs. And Fort Madison because Amtrak stops there.

I love Iowa.
I love it’s nice friendly people.
I love the green rolling land.
There is a lot to love about Iowa.

My hometown is West Liberty, IA. ALOT of farming communities and corn fields. People selling ears of corn by the side of the road. All my uncles lived on farms and they still do. The town I grew up in was mostly Mexican based and a little bit of Asian mix as well so I felt right at home.

Whenever I say I’m from Iowa, people look at me like I’m a moron and say, “What, Ohio?” How does Iowa sound anything like Ohio?

My parents live in Moville, IA and right now the town is practically a ghost town. It used to be bustling back in the day but not anymore. Luckily, the closest big city is Sioux City so they only have like 15 miles to civilization.

My parents have lived in Iowa for going on six years. I’ve never “lived” there with them, but I’ve been there many times, though not outside the city they live in (Quad Cities, right on the Mississippi). It’s nice. I’ve always loved river towns with a lot of history, and Iowa has a ton of those. People are generally quite friendly and, despite popular opinion, aren’t always crazy conservatives (see @Blackberry ‘s video). In fact, my mom is the building administrator for a UCC church that performs marriages for gay couples. I dunno. It’s just a normal state.

A part of our dairy farm family branch moved there a few generations ago.

As a teen, I went to Iowa for auto-racing travels yearly. The land is flat & filled with corn. There is little to do, even in the citites.

King Corn(film) shows how much of the corn is GMO based.

I’ve never been to Vedic City but I’d like to visit & someday meditate at the Peace Palace there.

Corn and Slipknot
So I’m not a fan of the place.

Flat. Flat, flat, flat.

The only place I’ve been where you could get mud on your feet and dust in your eyes at the same time.

Bitter winter, hot summer, with 15 minutes of spring in between. No windbreaks, not much in the way of shade.

I spent three years in southeast Iowa. I wouldn’t call it bad, just…empty. Featureless. I don’t blame Iowa for being the way it is, but it made me yearn for the sight of tall buildings and the sound of traffic. And contour. I’d grown up close to the ocean, among the grand old maples and elms of the Northeast, and Iowa to me seemed desolate.

I did enjoy a visit to Iowa City, which is not like the rest of what I saw. It was sort of like a midwestern Cambridge.

@SpatzieLover, I was in Vedic City before it was Vedic City. That’s the site of my old college campus. It was later purchased and razed to create the Maharishi community.

Iowans are great people. I was amazed to find the hilly country that Grant Wood painted looking just like his paintings. I’d recommend it highly, if anyone asked.

Great state in what I call the heartland. Agricultural base, which usually means a culture that understands work and reward, and is not particularly tolerant of excuse makers and malingerers. Just my type of folks. I am from Ohio.

Don’t know much about it other than that The Music Man takes place there, but I’m impressed with their allowing of gay marriage even when “crazy liberal California” couldn’t do it.

@DominicX Like I said…

@Grant6 You’ve met people that can’t tell Iowa from Ohio or Idaho? Holy crap we’re doomed.

Farmland, small river towns, family values and county fairs. These are the things I think of when you mention Iowa.

We live in western Illinois, about an hour from the Iowa border and 90 minutes from the Quad cities. In fact, the local news stations we receive are from the Quad cities. Our topography here is comparable to much of Iowa. Some hills, a lot of farmland, large oaks, pockets of woodlands, small rivers, lots of wildlife. I love it.

@Adirondackwannabe Yeah, well, I live in SoCal. So… you know… they didn’t go to school in Iowa.

One of my Aunt and Uncle’s lived there. I loved visiting them. I attended a small church college for a year. I hate winter, so I wouldn’t choose to live there.

flat
corn
farms
storms
snow
strong Midwestern accents
a VERY good online and phone friend
The Bridges of Madison County

Nothing really, other than it sounds like something that would come out of kung fu panda’s mouth as he was performing some cumbersome karate move.

It doesn’t hurt Ashton Kutcher is from Cedar Rapids, IA. Another plus for IA.

When I was in Europe and people couldn’t place Iowa (where I’m from), I would tell them it was were “Bridges of Madison County” was filmed and they went crazy. They thought it was the most beautiful place ever. That was 10 years ago, but even then it was about 10 yrs old and people still knew it. “Field of Dreams” never worked – guess b/c baseball isn’t so big over there.

I’ve lived in southwest Iowa my whole life. Most of the stuff people are saying is true. Mostly white people, a lot of them farmers. People lean conservative for the most part, but you wouldn’t know it unless you ask them. People here are generally very polite. Iowa City is a fun place to be during the college football season. The children’s hospital is next to the stadium so the kids go to the top floor to watch the game. At the end of the 1st quarter everyone in the stadium turns and waves to the kids. Little things like that show of the good hearted nature people have here. Someone on here said we have VERY strong Midwestern accents here, but I have to disagree. This is just what english sounds like when its pronounced correctly.