[Roosh]

So I'm heading her on a small trip. I'll have time over a weekend to explore a bit. Anything recommendations if I'm staying in the center? I'm open to cafes, restaurants, and nightlife spots.

[Orson]

Pack cowboy boots in 'yer pickup truck, and wear a cowboy hat! Well, not really - that's the Western half of South Dakota (and the center) that's real ranching style. Sioux Falls is in the eastern half, and has more in common with the farms and farm living of Iowa, Western Minnesota, and NE Nebraska!

Still, Sioux Falls IS the Big [enough] City for locals.

People marry young here. If you go out on the weekend or get lucky in bars, then count on meeting the separated or divorced. (Think of any number of old country songs!)

This time of year, the weather can change rapidly from cold to warm and the reverse. Weather is always an interesting topic for opening with anyone. Segue to being a visitor and being interested in seeing or doing something sociable or notable.

I actually like SoDak.

A long-time GF from Minneapolis used to visit there because her ex-BF was a radio DJ in Sioux Falls; we even passed through there, while traveling together. Another brief GF did medical school there, at the University of South Dakota.

I would go there, the USD campus and wander nearby, if not on campus itself, and look for social opps. Find any sociable crowds, from the food court or the campus bookstore, asking visitor-type questions. It's a public university of 200-ish acres. Find amenities close to campus, or else towards downtown, about two miles away, and enjoy the fall colors of the Big Sioux River valley, which is even closer.

I've spent a night in Sioux Falls (or nearby) many times while crossing the 'Big Empty' (as geographers label it - "U" or "V" shaped region of lowest population density in the US and Canada, with a line drawn from Denver to Omaha forming its base).

Now, you are well-travelled, more interesting, and have a classic, darker, more "ethnic look:" people may well find you and your stories more interesting than their own. YOU will likely liven up things for them just by being yourself!

Literacy and education is valued here, despite relative isolation. And travel - and you are exceptionally well-travelled! Let drop some place-names and hold forth, as you like.

(To the South and the West is Lincoln, Nebraska - which is actually a similarly sized town to Sioux Falls, but with a significantly larger university - and a lot more fun! I attended a summer session there to audition a PhD mentor. I loved the people and place! [Well, not the mentor.] One of my new friends was a native born and PhD educated New Yorker, as well as an English prof at the University of Arkansas, taking her first sabbatical. She fell in love with the cultural and social stimulation of Lincoln and "UNL," going all-out and buying ALL of the University of Nebraska booster wear! OK - Off topic, I know - but I want to tout the highest potentials of the Big Empty, and Lincoln is that place. Sioux Falls is maybe two steps down. Because if a New Yorker finds it FUN there....it must be outsized and exceptional!)

People work hard and go to bed early. Even on weekends. THIS is classic flyover country - the locals feel more inferior than they should.
There is a uniformity of ethnic, northern European backgrounds. You will strike the curious as...SPICY and appealing! Because, in this realm, different is good - and exotic, more exciting.

THINK simple, THINK middle class tastes, and THINK rural - the locals will be open and friendly! If you try 'n FEEL a little country (fake it, if you must) - and you might enjoy visiting SoDak, too.

[OGNorCal707]

Maybe Roosh will meet a wholesome Midwestern girl that matches his 7 criteria for a wife, then will fall in love, get married, start a farm with a bunch of little Rooshes and live happily ever after.

[el mechanico]

Try to stay at that hotel MiXX stayed at if it's not too far out of the way I heard shit gets wild there.

[Roosh]

So I won't stay here for long but this is definitely a social circle oriented place, unless you know where the university girls hang out at. A few notes:

-People smile a lot and are extremely friendly
-It's super white, especially compared to DC
-It's flat and spread out so you will want a car
-Even though it's a sizeable city, the downtown area can feel like a sleepy suburb, though it does pick up at night
-Male competition seems light
-Obesity is definitely a problem
-There are 3 Ukrainian churches here, and a sizeable Slavic population (I was shocked when I heard Russian in a cafe)
-It's not expensive

I'll have more to share later. I like it quite a bit in terms of comfort and calmness.

[ChickenLover9T9]

Is Roosh coming full-circle and contemplating a nice peaceful life in semi-rural midwest USA? From your recent articles and of course TSOM you seem quite exhausted and tired of the places you once seemed to fall in love with (relative to DC anyway).

Sometimes from what is written about them it seems like everything about american women nowadays is all doom and gloom, but I came back from a trip to Europe recently and was so surprised how friendly and humble these small town american girls were. They weren't the sharpest tools in the box but they had a unique energy and I think, if anything, overdid it with the "game" because I had this preconception of a 2015 american girl and was in "game attack" mode as a kind of form of defense. It sounds odd but I think I would have done much better game wise if I had just told the girl I love her and want to marry her and live on a farm with her in Nebraska.

I met some other girls, 18, just out of HS, in a troop of about two dozen from some small town in Wisconsin, they seemed so friendly and sweet as well. Only passed by them for a few days so I can only go on speaking to about a dozen or so for a few hours.

If you're in the midwest long enough, I would love to read some articles of some genuinely warm, positive experiences with the women out there. It would definitely be something different and I am curious as well as to whether I just lucked out on first impressions or if there is any gold to be found in the US in 2015.

I've always wondered about the midwest and some places in the south - are there traditional (but non-mormon) towns where culture is still rich and unique, where women are american small town country girls, like in some 80s-90s films that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Traditional manosphere stories about the USA, however, kind of put the country pretty far down the list of "places to visit", if you're not from the US.

GL on your trip, if you go to Lincoln, NE a small list of your thoughts on that place would be great too as it's pretty much where I would go near first if I ever visited the US.

[floor7]

I have driven across the US, and across the 'the big empty' and in my opinion South Dakota was the friendliest state I've ever been to. I didn't try to game in Souix Falls as I was there only for one night.

[Orson]

(11-07-2015 01:04 AM)Roosh Wrote:  

So I won't stay here for long but this is definitely a social circle oriented place, unless you know where the university girls hang out at. A few notes:

-People smile a lot and are extremely friendly
-It's super white, especially compared to DC
-It's flat and spread out so you will want a car
-Even though it's a sizeable city, the downtown area can feel like a sleepy suburb, though it does pick up at night
-Male competition seems light
-Obesity is definitely a problem
-There are 3 Ukrainian churches here, and a sizeable Slavic population (I was shocked when I heard Russian in a cafe)
-It's not expensive

I'll have more to share later. I like it quite a bit in terms of comfort and calmness.

ALL sound, solid, concrete observations.

Although I must confess to having missed the Russian, Ukrainian, and Slavic notes - probably because of having grown up in all that Germanic-Nordic stew that surrounds the pirogi. (Spell?) Which I didn't miss when I lived near the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis - because it was nearby?


http://kramarczuks.com/
(This Ukrainian bakery and sausage maker, now served at Target Field! That's in downtown Minneapolis, folks.)

Because I loved it! Before and after a blizzard hits? (YEAH.)

Anyway, my bad. I look forward to more from R.