I am so glad you liked it. I've never actually been to Winnipeg, but I have been to similar mid-continent prairie cities. At my old work we dealt a lot with Winnipeg and everyone seemed so nice and friendly and... solid. I still want to visit there sometime.
My general theory is that there are places where people really are friendly and more neighborly and those are often places in which the weather is potentially dangerous/there is still a bit of a frontier atmosphere. In other words, where you often find that you need others to survive. Seattle was NOT like that. Los Angeles was NOT like that. Boston was NOT like that. But Ohio was. And New Mexico. A few years back, the the government cut off all the natural gas lines to northern New Mexico during the coldest week of the year (negative double digits), but as soon as the news was released, people started calling the local radio stations offering cords of wood to senior citizens or wood-heated guest houses to people in need. One local restaurant closed for business and did nothing but serve free chili to people for three days. It was amazing how people just came together to help others. That's the sort of spirit I wanted to convey!
And I feel for Remus here. When we moved to Ohio all of our West Coast and East Coast friends were like, "Why the hell would you want to live in Ohio?" We get that about New Mexico, too. And we've loved our life in both places, but sometimes we felt like we had to somehow defend our choice.
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Date: 2015-01-03 12:14 am (UTC)I am so glad you liked it. I've never actually been to Winnipeg, but I have been to similar mid-continent prairie cities. At my old work we dealt a lot with Winnipeg and everyone seemed so nice and friendly and... solid. I still want to visit there sometime.
My general theory is that there are places where people really are friendly and more neighborly and those are often places in which the weather is potentially dangerous/there is still a bit of a frontier atmosphere. In other words, where you often find that you need others to survive. Seattle was NOT like that. Los Angeles was NOT like that. Boston was NOT like that. But Ohio was. And New Mexico. A few years back, the the government cut off all the natural gas lines to northern New Mexico during the coldest week of the year (negative double digits), but as soon as the news was released, people started calling the local radio stations offering cords of wood to senior citizens or wood-heated guest houses to people in need. One local restaurant closed for business and did nothing but serve free chili to people for three days. It was amazing how people just came together to help others. That's the sort of spirit I wanted to convey!
And I feel for Remus here. When we moved to Ohio all of our West Coast and East Coast friends were like, "Why the hell would you want to live in Ohio?" We get that about New Mexico, too. And we've loved our life in both places, but sometimes we felt like we had to somehow defend our choice.
Thank you for your comment! It made my day!