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I would never move back to some sub-par city (yes, including my old hometown which happens to be San Diego). These so called "cities" are uncultured/unenlightened no-talent forsaken festering toiletholes of pathetic losers.
I think I'll stick with the Big Apple.
You need to take this comedy show on the road.
I've been hearing that Binghamton is need of a laugh........
According to you,I was just as much of a NY'er as you think you are,so to able to make a joke,or should I say a truth full assessment of all the wannabe-talented hipsters that come in droves to the lower east side,is my right
It's always the transplants (and some of the natives who feel inadequate) who wear their NYC provincialism as some sort of brand name or logo to be flaunted. I've seen this sad display of overcompensation more than once. It's the equivalent of walking the street naked screaming "LOOK AT ME!!!!!"
Okay I concede, NYC is a backwater where everyone is unsophisticated and thinks / looks alike. I'm moving to a small town in the middle of American that is not "provincial" and is full of well traveled world citizens.
Okay I concede, NYC is a backwater where everyone is unsophisticated and thinks / looks alike. I'm moving to a small town in the middle of American that is not "provincial" and is full of well traveled world citizens.
You do realize that much of the criticism directed at NYC is a response to the unmitigated hubris and insulting manner of certain NYC-based posters, don't you? We 'outsiders' in this forum have endured it for ages, so when the opportunity arises to give some back...carpe diem.
I can see why New Yorkers could be considered provincial using different definitions of the word.
I live in Manhattan and its hard not being "provincial" (using the the "self-centered" definition of provincial, that is). Frankly, I'm usually bored to tears whenever I travel off my island and onto mainland United States. Unless I'm going someplace fabulous across the Atlantic, I have every right to be provincial.
And yes I'm a transplant. So? A "hipster/yuppie" too. Sue me.
Someone ^^^ watched too much Sex in the City and Friends and believed it's real and moved to NYC like the other million hipsters to show all the people back home where s/he was most likely unpopular that in the "big city" s/he is an uber-hip above-it-all hipster (although hipsters are never really above it all merely by virtue of the fact that they THINK they are above it all).
Newsflash - Los Angeles is better than NY City. You never should have left the Best coast. Oops, I mean West Coast (did I say BEST Coast? oopsie!).
Anyway, sorry to interrupt you, you can go back to listening to Snow Patrol on your iPhone.
It's always the transplants (and some of the natives who feel inadequate) who wear their NYC provincialism as some sort of brand name or logo to be flaunted. I've seen this sad display of overcompensation more than once. It's the equivalent of walking the street naked screaming "LOOK AT ME!!!!!"
Very telling & quite hilarious.
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