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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jon Johanning said:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>"Around here, in the City of Brotherly Love, we're used to being dissed.
<BR>Goes with the territory."<BR><FONT face=Arial
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size=2>Since this whole thread has chamber of commerce or academic social
psychology markings, I'll go along for a minute and ask, "What do folks think of
Detroit?" What's its image to New Yorkers, Philadelphians, etc?
Detroit is my city at this time. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>This
thread is really kind of strange: Whose city is better? Where does a
better quality of life lay? Who is more 'arrogant' or 'insular'?
What's the point? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Reminds me of the late 80s when I left Augusta, GA
( thought by the locals as a desirable up and coming place in the New
South, with the nicest of people) and moved to Pittsburgh, PA
(certified by Rand McNally as 1985's most desirable city in the
country according to dozens of their 'quality of life'
indicators). But I soured on Pittsburgh and moved to the land of
enchantment's biggest, most modern city - Albuquerque, NM - which
was thought by some to be the nicest city in the country and a real up and
comer in the New Southwest. Guess I soured on Albuquerque too, and
moved to the Boston area for a short while before moving to Detroit. I
won't bore you with tales of earlier living and activism in London (England),
Atlanta, and Honolulu, places that are raved about for their diversity,
excitment, etc. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's possible that I can't adjust
anywhere. But also, maybe my wanderlust resulted from finding similar
fundamentals wherever I lived: poverty and affluence, hope and despair,
wisdom and ignorance. These basics are pretty much the same
everywhere. I'd be surprised to find more than a small
fraction of a city's residents expressing loudmouth arrogance or being
super insulars. For the cases that exist, there are good sociological
reasons. Two things kept me in an area for a long time. First,
of course, was my job. More importantly, the more I was linked into left
activism, the more 'adjusted' I became and the less I was concerned with
the social psychology of urban-regional 'citizenship.'</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob</FONT></DIV>
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