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I think you are bringing up old ideals of how Seattle, LA, and Vegas consider themselves. Yeah, perhaps from 20 years ago! Today, Seattle is not about grunge, LA understands it is not the center of show business, and Vegas has completely reinvented the "sin city" theme.
Seattle is a now a tech/international city, LA is a multicultural center, and Vegas has become a party/event city.
But 1998 still lives in most of us I guess!
Yep. Sometimes more like 1988 -- stereotypes of Big Oil, Big Hair, shopping at indoor malls.
Of course , I don't live in a movie and I know people don't go around panicking about what residents of other cities think about their city.
What I mewnt is like how Seattle for instance is obsessed with being that cool Nirvana, grunge town.
Or how LA is obsessed with being the show business capital of the world or how Las Vegas is obsessed with being "Sin City".
Seattle residents are not obsessed with being that "cool Nirvana, grunge town". For starters, Aberdeen (where Nirvana formed) is a 2-hour drive from Seattle in a depressed, rural backwoods part of Washington State that has very little in common with Seattle. Virtually nobody who lives in Seattle thinks about or talks about the city in that way - if anything, what you're describing is an outdated national perception.
Cities with high violent crime rates tend to be obsessed/defensive/worried about their images on the national stage—places like Baltimore, Detroit, Newark. Probably some smaller cities like this too. IMO they’re upset about the image they project cause they know there is much more to their cities than just murder and mayhem.
Cities with high violent crime rates tend to be obsessed/defensive/worried about their images on the national stage—places like Baltimore, Detroit, Newark. Probably some smaller cities like this too. IMO they’re upset about the image they project cause they know there is much more to their cities than just murder and mayhem.
There is some truth to that.
However, I think that people from the cities you listed get defensive because their city is making strides in the right direction, but perception doesn't change nearly as fast as reality. That was my case with Baltimore until that Freddie Gray even set us back 10 years. The subsequential uptick in homicide can't be defended, so I say to hell with it.
Last edited by KodeBlue; 04-03-2018 at 07:27 PM..
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