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Wallet Hub ranked Lexington as the fifth best-run city in the United States.
Overall, Kentucky did pretty well Louisville was ranked in the top ten best run cities also, at number 10.
That wallet hub analysis pretty much sums up why I moved away from my hometown, the desolate wasteland of Cleveland, Ohio. Many cities in the lower tiers for variables such as infant mortality, poverty, unemployment, and education were rust belt cities and deep South cities. Lexington is a beautiful, clean and economically health city and Kentucky seems to really be on the upswing. I am very happy to call this area home now.
I have no doubt that Lexington is well run. It has been well run since at least the Pam Miller mayoral years of the 1990s, and I'm sure earlier. My only real complaint about Lexington government within relatively recent history is that I feel like the Scotty Baesler mayoral administration in the 1980s dropped the ball in many ways on the conceptualization and subsequent construction of Man O' War Boulevard.
That out of the way, even if Lexington is the fifth best run city in the U.S., it is also, undoubtedly, one of the most monocultural cities of its size in the U.S. I swear, Lexingtonians are more obsessed with their Wildcats than New Yorkers are about their Yankees, Los Angelenos are about their Dodgers, or Manchesterians are about their United. Sheesh...
I agree with much you say, expect about "monoculture" - I'd term it "dominant culture", as there are many folks here who don't care a whit about the Wildcats, but who have a wide variety of other interests and hobbies.
I agree with much you say, expect about "monoculture" - I'd term it "dominant culture", as there are many folks here who don't care a whit about the Wildcats, but who have a wide variety of other interests and hobbies.
Seek, and ye shall find...
I sure didn't notice that my first time traveling thru Lexington ( November 2012 )
We stayed at a motel on the southern edge of Lexington and the Wildcats were playing Gardner-Webb that night.
Well, no, you probably wouldn't have picked up on all the "sub-cultures" in Lexington if you just were passing through and spent all of one night here five years ago.
There are music and dance groups, ranging from traditional to orchestra and ballet, storytelling groups, book clubs, historic preservation organizations, railroad groups, creative writing groups, collectors' clubs, cat shows, dog shows, tropical fish shows, iris shows, genealogy groups, rock collectors' groups, dinner groups, bonsai groups, arts and craft fairs, theater in the park (and in various theaters), opera, swimming clubs, tennis clubs, country clubs, pickleball groups, golf clubs and groups, horse-related groups and activities - and lots of them - gardening groups, rock climbing groups, spelunking groups, other-sports-than-the-Wildcats groups, theatre groups, movie buffs, cookery groups, boaters, model rocket groups, hiking groups, political groups, advocacy groups for various causes, travel clubs, and far more.
This is just a sampling of what goes on around here. In addition to lots of folks who enjoy non-Wildcat activities but individually, not as part of any group, and folks who love the Wildcats - but who love lots of other things, too. The Cats are just more visible, on the surface - you have to dig a little deeper and stay a little longer to discover the rest. So come see us again - and stay a little longer next time.
... Manchesterians are about their United. Sheesh...
I believe the demonym is Mancunians, isn't it?
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