Cities that feel like cults (school, taxes, living)
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Everyone should know what I mean. Cities where residents are so immersed in the local culture, they feel bad for anyone not in that city and truly believe their particular city is #1 in every aspect. If you debate this with them, it only serves as reinforcement their city is #1.
Everyone should know what I mean. Cities where residents are so immersed in the local culture, they feel bad for anyone not in that city and truly believe their particular city is #1 in every aspect. If you debate this with them, it only serves as reinforcement their city is #1.
This doesnt really sound like a cult. It just sounds like snobbery and smugness in the which case it would be SF.
But as far as groupthink that has devolved into unhealthy worship, people in the East Coast seem to look at New York idolotrously and run to New York for protection when they are getting pounded in a thread about their city.
The Southeast, the South, the Midwest, Rockies and West Coast dont really look at NYC with the fascist zeal that Northeasters do. To us it's a fantastic place to visit, to the NE, it's like their God and they get defensive and go crazy when we talk about any other city in superlative terms.
I don't know if this is such a bad thing. It's good to really be immersed in your city and really enjoy it. People are happy they found their spot. Only when people get elite about it and feel bad for people not living there does it become a problem.
NYC, LA, and Chicago are too big. For every civic fanatic, there's someone there who doesn't like it. NYC & Chicago do seem to have a stronger culture of civic pride than LA, Miami, and Vegas. They're still nowhere near the level of the cult like cities.
The sunbelt cities seem to be the same way, with the exception of Austin. Don't know much about Pittsburgh or Cleveland, but cities that claim to be undergoing some sort of renaissance can be exceptionally cult like as well.
NYC, LA, and Chicago are too big. For every civic fanatic, there's someone there who doesn't like it.
I think New York lives up to it's acclaim to be rather honest with you.
New York is top two at nearly everything in the country and stands in a league that, as cities, only Tokyo, London, Paris, and some factions of Hong Kong could match. The evidence? Try finding another American city that's as productive as New York while having a hypercity population in excess of 20 million people, it cannot be found because it does not exist.
The flow of capital and monies take a backseat to no where, it is the center of world investments, world commerce, world trade, and essentially the clock turns as the market chugs along in New York. That kind of power cannot be bought, it is created, and earned.
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NYC & Chicago do seem to have a stronger culture of civic pride than LA, Miami, and Vegas.
Los Angeles is a great city and Miami is getting there (I live in Miami). Las Vegas however is a total dump, it is basically Las Vegas Boulevard (the Strip) and everything else around it and about it is basically a Fresno, California (a really dumpy and awful city).
New York is the center of commerce, the type of people that immigrate there, whether rich or poor have come to make it in a grindhouse, and their results have been spectacular given the resources they've had to utilize.
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The sunbelt cities seem to be the same way, with the exception of Austin.
Austin is a hipster city. The people that like it there and live there are usually from suburban Houston or suburban Dallas (outside of each respective city's area and from surrounding suburbs). These people never had a chance to begin with, they never explored their hometowns and when they move on to Austin, to go to school there, they live near downtown and think it's all of a sudden a cultivation of utopia. This is in the same manner as what you will find in Seattle, just replace expat Houstonians and Dallasites with expat and often disgruntled Californians (over housing prices and taxes in CA) and same ordeal persists in the Pacific Northwest.
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Don't know much about Pittsburgh or Cleveland, but cities that claim to be undergoing some sort of renaissance can be exceptionally annoying in their own way.
I don't know much about these cities either but every time I open this forum, they are always being talked about as if they are actually good cities.
Good cities don't go on a dying streak for 60 years. Just saying.
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