Sealab2024 wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:Sealab2024 wrote:We're more Baja Canada if we're being truthful

An old acquaintance of mine always raved about life in Minnesota, it's one of the states I want to visit when I have time.
Skip the Winter unless you wanna go Ice fishing. It's been really an odd month between me and New York. I've always been a West Coast vacation/escape guy, and I've visited Texas and New Orleans but I never really had any desire to go to the east coast. Too populace, too busy and too touristy for my tastes at large.
But in the last month I've had like 3 people just assume I'm from New York out of nowhere which is oddly specific. Not easy coast in general... Just New York. Yesterday I was in the elevator with an acquaintance Ive know for 5 years we were talking, he was complaining about traffic and said "You're from New York, I'm sure you're used to way worse" and I'm just like .. no! I'm from South Minneapolis where my family goes back to the 1800's. He was shocked. "You just seem like you're from New York"... I don't even know what that means.
Mind you this has never happened before the last month and when you add in the KAT for Randle DDV trade and the WNBA finals I've suddenly had a ton of new York in my life. I'm assuming this all means I should start looking at an NY vacation.
All of this discussion about Minnesota tickles me because that's where my mom is from (my dad's originally from Wisconsin). My mom, incidentally, loves to go back to see family...but not in the winter.
While I'm born and raised in SoCal, I'm rather notorious for not presenting as clearly from any one particular place. Part of the reason for that is that I spent a lot of summers in Minnesota (with jaunts east to Wisconsin and west as far as Nebraska), and so there's definitely a "folksy-ness" to how I talk, as well as some "Minnesota nice".
My mom's family has been based in the East St. Paul area for a century or so, though it's not that tightly clustered obviously given the ranging to other states. I definitely have family from both parents in Minneapolis, and have spent a lot of time further north at cabins on obscure lakes.
In general I'm not big Minnesota-sports homer, and but there's always a part of me that's happy when places where I have relatives win. In 2021 when Milwaukee played Phoenix in the NBA finals, I had family in both cities, so was always going to be happy for the winners and sad for the losers.