One of These Things Is Not Like the Other!

Differences (cultural and otherwise) between Cincinnati and Sioux Falls:

1) litter. Cincinnati apparently thinks that litter is okay. Is it? I mean, it doesn’t really matter, because it’s either all around us or in a giant pile somewhere that’s NIMBY. Regardless of good or bad, it’s here. It wasn’t there.

2) People. Okay, this is an obvious one. Cincinnati has over one million people (this includes suburbs, etc. The county that Cincinnati is located in, Hamilton County, has over 850,000 people. That’s more people than in all of South Dakota, which has approximately 800,000 . Period.

3) South Dakota has a state soil .

4) There is live music all over the place here, all of the time. I can often hear blues or jazz from where I am right now…and on certain nights of the week, I can hear an alternative rock band . Awesome.

5) There is a stretch of road here that smells like Kahlua. Very delicious.

6) When I cross the border into the next state, I am welcomed by densely populated areas and buildings and venues, not corn or soybean fields.

7) When things on TV say that they’re going to start at 8/7c, they start at 8.

8) All ten thousand million malls are two stories (at least!) tall. Except the ones that aren’t.

9) Diversity.

10) Drive-thru locations mean more than just Rally’s or McDonald’s or White Castle…they mean convenience store drive-thrus. I know that I’ve mentioned them before…but hot damn. I love them. I am truly fascinated.

11) Everyone here talks about the Big Lebowski. Constantly. They must all come out of the womb with that video burned into their retinas. I have now seen said movie. I was resistant at first…but the more I think about the movie, the more I laugh.

12) There are wonderful little bars and pubs everywhere, but all of them are really narrow and you have to either climb down then up fifty stairs or up then down fifty stairs. I LOVE it!!! ☺

13) There are more things, I know. This is all for now, because really, if you’re one place, you probably don’t really care about the other place. …so it doesn’t really matter!

14) Also, even though these places have many differences (including slight variations in accent!) there is one thing that is for certain…the people are all very nice. I haven’t met one mean or terrible person. …at least not yet!