Gender: Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 398 Status: User Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:03 am Post subject:
What's so great about Chicago? I think it's alright, but kind of lacking for it's size. It should be awesomer than it really is. Then again I like medium or small cities a lot more than big cities.
As far as the Midwest goes, I love the Great Lakes bits and hate the completely land-locked parts. Rural towns: I like the ones up in the forests and lake country (Northern Minnesota/Wisconsin) but not so much the farm towns (South Minnesota/Nebraska/Iowa, etc). I like how non-cosmopolitan and casual it is here. We just want to wear comfortable clothes, drink cheap beer, go to shows, relax in our very affordable homes, and occasionally go up North to go fishing.
My favorite places are the ones that seem horrible but are really cool if you look hard enough. I love Minneapolis, but there are tons of retards from the suburbs crapping all over the city* (especially Uptown), whereas in the less obviously "hip" areas there are these great little dives and secretly awesome neighborhoods all around. I like coexisting with the horribles. I would hate to live in a city full of cool people.
*by the way, it's fun to picture what this would look like if you took this literally. _________________
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Gender: Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1843 Status: Moderator
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:26 am Post subject:
robert goulet wrote:
seriously besides the architecture and the hippies wuts ur beef, mikes?
Nothing. I love living in San Francisco. It's just mad overrated, like New York.
PBR is ten dollars per twelver, forties are a whopping median of $2.45, and the DIY scene seems almost non-existent. Also, being in Tendernob puts me a hop and a skip away from all the super-touristy areas except Haight and the Presdio. If there are tons of tourists, something's wrong. I just find myself unimpressed by a lot of things here.
Boyo wrote:
My favorite places are the ones that seem horrible but are really cool if you look hard enough. I love Minneapolis, but there are tons of retards from the suburbs crapping all over the city* (especially Uptown), whereas in the less obviously "hip" areas there are these great little dives and secretly awesome neighborhoods all around. I like coexisting with the horribles. I would hate to live in a city full of cool people.
Which is why my heart will always be in Richmond, VA.
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Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1559 Status: User Location: Ferndale, MI
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:30 am Post subject:
Mikes! wrote:
Boyo wrote:
My favorite places are the ones that seem horrible but are really cool if you look hard enough. I love Minneapolis, but there are tons of retards from the suburbs crapping all over the city* (especially Uptown), whereas in the less obviously "hip" areas there are these great little dives and secretly awesome neighborhoods all around. I like coexisting with the horribles. I would hate to live in a city full of cool people.
Which is why my heart will always be in Richmond, VA.
And mine in Ann Arbor, MI. _________________ here comes the big ideas again, just like they did before and then,
the morning comes again and they're gone
Gender: Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 6077 Status: Moderator
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:41 am Post subject:
Yay, Pittsburgh! _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
You can be my hen and we can f(Bu-GAWK)
A bite to the leg, it's time to play
Baby, let me be your egg that needs to get laid.
- CEO Nwabudike Morgan
"The Chicken of Lust"
Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:37 am Post subject:
GTFO ALLEGHENY SAM. How does it feel to be not as good as Philadelphia?
And for the record, despite their entertaining smear-campaign against Wisconsin, California dairy farmers know that their cheese is inferior. They know it deep down inside.
I wish I was making this shit up, but my aunt Jeanie mails a wheel of cheese once a month to my cousin Colleen in Las Vegas. It's a small wheel, but it's still a wheel, you know?
Of course, all this means nothing to vegan rode-my-bike-to-the-Gilmore, had-a-sleepover-but-we-called-it-a-commune types.
Gender: Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 398 Status: User Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:48 am Post subject:
I have a system with all of my friends that regularly go to Wisconsin on weekends to get me cheese so I always have some. I can't eat sharp cheddar (I love sharp cheddar) unless it comes from a proper Wisconsin cheese shop anymore. _________________
Gender: Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 6077 Status: Moderator
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:03 am Post subject:
dodger wrote:
GTFO ALLEGHENY SAM. How does it feel to be not as good as Philadelphia?
y'mean rapetown? "Brotherly love" indeed. _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
You can be my hen and we can f(Bu-GAWK)
A bite to the leg, it's time to play
Baby, let me be your egg that needs to get laid.
- CEO Nwabudike Morgan
"The Chicken of Lust"
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.
Gender: Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1226 Status: User Location: A valley full o' Pioneer.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject:
dodger wrote:
GTFO ALLEGHENY SAM. How does it feel to be not as good as Philadelphia?
I actually laughed out loud. Good show, sir.
Also, dodger, I think we can agree that both Wisconsinites and Californians are better at making cheese than those damn Vermonters. _________________ Married to Terri.
Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1559 Status: User Location: Ferndale, MI
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:
Okay, so what states actually qualify as the midwest in people's minds?
I generally wouldn't think of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana as being included... though according to Wikipedia they are. _________________ here comes the big ideas again, just like they did before and then,
the morning comes again and they're gone
Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1559 Status: User Location: Ferndale, MI
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject:
I don't know... "Midwest" always makes me think of corn and post-emo indie rock. Places like Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The states around me were always just "Big Ten Country". _________________ here comes the big ideas again, just like they did before and then,
the morning comes again and they're gone
Gender: Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 2774 Status: User Location: Tashkent, PA
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:
Mikes! wrote:
Also, the West Coast would be okay, but all it has is Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco.
And Berkeley, and the better parts of Los Angeles.
edit: And on a good day, Tacoma, Eugene, Fresno, San Diego, and San Jose.
I can't speak for much, but, of the towns in the Mid-west that I've been to, Chicago was awesome, Ann Arbor sucked, Lansing sucked, Detroit was... ok, Cleveland was cool in a weird way, Springfield, IL obviously sucked, I could keep going.
The East Coast/Mid-Atlantic is the SHIT though. It might not seem like a lot to a native who lives there, but for a West Coast outsider like myself it was like "HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS ACTUALLY TALK LIKE THIS? AND YOU MAKE MEAT LIKE THIS? AND SOME OF YOU HAVE MORE SWAY IN THE GOVERNMENT THAN I DO?!?!? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP!"
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