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One thing to keep in mind if coming to Iowa is to avoid as much as possible going south of Interstate 80.
Those people from down there are a burger and a slice cheese short of a cheese burger.
They ain't right in the head; in fact, some of them have two heads and aren't right in either of them.
Think Deliverance but with a couple more teeth.
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I live 3 miles North of I80. This is Truth. Think Berkeley of the Midwest (Iowa City) complete with granola eating rabid antigun bottom feeders. Most of whom go back to mommy's in Chicago when school gets out for the summer (like it did this past weekend...) The good news is that it's a localized phenomenon, get about 16" Iowa Class battleship's main gun range away and you're safe.
Or you could get lucky and be in the Chicago of Iowa (Des Moines) with the wannabe politicians and government blood suckers. They're mostly harmless but their attempts to be a Chicago suburb made me puke. I lived in Chicago for six months, figuratively chewed my foot off to get away from the trap. Money gets you so far and then you realize life is actually worth living.
Cedar Rapids is tolerable, except for their bizarre long term desire to become more like West Des Moines, where the successful rabid granola eaters go after earning their 6 year undergrad degrees from UI. Actual work happens in CR. Like half of the avionics for all the airplanes in the world. And high fructose corn syrup. Can't make Dr Pepper without it.
Wait, this was a thread about Mason City. Not sucky. They grew my first wife there, can't decide if she was/is a space alien or if it's a bad idea to get married at 23. Something about 6' redheads out in the corn fields occurred to me after the divorce, but then I stopped drinking.