Just a few of the little niceties I'd been missing, so common in the midwest:
-grocery baggers
-eye contact
-getting approached by helpful staff in a big box store
-brown people in the suburbs
-vestibules
-street lamps
-paying AFTER you pump (this was only in Nebraska and Kansas, but it was so pleasant to be trusted)
-a real person answering the phone
-describing how far away something is by travel time
-ordering a beer at lunch
-folks wearing proper shoes
I do miss a few things about the Northwest:
-really good coffee
-the mountains (the pointy one, the not-so-pointy one and the more white than the others one)
-other people with dogs
-the green landscape, even in midwinter
-marionberry muffins
-narrow and hilly streets (Milwaukee, especially here in the burbs is flat and wiiiiiiiide)
-sushi
And I will always miss a few things about the South:
-being called "Miss Kate" and "M'am" with out it being an age thing
-"good morning"s and "good evening"s when out walking
-the squares
-spanish moss
-cheap cocktails
-locally esteemed wierdos