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Like, anyone who lives in the tri-state metro area will refer to NYC as just "the city," but I found that happened much less when I lived in/around Boston. I went to school outside Philly but I never really heard locals refer to it as anything but either Philly or whatever neighborhood they were talking about. I'm curious if more rural areas with smaller major cities nearby follow similar trends, or what? Also kind of curious if there's a similar thing for people who just live hours and hours away from a major population center.
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Denver. Biggest city for 500 miles around. It sucks and everything is expensive and there are more hobos here than anywhere else except maybe for the bay area
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i live in the texas panhandle where the dust bowl never ended and no, no one refers to the biggest city as The city
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I used to live in vermont and when people said the city they meant burlington which is hysterically sad.
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I live in Iowa and the only city within an hour is Sioux City, everyone here generally refers that to the city.
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nesamdoom posted:I live in Iowa and the only city within an hour is Sioux City, everyone here generally refers that to the city. Have you considered not living in iowa
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SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:Denver. Biggest city for 500 miles around. I had fun there but yeah tons of homeless, most of them seemed to be burnout white dudes with dreads. Very pushy. Wulfolme posted:i live in the texas panhandle where the dust bowl never ended Do they refer to any city at all nearby as 'the city?" or just nobody ever says that?
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Apr 24, 2018 03:53
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ya, DC Everyone hates driving into The City, potholes and lovely prezs everywhere.
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 that extreme concentration of "other" in California's Bay Area is San Francisco we even have a local clothing brand called "The City" and their logo is the Golden Gate Bridge because even L.A. knows there's only one motherfuckin The City for this coast bih
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I live in south Florida and we all call Miami “Miami” also we rent assault rifles before we drive there
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Cubone posted:
that's pretty interesting, I didn't know NYC was so well-known across the country as "the city" like that. I grew up in the shadow of NYC so i guess I took it for granted. Also interesting how there's the ring around Chicago, but then a big dead zone where people are just like "what city?" Same goes with New England, basically none of Greater Boston and its suburbs refer to Boston as The City, but everywhere else in NE does. although the coloring is a bit confusing, they could have done that a bit better.
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Supreme Allah posted:ya, DC I usually hear it as downtown but I hear the city too
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Yup, Corpus Christi. The sparkling city by the sea and the body of christ. The old mayor used to get made when you called it Corpus because that just means corpse... which is probably closer to the truth.
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Cubone posted:
I don't believe that most of California uses "the city" to reference Chicago that makes no fuckin sense E: red filter hosed me up nm
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Apr 24, 2018 04:16
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Cubone posted:
LA is so decentralized and more of a big barf of sprawl that I'm not surprised by this.
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Apr 24, 2018 04:20
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Cubone posted:
No one in socal says 'the city' tbh
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Salty Josh posted:Yup, Corpus Christi. literally the only time I've ever heard of corpus christi was in the movie Selena so makes sense
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Grape posted:LA is so decentralized and more of a big barf of sprawl that I'm not surprised by this. Bc yeah it's just megacity west out here at this point
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Moridin920 posted:No one in socal says 'the city' tbh yah they mostly say “im getting hosed financially but look at my stock options”
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:literally the only time I've ever heard of corpus christi was in the movie Selena so makes sense They have this Selena party once a year called Fiesta De La Flor. It's dumb as gently caress.
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I call it "Frisco" 
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Also interesting how there's the ring around Chicago, but then a big dead zone where people are just like "what city?" Same goes with New England, basically none of Greater Boston and its suburbs refer to Boston as The City, but everywhere else in NE does. I think you're confused wrt Boston, the color is yellow, so yeah most of East Mass and RI are calling it "the city". While weirdly enough the three northern New England states seem to lean more NYC. I think West Mass, and Hartford County/East Conn is orange, so some kind of hybrid of people referring to Boston or NYC in equal amounts as the city. Those poor saps are not New York enough to be Tri-State, nor New England enough to be Boston area. The Knowledge Corridor is a cultural void, sporting the only rear end ugly city in New England, Springfield. They're lucky Hartford is (deceptively) pretty. Grape fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Apr 24, 2018 04:26
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Didnt corpus christi get wiped off the map like a hunnet years ago
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tbh there’s nothing good on the east coast north of savannah
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Can confirm that if you had said to me in Central Illinois growing up "wanna go to the city?" I would have stared confused by the very concept of the question "Like, as opposed to how we are standing in a cornfield, or...?"
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let it mellow posted:tbh there’s nothing good on the east coast north of savannah The Northeast owns, and Savannah smells like poop half the time. And the rest south of that is basically Florida (a problem).
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let it mellow posted:tbh there’s nothing good on the east coast north of savannah There's a point where that sentence stops meaning "chicago" and starts meaning st louis, if that sentence means anything at all. I think that point is cahokia
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I live in a town of ~9000 and there is another town nearby of ~5000 that refers to my town as "the city"
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Blue Train posted:I live in a town of ~9000 and there is another town nearby of ~5000 that refers to my town as "the city" I live in a town of ~5000 and can attest to 9000 being a City. My rule of thumb is that if it has a Dairy Queen, it's a city.
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Grape posted:The Northeast owns, and Savannah smells like poop half the time. the northeast is an expensive shithole tho
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Grape posted:I think you're confused wrt Boston, the color is yellow, so yeah most of East Mass and RI are calling it "the city". Weird, I was in/around Boston for 7 years and I very rarely heard it referred to as such. I heard some RI people calling Providence the city, though.
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SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:I used to live in vermont and when people said the city they meant burlington which is hysterically sad. There are four towns within a half hour of me larger than Burlington, and I'm in fuckin Idaho I can't think of any city in the northwest that is referred to as The City. We just nickname all the towns instead. Spokompton, Vantucky, Garden lovely are my favorites. The Portland suburbs have racial nicknames, big shock I know
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Weird, I was in/around Boston for 7 years and I very rarely heard it referred to as such. I heard some RI people calling Providence the city, though. I'm just going off the map, so I dunno, might not be the most accurate map. Though yeah in western Connecticut we absolutely do call NYC "the city". Like Litchfield/Fairfield/New Haven counties, the Tri-State part of the state. The rest of the state is either more pure New England, or the aforementioned void of the Knowledge Corridor. Dunno what they call "the city". let it mellow posted:the northeast is an expensive shithole tho We make more money generally, even in minimum wage lol. Also we don't have to live surrounded by MAGA Max wastelands. Very reasonable price if you consider it. Honestly the cost of living isn't so bad if you're not like right directly in the metro areas of NYC or whatnot. Eastern Connecticut is cheap as heck. Grape fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Cubone posted:
SF and NY are the two great cities of the US at least nowadays so it makes sense. I do like that the south still knows who lords over them lol.
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I live in the south and I've never ever heard anyone say the city referring to nyc
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Idiot Kicker posted:There are four towns within a half hour of me larger than Burlington, and I'm in fuckin Idaho My favorite is Lake Nonegro.
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I live near a small city of about 100,000 and it's still "town." "I'm going into town," "Take Center Street towards town then take a left at Bishop Ave..." etc, even though it is in fact definitely a small city not a town. Unless you get to one of the nearby dinky actual towns, in which case "town" refers to the dinky-rear end town in question, but only for a small radius around it, before "town" once again defaults back to the city, at least until you get to the county border at which point you're probably in the radius of some other small city instead. If you said "let's go to the city" people would stare at you blankly and ask what city you meant, cause nobody says that. Sucrose fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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NYC is, to me, Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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People in Brooklyn call Manhattan "the city". Baltimore is surrounded by a big county, also called Baltimore, so "Baltimore" refers to the whole area and then you're either "out in the county" or "down in the city". Philly is a bit more divided and people are more likely to refer to North Philly, Center City, South Philly, West Philly, or just plain old Northeast. Wilmington, Delaware is surrounded by a vast suburban sprawl, almost totally unincorporated, which is also usually called "Wilmington". So if you're talking about a place actually inside its boundaries it's important to specify "the city of Wilmington".
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Delaware doesn't exkit, it's a fake address for credit card companies.
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