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@Freddy K, you're arguing with a broken record. This is the same dude that argued the Bay Area as more powerful than Greater New York. Just see his spin for what it is: unrestrained homerism
Hahaha clearly you are the one who fails to grasp the concept. Where the wealthy and the educated live en masse, those are the most prestigious places, because they usually have the best schools and nicest neighborhoods etc.
Hence we see that even on this front(Suburbs), the Bay Area clearly WHALLOPS Los Angeles when it comes to prestige.
@Freddy K, you're arguing with a broken record. This is the same dude that argued the Bay Area as more powerful than Greater New York. Just see his spin for what it is: unrestrained homerism
Nah...stay out of it. From what I've seen of your posting, you are usually smarter than this to be getting involved in this sort of arguments. It's a Homer move getting involved in a Simpson vs. Griffin fight.
It means high status. Not income. I'm from Fairfax County. It's one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S. Yet, there's only a few places that would really be considered "prestigous" areas. Great Falls, Langley, McLean. That's it.
None of those places are like Beverly Hills, Malibu etc. You would have higher status if you say "I'm from Beverly Hills" than "Woodside". Most people wouldnt know what Woodiside is.
I lived in Reston. Not high status. Nobody would be really impressed. But I had cousins in McLean. The reactions were very different.
None of those places are like Beverly Hills, Malibu etc. You would have higher status if you say "I'm from Beverly Hills" than "Woodside". Most people wouldnt know what Woodiside is.
Haha what a joke. Being more famous does not mean more prestigious.
Status is not defined by being more well known, it's defined by being more respected.
Beverly Hills is not more respected than Palo Alto, in fact, no LA suburb can even come close. Palo Alto is home to the most prestigious American university outside of the Northeast, which makes it an intellectual hotbed, Palo Alto is home to Fortune 500 companies and some of the innovative companies in the world, like Tesla Motors, Palo Alto is home to the richest venture capitalists in the world, Palo Alto frequently ranks all by itself in some GAWC reports, is a major hub of finance, science, engineering, etc, and the town is also filthy rich and is has what is widely regarded as the best school district in the state, and so forth.
Beverly Hills is a vapid diversion for brainless people who dont know anything, Palo Alto is a world power by comparison.
Dont talk to me about high status because you are not really knowledgable.
Location: Watching half my country turn into Gilead
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Originally Posted by cityguy7
Nah...stay out of it. From what I've seen of your posting, you are usually smarter than this to be getting involved in this sort of arguments. It's a Homer move getting involved in a Simpson vs. Griffin fight.
Point taken I will abstain from this battle, especially on a Saturday night!
Exactly, I have not heard of those SF burbs either. He didn't link us so he's not telling the truth.
So what though? That's an argument for not being as well known. Being well known doesn't exactly equate to higher quality of life. Wealth on the other is not a bad argument for that and therefore prestige, apart from a mental and philosophical standpoint of course.
It hurts me to use even the same concept as Montclair for a debate, but he has a point in this, in his own little ways of course which is the problem.
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