Of Geographical Escalations!

So now that I am in Cleveland, I am faced with a typical question. 'So where did you move from' I reply 'Omaha, Nebraska' Invitating few stares and few sympathies... 'I am sure you are in much better place NOW' Wonder what exactly denotes 'better' [but let me get at it sometime later]:P 'So where exactly is Omaha"? I feel like saying "Go to goggle.com and SEARCH. Better still take a look at the map of USA and you would know where even Vermont, Maine and Alaska are!!!! But being me...I reply 'If you look at the map of USA, you shall find that Nebraska is right in the middle. The 'Heartland of America'!!! Ohhh Ok!!! The few who even have an idea of geography, retort 'What did you do in Nebraska, apart from eating corns"? Whoosh!!! well, how opinionated can one be! Quite coyly I reply "Ya! trying to get my PhD' you see..'I have better things to do' "So have you experienced snow before?" Omaha is just 12 hours by road from Cleveland, you see..so the geographical conditions are not going to differ that much:P "Alright!! I thought it is some kind of a desert" NOW! someone indeeed can get on your nerves right? To scare me further, wait until winter hits you in Cleveland! Ever since, I disclosed my future 'home' to people, I have been persistently hearing about the cold winters. Cleveland is located on the Lake Erie..[one of the great lakes] So there is some phenomenon called as 'Lake effect' And let me not get into the details of it..but the end result is heaps and heaps of snow that falls and STAYS! for as long as winter lasts!! NOW, having started from rock bottom of the country, Lousiana (which is way down in the south), life took me to right in the middle of the country (Nebraska ) and now to somewhere on the top (Cleveland).!!I hope now I dont land up way up..that is Alaska:P Hahah!! if only we could correlate geographical escalations to academic escalations:( In life, sometimes, I hit the rockbottom, sometimes on the top..but I am contended staying in the middle..Thats why, Nebraska will always remain in my heart (right in the middle)!! :)