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People actually like this stuff though. It's very short-sighted.
Pushing out "undesirables" so rich white people can be more segregated is the subtle undercurrent of these threads.
Boston is the best example of how badly income inequality and segregation are, and their bubble is gonna burst at some point.
Call it sophistication. I call it ****ing stupid.
We get it. You're the F****** balls. You live on the edge you're the epitome of badass. Philly is the F****** balls if so don't thin so you're a p*****. I think I have you figured out you're from NY but if you don't think Philly is better than you especially Boston then you should get the f*** out.
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I'm going San Francisco but I'm only equating sophistication with cosmopolitan and worldliness, as I'm not sure how else it defines itself in a city.
DC and San Francisco are very close though..
I also don't know why Boston is seen as more sophisticated than DC ?
As for Philly well it must have changed alot since W.C Fields said this .." wonderful town, spent a week there one night"....
I was in Boston/ Cambridge last week for Harvard's grad, it doesn't feel more sophisticated by any means than DC. "Harvard" is sophisticated, but i'm talking about the locale. Boston as a whole is on par in some areas, but that's about it. I'm guessing the sophisticated talk with Boston is centered around having the most elite universities all in one area. The populace of the locals IMO seems no more "sophisticated" than DC, again on par at best. Boston is the center of top level education and medical research for sure, but DC also as a region has more Ivy league residents living and working in the area than anywhere in the U.S. So with regards to this thread that pulls in a lot more of "sophistication".
DC is also a cleaner city than Boston, although Boston is not dirty like LA or NYC.
I was in Boston/ Cambridge last week for Harvard's grad, it doesn't feel more sophisticated by any means than DC. "Harvard" is sophisticated, but i'm talking about the locale. Boston as a whole is on par in some areas, but that's about it. I'm guessing the sophisticated talk with Boston is centered around having the most elite universities all in one area. The populace of the locals IMO seems no more "sophisticated" than DC, again on par at best. Boston is the center of top level education and medical research for sure, but DC also as a region has more Ivy league residents living and working in the area than anywhere in the U.S. So with regards to this thread that pulls in a lot more of "sophistication".
DC is also a cleaner city than Boston, although Boston is not dirty like LA or NYC.
Not sure where you got that from, but I'm pretty sure SF and NYC have more Ivy alums than the DC area.
The large educational presence isn't really the reason I'd place Boston ahead of DC here. It's really more because it's an older city with more mature institutions. If you've ever watched the "Washington in the 70s" series on DC public television, Connie Chung and Maury Povich talk about how the city was a cultural backwater back then, and it basically began to transform because of educated transplants from cities like NYC and Boston who began to demand better cultural amenities. That's why the Kennedy Center was eventually built.
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Not sure where you got that from, but I'm pretty sure SF and NYC have more Ivy alums than the DC area.
The large educational presence isn't really the reason I'd place Boston ahead of DC here. It's really more because it's an older city with more mature institutions. If you've ever watched the "Washington in the 70s" series on DC public television, Connie Chung and Maury Povich talk about how the city was a cultural backwater back then, and it basically began to transform because of educated transplants from cities like NYC and Boston who began to demand better cultural amenities. That's why the Kennedy Center was eventually built.
I would place only NYC and SF ahead of DC in terms of sophistication overall. (and actually i'd probably tie SF) You're talking about quotes from 45 years ago. DC is far more sophisticated than it used to be, even in my lifetime, and more of an international melting pot (definitely moreso than Boston). I'll give them the universities and that's about it, DC leads almost everywhere on museums and other cultural institutions.
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The thing about DC in relation to the other cities listed here, is that it's more rapidly changing than each. Like in all honesty DC feels more sophiscated today than it did last winter, and last year, let alone 10, 20, or 40 years ago.
I would place only NYC and SF ahead of DC in terms of sophistication overall. (and actually i'd probably tie SF) You're talking about quotes from 45 years ago. DC is far more sophisticated than it used to be, even in my lifetime, and more of an international melting pot (definitely moreso than Boston). I'll give them the universities and that's about it, DC leads almost everywhere on museums and other cultural institutions.
Well, there's more to sophistication than museums, right? You say that NYC and SF are more sophisticated than DC, but then how is that possible, especially for San Francisco? Its museums do not compare to DC's in terms of their holdings, so what would be the cultural institutions in SF that place it a tier above DC?
The thing about DC in relation to the other cities listed here, is that it's more rapidly changing than each. Like in all honesty DC feels more sophiscated today than it did last winter, and last year, let alone 10, 20, or 40 years ago.
The thing about DC is that it's more or less trying to become what cities like Boston already were. It's been playing catch up for the last four decades.
The thing about DC is that it's more or less trying to become what cities like Boston already were. It's been playing catch up for the last four decades.
Does anyone notice the similarities here? This is what I mean when I say DC gets caught openly emulating the style of other cities.
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