New Yorkers Are Just so Much Smarter than the Rest of Us

Bill Archer · Nov 4, 2004

Keyboard warning: these people have no sense of irony. They are not joking. Read at yoyr own risk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/nyregion/04york.html

writered21 · Nov 4, 2004

No shock that someone droped a redneck bomb almost before I had to scroll down to read the rest of the article.

"New York is an island off the coast of Europe," ... that's funny on a number of levels.

It's a familiar feeling. Here in ol' Blue State Maryland, I can list you the number of Republicans I know on one hand, with a finger to spare for when the arguments get heated. I've been joking with my Dem friends that even though there are only 4 of us Reps, we managed to vote 59 million times, it's the darndest thing.

Flyer Fan · Nov 4, 2004

What a bunch of dickbags. It's that outlook that I find so insulting. What is it about mass public transportation that make people so superior and more worldly? F them.

CrewSchmack · Nov 4, 2004

Bill Archer said:

Keyboard warning: these people have no sense of irony. They are not joking. Read at yoyr own risk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/nyregion/04york.html
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Others spoke of a feeling of isolation from their fellow Americans, a sense that perhaps Middle America doesn't care as much about New York and its animating concerns as it seemed to in the weeks immediately after the attack on the World Trade Center.
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That's funny...I felt the same way about New York and how they felt about well...me.

"They're very 1950's," she said of Midwesterners. "When I go back there, I feel I'm in a time warp."
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That's funny...I know first hand that the power bill that you're paying online (if you're so 2000s) was built in the Midwest.

I also felt like I was in a timewarp because well...New York is a filthy city with narrow streets. It was so...um...old.

"One thing Clinton and Gore had going for them was they were from the South," he said. "There's a lot of resentment toward the Northeast carpetbagger stereotype, and Kerry fit right in to that."

Mr. Murphy said he understood why Mr. Bush appealed to Southerners in a way that he did not appeal to New Yorkers.

"Even though Bush isn't one of them - he's a son of privilege - he comes off as just a good old boy," Mr. Murphy said.
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Hey...one of them gets why Kerry was a bad candidate...

"We live in this marvelous diversity where we actually have gay neighbors," she said. "They're not some vilified unknown. They're our neighbors."
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I have at least 2 sets of gay neighbors in my development and I don't live in German Village.

As usual, the problem is, these people have never left New York. I left the East Coast and saw what the midwest was like. I settled on Ohio as it seemed to mix most with my values which are not East Cost, but not Deep South either. I also live in a city, which, well...means that:

People who are more competitive and proficient at what they do tend to gravitate toward cities," he said.
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Yup...that's right...I like to work hard and acheive. It's amazing that cities do exist out here...there's even big ones called Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston on the way between the coasts as well.

This was a great article Bill. I can't wait to read the next one to continue to confirm the reasons I moved away from the east coast.

Anthony · Nov 4, 2004

As a native and twice transplanted New Yorker, I want you all to note that many of the obxixous New Yorkers are really from somewhere else and they are trying to prove their superiority over the folks â€œback home.â€

Eric B · Nov 4, 2004

Anthony said:

As a native and twice transplanted New Yorker, I want you all to note that many of the obxixous New Yorkers are really from somewhere else and they are trying to prove their superiority over the folks â€œback home.â€?
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You pretty much described a good portion of LA as well.