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Gotta admit. If I was ever going to America, I'd go to Minnesota.
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It sounds a bit like Scotland except with forests instead of hills
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I've never been to Scotland, but we have our share of hills! Minnesota has pretty diverse geography because of glaciation. We have farmlands mostly to the south and west, lake country in central Minnesota (actually there's lakes all over the state but the biggest concentration of really large lakes is in the middle), and forests, hills and the iron range in the northern part of the state. Because of all the lakes, water activities are pretty popular here. People do a lot of boating, fishing and swimming and water-skiing was born here. We have four different biomes here (3 different types of forest and prairie grasslands), so yeah - we're pretty heavily forested too. I've driven from the northern border to the southern border many times, and you wouldn't believe how much the terrain varies in 388 miles! It's crazy.
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That sounds exactly like here but bigger. ^_^
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I believe it! 
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What's the weather like there?
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It gets very cold and snowy in the winter and it can be very hot and humid in the summer. Spring and Autumn are beautiful though. My Sweetie and I always said spring and autumn make it worth putting up with the extremes of the winter and summer weather. 
This is a picture of my car during the winter of 2010: [link]
It took several hours to dig out from that one.
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....We had two inches of snow last year and the country came to a complete stop.
Know what the weather's like here? Rain. It rains in the winter. It rains in the spring. We get like four weeks of sun in the summer if we're lucky. Then it's rain rain rain rain rain. If it's not raining, it's cloudy. If it's not cloudy, we complain that it's too hot, because we're not used to the sun. We've got hail stones in the middle of summer. Heat waved in Autumn and we only really have two seasons. Too cauld. And A' right. With the occasional spout of Just braw.
I tell you though. On those Just braw day, walking along the hillside overlooking the castles and ruins that have been there since the middle ages. Nothing like it. ^_^
So...yeah. Freezing cold wet and windy country with landmarks that go back centuries.
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Lol, I saw that! (There were many Minnesotans giggling about the reaction to the snow over there.
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Uh. That's embarrassing. Honestly, if we had that level of snow that you had...we'd stop. We'd just stop. Like just pretend we don't exist, cause until it melt, we are officially in "Day after tomorrow" mode.
Yeah. It's cloudy all the time. I actually kinda hate the sun. We've got like a nation of vampires here. I'be heard of Seattle (thank you Frasier). I'd probably like it there. ^_^
Well, you wouldn't have to go far. There are castles everywhere...I don't suppose you have any castles as such in America do you?
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Lmao! Sorry. If you ever visit Minnesota, you'd be best off to do it in the spring (late March, April, May, early June) or in the fall (September, October, early November). You'd freeze to death in our winter and it sounds like our summer would definitely cause you to burst into flames.
We have some buildings in the eastern part of the US that people call castles, but I don't think they count. In my opinion they're too modern and more like really big mansions. We have a nasty habit of tearing down our very old buildings and replacing them with new ones. I love history, so I think it sucks. Minnesota itself isn't very old - we became a state in 1858 - and the oldest thing around here (St. Paul) is Fort Snelling, built in the early 1820's. So, not very old. I suppose one of the reasons I love old buildings is because we don't have very many of them. I'd love to see the inside of a genuine medieval castle though, and I'd like to see Stonehenge in person. Thanks to Google street view I've been able to see it close up, as well as go for a 'walk' around London. I thought that was pretty cool, but I'd still like to see it for real.
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We don't mind the cold that much. It's always cold here. We just...don't know what to do when there's ice on the ground.
I dunno. The castles here are all like 500 years old and America didn't really exist back then.
Aw. You're so young. XD Yeah. I don't think that counts...cool though.
Unfortunately, a lot of the really really old stuff is out of bounds now. There are a few castles still standing. Like the famous Edinburgh castle. You can still get in that and have a look around. Then there's St Andrews Cathedral. That's just ruins but you can still see the outline of where stuff once was. There are a few places in down by the coast with remains of old castles that you can explore but the top's blocked off.
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Don't feel bad - we don't really handle snow and ice any better. We get it every year and yet people consistently forget how to drive in it every winter.
Exactly! I think it needs to be several hundred years old to be a proper castle.
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At least you do drive. I wasn't exaggerating with that day after tomorrow comment. I live like 20 miles away from the capital and people were stranded because the trains didn't know what to do. IT WAS 2 INCHES! Man! You know, how America gets a little paranoid about the media and stuff? Well that's what we're like with the weather. If it snows, it's "Don't go outside. You'll freeze to death." If it's sunny, it's "Stay away from the sun. You'll get cancer." If it's anything other than the tepid cloudiness, we shit ourselves. I crap you not, you remember those riots that were going on last year? Know what stopped it? It started to rain. Yeah. It was like a twisted disney movie. The heavens opened and all the monsters fled in fear.
Oh liveable castles? They're a little more scarce. A lot of them were broken down. Though there are still a few. We got lot of hills so there's normally a castle.
Oh, there would be a shit storm of biblical proportions if someone even though about doing that over here. This guy, not sure who, set about making this huge golf course that would cover a field and everyone went ape. We're pretty big on our history and in general we still kind have this... community attitude. So if an outsider came in a said that they were gonna build over a part of out heritage to make room for a mall....yeah. It wouldn't go down that well.
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Lmao! That's funny! *reminds me of the SatW where Denmark is freaking out about a snowflake landing on him*
As for castles - see, over here the very fact that they're broken down would be enough for the people to go "See? It's falling down! Get rid of it fast before someone hurts themselves and sues us! Quick - build a bunch of fast food restaurants and a tanning salon in its place!" We only hang onto structures of historical 'importance' like forts or old family homes of local politicians and land barons that were well maintained until they get donated to the historical societies after the family died off or moved into modern mansions. Sometimes they get saved because someone famous lived there briefly or it was designed and built by a famous architect or it's in a 'historical' neighborhood. But if it has none of those things going for it, they all too often get torn down in the name of progress.
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Yep. We'd get along. XD
That would be enough for US to gather a lynch mob. XD
Well, you're still a young country. You never know. The buildings you have now might be there 500 years down the line..
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We can only hope! For my part, if I ever make it over to the UK I promise not to knock anything down.
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*prepares torches and pitchforks* I certainly hope so. XD
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The whole series really hangs together as a series; Only parts 1..3 are showing up in my DeviantWatch though?
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It's because I submitted it to the SatW-Fanclub, there's a 3 per day limit for submissions.
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That's cute. Could be a new ad campaign for the tourist industry! "Minnesota! The other Norway!"
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Lol, it's true! Scandinavia in general! Apparently we have more people of Norwegian decent than anywhere else in the country. We also have a great many Swedes - and there's a town in the northern part of the state called Finland. Scandinavians immigrating to the U.S. seemed to love Minnesota and they settled here in huge numbers.
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*descent... I think I meant to type descent.
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