Easy. It’s a polluted, depressed steel city in the armpit of Ontario, where they get extra, lake-effect snow in the winter. Any joke you want to make on any of those topics is bound to be relevant there.
Man, I thought my hometown of Sacramento, which is an inferiority complex disguished as a city, would be easy pickings. But besides “Sack’a’tomatoes” and the occassional cow-town reference, it’s really not so bad.
Nobody makes fun of Oakland. I get a lot of dire warnings, though. Makes me laugh.
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In all seriousness, the family’s planning a trip to CA and NV in November… how much hassle is it to get to Roswell from Las Vegas, assuming a rental car is available?
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That depends on how enthusiastic you are about driving almost 800 miles.
Not at all. My home city is Washington DC, home of the president and congress…
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Not at all. My home city is Washington DC, home of the president and congress…
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Okay, you win.
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Meh, there’s nothing particularly mock-worthy about Reston that doesn’t also apply to the rest of Northern Virginia. 
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I say misnomer and I are close enough to DC (and it is where I work every day), that we may join madmonk28 in his mockery.
As I love to remind tourists oohing over the monuments, DC was built on (and in the summer smells like) a swamp. Our native cuisine is the streetcorner hotdog cart’s Half Smoke Dog. We get homicidally angry about things like public transit escalator usage (stand to the right, walk to the left!). We embrace Boston’s native sons to our bosom, at least long enough for them to develop painkiller addictions and crash into road barriers.
To quote Stephen Colbert, Washington DC is a Chocolate City. With a marshmallow center. And a graham cracker crust of corruption. We’re basically a mallomar.
Look, I use the name “Dogpatch” instead of my town’s real name in my SDMB Location listing.
What does that tell you? Hmmm?
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Gather 'round, Norwegian dopers…
lifts back of shirt to reveal large target painted between shoulder blades
I live in Bærum.
Let the mocking commence!
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I say misnomer and I are close enough to DC (and it is where I work every day), that we may join madmonk28 in his mockery.
As I love to remind tourists oohing over the monuments, DC was built on (and in the summer smells like) a swamp. Our native cuisine is the streetcorner hotdog cart’s Half Smoke Dog. We get homicidally angry about things like public transit escalator usage (stand to the right, walk to the left!). We embrace Boston’s native sons to our bosom, at least long enough for them to develop painkiller addictions and crash into road barriers.
To quote Stephen Colbert, Washington DC is a Chocolate City. With a marshmallow center. And a graham cracker crust of corruption. We’re basically a mallomar.
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You should hear what people in DC say about NoVa when you all aren’t looking
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Look, I use the name “Dogpatch” instead of my town’s real name in my SDMB Location listing.
What does that tell you? Hmmm?
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You live in an abandoned amusement park? 
Hmmm. When your local team has adopted an insult as a nickname - the Tractor Boys - it’s pretty clear the answer to the OP is “very easy”.
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I say misnomer and I are close enough to DC (and it is where I work every day), that we may join madmonk28 in his mockery.
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You should hear what people in DC say about NoVa when you all aren’t looking
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I agree with madmonk28: Northern Virginia is mock-worthy all on its own, for reasons having nothing to do with D.C. (except for maybe the fact that we’re all too precious to live there ;)).
Nobody makes fun of my hometown of Cleveland Ohio.
Except for people from Buffalo, and Akron, and Detroit, and … 
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You should hear what people in DC say about NoVa when you all aren’t looking
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I’m on the MD side of things. And Laurel’s just not very mockworthy. It’s just sort of there.
Between the state government, the hippies, and the college students, Austin is pretty easy to make fun of. The local slogan of “Keep Austin weird” led to one of the best bumper stickers I’ve ever seen, referring to a suburb: “Keep Round Rock mildly unusual.”
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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.
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Only the beginning. Let us not forget, say, Strom. Or denizens like Maurice. Or the fact that for the vast majority of my life we haven’t had free pour or tattoos. There’s a gay marriage amendment vote coming up, too.
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for the vast majority of my life we haven’t had free pour or tattoos
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Tattoos are illegal in South Carolina? :eek:
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I live in the Boston area and it is easy to mock. The accent is subject for endless amusement (and disgust). The driving really does suck and the good folks in Cambridge really are visibly “off” in ways that are particular to the area. The housing prices are out of control and the politics are just plain odd.
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Boston is my adopted city (I’m originally from rural PA), and I love it too much to ever leave. That said, my wife was born and bred here, and after almost ten years of marriage, I still rag on her accent. You could also mention the college students, the Red Sox’s current performance, the Big Dig, and the fact that we take hockey more seriously than the Canadians do.
Also, I found myself posting on the Dope about the MBTA Green Line a couple of days back. Talk about a psycho magnet. Half the time on the Green Line, I find myself plugged into my walkman at top volume hoping that the raving lunatic across from me isn’t packing.
Shagnasty is right about the driving. If it weren’t for South Korea, we’d be the worst on earth.
But I’ll never move. Boston is perfect for type-A’s who want to pursue an education. It might have been built for them specifically.
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I’m on the MD side of things. And Laurel’s just not very mockworthy. It’s just sort of there.
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As a resident of DC and a native of Virginia, I beg to disagree, as my loverly wife from MD finds out anytime we enter the state.
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In all seriousness, the family’s planning a trip to CA and NV in November… how much hassle is it to get to Roswell from Las Vegas, assuming a rental car is available?
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Las Vegas is about 900 miles from Roswell. You’re looking at being on the road for about 12 or 13 hours.