Stereotypes of Cities?

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Most city folks: Food comes from the grocery store. Rely on others to defend them.

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Anonymous wrote:Philly -- massive insecurity re NYC. Constant need to prove that NYC isn't all that. In reality it's full of people who don't leave Philly bc they can't make it anywhere else; they need to be where they were born and raised bc preferential treatment re hiring is alive and well. Don't like outsiders. Not the brightest lights in the harbor. The only city that seems to look down on the ivy league school in its cities. 'Nova, Temple, Rutgers, and Penn State grads get hired constantly over UPenn grads bc UPenn students are thought of as elitists or outsiders -- even the ones that WANT to stay in Philly after college.

+1. Philly is just insecure in general. No one cares about philly.

I dislike everyone I meet from Philly.
They are arrogant and egotistical, and racist. And so overly proud of their city, which is a crummy s-hole. Good food though!

I feel the same about Philly, which I always think of as Filthadelphia. I took Amtrak there from DC and it went through I swear shantytowns. The scene looked like a favela. It is criminal that they've allowed the public schools (not talking about surrounding suburbs) in Philly to fall to shit... much worse situation than DC. The people seemed very defensive; very proud townies who think Philly is the absolute best even though they've never been anywhere else. And I hate that weird accent they have.

I'm from that area (though a suburb 20 min away). It has all the issues of a poor, crime ridden city that used to be a manufacturing city but manufacturing moved away - hence the shanty town and failing schools. Amongst the townie whites though -- defensiveness like you cannot imagine, at all levels. I have a few friends who have top JDs, MBAs, a decade of top experience in their fields in NYC and DC. At various points they've wanted to move back home to raise the grandkids close to their families and once they find suitable jobs to apply for -- they very much are given the attitude of -- why should we take you, you abandoned Philadelphia 10 yrs ago and are a traitor for going to NYC, we'll hire a local person with less experience instead. The ones who were desperate to go back very much had to "hide" their experience at their NYC law firm/bank etc. so as to "fit in" enough to get the job.

And the hate for UPenn is very real amongst the same townies. I don't really understand why, but many hiring managers do NOT want a UPenn grad/intern, and would much much rather go with Villanova, Temple, St. Joes or Penn State. And if you dare say you go to UPenn, you're often lectured that Penn State is an excellent school too. Not saying Penn State or any of these other schools are bad (and I have no dog in the fight - not a UPenn grad myself), but only in an uneducated kind of place would you look down at people who got into a school with an 8% acceptance rate and think the world of people going places with 50% acceptance rates. In all other college towns I've been to, people are proud that this excellent school belongs to THEM. Not in Philly apparently.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago, the City of Broad Shoulders. That's where the shoulder pad was invented, because in the 80s there was an influx of weak-chinned, slope-shouldered folk from other parts of the country who felt inferior. When they put in the shoulder pads, though, they felt "Second to None." Hence the nickname Second City.

Can we get an emoji of someone just shaking their head "no"? Because this isn't even a little bit correct.

Also, I think the phrase is "City of Big Shoulders."

- Not a Chicagoan

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Anonymous wrote:Do hunters drive subies???

I know a lot of people who refer to them as "lez-barus."

That's because Subaru went out of their way to court the lesbian community. They even had a brand slogan, "Get out. Stay out." LOL.

Just watch the L word season 1 if you want to see this in action...

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Anonymous wrote:Richmond -- old southern gentry. The type that still ask you your mother's maiden name and which local (private) school you went to. Sure there are lots of newcomers that aren't generational families and have just moved for a good job, but if you truly want to get ahead in business or law, you need to be rubbing elbows at the country club and the local weddings, which you are only invited to as a generational family. So it's hard to break into the city for real, but if you can land yourself a 100k+ job and live happily in the suburbs, it's just like life in any other middle America suburb -- albeit more conservative values, more church going etc. Also a good city if you eschew all of the above and want to be a hipster; way easier to be a hipster there bc rent is cheap.

Sounds nice.

[Anonymous]

Seattle: people who need to take antidepressants because of SAD and the constant rain, crunch hippie outdoors types, now lots of tech guys that are driving up prices

[Anonymous]

Seattle- Close to Canada = nice people and values.

Portland- Outdoorsy nice people, it's a Pacific Northwest thing!

SF/Palo Alto- Rich Nerds

LA - Hell hole (I live here)

DC - Blondeswith bobs who marry older men then SAHM and drive escapades. 40 year old women doing IVF.

Central coast of California- Smug annoying people who hashtag things like #IliveWhereYouVacation

Lafayette/Bakersfield/Mobile- Armpits of America

NYC - 40 year old women who won't grow up

Anywhere in Montana- Nice boring people who like mountains and the outdoors.

Detroit- Shantytown

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Anonymous wrote:Philly -- massive insecurity re NYC. Constant need to prove that NYC isn't all that. In reality it's full of people who don't leave Philly bc they can't make it anywhere else; they need to be where they were born and raised bc preferential treatment re hiring is alive and well. Don't like outsiders. Not the brightest lights in the harbor. The only city that seems to look down on the ivy league school in its cities. 'Nova, Temple, Rutgers, and Penn State grads get hired constantly over UPenn grads bc UPenn students are thought of as elitists or outsiders -- even the ones that WANT to stay in Philly after college.

+1. Philly is just insecure in general. No one cares about philly.

I dislike everyone I meet from Philly.
They are arrogant and egotistical, and racist. And so overly proud of their city, which is a crummy s-hole. Good food though!

It's way friendlier than DC. Housing beautiful and cheaper. Museums and restaurants good.

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Anonymous wrote:Philly -- massive insecurity re NYC. Constant need to prove that NYC isn't all that. In reality it's full of people who don't leave Philly bc they can't make it anywhere else; they need to be where they were born and raised bc preferential treatment re hiring is alive and well. Don't like outsiders. Not the brightest lights in the harbor. The only city that seems to look down on the ivy league school in its cities. 'Nova, Temple, Rutgers, and Penn State grads get hired constantly over UPenn grads bc UPenn students are thought of as elitists or outsiders -- even the ones that WANT to stay in Philly after college.

I'm pretty open minded and find Philly to be a pretty miserable place. For me it's the people there. Most are pretty rude and almost hostile. NYC and Boston, cities that most rank high on the rude and hostile meter, are great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seattle- Close to Canada = nice people and values.

Portland- Outdoorsy nice people, it's a Pacific Northwest thing!

SF/Palo Alto- Rich Nerds

LA - Hell hole (I live here)

DC - Blondeswith bobs who marry older men then SAHM and drive escapades. 40 year old women doing IVF.

Central coast of California- Smug annoying people who hashtag things like #IliveWhereYouVacation

Lafayette/Bakersfield/Mobile- Armpits of America

NYC - 40 year old women who won't grow up

Anywhere in Montana- Nice boring people who like mountains and the outdoors.

Detroit- Shantytown

Pretty spot-on, especially LA. Other than the weather, I don't get the appeal. To me LA, unless you're a 1 percenter (sheesh i hate that term) just seems like one big machine that eats you up.

I love Montana, wish I could afford to live there, but rich people from California escape there in droves and have driven up the prices. They're called Cappuccino Cowboys.

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Anonymous wrote:Philly -- massive insecurity re NYC. Constant need to prove that NYC isn't all that. In reality it's full of people who don't leave Philly bc they can't make it anywhere else; they need to be where they were born and raised bc preferential treatment re hiring is alive and well. Don't like outsiders. Not the brightest lights in the harbor. The only city that seems to look down on the ivy league school in its cities. 'Nova, Temple, Rutgers, and Penn State grads get hired constantly over UPenn grads bc UPenn students are thought of as elitists or outsiders -- even the ones that WANT to stay in Philly after college.

I'm pretty open minded and find Philly to be a pretty miserable place. For me it's the people there. Most are pretty rude and almost hostile. NYC and Boston, cities that most rank high on the rude and hostile meter, are great.

This is true. Probably the rudest people I've encountered have been from Philly or in Philly. It's cliche to say but if your football stadium needed a jail, it tells you something.

[Anonymous]

Berkeley CA-
Very liberal minded grassroots type of people.
Tree jugglers who believe in recycling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Philly -- massive insecurity re NYC. Constant need to prove that NYC isn't all that. In reality it's full of people who don't leave Philly bc they can't make it anywhere else; they need to be where they were born and raised bc preferential treatment re hiring is alive and well. Don't like outsiders. Not the brightest lights in the harbor. The only city that seems to look down on the ivy league school in its cities. 'Nova, Temple, Rutgers, and Penn State grads get hired constantly over UPenn grads bc UPenn students are thought of as elitists or outsiders -- even the ones that WANT to stay in Philly after college.

I'm pretty open minded and find Philly to be a pretty miserable place. For me it's the people there. Most are pretty rude and almost hostile. NYC and Boston, cities that most rank high on the rude and hostile meter, are great.

Really? I have loved Philly when i visited. It feels like a very low key place, kind of like DC before it gentrified. I was actually thinking of moving there

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Anonymous wrote:Philly -- massive insecurity re NYC. Constant need to prove that NYC isn't all that. In reality it's full of people who don't leave Philly bc they can't make it anywhere else; they need to be where they were born and raised bc preferential treatment re hiring is alive and well. Don't like outsiders. Not the brightest lights in the harbor. The only city that seems to look down on the ivy league school in its cities. 'Nova, Temple, Rutgers, and Penn State grads get hired constantly over UPenn grads bc UPenn students are thought of as elitists or outsiders -- even the ones that WANT to stay in Philly after college.

I'm pretty open minded and find Philly to be a pretty miserable place. For me it's the people there. Most are pretty rude and almost hostile. NYC and Boston, cities that most rank high on the rude and hostile meter, are great.

Really? I have loved Philly when i visited. It feels like a very low key place, kind of like DC before it gentrified. I was actually thinking of moving there

The townies (those who have never left Philly, never will, and claim Philly's the greatest even though they've never been anywhere else) are the worst. Belligerent and mistrustful. Beware.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago, the City of Broad Shoulders. That's where the shoulder pad was invented, because in the 80s there was an influx of weak-chinned, slope-shouldered folk from other parts of the country who felt inferior. When they put in the shoulder pads, though, they felt "Second to None." Hence the nickname Second City.

Can we get an emoji of someone just shaking their head "no"? Because this isn't even a little bit correct.

Also, I think the phrase is "City of Big Shoulders."

- Not a Chicagoan

Agree.

- also Not a Chicagoan but a native of "DC, the City that Never Laughs." Or wait, was I thinking of "NY, the City that Never Weeps"? Oh well, I always get those two confused. Anyway, I heart Chicago! The City of Weak Chins and Strong Wills, as my grandmother used to say as she fried perogis.