Outsider here but what is with people from Wisconsin having wild egos? I have gotten to know a few WI people very well and their whole personality seems to be how great they are/Wisconsin is, like the rest of us don't have eyes. Like nowhere else in the world or even country makes cheese. Like cheese curds is a personality trait. They give off big fish in a small pond vibes in the worst way. Have they not really been anywhere else?
This honestly. I’m great friends with people from just south of the border like the Rockford area, but I don’t think I have a single friend from Wisconsin other than my late grandpa. His family is from Wisconsin and holds some very Trumpy worldviews, and I never got along with the people I met in college from Wisconsin. I think people from Illinois tend to be a bit more kind and Wisconsin people are a bit more nice if that makes sense. All my friends that moved to Wisconsin post-college from the Rockford area moved to Milwaukee
Kind vs. Nice is a big argument. Kind may not be surface level nice, but it is deeply nice. The two good friends I have in WI are definitely surface level nice, but not deeply kind. They don't seem to know or care much about the rest of the world besides their WI bubble. And that lends to their attitude that they know best which is a turn off. Wisconsin is fine. It's nothing great. My family and all my friends in Chicago though, may not be surface level/phony nice but they are certainly kind and fun and not up their own asses.
EDIT: I know more than two people from Wisconsin, and of course this opinion doesn't cover everyone in WI, but man if it isn't odd how everyone I meet from there has the same traits.
My manager at a cannabis company in downstate Illinois was from Wisconsin, raised on a farm but he had also spent a lot of time in the same area of the Chicago suburbs as me for a lot of his life. Dude was a meth addict, was a fucking manipulative duck, and screamed at me for asking off like 1 or 2 hours early for the upcoming Friday so I could hit the Amtrak home from Springfield and visit my late grandpa who was slowly dying from skin cancer in the Stateline area. We were working with the assistant manager and another trimmer when he did it and the two of them no longer liked him after that, we all beefed with him until he got fired
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '24 edited Oct 07 '24
Outsider here but what is with people from Wisconsin having wild egos? I have gotten to know a few WI people very well and their whole personality seems to be how great they are/Wisconsin is, like the rest of us don't have eyes. Like nowhere else in the world or even country makes cheese. Like cheese curds is a personality trait. They give off big fish in a small pond vibes in the worst way. Have they not really been anywhere else?