# Do you live in a "Manly" city? I do! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 5, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423 "2009-03-05T19:33:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/1 "2009-03-05T19:33:48Z")
Check it out: [COMBOS(R) Brand Releases Manliest Cities in America Rankings With Nashville at Top and New York at Bottom](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/COMBOSR-Brand-Releases-prnews-14553226.html) How close is your nearest Manly City? Does it make you proud? I can tell you I’m about to pop a shirt button. I may even eat me some Combos this week. Music City? Pshaw! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/2 "2009-03-05T19:42:32Z")
I listen to a Nashville radio station over the Internet, if crime = manliness, they have plenty of manliness! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/3 "2009-03-05T19:59:40Z")
Not much of a ranking. Doesn’t list a single city in Montana or Wyoming. We’re definitely manly men out here, especially looking at the criteria they used. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/4 "2009-03-05T20:01:33Z")
As usual, my city (at least the closest one to me) never makes these lists…too small. But if i had to guess, it wouldn’t be too many. Maybe in the middle? We have a fair amount of things like hunting and fishing (a large lake helps,) but we have an awful lot of vegetarianism, dirty hippies, and all that other “wussie” stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/5 "2009-03-05T20:02:09Z")
Woo Hoo! We’re Number 2! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/6 "2009-03-05T20:07:51Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I listen to a Nashville radio station over the Internet, if crime = manliness, they have plenty of manliness! Gary, Indiana. Ok, the name isn’t too manly, but being one of America’s muder capitals makes it manly enough. I used to live about five miles up the road from it. You could nearly hear the gunfire. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/7 "2009-03-05T20:08:30Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I listen to a Nashville radio station over the Internet, if crime = manliness, they have plenty of manliness! That’s a big 10-4, good buddy. And lots of wrecks on the Intercourse, too. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/8 "2009-03-05T20:12:52Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > Not much of a ranking. Doesn’t list a single city in Montana or Wyoming. We’re definitely manly men out here, especially looking at the criteria they used. I’ve got buddies in Livingston and a few in the wind river area of WY…no idea how none of those states were in the ranking…I mean Cleveland, Baltimore?? Really? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/9 "2009-03-05T20:13:37Z")
How is Cincinatti, OH in the top 5? ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/10 "2009-03-05T20:19:51Z")
How does this list compare with the list of highest blue collar person %? Cornelius, Man, hates nascar, sprots, sports bars, home improvement, has not fished since 12 and never been hunting. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/11 "2009-03-05T20:22:04Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > Not much of a ranking. Doesn’t list a single city in Montana or Wyoming. We’re definitely manly men out here, especially looking at the criteria they used. Get you an NFL team and then we can talk. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/12 "2009-03-05T20:28:58Z")
I dunno. How can you calculate ‘manly’ without figuring in bear attacks? In both directions. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/13 "2009-03-05T20:48:37Z")
Absolutely not. Montreal is a very faggy city indeed. I mean, there’s a slight uptick of machismo if the Canadiens are in the playoffs, but other than that, we’re just about as faggy as you can get in the vicinity of poutine. Even the straight guys are gay. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/14 "2009-03-05T21:12:02Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Get you an NFL team and then we can talk. I can pretty well guarantee that ain’t going to happen. The biggest city in Montana has a population of 100,000, and the whole _state_ of Wyoming is only about half a million. But bear attacks? We got them. You betcha. Although I think you’re more likely to get attacked by a bear on the SDMB than you are in Montana – especially if you’re a conservative 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/15 "2009-03-05T21:13:01Z")
Milwaukee? It must be the beer. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/16 "2009-03-05T21:35:28Z")
Eat my man-dust, Houston! Wussy Texans. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/17 "2009-03-05T21:41:05Z")
How come Buffalo was so far down the list? It’s pretty manly, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/18 "2009-03-05T21:47:28Z")
Where’s the manly list? Is it after the redneck list? ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/19 "2009-03-05T21:48:38Z")
How is L.A. less manly than San Francisco? OK, you guys have a football team. Is homicide rate and gang activity a criteria? Of course, we are #48 and #49, so I guess it’s just quibbling. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423/20 "2009-03-05T23:11:48Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > How is L.A. less manly than San Francisco? Must be the bear attacks. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-a-manly-city-i-do/488423.md?page=2)