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Old 03-11-2012, 11:31 PM
 
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Old 03-12-2012, 03:02 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Philadelphia should definitely be a contender for this honor. There are a lot of people who genuinely hate this city... and a few of them work at City Hall
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Old 03-12-2012, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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It was initially an inside joke in SoCal that was perpetuated by a radio "shock jock," and gets a chuckle in the area.
Never heard of that before, but I don't listen to Leykis.
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Old 03-12-2012, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Providence, RI
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Chicago was interesting... I got a lot of "why would you come to Chicago" when I told people I wasn't there for work. Then, I had people beaming with pride giving me all sorts of recommendations. I loved Chicago.

Cleveland residents seemed almost apologetic for their city which, by the way, isn't nearly as bad as people like to make it out to be.

Boston is an oddball. Some people on this forum love to believe we're all smug, self-indulged homers; but I would disagree. For probably 50% of the people up here (or more), Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, etc (or in smaller cases, Arizona) is the promised land as it's cheaper and warmer. I have no fewer than 10 high school friends who are now living in Florida. As far as cities go, we constantly knock Boston for not being more like NYC. You'll likely hear, "well they're doing THIS in NYC... why can't we?!" Are there some smug, cold, yankee snobs up here? Sure. But I'd say it's 50/50.

Providence is a bit self loathing. Maybe it's the economy, but I've never been to a city where people take all of what they have for granted. Living in Boston's shadow may add to this and so might the economy. Still, Providence residents rarely have nice things to say about Providence.
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Old 03-12-2012, 02:28 PM
 
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Chicago was interesting... I got a lot of "why would you come to Chicago" when I told people I wasn't there for work. Then, I had people beaming with pride giving me all sorts of recommendations. I loved Chicago.

Cleveland residents seemed almost apologetic for their city which, by the way, isn't nearly as bad as people like to make it out to be.

Boston is an oddball. Some people on this forum love to believe we're all smug, self-indulged homers; but I would disagree. For probably 50% of the people up here (or more), Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, etc (or in smaller cases, Arizona) is the promised land as it's cheaper and warmer. I have no fewer than 10 high school friends who are now living in Florida. As far as cities go, we constantly knock Boston for not being more like NYC. You'll likely hear, "well they're doing THIS in NYC... why can't we?!" Are there some smug, cold, yankee snobs up here? Sure. But I'd say it's 50/50.

Providence is a bit self loathing. Maybe it's the economy, but I've never been to a city where people take all of what they have for granted. Living in Boston's shadow may add to this and so might the economy. Still, Providence residents rarely have nice things to say about Providence.
Great post.

I do think that Chicago does have somewhat of an inferiority complex. Its residents seem to go "on and on" about what a great town it is, that it becomes annoying. I think about how ugly the area gets once the metro area thins out, and that does it for me.

Cleveland is definitely not as bad as people say. And the people from there tend to be salt of the earth, as they are in all the big Ohio ciites.

New Englanders, at least non-ethnic ones, can indeed be smug and cold. I saw this at both the hotel in Lexington/Concord I was staying in, at all the shops in that neighborhood, and in some transplanted Bostonians I've met. If the ratio of "smugs" is that high, it wouldn't cut it for me, especially for the cost.

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Old 03-12-2012, 05:09 PM
 
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Maybe not a city, but a region or a subset of metro LA - "the Inland Empire."

When someone says "the 909," it ain't pretty. I'm not sure if Tom Leykis coined that, but he uses the pejorative "moniker." People from that area cringe when someone says "so, you live in 'the 909'."
You know Tom's coming back, right?
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Old 03-12-2012, 05:13 PM
 
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Interesting how people keep naming Midwestern cities. I'll also nominate Kansas City and Cincinnati, from my experience.

I wouldn't call Chicago self-depreciating, though--that town is definitely more smug than anything else. They even carry the smugness over to other cities: practically every sentence from a transplanted Chicagoan begins with "Well, back in Chicago,..."
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Old 03-12-2012, 05:25 PM
 
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You know Tom's coming back, right?
I used to like him. But the delivery never changed. He has to reinvent himself. I wonder how many times he's been divorced by now. At last count, it was 4, IIRC.
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Old 03-12-2012, 05:30 PM
 
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I'll also nominate Kansas City and Cincinnati, from my experience.
I might disagree on this one. I think they call it "the Paris of the Plains" or "the city of fountains." Not only that, being in a river valley, it does have topographical variety, unlike West and Central Kansas, which are pancake flat. A shopping area called the Plaza is modeled after Seville, Spain. I think the job market is strong and the housing stock is newer and nice.

I couldn't handle it because it is TOO conservative and a big preoccupation with where one goes to church. It's also too far from anything for a "day tripper."
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Old 03-12-2012, 05:40 PM
 
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I might disagree on this one. I think they call it "the Paris of the Plains" or "the city of fountains." Not only that, being in a river valley, it does have topographical variety, unlike West and Central Kansas, which are pancake flat. A shopping area called the Plaza is modeled after Seville, Spain. I think the job market is strong and the housing stock is newer and nice.

I couldn't handle it because it is TOO conservative and a big preoccupation with where one goes to church. It's also too far from anything for a "day tripper."
But the thing is, they don't seem to value their great assets, which is what makes them self-depreciating.

I asked a question about visiting once just to explore the place, and people were genuinely shocked that someone not from the area would visit the city on their own merit. That, to me, is the epitome of an inferiority complex.
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