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hi midwesties, hope you are having a nice time. I am from sweden.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello from St. Louis, it's hot and humid here on Independence Day. Perfect for swimming!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Louisiana isnt in the midwest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

St. Louis is a city in Missouri :⁠-⁠)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would be Sweden's Midwest? Norway?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the definition of midwest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Having lived in Sweden for about a half year and visited a few other times (study abroad and lots of family there), geographically the whole country kind of reminds me of the midwest (barring the more frozen part way far north where the trees get smaller). The more wooded and snowy parts of the north remind me of the upper midwest, the south more akin to the large rolling fields of the farming parts of the midwest. Vänern feels like a Great Lake. The archipelago filled Baltic coastlines remind me a bit of the rockier Lake Superior coastlines of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. I could see why my grandpa and many other Swedes felt comfortable emigrating to this part of the country about a century ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you visited the Midwest?

Which places in the Midwest would you like to visit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ocean lakes, I have heard they are very big

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are so big that they are in fact great lakes!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a while we spent vacation time in Michigan every summer- absolutely loved it. Ever since the kids started going to college it's been more sporadic. Someday we'll get back up there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why not now?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, that is a nice ocean beach. Looks just like in southern sweden

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just kidding, I know it is one of the great big ocean lakes. Very majestic please do not litter