# How easy is it to make fun of your home city? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624 "2006-05-06T00:57:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![funnyman222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@funnyman222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funnyman222)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/101 "2011-07-22T22:07:56Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Meh, there’s nothing particularly mock-worthy about Reston that doesn’t also apply to the rest of Northern Virginia. 🙂 welcome to reston!! got ebola? ---
**Author:** ![banjoDavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@banjoDavid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjoDavid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/102 "2011-07-23T12:37:16Z")
The town that Lenny Bruce said, “It’s so corrupt, it’s thrilling.” Mayor Richard J. Daley during the “60’s unrest said,” The policeman isn’t there to create disorder, he’s there to preserve disorder." Mayor Richard M. Daley and the parking meters, and now we have Rahm! Plus, we’re surrounded by the greatest of lakes, and the craziest of governors. But, even with all that, I still don’t want to live anywhere else. David ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/103 "2011-07-23T16:01:51Z")
I live in San Francisco, which middle-America seems to think is Commie homo hippie liberal headquarters. They may not be wrong, but it’s easy to make fun of. Born in Trenton, NJ, which locals make fun of, I guess, for being dirty and smelly. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/104 "2011-07-23T18:09:48Z")
> [@funnyman222](#): > > welcome to reston!! got ebola? Ebola is exactly the first thing I think of when I hear Reston, VA. I am not alone. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/105 "2011-07-23T18:14:40Z")
> [@Seren](#): > > I’m from South Carolina. > > Remember the guy trying to ban sex toys? Yeah, that was us. > Remember the debate about the flag on the state house? Yep, us again. > Remember the Harry Potter book burnings? Yeah, still us. > And the list goes on and on and on and on… > > When people ask where I’m from, I always respond with “Originally? Pennsylvania” even though I only lived there till I was three. Don’t forget Alvin Greene. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/106 "2011-07-23T20:25:52Z")
Dayton, Ohio is called “Little Detroit.” ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/107 "2011-07-23T20:32:43Z")
“Flint”. (That was pretty easy wasn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/108 "2012-02-04T23:21:46Z")
RUT-land, Vermont. Nuff said! ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/109 "2012-02-04T23:57:05Z")
> [@Exploding\_Oven](#): > > I live in Seattle, which is most likely the most mockable city in the world. Coffee jokes and rain jokes, mainly, but jokes about “arty” music, intellectualism, and goth-hood are pretty common too. My favorite is from John Keister, local comic. I’m sorry, but if you don’t live here, you might not fully get it, even after I explain. \*\*\*“The rest of America thinks about Seattle the way Seattleites think about Fremont.” * * * Fremont is a neighborhood in Seattle, known for granola people and weirdos. It has declared itself the Center of the Universe, and started the growing trend of naked bike rides with its annual Solstice Parade. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/110 "2012-02-04T23:59:10Z")
> [@MrJackboots](#): > > I come from the city (Hi **DiosaBellissima**!) built smack in the middle of everywhere (two hours to LA, two hours to Fresno, which is at least honest about being a farm town, four hours to San Diego, five hours to the Bay Area, five-ish hours to Vegas), which happened to put it smack in the middle of nowhere, where the three big industries are farms, oil, and country music, and where they make more baby carrots than the entire rest of the world put together. The air is like smoking a cigarette or two a day, and the making fun of your hometown can be a spectator sport. > > In other words, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. With a Howitzer. ? No idea where you think you live, but it takes 4 hours to get to the Grapevine from Fresno, and then about 2 hours from the Grapevine to LA, depending on where in the LA basin you are headed, and about 4 hours to go from LA to San Diego … Not that I would actually live in the LA basin if you _paid_ me. I am from Rochester NY, home of Big Yellow Daddy [Kodak] and then moved to Tidewater Virginia [We don’t drink and we don’t smoke, nor fuck, Norfolk] and then moved to Groton CT [Submarine Capital of the world …] so you can take your best shot at 3 different areas for jokes =) ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/111 "2012-02-05T01:08:35Z")
Biggest claim to fame: The Chattanooga Choo-Choo, which was not even a real train, just a silly song. This place used to be much easier to make fun of, though. In the 60’s and 70’s we had the worst air pollution in the nation. Possibly the worst race relations as well. High rates of poverty, crime, illiteracy, and intolerance. Nasty place to be. In the last couple of decades, Chattanooga has become surprisingly progressive for a town stuck between Appalachia and the Deep South. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/112 "2012-02-05T01:31:57Z")
Orlando is almost too easy. I JUST noticed now that one can place Mickey ears on the “O” to create instant mockage. But I’m originally from Fredonia, New York. No, not “Freedonia”. Nuff said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624.md?page=5)