10 Things You’ve Grown To Undeniably Hate If You’re From Iowa
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Michaela Kendall
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Iowa is a great place to live, arguably one of the best places, but there are certain things that – living in Iowa – you’ve grown to hate. Here are 10 of those things:
"Oh, you're the Potato State?" No, not even close.
When people confuse Iowa for the Buckeye State (Ohio) or the Potato State (Idaho), it makes buying this shirt from Raygun even more justifiable.
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Like accidentally driving past a hog confinement with your window down, or a field freshly spread with manure. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say the level of stink is around 40.
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These things are suicidal, so you learn to hate them when you live in a state with one of the highest rates of car vs. deer accidents in the nation.
It’s good for the first couple snows, but after that the world is a slushy, grey mess until April.
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As soon as winter comes, people suddenly forget how to drive, and it makes for some not so fun commutes.
Getting into a freezing cold car, then having to wait for it to warm up, is exactly how I don’t want to start my day.
It’s even worse when you lose your ice scraper and have to make do with a credit card.
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When you’re driving along the highway and all of a sudden you have to slow down from 55 mph to 25 mph.
Though there are a few things you grow tired of while living in Iowa, the goods outweigh the bads a million to one, and there is no place like Iowa.
Overall though, Iowa is still one of the best places in the world, and there is no place I would rather call home.
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