The Midwest is too much for me to handle I'm in the Midwest on hospital visits, but next week will be moving here on what may be a permanent basis (Minneapolis).  Job wise it makes sense, the Mayo (heh) Clinic is here and we are moving to broad human trials.  A lot of the supporting biotech is here too. But there are SO MANY FATS.  It's eating at my sanity.  You hear the 75% of Americans are fat stat and it only really clicks for me here.  Without beaches or outdoors to enjoy it seems like people let themselves go more. I'm from Florida (Miami), and have lived in California for a long time.  This place is fucking alien. http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/county.html?states=%2Fdiabetes%2Fatlas%2Fobesityrisk%2F12%2Fatlas.html&go=Go Florida may be fat in general, Miami still is pretty human for the US.  And coastal California is health-nut shitlord country. Fuck folks.  What am I doing?  I'll be a day walker.  He who lives among fats.  Will I even meet a single shitlord? Yesterday at a gas station, EVERYONE was a fat.  Every customer.  Every employee.  EVERYONE. It's like waking up in a zombie apocalypse.