To those born and/or living on the coasts, do you perceive Chicago to be "unsophisticated"?
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Anonymous
| Yes, of course |
Anonymous
Boston is a worldly city full of transplants and the accent isn't really a thing anymore. Maybe in some pockets of low income working class neighborhoods/towns outside of Boston? |
Anonymous
| Not at all! East Coaster who enjoys Chicago |
Anonymous
She now lives in Miami, according to her online bios. I've been told Chicago feels like a podunk small city to people from California and East Coast. Possible relevant data point, very few out of state students at Northwestern or UChicago remain in the region after graduation. |
Anonymous
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Yes. But, in a good way.
More interestingly to me: In the less populated parts of the Midwest, everyone was focused on Chicago as the "Big City." As an East Coaster, I wanted to tell them: guys, it's NYC. NYC is The City. That is where you go to make it and when you've made it. |
Anonymous
That’s because they mostly experience Chicago in the winter! It ain’t for sissies. If you went to Georgetown only in the summer you’d get out of DC as well. How many GU grads stay in the area unless you were a government or foreign service major? |
Anonymous
| I think of it as cold, windy and where the midwest goes to party. I have no desire to go there for any reason. Why would I when there are cities on both coasts that are way more fun. |
Anonymous
| People in NYC and San Francisco have to think this way otherwise how can they possibly justify the cost of living in the two most expensive cities in the country? |
Anonymous
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I don't find any large metropolitan cities less sophisticated.
A large city is a large city. I was skeptical about Nashville when I visited it for the first time last year but was totally blown away by how liberal it really was. I had zero issues as a gay woman there. Everyone was very friendly. Also, and this made me chuckle, every single bar and restaurant we went to down there had signs out front that said guns were prohibited on the premises. Most of the bars had bouncers who made men lift their shirts to look for concealed carry guns, especially at night. |
Anonymous
| From NYC, live in DC and I don't think it's unsophisticated. Most New Yorkers I know actually seem to think pretty highly of Chicago. |
Anonymous
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No, but I do think of it as more down to earth which maybe reads as unsophisticated to some people. Less snobby.
There was an old joke about how you could tell where someone was from by the question they asked— LA—What do you drive? DC—Where do you work? NY—How much do you make (or where do you live)? What would Chicago be? Where do you eat? Other sugggestions— New Orleans — where do you go for live music? Boston—where do you go to school? Most of south-where do you go to church? |
Anonymous
| The only people who can be more obnoxious than New Yorkers are the Parisians. |
Anonymous
Never even considered this and why does it matter to you? |
Anonymous
 Strivers in all all large cities ask or Google stalk the same sh*t: Where you work, where you went to college, who you're married to, where you're from, where you live, where you vacation / second home, and where your kids go to school. All the questions are trying to sus out the same: How much dough and status you have.
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Anonymous
| I don' t really care do you? |