MY goodness i remember u introducing me to Minnesota when I was just a little kid I always loved the way u speak about your home made me feel I was being involved with the experience!
It’s nice to know that there are places that exist where a trip to the gas station to grab snacks is going out, and when a new business plots land it becomes the talk of “I wonder what that’s gunna be” around town.
Gosh... This reminds me of the beautifully quaint video you uploaded about your hometown called "Where I grew up" back in the day... So much nostalgia.
i'm in minnesota for college and i'm staying for the summer this year, and minnesota brings me so much peace. a lot of my friends who have lived in the midwest forever like to complain about how "boring" it is, but as someone who's just living here for four years, i find it so relaxing and refreshing. my plan is to move back home to california after graduation, but i'll definitely miss some aspects of minnesota.
I really like this quote you casually said Connor like “Change is important it either perspective a new prospective or solidifies the one you already have” it’s so true there were just so many instances I pressure myself to change and it actually ends up solidifying the one I already have thank you for these videos
god, I love the midwest, specifically the small town part of it. people are just the nicest and the world is just simple. I am a true midwest girly and I have yet to discover if I want to leave it. cities are nice, but going where people who are familiar will forever be loving. also it's so funny seeing a town that I am familiar with in your videos, so welcome back. hope you enjoy the bluffs and weird weather like I do!
Omg yessss another Connor video!! Love this video, coming back home after moving out makes me feel so grounded and realise all the simple things in life, such a great message, thank you for another lovely video 😊😊
i recently moved back to MN after graduating college. it feels strange that I don't have a job and I'm still searching but I've found peace in discovering the beautiful and mundane things that make up home
Home. Dad died, Fireman cancer, lost our home, was the only home I knew since I was 3. Lost 2 dogs, 3 cats, all buried on the property. Dad died, lost home. I live in my bother's home..it's A home, but it will never be my home. Pretty sure I broke that day. I hope you are home. I don't understand the word 'home' anymore. Autism. Not an excuse, just a why. You're awesome live in those moments
The bluffs in Minnesota are such an oasis! I lived in Winona growing up before moving to suburbia in Chicago. Nothing compared to the nature along the Mississippi.
Have been with you since the beginning of your UA-cam journey and I am so happy to have stuck around. Your growth and peace is commendable. Your voice, presence and view points on life is… peaceful. Thank you for being you. ♥️
I'm house sitting my childhood home this week. My sister made the kitchen adventure time themed. She painted one of her pots into lady rainicorn, and her curtains are painted with the facial expressions of lemon grab. I also feel the opposite about the competition of a rural area! I feel that way when I'm in big cities.
Hi Connor!!! I’m from Winona! Back when I was in middle school I ran into your mom at target!! I still have the picture of her and I! She is the sweetest lady! Enjoy your time home!!
Such a beautiful freaking video 🥹 I think it was in your first book that you talked about your hometown, and since then I’ve always used the name La Crescent for a town in anything I write because it’s such a beautiful name. You have been a source of peace and comfort for me for the last almost 10 years 💞
As I lived in Blaine, MN for about a year, and another year in Indianapolis, In. The midwest holds a big place in my heart. Just that own kind of Oasis as you've said as I currently live back in my home state at Florida ahaha
It's really interesting that you feel less judged/visible in a small town - i've always felt that in the city, and when visiting a friend who lived in the same town from 0-24 and couldn't leave his house without bumping into someone he knew, never understood how that wasn't more stressful than the complete anonymity of a big city.
There’s a lot I love about living in Minnesota, but I especially living in the city and being able to be out in cool scenic places like the northwoods or lake country or the ~driftless area~ in just a couple hours. I still gotta make it down to your corner of our state.
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I have lived in Minnesota all (almost 26 years now 🫢) of my life, and there really is nothing like home 🌲 you captured our summers so beautifully in this video!
As a fellow midwest girly that moved out of her small town and has been watching you for years, this brought so many different types of nostalgia. Thank you for continuing to create content so dear to you which then impacts us :))
Connor, you know the old saying, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder". A country environment is WAY different that urban life. I've gotten my own experience also. Moving from Northern Baltimore in Maryland to a small town 40 miles north makes all the difference. A early walk, a cow mowing, birds in the trees, corn rustling in the breeze and clean air, no traffic, quiet. Priceless!
I started watching your videos when I was young in small town Minnesota as a kid (and then also when I was a very scared gay teen) and seeing you now able to still appreciate the Midwest and Minnesota is so meaningful (I too don’t live there anymore but this video reminds me of conversations I have with my best friend when we talk about what we miss now that we’ve left)
Thank Connor for giving us a chance to experience coming home with you. It an oasis or port in a storm, the biggest problem is everything looks so small now when I visit my childhood home. Yea I get what you are saying about the Los Angeles is great, but at home you can be yourself. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate the photos of your family, it always feels like seeing relatives that I’m not related to, 😂but feeling the love they express for you. Is so enormous it is contagious. Always giving, best to you and you family ❤❤❤
It’s always hard to get off the hamster wheel, perhaps for fear of missing out on opportunities. But stopping to touch base with your roots is key to regain perspective of what’s important. Thanks for the reminder, Connor!
From 1:20 to 1:49....write that dialogue down somewhere...it embodies the essence of your very being, you're roots , you're core values, you're groundings!!! It is home to the SOUL!!!
Well, Connor, after a wonderful career abroad in a few exotic locations, I retired back to Minnesota and haven't regretted coming home for a minute. And, if you come a few miles south from your home, you'll be in a metro area with a great arts community, numerous universities, and much easier access to the cultural opportunities you'd enjoy. Best of all worlds.
I strongly relate to this, Connor♡ I go to university in the big city but whenever I come home there’s this relieving feeling of knowing I can be truly myself My family lives in the countryside and I deeply miss it when I go back to my studies; this little town where I grew up isn’t perfect whatsoever but it is comfort, it is familiarity and a safe place for my heart to rest and my thoughts to be let free. I always find myself being able to reconnect with my inner child when I am home with the trees and the calm and the peace of it all, there’s no pressure to prove myself or rush into things. I write and I bake and I spend more time enjoying simple things… I feel small and still a growing soul but less preoccupied by the idea of walking towards a goal. The days flow but I don’t need to focus on where it will lead me. I wish there was a way to have everything, to have both - the assets of the city with the life of a small town :’)
This is so interesting! I have settled in a desert suburb but i feel the nostalgic home in either New York where I grew up or San Francisco where I went to college. So it’s fun to revisit the hustle and bustle of the city but then I return to the mundane slow life of my current residence. Maybe I should move so it’s the reverse 😂
Minnesota babies, bro. 👊 Sad thing is that I barely remember the place 'cause my folks moved to California when I was really young, so I grew up there, but my heart is still pulled back to at least visit Minnesota someday. One day.... Also, I appreciate you pointing out that it's important to just relax and enjoy the ride of life. Always good to keep in mind.
I grew up in a big city (houston) but both of my parents are from wisconsin. every couple of summers or so we go up there to visit family and it really is a different vibe. it’s a good pace of life and the towns really are underrated. midwest summers are beautiful but I keep telling myself not to leave the south because of the winter up there 😂
Seriously you are my favorite people on the internet of all time since 2012 or 2013( sorry I can’t remember exactly when, it was a looong time ago😅) I really like the way you edit your video especially the intros. I love the topics that you choose to talk in your video and I can relate to most of them. Otherwise they would give me new perspectives or insights. I feel like I’ve known you for all my life even tho I’ve never met you before. I hope everything goes well with you and love you Connor!❤
I love how the peaceful pacing across the lawn seems like an homage to Khalil Gibran's great poem 'And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair' ☺
I've always preferred small town and/or country living over city living. Yes, with country living things like stores and entertainment are quite a drive away, but, it's usually a calm, and peaceful way of living.
i am back home and i am having feelings. here's a little diary of what i saw + thought ❤
hope you fall in love with yourself in the process of making these videos, the same way I do fall in love with you every time I watch one of them ❤
@@awykus well this is the kindest comment i've received in a while, how sweet of you to say
MY goodness i remember u introducing me to Minnesota when I was just a little kid I always loved the way u speak about your home made me feel I was being involved with the experience!
I recently moved to the Minneapolis area. It's been interesting getting to know MN and seeing more of it. Any suggestions?
Welcome back! ... have you seen Connor Manning?
If this was in December, it’d be a Hallmark movie but for now it’s a coming-of-age Netflix movie.
very content with that description 🙂↕
It’s nice to know that there are places that exist where a trip to the gas station to grab snacks is going out, and when a new business plots land it becomes the talk of “I wonder what that’s gunna be” around town.
Minnesota is such a safehaven, enjoy your time back in this wonderful state
a peaceful oasis
One of the most beautiful cinematography from ConnyFranny! Love this one a lot
thank you! i had so much extra, it was stunning in mn :)
oh im LOVING the fit. looks amazing as always😌
it's giving chessy from the parent trap
@@ConnorFranta it really is😭
Not for a moment did I doubt Connor’s Midwestern roots. That’s where the underrated cuties are
Gosh... This reminds me of the beautifully quaint video you uploaded about your hometown called "Where I grew up" back in the day... So much nostalgia.
Minnesota seems so peaceful. I’d love to visit
i'm in minnesota for college and i'm staying for the summer this year, and minnesota brings me so much peace. a lot of my friends who have lived in the midwest forever like to complain about how "boring" it is, but as someone who's just living here for four years, i find it so relaxing and refreshing. my plan is to move back home to california after graduation, but i'll definitely miss some aspects of minnesota.
I really like this quote you casually said Connor like “Change is important it either perspective a new prospective or solidifies the one you already have” it’s so true there were just so many instances I pressure myself to change and it actually ends up solidifying the one I already have thank you for these videos
Much love from another Minnesotan 🤍🤍
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Always love a Connor vid. Makes my day. Especially now thank you Connor. Born in Missouri moved everywhere and still came back to Iowa!
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as someone who had to leave the midwest but wants to move back this hits so hard...you truly captured the atmosphere perfectly
The serenity 😌😌😌 thank you for being our therapist ❤
love the peace this video brings, the vibe is immaculate
as a Minnesota girlie who has moved across the country and come back not once but twice, Minnesota has a way of pulling you back in. I love it here.
you get it
god, I love the midwest, specifically the small town part of it. people are just the nicest and the world is just simple. I am a true midwest girly and I have yet to discover if I want to leave it. cities are nice, but going where people who are familiar will forever be loving.
also it's so funny seeing a town that I am familiar with in your videos, so welcome back. hope you enjoy the bluffs and weird weather like I do!
You’re honestly the love of my life and I wish you all the happiness and love
Welcome back to Minnesota 😊 love from St. Michael
just like minnesota to you, you continue to be my oasis. thanks for being my home on the internet! beautiful video as always 🏡🫶🏼✨
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As a fellow Minnesotan, every time I go somewhere else I’m always happy to come back
Omg yessss another Connor video!! Love this video, coming back home after moving out makes me feel so grounded and realise all the simple things in life, such a great message, thank you for another lovely video 😊😊
I always look forward to getting back to home sweet Minnesota after traveling ❤
I grew up in the midwest and it is so special. the simplicity and nostalgic vibes are so peaceful
i'm just saying minnesota would welcome you back ;) always love to see how you capture the world connor
so insane how you have some sort of power in always knowing what to say when i most need it, i appreciate you so much :’) i’ll try to relax!!!!
i recently moved back to MN after graduating college. it feels strange that I don't have a job and I'm still searching but I've found peace in discovering the beautiful and mundane things that make up home
Home. Dad died, Fireman cancer, lost our home, was the only home I knew since I was 3. Lost 2 dogs, 3 cats, all buried on the property. Dad died, lost home. I live in my bother's home..it's A home, but it will never be my home. Pretty sure I broke that day. I hope you are home. I don't understand the word 'home' anymore. Autism. Not an excuse, just a why. You're awesome live in those moments
The bluffs in Minnesota are such an oasis! I lived in Winona growing up before moving to suburbia in Chicago. Nothing compared to the nature along the Mississippi.
I love this so much, Minnesota is so beautiful! I have family over there, and I just think it’s so beautiful, I miss it so much ❤
Wholesomely stunning as ever, and welcome back to the land of seasons. Michigan is also having a great summer so far.
Minnesota is so delightful and pretty (IL native transplanted to Wisconsin) and so is Wisconsin and aaaa I love them both so much
Have been with you since the beginning of your UA-cam journey and I am so happy to have stuck around. Your growth and peace is commendable. Your voice, presence and view points on life is… peaceful. Thank you for being you. ♥️
*🧡💛❤ Cheers - I'm from Michigan . . . I totally agree! ❤🧡💛*
Love from Minnesota ❤️
As a small town (Pop 1500) ND gal, i love big cities but i love going back to ND & enjoy the calm pace❤
I'm house sitting my childhood home this week. My sister made the kitchen adventure time themed. She painted one of her pots into lady rainicorn, and her curtains are painted with the facial expressions of lemon grab.
I also feel the opposite about the competition of a rural area! I feel that way when I'm in big cities.
Welcome home! 🎉 Sounds like you're having a great time here. Enjoying your content over here on Skunk Hollow Road! 😊 Enjoy the bluffs!
Nice. It makes me wanna visit Minnesota :)
thank you for your words. i think many of us needed to hear today 'relax'. i know i needed, and it soothed my worries for the moment.
that makes the whole video worth it then, glad it helped even just a little :)
Connor it is always a joy to listen to your voice and the advice u give always helps me get thru rough times. Thank you.
so glad you enjoy my words :)
@@ConnorFranta U are a very spiritual person and it comes through in your words, ever stop because u help so many.
Always love how I feel at peace whenever you upload a video.
that's the goal :')
i went to college near his hometown and i love going back it makes feel nostalgic and calm. minnesota is the best❤
it's too peaceful for words :)
@@ConnorFranta sure is! also… roll warriors 💜🤍
no doubt you’re a cinematographer🥹 SO STUNNING!!!
minnesota, my beloved
Hi Connor!!! I’m from Winona! Back when I was in middle school I ran into your mom at target!! I still have the picture of her and I! She is the sweetest lady! Enjoy your time home!!
MINNESOTA MENTIONED!!!
always & forever
Such a beautiful freaking video 🥹 I think it was in your first book that you talked about your hometown, and since then I’ve always used the name La Crescent for a town in anything I write because it’s such a beautiful name. You have been a source of peace and comfort for me for the last almost 10 years 💞
i'm from wi and grew up hating it. went to colorado and now im back to WI and i love it now and realized how amazing it truly is.
Always love the way this person expresses everything so beautifully❤
Love the video and honestly I feel the same. Simplicity is key and yeah like you said - enjoying the ''show''.Thanks for sharing. :)
glad you enjoyed it :)
Thank you for sharing this story. You are truly a wonderful soul.😊
‘Home is where the heart is’ as the saying goes!
The Midwest is the best!! 100%
I grew up in a small town and retired there. I love it.
As I lived in Blaine, MN for about a year, and another year in Indianapolis, In. The midwest holds a big place in my heart. Just that own kind of Oasis as you've said as I currently live back in my home state at Florida ahaha
love you connor!
This made me think about moving there one day it looks so peaceful and beautiful. I love NYC though so I don’t think it would be anytime soon.😂
It's really interesting that you feel less judged/visible in a small town - i've always felt that in the city, and when visiting a friend who lived in the same town from 0-24 and couldn't leave his house without bumping into someone he knew, never understood how that wasn't more stressful than the complete anonymity of a big city.
There’s a lot I love about living in Minnesota, but I especially living in the city and being able to be out in cool scenic places like the northwoods or lake country or the ~driftless area~ in just a couple hours. I still gotta make it down to your corner of our state.
Minnesota is just really special
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I have lived in Minnesota all (almost 26 years now 🫢) of my life, and there really is nothing like home 🌲 you captured our summers so beautifully in this video!
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I love your videos so much, Connor. I always go back to them for comfort watching when the world gets chaotic.
As a fellow midwest girly that moved out of her small town and has been watching you for years, this brought so many different types of nostalgia. Thank you for continuing to create content so dear to you which then impacts us :))
Thx for the amazing vibes and videos❤ you always seem to upload when we need it most, hugs !
Connor, you know the old saying, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder". A country environment is WAY different that urban life. I've gotten my own experience also. Moving from Northern Baltimore in Maryland to a small town 40 miles north makes all the difference. A early walk, a cow mowing, birds in the trees, corn rustling in the breeze and clean air, no traffic, quiet. Priceless!
as a fellow Minnesotan, i
I started watching your videos when I was young in small town Minnesota as a kid (and then also when I was a very scared gay teen) and seeing you now able to still appreciate the Midwest and Minnesota is so meaningful (I too don’t live there anymore but this video reminds me of conversations I have with my best friend when we talk about what we miss now that we’ve left)
your videos truly make my soul rest. calm energy only, thank you, Connor 💖
Your videos make me feel safe
Thank Connor for giving us a chance to experience coming home with you. It an oasis or port in a storm, the biggest problem is everything looks so small now when I visit my childhood home. Yea I get what you are saying about the Los Angeles is great, but at home you can be yourself. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate the photos of your family, it always feels like seeing relatives that I’m not related to, 😂but feeling the love they express for you. Is so enormous it is contagious. Always giving, best to you and you family ❤❤❤
1:02 This literally used to happen all the time in Leeds. One was introduced to many dogs.
It’s always hard to get off the hamster wheel, perhaps for fear of missing out on opportunities. But stopping to touch base with your roots is key to regain perspective of what’s important. Thanks for the reminder, Connor!
beautiful video
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This feels like Im watching the voice note you're recording for the group chat
I love the feel of this video. Great job, Connor!
Love ya Connor ❤
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oh my GOD how I needed to hear this
From 1:20 to 1:49....write that dialogue down somewhere...it embodies the essence of your very being, you're roots , you're core values, you're groundings!!! It is home to the SOUL!!!
Well, Connor, after a wonderful career abroad in a few exotic locations, I retired back to Minnesota and haven't regretted coming home for a minute. And, if you come a few miles south from your home, you'll be in a metro area with a great arts community, numerous universities, and much easier access to the cultural opportunities you'd enjoy. Best of all worlds.
Wow you are such a good videographer. Crisp and beautiful
I strongly relate to this, Connor♡
I go to university in the big city but whenever I come home there’s this relieving feeling of knowing I can be truly myself
My family lives in the countryside and I deeply miss it when I go back to my studies; this little town where I grew up isn’t perfect whatsoever but it is comfort, it is familiarity and a safe place for my heart to rest and my thoughts to be let free. I always find myself being able to reconnect with my inner child when I am home with the trees and the calm and the peace of it all, there’s no pressure to prove myself or rush into things. I write and I bake and I spend more time enjoying simple things… I feel small and still a growing soul but less preoccupied by the idea of walking towards a goal. The days flow but I don’t need to focus on where it will lead me.
I wish there was a way to have everything, to have both - the assets of the city with the life of a small town :’)
i love your videos so much. you are my favorite person to watch i just love everything about u
hello again 😊 now with the comments on ❤
welcome back :')
This is so interesting! I have settled in a desert suburb but i feel the nostalgic home in either New York where I grew up or San Francisco where I went to college. So it’s fun to revisit the hustle and bustle of the city but then I return to the mundane slow life of my current residence. Maybe I should move so it’s the reverse 😂
Minnesota babies, bro. 👊
Sad thing is that I barely remember the place 'cause my folks moved to California when I was really young, so I grew up there, but my heart is still pulled back to at least visit Minnesota someday. One day....
Also, I appreciate you pointing out that it's important to just relax and enjoy the ride of life. Always good to keep in mind.
I grew up in a big city (houston) but both of my parents are from wisconsin. every couple of summers or so we go up there to visit family and it really is a different vibe. it’s a good pace of life and the towns really are underrated. midwest summers are beautiful but I keep telling myself not to leave the south because of the winter up there 😂
My favorite days are the ones that Connor uploads a videos❤🥹, ILYSM
Minnesota always reminds me of Betty White as Rose Nylund
Seriously you are my favorite people on the internet of all time since 2012 or 2013( sorry I can’t remember exactly when, it was a looong time ago😅) I really like the way you edit your video especially the intros. I love the topics that you choose to talk in your video and I can relate to most of them. Otherwise they would give me new perspectives or insights. I feel like I’ve known you for all my life even tho I’ve never met you before. I hope everything goes well with you and love you Connor!❤
I'm moving home to live with my parents again on Saturday and i wish i felt this positive about it 😅
That was very sweet.
glad you enjoyed it :)
I love how the peaceful pacing across the lawn seems like an homage to Khalil Gibran's great poem 'And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair' ☺
The way you speak is true poetry
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YEAHHH MINNESOTA IS THE BEST! i love this
seems so peaceful in your hometown, also it looks like the background is a green screen haha
I've always preferred small town and/or country living over city living. Yes, with country living things like stores and entertainment are quite a drive away, but, it's usually a calm, and peaceful way of living.