Things that matter more on City-Data than they do in real life when it comes to cities

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

Bull**** that makes me want to slap somebody


1. "I'm better than you because more billionaires live within a 25-mile radius of my house than yours!"

2. "If the culture of a place is any different from New England, the Great Lakes or the Upper Midwest, then it's automatically a redneck culture with strong Southern influence."

3. "Why are these cities/counties not part of this nearby Census-Designated Statistical Area? It's a conspiracy!"

4. "My city is better than yours because white people are a smaller percentage of the total population here!"

5. "Does anybody else get sexually aroused by the latest GaWC rankings like I do? No? Well, that's your problem!"

6. "I'm gonna take what some jackass political adviser said a generation ago as the Gospel truth even though there's overwhelming evidence to the contrary!"

7. "There are no redeeming qualities to this state because its political inclinations are the opposite of mine!"

8. "This city is a backwater ****hole because there are no food trucks that serve Korean BBQ at four-o'-clock in the morning!"

9. "There are so many awesome things to do in my city that I'd rather brag about it all to people on the internet than actually go out and do any of it!"

10. "Even though I'm not qualified for anything more than a minimum-wage job, I'm going to inform you that the job market here sucks!"

11. "Thank God I left the old city I used to live in! I guarantee you that absolutely nothing has changed there since I left."

12. "I'm a non-white homosexual foreign immigrant with liberal political views. Am I going to get lynched if I wander more than 100 miles from an ocean coast?"

Most accurate thing ever.

[LauraC]

That only people who live in cities have opinions that matter.

[jtur88]

Homicide rate would be the main one. Everyone here seems to think that their death is almost certainly going to be caused by homicide, and the only way to live a long fulfilling life is to avoid living or traveling in places with high homicide rates.

Getting off a bus in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, is almost certain death. Despite the fact that 1,445,598 woke up there this morning, quite astonished to discover that they were still very much alive.

[BajanYankee]

I would add museums to the list. I would guess that the average resident visits a museum once every few years (if that).

[Mandalorian]

There seems to be an almost militant hatred of cars. What the heck? I don't get it. It's like everyone is Amish or something.

People say stuff like "ban cars". That's like saying "ban antibiotics" or "ban telephones" it makes no sense.

[NowInWI]

There's a fair amount of subtle (and not so subtle) bullying of those who don't live on a coast, who think a lake is better for swimming than an ocean (no sharks...you'll never change my mind), and of those who like suburbs for families (me). It's, often, pretty amusing.

[Jowel]

Whether someone is a "transplant" into an area or not.

[NowInWI]

Originally Posted by JerseyGirl415

NYC transplants (some) are potentially the most annoying, stuck up, snotty people in the world who look down on anything outside their new home with contempt (especially us across the river). I truly can't stand so many NYC transplants, especially Brooklyn and Manhattan ones. Funny enough many of them come from podunk little Midwestern or Southern towns (truly no offense to these regions) and have no right to be so contemptuous.

Natives can be annoying by telling you every 3 seconds that they're natives and acting sort of elitist, but at least they tend to be more down to earth with good, actual personalities and though they pretend to hate us, most secretly don't.

This goes along with what I posted earlier...if you don't live on a coast, I guess where you live is "podunk." Lovely.