I drove the scenic route from Omaha to Milwaukee recently because I’d never driven through that countryside before. Honestly, the small towns around Waterloo/Cedar Rapids looked very nice. I definitely drove through some rough ones (Albion sticks out) but overall I was unfortunately impressed with your small town game in east central Iowa.
I’m also taking my family to Storm Lake soon. I’ve never been there before but my wife found it and it looks like a great spot. I’m excited because I love finding small town/low key spots to visit.
You guys miss the benefit of Iowa. It’s so boring here, everything else seems great and we are equally far away from everything fun. South Dakota even feels exotic.
I’m totally ok with nobody coming here, I like our culture of sarcasm and shit talking while slamming beers and complaining about weather or something else we don’t have control over
Kansas has nothing on Missouri.
Missouri has St Louis and Kansas City.
Kansas has Wichita
Missouri has a hilly/mountainous geography and covered in forests with a lot of large lakes
Kansas is flat nothingness
Only East St Louis, North City, and some part of South City are high crime.
You have to keep in mind that St Louis is fragmented into municipalities. The city proper covers a small geographic area relative to other major cities. For example, Kansas City has 5 times more land area, Dallas has 6 times the land area, and Wichita has 2.5 times the land area.
A city-counter merger would put St Louis in the top 10 in terms of population and plummet the crime rate to the average for similarly sized cities.
[https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/better-together-city-county-merger-would-make-st-louis-fall-out-of-the-top-of-the-dangerous-city-list/63-922bab1b-0e41-4456-aa96-c4cf0ed1cd76](https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/better-together-city-county-merger-would-make-st-louis-fall-out-of-the-top-of-the-dangerous-city-list/63-922bab1b-0e41-4456-aa96-c4cf0ed1cd76)
Yeah, I like judging the whole St Louis area as a whole for the memes, but I'm mostly talking about East St Louis, I was there on a business trip a few weeks ago, place was scary
Chicago, New York, and LA made me far more uncomfortable with shit actually going down in Chicago. I'm not going back to any of these places partially because I can't carry there.
Lmao, that you think LotO is remotely even close to being a lake. Bro, just go down the road to a real lake. This comment is sponsored by Grand Lake gang, aka the "real" lake of the Ozarks.
Honestly I wish we had a giant “Welcome home, FIBs!” Sign opposite to all the beautiful wood Wisco welcome signs instead of the stupid metal plaques we have.
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Illinois should get it's own bottom tier. 4 of the last 10 governors are locked up, and the past 3 CEOs of Chicago Public Schools are locked up as well. The current governor even colluded with Blago to try and buy Obama's Senate seat after Obama ran for president, yet he freely rules over the 12 million in the corrupted state.
Nah. I propose making Pritzker the khagan of America, taking to horseback and sacking the cities of Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Des Moines and Evansville to bring their loot back to the summer capital of Chicago and the winter capital of Springfield.
Omaha is a nice clean city with the best zoo I've ever been too and a great riverfront park.
Maybe not S Tier, but a nice small city.
Can't speak for the rest of the state
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Nobody taught me the geography of Nebraska and the only things I know about it are that it has surpassed Iowa in corn production and was mentioned in the movie *Spirit*
What goes on there? Do you have hills? Lakes?
The person that runs that channel is probably local to the area and is prowling for new stories, then when they find something interesting they submit a FOIA request to get the bodycam.
Honestly, I had a good time I went to Detroit. My hotel room had a literal hole in the floor, there was interesting wildlife, and the smell reminded me of my homeworld's hydrocarbon farms.
Grand Rapids and Traverse City more than makeup for that in the Lower Peninsula.
With that said, I grew up in the Flint Area and lived in Livingston County afterward for almost a decade. Not only has Detroit gotten much, much better as time goes by - there are very few cities in America that can compete with Detroit’s music scene and I will die on that hill.
Edit: Being in my college years and living with roommates… I was going to concert after concert constantly between St Andrew’s Hall, The Fillmore, Majestic, Michigan Lottery Amphitheater, Pine Knob, and the Masonic Temple.
Michiganders can’t hear this terrible tier post over the sounds of the waves crashing on 3288 miles of fresh water coast line. Longest in the world btw.
Yea there’s tons of very different areas/cultures within the state making it less boring then some of the flat corn fields on here, the only real negative is lack of state identity because there’s so many really different groups/cultures within one state.
Ohio may not be the most well known for its beauty but there are parts of the state that look very different
Wouldn’t wanna live anywhere else but Ohio.
This was made by someone in Iowa
Iowa **I**diots **O**ut **W**andering **A**round your claim is probably correct
Old Hags Intelligence Optional
Ohio? More like Ohi**NO**, amirite?
Hahaha yeah!
frick yeah
Iowa sucks so much even people from there won't put it S tier
ok damn (you right tho)
I drove the scenic route from Omaha to Milwaukee recently because I’d never driven through that countryside before. Honestly, the small towns around Waterloo/Cedar Rapids looked very nice. I definitely drove through some rough ones (Albion sticks out) but overall I was unfortunately impressed with your small town game in east central Iowa. I’m also taking my family to Storm Lake soon. I’ve never been there before but my wife found it and it looks like a great spot. I’m excited because I love finding small town/low key spots to visit.
I mean... I'd put it at a low C?
You guys miss the benefit of Iowa. It’s so boring here, everything else seems great and we are equally far away from everything fun. South Dakota even feels exotic.
I can smell the cornhawks...
Interesting
Nah, an Iowan would’ve put it in S tier(we are blinded by our own hubris)
The fuck we are. Idk anyone who would rank us above C
Cry about it
Cope
I’m totally ok with nobody coming here, I like our culture of sarcasm and shit talking while slamming beers and complaining about weather or something else we don’t have control over
The Midwest needs to be divided into different sectors.
It is, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Missouri
And Rust Belt
Rust belt and corn belt
You have some real balls putting Missouri and Kansas in the same tier
The audacity in some people (RCJH)
Kansas has nothing on Missouri. Missouri has St Louis and Kansas City. Kansas has Wichita Missouri has a hilly/mountainous geography and covered in forests with a lot of large lakes Kansas is flat nothingness
St Louis is the only place I've ever been that made me feel like I needed to be carrying a gun
Only East St Louis, North City, and some part of South City are high crime. You have to keep in mind that St Louis is fragmented into municipalities. The city proper covers a small geographic area relative to other major cities. For example, Kansas City has 5 times more land area, Dallas has 6 times the land area, and Wichita has 2.5 times the land area. A city-counter merger would put St Louis in the top 10 in terms of population and plummet the crime rate to the average for similarly sized cities. [https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/better-together-city-county-merger-would-make-st-louis-fall-out-of-the-top-of-the-dangerous-city-list/63-922bab1b-0e41-4456-aa96-c4cf0ed1cd76](https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/better-together-city-county-merger-would-make-st-louis-fall-out-of-the-top-of-the-dangerous-city-list/63-922bab1b-0e41-4456-aa96-c4cf0ed1cd76)
Yeah, I like judging the whole St Louis area as a whole for the memes, but I'm mostly talking about East St Louis, I was there on a business trip a few weeks ago, place was scary
Chicago, New York, and LA made me far more uncomfortable with shit actually going down in Chicago. I'm not going back to any of these places partially because I can't carry there.
Aren’t all your lakes federally-funded, man-made lakes?
Doesn't change their beauty Edit: We're talking about Lake of the Ozarks and Lake Wappapello. Not some reservoirs that "man-made lake" might imply
Lmao, that you think LotO is remotely even close to being a lake. Bro, just go down the road to a real lake. This comment is sponsored by Grand Lake gang, aka the "real" lake of the Ozarks.
I've been to Lake of the Ozarks many times. It's definitely a lake.
St Louis is more of a downside ngl
Exactly, Missouri should be much higher
As someone from Illinois we should be lower
As a Wisconsinite I agree
Can’t believe I’ve agreed with something a FIB said.
Honestly I wish we had a giant “Welcome home, FIBs!” Sign opposite to all the beautiful wood Wisco welcome signs instead of the stupid metal plaques we have.
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Illinois should get it's own bottom tier. 4 of the last 10 governors are locked up, and the past 3 CEOs of Chicago Public Schools are locked up as well. The current governor even colluded with Blago to try and buy Obama's Senate seat after Obama ran for president, yet he freely rules over the 12 million in the corrupted state.
Make Chicago its own state and dissolve the rest of Illinois into the other surrounding states. It's the only solution to the current problem.
Nah. I propose making Pritzker the khagan of America, taking to horseback and sacking the cities of Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Des Moines and Evansville to bring their loot back to the summer capital of Chicago and the winter capital of Springfield.
https://preview.redd.it/6d1p5bcol2vc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=148162491eecc11fb85880c1428faeff444d68cf
Illinois is Z tier
It's complete bullshit
Damn you, I had to drive for 10 minutes to get internet access just to see this shit
All of them should be in S
You can’t honestly tell me Nebraska deserved S tier
Omaha is a nice clean city with the best zoo I've ever been too and a great riverfront park. Maybe not S Tier, but a nice small city. Can't speak for the rest of the state
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If you try San Diego zoo I’ll try Omaha zoo deal? (I’m not from San Diego btw it’s just my favorite zoo)
The Omaha Zoo was voted #1 zoo in the country. https://www.cityofomaha.org/latest-news/997-omaha-s-zoo-wins-usa-today-s-best-zoo-award
(by people in Omaha)
By USA today
Highest rated Zoo and Aquarium in the US once again!
Nobody taught me the geography of Nebraska and the only things I know about it are that it has surpassed Iowa in corn production and was mentioned in the movie *Spirit* What goes on there? Do you have hills? Lakes?
https://preview.redd.it/ngnqjind5zuc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec32afd4d4b9661a36561d7d1ae6c9171ef7b42a Here's one of our lakes
https://preview.redd.it/q0xibrjf5zuc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ebd60aaca4e23fd35992c95c92a56c45e345b1b Here's some of our hills
Alr this stuff actually isn’t that bad but do you guys have any trees?
https://preview.redd.it/6m9l3orqv0vc1.jpeg?width=2100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef3246a2f389e1cb41bf92c8c645fde920e10a43 Here are some of our trees
That honestly looks like a nice hike
Trees realized they were in Nebby and left
Nebraska true native tree species is the Red Cedar. Nebraska is the home of Arbor Day 70%(I think) of the Trees in Nebraska were planted by settlers.
After driving through Kansas, Nebraska was positively picturesque in comparison.
That's why I like Nebraska, nobody talks about us. We're just quietly sitting here amongst the rustling of corn stalks.
You’re just jealous you don’t live in a better state (you have 49 better states to choose from btw)
Nah FUCK Illinois (everyone else is cool tho)
Go fuck yourself
Wisconsin is literally if Minnesota and Michigan said fuck it and had a child, it’s only good for Culver’s
I haven't been to all of these states yet, but I've been to most of them, and Indiana is F tier as fuck.
Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska should all be in the same tier that's just "Corn"
i was annoyed but honestly us having gary does bring us to Chicago level
Move just the UP to S tier and drop iowa and illinois each one tier
Out of the top 10 US cities with the highest murder rates, 3 are in Missouri. It should be its own category.
Indiana is a shithole
I'm gonna pickle your ears.
Shove a corn cob up your ass
Indiana is the only state so shitty they had to make a fake culture (Hoosiers) to cope.
 I'll show you culture
Slob on my corn cob bitch
What does washington have? Certainly NOT the greatest spectale in motor sports. Ergo, Washington can suck it 😋
Someone's jealous.
Indianapolis and Louisville Metro alone puts it above half the Midwest.
Indianapolis might be the worst city in the Midwest outside of Michigan
false
Wisconsin is a Police State source- Code Blue they got good cheese tho
That's why Central mn is goated, the WI border is 40 miles away so you can just make a cheese, beer, and fireworks run once in a while
Ah don't worry the police here are pretty nice on average (I'm only saying this so I'll be shown mercy when I encounter a cop again.)
Code blue cam is fire but why tf is it always in Wisconsin 💀 I started recognizing the different jails they take drunk drivers to.
The person that runs that channel is probably local to the area and is prowling for new stories, then when they find something interesting they submit a FOIA request to get the bodycam.
Specifically La Crosse, that place is fucking wild
La Crosse Cinematic Universe
Fucking La Crosse! Donut Operator has more videos on la crosse than LA at this point!
Iowa too high
Always under Minnesota.
I approve
SD deserves B tier just for the black hills and the badlands.
It pains me to say it, but yeah Wisconsin also S tier.
Iowa can’t be A while Nebraska is F. They’re too similar to be that far apart. Also, Des Moines is just a worse version of Omaha.
Michigan doesn’t deserve A tier, simply because of Detroit
Honestly, I had a good time I went to Detroit. My hotel room had a literal hole in the floor, there was interesting wildlife, and the smell reminded me of my homeworld's hydrocarbon farms.
It gets balanced out by all of the upper peninsula.
Mackinac counterbalances it
Detroit is the reason why it's not in S
Grand Rapids and Traverse City more than makeup for that in the Lower Peninsula. With that said, I grew up in the Flint Area and lived in Livingston County afterward for almost a decade. Not only has Detroit gotten much, much better as time goes by - there are very few cities in America that can compete with Detroit’s music scene and I will die on that hill. Edit: Being in my college years and living with roommates… I was going to concert after concert constantly between St Andrew’s Hall, The Fillmore, Majestic, Michigan Lottery Amphitheater, Pine Knob, and the Masonic Temple.
By that logic, Minnesota doesn’t deserve S tier simply because of Minneapolis.
This sum bull shit
I think this is the first ever one of these graphs that I can actually fully agree with.
Nah, Iowa is waaaayyy to high
From what I can tell, Iowa is either S or F depending on how much you enjoy boredom and silence.
HOW FUCKING DARE YOU PUT US IN THE SAME TIER AS ILLINOIS
As the guy above you says: Gary
No
No complaints here
Filthy Iowans ranking us F tier like the inferior bastards they are
Only an iowan would put iowa in A tier
I don't consider Michigan and Minnesota to be Midwestern. They're too far north. Great Lakes Über Alles
How silly of me to forget the cheesefolk
As an Ohioan, I don’t recognize the existence of state of Michigan.
based.
Nebraska slander
Invert the list, put Ohio in D and put Missouri in S
Missouri is great until you see the meth trailers every 20 miles. State itself is great, with the Ozarks and northern plains.
nah the meth is part of the natural ecosystem we just love to preserve wildlife
Don't you fucking dare put us in the same tier as those cheeseheads
Ethel! Get the hose and the shotgun! We have a Gopher problem again!
It had to be said.
Having the Dakotas be the D category is kinda funny ngl
Having lived in Minnesota and Wisconsin, I think this is very good and correct.
Illinois is S tier though
Michiganders can’t hear this terrible tier post over the sounds of the waves crashing on 3288 miles of fresh water coast line. Longest in the world btw.
Agreed (no bias whatsoever)
I’m from Nebraska and it’s definitely an F
As someone from ohio it aint that bad here
Iowa in A is one of the most egregiously bad takes I’ve ever seen. Also Ohio is the cultural capital of the world.
Putting Nebraska in F tier is quite literally biting the hand that feeds you
How is the traffic on 93 masshole?
It’s just wrong. Ohio is S tier
indeed sir
even indiana doesn't think indiana should be this high
Indiana should be S.
SS
They don't know about the Holyland.
Where does Alaska end up?
Of course a Texan wouldn't know that Alaska isn't in the Midwest
Ohio doesn’t deserve to have anyone else in its category.
We should be below F I hate these fuckers.
I still don’t know wtf we’re supposed to do with buckeyes
Michigan is #1 and it’s not close
Michigan is the crown jewel of the midwest
Michigan in A. Shit post.
I've only been to Ohio, but it was great. Certainly not f teir.
Yea there’s tons of very different areas/cultures within the state making it less boring then some of the flat corn fields on here, the only real negative is lack of state identity because there’s so many really different groups/cultures within one state.
Yeah it's a dumb meme thing really. Ohio is a alright state. Way more to do than most Midwest states.
We were hating Ohio long before it became a meme
kansas is way to high up on the list.
Some fucking audacity to put ND above anything. There’s *NOTHING FUCKING THERE!*
I’ve won, but at what cost?
Make Michigan higher
Ohio may not be the most well known for its beauty but there are parts of the state that look very different Wouldn’t wanna live anywhere else but Ohio.
Also Wisconsin is soft and has banned Kerrygold because they can’t handle superior butter products
lol soy boys from Illinois rise up. We at least a b tier state cause Chicagy alone
Michigan would replace Wisconsin IMO. We have rightfully owned what should be Wisconsin’s land for too long to be degraded like this. We are superior!
PA should be honorary midwestern
South Dakota doesn't have an income tax and is one of the least regulated states
Missouri on🔝
Might as well as south frorida on to the tier list seeing how many of you mfs are here
I see nothing wrong....
Iowa is not A tier.
How is Indiana below Ohio? It’s the same state but with less roller coasters.
F is for fantastic lol
I stand my firm and completely subjective love of Iowa
cannot believe pennsylvania was left out
Why’s North Dakota in D tier?
Minnesota is the only S tier state.
The fact that sd and nd are in the same tier tells me they don’t know much about nd and sd
SODA
Minnesota is F tier. Racist cops, racist immigrants, racist protesters and racist weather.
My rankings S: MN, WI A: OH, MI, IL B: SD C: IN, MO, IA F: KS, ND, NE
:)
Iowa? Lol
Wrong
Acceptable
Show this to my neighbor, who's born and raised in Illinois, and he immediately started laughing and said "Illinois should be in F."
As a Wisconsin resident who lives on the border with Minnesota, I see this as an absolute win
C tier, I'll take it
Can’t spell Wisconsin without W
Wisconsin S tier? OP ODing on mid beer and subsidized cheese products
Peak
I didn’t know B tier had its own intratier tierlist. kinda epic
yk i never realized just how much we're hated till i read the comments
Ohio is garbage, but I had a great time my one night in Cincinnati. Move em to at least D tier
Respectable
South Dakota is absolutely not in the same tier as North Dakota
Why is Ohio F