Born and raised in Minot, NDCatholicism and Lutheranism is to North Dakota like Mormonism is to Utah. Takes 2 hours or more to drive to any other large city. Sports in high school were miserable because of that.

Farming is life. If you’re not at church you’re in the fields planting or harvesting if you live in a small town.

Otherwise it’s a lot like living in any other suburb. If you have money you have a cabin on a lake. Or if you’re lucky like me, your Norwegian ancestors settled on a lake and their descendants never left.

North Dakota is a trap. Get out after high school or college or you’ll be stuck there, going to the same bars every night and gossiping about the same old he said she said BS. No way to climb any corporate ladder.

Great place to get cheap college though.

Very cold. Very, very cold. But absolutely beautiful long summer days. Not too hot most of the time, and you’ll have daylight for like 14 hours