True dat. I wouldn’t mind having all of the amenities of living in a major city, but honestly I don’t want for things to do, and here I can afford my own house in a nice area with a commute that’s under 5 minutes. Money goes a long way here, and it’s not because we think a glamorous evening is wearing our best overalls to Old Country Buffet.
And every time you or any other small town extoller show up talking about how stupid New Yorkers are I show up to explain that for your mortgage to be 1/6th of my rent payment you would have to have a $220 mortgage and that all the money you spend on car payments, gas, insurance, traffic tickets, etc. adds up to significantly more than the $89 a month I pay for all of my transportation costs. You’ve taken a very, very tiny subset of New Yorkers and spun them to be every single person in this city and that is just as bigoted as anyone who thinks you don’t have anything to do other than go to the mall.
Except that Zsofia did absolutely nothing of the sort.
By the way, I’m not a small towner. I live in a university town and state capital with the largest basic training facility in the world. We have a world class symphony orchestra and ballet company. Oh, and some malls.
But I didn’t say anything about you, I said something about people who bitch about stuff that don’t need to be. Although I’m pretty sure you’re the one who told me in all seriousness in another thread, quite snottily, that you wouldn’t live elsewhere because what are you gonna do, go to the mall?
Except that Zofia does this all the time. I was really surprised not to see her in the first 10 posts on this thread, actually.
And no, Zofia, I didn’t say it seriously. It was a sarcastic response to your second quote listed here. I don’t mean to pick on you because you aren’t the only one who does this kind of thing and I honestly don’t think it is a huge deal because it is cool that you are happy where you live, I just wish you wouldn’t harsh on New Yorkers the way you do sometimes, especially after seeing you comment elsewhere that you wish John Steinbeck hadn’t made negative comments about the south after one incident there because he is smearing the reputation of a place you love based on almost no information.
Fun fact: I came across a reference to it in the book I was reading a couple of days ago and made sure to elbow my boyfriend and snicker about it. And then proceed to refer to it as “Lake Boobypoop.”
Waukesha, with one e, for the record. But I like our place names, too. 
Don’t forget Pewaukee! How about Waukegan? Kewaskum? Lomira? Manitowoc? Minocqua? Baraboo?
Oh go split a plate of Jalepeno Poppers with some fucking call center temps.
I think the Big City people are jealous because they can’t do the things we can.
I just canvassed a co-worker about New Year’s Eve plans, and he and the family are going out to an all-you-can-bowl event at the local alley. Try finding a convenient bowling alley with a deal like that in Manhattan, culture snobs!! Betcha have to go to New Jersey to even find an open lane.
And we’ve got drive-through liquor stores.
Seriously :dubious: I think those posters who brag about living in the big metroplex and going to all the shows are really spending weekend nights holed up in their crackhead bathroom apartments surfing the web*, or text messaging other people about what they’re posting on message boards.
*and eating takeout Chinese food, not even sushi.
The ‘mall’ is 100 miles from me.
One way.
So for myself, I would say no. 
You understand that Inner Stickler doesn’t actually like grocery store sushi, right?
If he doesn’t, woosh on me. I’ve encountered people who rave about grocery store sushi with no irony whatsoever, though. And, if you want to get really technical, I merely stated that anyone who thought grocery store sushi was delicious was an idiot. So if it was a woosh that he meant it seriously, then it didn’t apply to him, anyway!
Umm - $104, actually… 
-Wallet, still not plowed in Brooklyn, unlike you high-falutin’ city-folk in Manhattan-
I love visiting big cities but think of them as “great place to visit/wouldn’t want to live there” places, at least on my current income. If you’re well off I can see how they’d be wonderful, but then if you’re rich enough I’m sure Calcutta can be lovely.
I grew up on a farm that wasn’t in a town- the nearest neighbor not of my lineage was two miles away when I was a kid- and while I’d never want to be that isolated again I think that today with high speed internet and satellite television it would be a LOT more bearable. I prefer to live in small cities (100,000 or less) that are convenient (an hour or less) to big cities (1 million plus). I’ve just applied for a position at a very small college town (under 10,000) that’s an hour from a 1 million+ but there are bedroom communities of the big city much closer than the big city so all the malls/movie theaters/etc. are available and Netflix delivers anywhere.
The house my great-grandparents built on the farm where I grew up had what’s called a “shed room”- it’s a tiny bedroom big enough for a bed and nightstand and made by closing off one end of a porch. This was for the convenience of long-time guests (you often visited for several days at a stretch then, even if it was somebody who just lived 30 miles or less from you, because travel was so slow and unpleasant) or even for passersby who needed a place to spend the night. At this time the farms were so remote that total strangers in your home were welcome, and I can understand why. The postman didn’t even deliver to the area until well after the automobile revolution so the hard work of running a farm was probably good for taking your mind off the boredom.
Well, to be fair it probably sounds funnier to you because you’re (I think) an American. While Saskatoon is the butt of jokes in Canada sometimes, it seems like Americans find it way more funny sounding because they don’t hear it very often. It’s really no stranger as a name than most places named after First Nations words. In any case, I usually find that Canadians and Americans alike think Regina is a far funnier name than Saskatoon.
If you’re looking for names synonymous with Extreme Hicksville in Canada, you’d be better off looking to Moose Jaw or Flin Flon or Medicine Hat or Dildo.
I’m generally aware of where Saskatoon is and that it’s a mid-sized city on the Canadian prairie, but mainly I know it as being the hometown of Shelley on Nothern Exposure (though Shelley’s accent was strangely southern [the actress being from Mississippi]).
A chick in a trailer in Saskatoon/I partied with Tammy and I prayed to the moon…
Grocery store sushi is a gateway drug. I never thought I’d see the day my mom would eat sushi. Now I can use this as bait to get her to eat real sushi.
Man, I don’t even care if I can see a little Japanese man chained up behind the counter. I am *not *touching that shit. Anything with fish in it, anyway. In college, the coffeeshop where I worked stocked that crap in our aircurtains, and if there was a veggie roll package left at the end of the day, I sometimes snagged that instead of pitching it. But that was as a broke-ass college student.
Oh, I’m with you on that. But the grocery stores here use imitation crab anyway.
Fake crab is still fish. Cooked, sure, but still. I ain’t trustin’ it out of a package that was prepared god knows how many hours ago.
I can’t speak to other cities, but in Calgary most of those world-class restaurants are downtown. Calgary has some of the highest parking fees in North America. When parking your car costs as much or more than an entree, I’ll stick with the restaurants that I have easy access to.
I’ve been in Saskatoon, and it ain’t got no 300k population.
Hit a deer and totalled my car there on my way to The Pas through the Carrot Valley. Nice place though. Far more interesting topography nearby than what goes on further south.