Biggest, most unflattering Stereotypes/Misconceptions of your city (neighborhood, beautiful, development)
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Location: East Central Pennsylvania/ Chicago for 6yrs.
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Originally Posted by Ghengis
nope, won't work without the word "plains" in there somewhere, it's in that song about 16 times!
Ok...since even a thread on C-D. Ask why the Midwest gets no love or respect....even hate? We can retire the name Midwest? Put Illinois and Indiana with the Great Lakes area? Then call the former Midwest on this map??
The GREAT PLAINS.
-We're all hippies
-The whole city is filled with Liberals
-Tons of Mexican restaurants (This one is true)
-Flat (We have tons of hills (more like minor mountains)
-Dry (We get 30+ in. of rain here. It's been raining constantly for 3 straight months.)
-It's turning into Dallas
-Tons of Traffic (One of the only true stereotypes here)
-A lot of Gay People
-We all work for the State of California. Actually, Intel, Siemans, HP, Apple, Schilling Robotics, DMI Mori are here too.
-Flat - actually, Hills are 15-20 mins away both west and east. Within 45mins drive, 6,000ft - 11,000ft mountains (the Sierra Nevada Mountains) - World Class snow skiing is 1-2 hours drive.
-Too warm in Summer, actually, Sacramento cools dramatically regularly in the summer every day giving us cool and comfortable evenings, nights, and mornings because of the cool/cold Pacific Ocean. Sacramento has the perfect summer humidity levels, not humid, not nearly as humid as Florida or Texas, but not bone dry like Arizona or the Southwest. Sacramento's "feels like" high temps are 5 degrees Cooler than the actual temp. These places all have much worse uncomfortable heat: Austin, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Vegas, Tucson, Fresno, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, all of the south and southwest.
-Sacramento, where is it in California? We are in Northern California, North of San Francisco. Sacramento is the furthest large metro/city on the West Coast until you get to Portland, Oregon. Sacramento is in the Heart of California, in the Sacramento Valley, just above California's Delta region. Sacramento is 1.5hrs drive from the Pacific Ocean, 45mins drive from Real large mountains - the Sierra Nevada.
- We're "in" the mountains... No, at the base of the mountains on the high plains. Pikes Peak, summit 14,114 feet, overlooks the city.
- We get tons of snow... Yes, we get snowstorms. However, on most occasions it melts within a day or two. In winter it can be 20 one day and 65 the next. We average 300 days a year of sunshine.
- We're not a big city... Not huge, but not small either. 440,000 in the city limits, 680,000 metro.
- We're ultra conservative, right wing nut-jobs... This is a conservative town due mostly to the number of retired military folks who were stationed here during active duty and stayed after discharge. Elections run about 60/40 Rep/Dem.
- We're all highly religious... Yes, there are a lot of religious organizations based here. However, church attendance is below the national average.
- We are not culturally or racially diverse... We are about average for a town this size in the Western US. The military adds a lot of diversity that doesn't show up in census reports.
- We're isolated and in the middle of nowhere... Somewhat true. But we do have Denver and its restaurants, shopping, cultural activities and pro sports, just a little over an hour away.
We're all alcoholics.
It stinks.
You'll get shot if you stay there for more than a month.
People sound funny.
People act funny.
Jazz music
It's run down everywhere.
It was once important but now it's just a drinking hole.
"The City that Care Forgot"
"Cajun food!!!"
"I can do whatever I want there"
"Swamp heat yuck"
Hurricanes hit us and every time they do we all die or lose everything.
Horribly mismanaged
Mardi Gras - don't bring your kids. You'll see boobies everywhere.
Most unique city in the USA
"Only in New Orleans..."
Some of it's true, some of it isn't, some of it is situational, and then there are the hidden gems that aren't mentioned. Finding out which ones is what is part of the fun!
The most white people I saw were in the tourist areas or were military people in uniform. I also only saw like 5 black people the entire time I was in San Antonio (about a week) and probably 4 of them were in military uniforms. I didn't see any Asians. Other than that, most of San Antonio IS Mexican. You even hear Spanish everywhere in San Antonio.
The misconception: Buffalo is close to NYC The truth: It's a 7 hour drive
LOL, I remember a girl in high school who moved to my city from somewhere in New York state. When people asked her where she was from and she said "New York," people would go, "Oh, You're from New York City?!?" and she would immediately get mad and go off on them when she never specified that she wasn't...lol.
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