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Philadelphia is difficult because a lot of it's stereotypes are in transition...
I guess the biggest peeve is that people moving in see downtown as an amusement park for the "city" of the suburbs instead of as the live in city that it is. It's like people moving in to NYC or San Fran but defaulting to what far flung suburb best suits them for their downtown job. It's been laughable for awhile now.
Providence : everyone thinks the people are rude, cold, unfriendly, snobby, perochial, and they think its a frozen tundra for 9 months ... typical North East stereotypes .. but hey, if it keeps people from moving here Im fine with it.
This post confirms reality (not stereotypical supposition). PVD people are - as a rule - ill-educated (see spelling of "peroch...", well you see my point), parochial (I think the word "ignirint" was invented there), clannish, etc.
I don't know about the cold-unfriendly thing ... not in my experience. Snobbish? About what? The best costume jewelry factories? Clamcakes? Actually, what keeps people from moving there is the lack of ANY quality jobs ... beginning and end of discussion.
LOS ANGELES:
Everyone works in the movie industry, or in the porn industry.
Everyone here is a tree-hugging, ultra liberal, PETA member vegan.
It's full of illegal immigrants.
Everyone commutes 2 hours each way to work.
It never rains here.
It's unsafe.
Everyone works out all day and gets plastic surgery and looks like movie stars.
Everyone lives at the beach.
Everyone in Hollywood or West Hollywood is gay.
Everyone in Westwood and Beverly Hills is Jewish.
East LA and Echo Park are ghetto.
Everyone is fake and superficial.
Everyone talks like Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".
We all know how to surf and snowboard, and sometimes do both in the same day.
Everyone smokes weed.
We don't have or use public transportation.
The air quality is awful (has anyone ever been to Bakersfield??).
Everyone here is rich and/or famous.
We are devoid of culture.
Philadelphia is difficult because a lot of it's stereotypes are in transition...
I guess the biggest peeve is that people moving in see downtown as an amusement park for the "city" of the suburbs instead of as the live in city that it is. It's like people moving in to NYC or San Fran but defaulting to what far flung suburb best suits them for their downtown job. It's been laughable for awhile now.
Here's some stereotypes for Philly.
-Everyone knows a Rocky quote.
-Philly cheese steaks are a common part of diet.
-It's always very gritty or dirty (Not as bad as Camden).
Kansas Citians hate the association with Kansas but American ignorance being what it is, we just have to deal with it. Our city was named "Kansas City" before Kansas became a state and stole the name. Then to further confuse things, the suburb town of "Wyandotte" across the river in Kansas later renamed itself "Kansas City Kansas."
Here's a photo showing the difference between Kansas City Missouri and the suburbs in Kansas (shaded in red).
"Kansas City is flat....." Wrong, Kansas City is one of the hilliest cities in the USA.
All we drink is sweet tea (kinda hard to argue with if you were born here)
We're all racist rebel rednecks
We don't want the LGBT community here (A lot of anti-gay/trans sentiment in rural towns but Raleigh is more open minded)
We all drive trucks (rural NC stereotype)
We're all morbidly overweight, bud lite guzzling, NASCAR watching, hunting, trailerpark hillbillies (rural NC stereotype)
We don't know what the hell to do when it snows (partially true)
We so badly want to be Charlotte (hardly but we'd trade their skyline and downtown scene in a minute)
We're all southern baptists
Last edited by tailsock; 05-01-2016 at 08:38 PM..
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