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So true! The posters that have pride are a pleasure to read...we can learn a lot from these people. The funniest to read are the few posters that try and boost (rationalize) their city over another even sometimes when its 1/3 the size. Or when they’re comparing their city to another basically equivalent city and use terms like ‘we blow that city away” or “THEY” don’t have as much culture as us”. LOL
There are certain hyperbolic phrases that I wish could be programmed into the language filter. The term "blows out of the water" must be at the top.
There’s a way to have civic pride (IE wanting the place to live to get better, being involved in real world improvements) without having it turn into something toxic.
Most people miss that and turn it into their ego being attacked
That's a great point. There is a difference between civic pride and homerism. Civic pride is you can be proud of your city, but you also see that there's ways to improve it without being overly critical as a certain few are on the boards of my city Cleveland. Homerism is when you think there's nothing wrong with your city or you put other cities down to boost yours.
I personally could care less what others think of where I live. It's all boils down to personal likes and dislikes, and freedom.
There's no need to get others to change anything. And if people have extremes - superiority or inferiority - they can run with it whole hog and be experts at it. Whoopdy doo. There's no right or wrong view. Everyone should mind their own business.
Zero advice needed; zero advice should be given.
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You can be proud of where you live without denigrating where you don’t.
This EXACTLY.
I have a pretty short fuse with people who feel a need to be negative about some other place in order to feel better about where they are or want to be or whatever. Clearly some people love just about every locale in the world and more power to 'em.
See, personally, as a Texan, I would rather stick a knitting needle in my eye than live in Dallas or Houston - or really ANY big city. ANY big city ANYWHERE. But I am so glad that other people love those cities - because civic pride is a good thing generally, and I like that those cities are there if I ever want to visit them (and I do occasionally). Same with every single other large city in the entire world, including Berlin, Paris, London, etc. - I do not like living in big cities. Period. But I know that's just me. I also personally hate cold, icy weather. There are all sorts of personal likes and dislikes that I have - but I know that is JUST ME. Just personal opinion and personal preference. So there's no point in denigrating a city or state or country or whatever because I'm just going to offend someone and honestly, what's the point?
Agreed but some people are miserable and boorish and can’t get away with that behavior face to face so voila! City-Data! But thankfully most people are proper and those folks are the exception and not the rule.
Travel more to see if you still feel that way afterwards.
I agree with the principle here, but I think living somewhere else is necessary. My family went on vacations every summer throughout my childhood, but it wasn't until I left Chicago for college, and really absorbed what it was like to live in a different state (and visited college friends' houses in other cities in that state) that I started to view my hometown with a more critical eye. (On the other hand, it also made me develop a Chicagoan identity where I really hadn't cared at all before.)
A couple of months ago, I created a threat about what advice would somebody give someone if they had an inferiority complex about their city. I've received a lot of responses, which I didn't expect. I greatly appreciate it. So, i had to come back and get everyone's take on the other side of the coin. What advice you would give someone if they had a superiority complex about their city? Just asking out of curiosity.
Torontoans from my experience talk crap about smaller American cities than New Yorkers do lol
I find that ironic since there’s not many Americans that talk about a Toronto at all lol.
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