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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the suburb that inspired Mean Girls?[/quote]

I thought it was Winnetka. But Chicago isn't what I'd think of as flyover...[/quote]

PP here. Apparently it was Evanston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls But I was close.

You are really struggling to find interesting people in Chicago?

[/quote] That is where the movie takes place, but Tina Fey used her experience in Upper Darby, PA and the author of "Queen Bees and Wanna Bees" is from the DC area.  [/quote]

We are getting off point ... but the author of Queens Bees is from DC and went to Maret. Tina Fey wrote the movie Mean Girls and based it in part on the book Queen Bees and in part on her personal experience at high school in Upper Darby, PA. The movie is set in Evanston. I am not sure which of these places OP means since I would not call any of them flyover country, although presumably she means Evanston ... This was a great movie.

Op, I think you need to reflect on the very movie you refer to. There is more to everyone than a superficial exterior. I am tired of the DC intellectual and cultural snobbiness. I grew up in NYC - guess what, many people there look down on DC as bumpkinville. I think that attitude is ridiculous as well but I admit when I first moved here I believed it. Then I got to know people and found lots of smart, fun, interesting, savvy people here who I clicked with. I am sure there are many where you live as well. But if you have a superior attitude or a chip on your shoulder, you won’t find them (or if you do, they won’t want to spend time with you). [/quote]

I'm just pointing out that Upper Darby is a working class suburb of Philadelphia with a large African American and now immigrant population. It may have been slightly more mixed during Tina Fey's day but it was certainly not an affluent suburb by any stretch of the imagination. So it's odd to be lumping it with the rich white women of the OP's posts. [/quote]

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