My list of worst features: Ann Arbor: snow Austin (circa 2001): self-absorption Ithaca: too small Rochester: snow, provincialism DC: anti-intellectual wasteland Vegas: sheer trashiness, soul-sucking desert starkness Seattle: Fire pollution, insularity Los Angeles: Fire pollution
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These assessments shift. I didn’t think of Ann Arbor as provincial when I lived there but based on visit last year, now I do. Even if you’re at the university. Insular != provincial. Seattle is very worldly and global (has amazon and Starbucks after all) but still insular.
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Provincial = kinda clueless about wider world. Insular = self-involved. A kind of regional narcissism. Cultural autarky.
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Self-absorption is different from both insularity and provinciality. Austin is neither. But it is very self-absorbed, like a lot of attention directed inward at live music scene. If you’re not into that, the city isn’t that interested in you.
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Applied to the US as a whole, the worst feature at the moment is definitely “Trump.” I bet he’s the top reason people who’re leaving voluntarily are doing so.
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Probably true for who you work for too
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Pretty much. I'm currently moving out of California back to Michigan, partly due to "smoke" being a yearly season season now.
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Evil people are another worst feature. Upstate NY Is Pretty Pretty but under the veil lives true evil. Usually white rw and white dirty cops... Such is Albany County
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Not for me. Wife and I both work from home.
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Sounds like the "people join good companies, leave bad managers"
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