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If you're not familiar with the blog, the authors poke fun at the lifestyle and habits of the liberal, well-educated and often wealthy urban elite of coastal cities.
If you're not familiar with the blog, the authors poke fun at the lifestyle and habits of the liberal, well-educated and often wealthy urban elite of coastal cities.
Between DC and San Fran, which city is the most SWPL?
Well the list has a liberal slant and to me better fits SF overall. SF and DC while having some demographic similarities are very different on feel to me personally. SF definately has more of the liberal elite vibe (yes a generalization but more true of the area than most) whereas DC has more a political and business vibe. DC in general is less liberal even when the D's are running the town if that makes sense.
Though in general many of these attributes can be found in certain areas of most coastal cities. To me DC feels less so in some ways than most other coastal cities actually in this regard, but maybe that is just me and they all have their own fair share.
To me the liberal elite is as funny as the right wing conservatives, both have tremendous ironies about them
If you're not familiar with the blog, the authors poke fun at the lifestyle and habits of the liberal, well-educated and often wealthy urban elite of coastal cities.
Only New York and San Francisco are specifically mentioned on that list. The San Francisco write-up was pretty funny.
But shouldn't the choices be NYC or San Francisco?
New York has too many proles. There are too many religious, Republican-voting Italians and Irish in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. Then neighborhoods like Harlem and Bed Stuy really reduce its SWPL score. So no, NYC should not be a choice.
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New York has too many proles. There are too many religious, Republican-voting Italians and Irish in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. Then neighborhoods like Harlem and Bed Stuy really reduce its SWPL score. So no, NYC should not be a choice.
LOL, yeah, it's kind of an open secret that "real New Yorkers" of all backgrounds hate SWPLs (and gentrifiers in general) for what they've done to the city.
There are liberal white yuppies in DC in places like Adams Morgan, DuPont Circle, Georgetown, U Street, across the river in Arlington and other spots as well.
However, San Francisco takes it to a whole other level. It epitomizes liberalism. DC could never compete with that.
New York has too many proles. There are too many religious, Republican-voting Italians and Irish in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. Then neighborhoods like Harlem and Bed Stuy really reduce its SWPL score. So no, NYC should not be a choice.
And definately parts of BK too, NYC tho seems less dominated by a specific group overall, but yes on Manhattan
But will say that with this comes typically some fine eating, culture, and nightlife so not all bad (just like most things)
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