Kind of depends on who you ask. Many of my friends in college came from farming families, which Monsanto and similar companies have largely eradicated. Those

Kind of depends on who you ask. Many of my friends in college came from farming families, which Monsanto and similar companies have largely eradicated. Those that remain are and have been in serious trouble or unrecoverable debt (which is how farmers spend most of their lives, interestingly). So in the rural midwest, the problems are far bigger. Aside from that, in the cities... there are homeless here, and there are poor here, and there's unemployment here. It's pretty much the same as anywhere else; it's just smaller, which for some of us is nice. The cities still have the same stuff, they're just not as big, and urban sprawl isn't quite as bad as it is in some other places. Or maybe you were making a joke and I missed it. Simple northern folk, we are... ;)