Midwest Nice 

It was a rude awakening when I found out that the rest of the country isn't this way lol.

I’m 16 and I live in the Midwest, I am physically unable to pass someone walking, biking or driving without doin the little hand wave thing

The gardening bits were embarrassingly accurate. Only thing missing was randomly leaving vegetables on each other's porches because you 'grew too much'.

I also love how in the Midwest honking in traffic isn’t something people do casually. Usually when people honk it’s for good reason. It’s uncommon enough that you actually care when people honk at you in traffic and everyone will look to see if it’s something they did.

Some say he’s still at the four-way, letting other people go first

Looking up at the sky and saying “Oh, it’s about to rain good,” is the most Midwest thing in the world

Has anyone else started to hold the door open for someone but it's below zero so you close it 80% to not let the cold in, and then open it again once they get close enough.

I immigrated from the UK 25 years ago to a small town in Michigan. I have never met such kind, genuine people in my life. You cannot walk a block without at least three conversations about the weather, how handsome your Labrador is or how the kids are doing. We even say hello and start conversations with people in elevators.

I feel misrepresented. He wasn’t even wearing socks with his sandals.

This isn’t Comedy, it’s a documentary

We also say "have a good one" when parting ways. Sometimes we say "it's about that time" to initiate the departing.

The mind numbing small talk, the obligatory niceness, the offering of backyard garden vegetables, the church bar crawl? Yes, that’s what the Midwest is all about

I cannot physically stop myself from saying "ope" EVERY time I bump into someone, drop something, or make any kind of small mistake.

“It’s what gets me out of purgatory” funniest shit ever

Honestly I'm British and live in London and your videos are slowly convincing me to move to the Midwest to find a lovely husband. Go Packers!

You’re making me a special kind of homesick and I’m not even from the Midwest. Wouldn’t mind living there if people genuinely are that nice and down to earth.

The Midwest is a combination of Southern hospitality and Canadian politeness.

Forgot "It wouldn't be that cold out if it wasn't for this wind."

Bout to move to Wisconsin for work, as a Canadian this definitely makes me feel better about the move. Cheers to y;all in the Midwest!

Wow Midwest people are so nice. I am foreigner. If ever I want to visit USA someday, I want to visit midwest to see kind people.

people are always like “why do you let yourself be taken advantage of” but to me it’s just being nice. i was born this way y’all

As a southerner, I really enjoy these videos. I feel like midwesterners are our nervous, Catholic cousins.

Our neighbors for the past five years were from the Midwest. Best neighbors we've ever had! No joke. Sad they moved.

Just moved to Illinois from New York. Bought a couch on Facebook marketplace and they offered to deliver it in their pickup truck even though we lived 25 minutes away! I’m still blown away and I thought back on this video and laughed. #midwestnice

Who else says “op sorry” or just me

"i know i cant help the weather, but it doesnt mean im not sorry about it."

The guy reverses from the stop sign to not threaten the guy walking across the street. What a class act lol!

Traveling between LA and Indiana every month is an experience. Cause in LA if you hold the door for someone, they look at you like you’ve pissed in their vegan cornflakes - but in Indiana if you don’t hold the door for someone, you can sense the balance being disturbed. You must adjust accordingly

No dislikes. Must be a lot of Midwesterners on here.

I feel like people that aren’t from the Midwest think this is over exaggeration

It's true! I'm from the South, and most of the friends I've made in CA have parents from the Midwest! People here are not used to the friendliness and were suspicious, like it can't be genuine! We are NICE, and FRIENDLY, talk to everyone... The world NEEDS US!!!

After living in "hospitable" Texas for 30+ years, I was bowled over at how WONDERFUL everyone is here in Wisconsin! I'm from here so WOW, I missed that niceness! Why can't the rest of the country be like this???

You know your from the Midwest when you hold the door for someone who is 30 feet behind you.

These kinds of people are the backbone of our society

I think I must’ve been kidnapped as a child from the Midwest and raised in Australia. Y’all are my kind of people! 💛

Im non-American and recently discovering everything about Midwest and it's overwhelmingly heartwarming in a weird way. This video reminds me back when i was just a kid and everyone is just being nice.

everytime someone wants to enter a door, i have the overwhelming impulse to keep holding it

Apologizing is instinct. I say “sorry” when I bump into inanimate objects.

Dear Gawd, this makes me miss my Midwest peoples. 😪💗 And I'm convinced now more than ever that I just need a Midwestern Man in my life. 💗 Nothing can compare. 💗

I love this. It’s a better world when everyone thinks of others almost as much as they think of themselves.

There is a 100% chance that the cornflake casserole is at every social function.

Here in Indiana, we aren't actually born. We just emerge out of the corn saying 'ope' and holding a Miller Lite.... Ope, sorry, Bud Light.

Or, 'the Midwest goodbye' 😅 by the time you say goodbye another conversation starts and it's a neverending loop

When my mom lived in northern Iowa in a small town with her husband, they would make sure to leave the doors unlocked "in case somebody brings us a pie or needs to borrow something"... TRUE STORY! I don't even know if they knew where the house key was...

A couple years ago, I was getting into the backseat of my dad's car. He shut the door on my fingers, and I just said "Hey dad, could you open your door, you closed it on my fingers"

Another one is "it's really coming down out there" whenever it's raining

“....you can come over and pick’m or I can just can’m and bring dem over.”

"what are your guises plan today?" is what I say to my family a lot.

Damn I’m from NY and didn’t know Americans could be this nice

I didn’t realize “stay dry” wasn’t a universal thing lmaoooo

The offering of a rhubarb cutting hit me right in the childhood.

The wave though 😂😂😂😂😂 I give out waves like Oprah gives out cars. You get a wave, you get a wave, everybody gets a wave!

"I love to help, it's what gets me out of purgatory."

I was raised by midwesterners and nobody out west in CA accepts my generosity :( Ope sorry, didn’t see ya there

Thanks to binging these videos, I’m reading all these comments in Midwestern accents in my mind.

I’m a small town Ohio native, when I went to Washington DC and found out that people there actually use their car horns and don’t hold the door for you I was actually terrified.

As someone from the Midwest it’s kind of jarring going anywhere else. No one holds the door for anyone :(

"I'd love to help. It's what gets me out of purgatory... I mean it's what makes me happy."

The bathroom tell your Dad I says hi was the best.

Born in MN raised in MD and live in VA....9 years of Midwest nice is in my DNA. My husband hates how nice I can be sometimes but I wouldn’t be any other way.

Forgot about randomly stopping an old highschool/college friend in the middle of a Walmart and talking for 40 minutes for no reason

I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and I'm disturbed by how accurate this is.

From someone from Minnesota I can confirm this is quite accurate. Especially the part where he chose to drive to Texas instead of fly, we often drove cross country and it was something.

I just moved to the midwest. Originally from Alaska, but lived in the Pacific northwest for a bit. First thing I noticed here was how polite everyone was. A 5 finger wave is a lot nicer that the one finger wave folks in the Pacific northwest give you.

This has Gus Johnson energy. But cleaner

I didn't realize Canadians had a Southern Genus‚ fascinating.

Born and raised in CA, got tired of all the people and moved up to a small mountain town above the hoards. The first time I fueled up the car, some guy said good morning at the pump and I looked around to see who he was talking to. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why people were waving at me as we passed on the highway. And when a 7 year old boy held the door open for me at the post office I almost fainted. Enjoyed it for 15 years, everyone knew EVERYONE and a guy from MN removed snow from my driveway every winter in the middle of the night so I couldn't pay him. Now I'm down with the hoards again. Everyone keeps to themselves 😒

Ohioan here, I never realized it was a midwestern thing to thank the cashiers until I took a trip to DC. Every cashier I thanked just looked at me like 😐

The part about politely letting cars go before you at the 4 way stop is so accurate 😂

"Hey take it easy there, bud" = You've done something terribly wrong

This skit is just so dear and uplifting and hopeful. Also very funny! God bless the good people of the Midwest.

1:11 - This gave me hardcore feels. My late Grampa (obv midwesterner) had a whole big patch of raspberry bushes. Good times 😊

We live in Idaho, and I’ve literally heard the same words “If anyone’s going to fall off a ladder, I don’t want it to be you” also come out of my husband’s mouth when talking to a neighbor 😄 After we got a snowblower for our tractor, my husband would snowblow the neighbor’s driveways because “it’s so easy for me, they shouldn’t have to do it”

"Good seein ya at the church bar crawl" was too much

This makes me want to visit the Midwest just to be around nice people with manners! 🙂

I moved to a suburb of Minneapolis from L.A. this year. It's so weird when I've bumped into people and they apologize first, when it was totally my fault?? And I've discovered that the passive aggressive thing is for real here. Coming from a place where people are just plain aggressive, it's very weird to get used to.

I’m from Los Angeles, born and raised. When people are that nice here we think either they’re hitting on us or psychopaths lol

If the Midwest is like this, I think these are my people.

Makes me to think I’m lucky and safer in the Midwest if I’m ever lost I would never be afraid to ask a stranger for help

Must be my midwestern habit, but whenever I walk into a place and I notice someone else is close to walking through that door. I start to panic thinking, "Do I hold the door, or do I not? I don't want to be rude, but I don't know if they're close enough.. heck it, I'll just hold the door open."

This is so real to a midwesterner that I didn't even see what was funny about it 😂

Hey man just wanna say that your content really fixes homesickness when I’m deployed. Thank you!

"I know I can't help the weather but I'm sorry bout it anyway" is my life

00:00:33 my mom makes fun of the midwest for this. we moved here from NY and keeps on saying "If four people show up at the intersection at the same time, who go's first?" and then "the person from NY" and she isn't wrong. we rarely have to wait long at stop signs.

People think this is funny, but if more people were like this imagine what a great place it would be

“oh we got a guy comin’, put her in reverse” THE ACCURACY

I live in the Midwest and let me tell ya when I go for walks I carry everything in one hand so I have a free hand to wave with and true to my Midwest roots I'm deeply offended when people don't wave back

“She’s about to rain good” 😂🤩 Where has this man been all of my life? Super cute!

How is there not more people following this guy.

People from other parts of the country may laugh but this is literally just my life

I'm from Minnesota and this is accurate. Just last winter I was airing up my tire at a gas station and this random dude walked up and asked for a ride to the casino, I was reluctant but of course I gave him a ride. It was cold out and the guy didn't have a sweater or coat so I told him throw on the sweater I have in the back seat. We eventually get to the casino and I don't want to ask for my sweater back and he says "hey thanks for the ride and sweater" I was happy he said that so I wouldn't have to ask for it back but it sucked because I just bought that new Carhartt sweater a few days before. It wasn't too bad of an inconvenience though because the gas station near the casino has an air pump that was usable so it worked out. The guy is also apparently an aspiring hip hop artist so by the end of the ride I had a new soundcloud account and he's the only artist I follow, Haven't been back on soundcloud since.

THE CANNING PART WHY IS THAT SO TRUEEEE

Dear Midwesterners, Feel free to crash at our place, eh? - Canada PS: Sorry.

"oof this cold huh?" "Oh yeah I know it" "Uh huh, have a good one" "Hey take it easy" "You're good" " No worries" *Nervous laughter*

I live in Minnesota and our neighbor insists on snowblowing our driveway every winter, so I always bake him banana carmel bread. And if you so much as wave you're going to be having a 40 minute conversation in a blizzard with the blower motor going, lol, we love our neighbor and love the midwest!

I love these, I feel like the Midwest has some of the kindest and most down to earth people and I feel like so often the Midwest is overlooked even though it is a huge part of our national and culture

100% accurate, proud to be a Wisconsinite!

So true!! I grew up in the Midwest and I briefly moved to the Oregon coast. The first week I was there out walking my dog I said “hey how ya doin?” To everyone. Ppl there just stare at you in confusion. 😂

I grew up in Madison but moved to nyc at 19 - and it's been a long time and I still really miss people who smile and wave back.

Ohio here and I cant count how many times my neighbors brought his tractor over to plow the snow from my drive and until I watched this I never realized how many times I wave in a day and going to the gas station is like a hour adventure all the people you want to talk to