Common misconception 
Goodyear is still headquartered there and recently decided to stay and build a new HQ compound. Firestone has also had engineering facilities in Akron in the past 30 years. And U. Akron is still renowned for their polymer science & engineering college that was built upon the local rubber industry. There are a number of polymer companies in the area that make rubber products other than tires.
I had no idea. Thanks 
Here’s another Seattle question: is it true people in Seattle hate Californians?
Yesterday I was out with a friend who has lived here her entire life. She drove from Cleveland Circle to Central Square. I don’t know what sort of devilry she used to know how to do that, but I was prett impressed. Then we had to go from Central Square to the Kendall Square movie theatre. This is a distance of about a mile, and it took us 45 minutes, mostly going in circles.
When we actually got there, the theatre was closed.
Misconception about New York – everyone there is rude. I found them all to be really friendly. Then again, the interesting thing about New York, much like San Francisco, is that nobody there is actually from there. It’s all tourists.
That it’s a town and not a village. Niantic is a village of East Lyme. Niantic is considered the waterfront part of town but it is just a village of East Lyme, Ct. It is named after a Indian tribe that once resided there.
I’ve found New Yorkers to be *much *friendlier than people in SF or LA.
Well, in the rougher areas, you will find plenty of Natives. But I completely agree that they are some of the nicest people I have ever met.
Friendly and helpful. I think maybe the misconception comes from their quick and to the point demeanor. Some people find that rude. Not me. If you are in a rush, and you take a minute out to give me directions, I don’t mind a bit if you talk fast and are brusque. I am giving you friendly points.
I found the people in SF to be quite friendly, too. But once again, they were all tourists.
The above compliment does not apply to the German tourists. 
Hey, I’m right here in this thread!
Of course, I live in Michigan.
Right! Always thinking what I’m thinking. Sometimes I think you’re me in an alternate universe in which I am much, much cooler.
I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and after getting a bit older, moving out, and interacting with different folks, I’d hear the same “complaint” about LA over and over: “Nobody is from here.” Okay, go to the hood right fast, and I’ll bet you $10 everyone you meet is from there. I know star-fuckers come out west with diamonds in their eyes, but if you ever go to where the folks live, the actual people, you will find that native Los Angelinos are not a rarity.
Indeed. I’ve found that New Yorkers (and this is true of most big city people, I think) are short if you’re wasting their time with bullshit. Now if you ever just chat them up at the bar, or ask them directions in a non-stupid, time-wasting way (and here’s where they’re not like most big city people), they are friendly, helpful and affable as fuck. Yes, fuck is very affable.
When I lived in Oregon, it was the long-standing joke <and I’m not sure it WAS a joke> that there were signs at the border, for Californians coming into Oregon, that said “Welcome to Oregon! Leave your money here, and then please go home!”
When I was living in Idaho, there was a time period in the 90’s-mid 2000’s where it seemed all the available housing was being sold to Californians for investment purposes, after which nobody who actually LIVED there could afford to buy any housing themselves.
I think a LOT of people hate the idea of people making money in one place and then using that to change the way things are somewhere else, so…yeah. I lot of people hate Californians in general.
From the nature of the complaint, I’m guessing the mispronunciation is something along the lines of “Minnienapolis.”
Mmmmmmn, affable fucks.
I knew about Zanesville’s Y-bridge because I had a jigsaw puzzle of Ohio when I was little and it had a picture of the bridge where Zanesville is. Pictures of everything representing the different places: a tire for Akron, of course, a carnation for Alliance, an airplane for Dayton. I think there was a little picture of Annie Oakley for where she was from in Darke County. Then many years later Akron built its Y-bridge and called it the All-America Bridge, but nobody calls it that. It’s just the Y-Bridge, to distinguish it from the high-level bridge or the 8 bridge or the State Road Bridge, I guess.
I have been whipping up some outrage about this Y-bridge thing on my Facebook page, with the ultimate goal of an eventual Akron-Zanesville holy war. Two bridges enter: one survives!
spot on.
Sounds like fun! Just observe the speed limit in Akron; the one and only speeding ticket I ever got was waiting for me at the north end. :mad:
Yeah. If I hear one more, “Texas sucks, but Austin’s a liberal wonderland,” I’m going to puke.
There are pockets of weirdness and liberal kookiness… like in Montrose in Houston, and parts of every metropolitan area in America, I’d expect. But as UR notes, it’s becoming the Atlanta of the Southwest. Nobody’s from here, and there is considerable tension between the affluent newcomers that bike and jog on Town Lake, and the rest of us schmoes who spend hours in traffic trying to get to work and downtown.
Actually, the definition of Boulder in the OP seems to match Austin. We also have poor folks, struggling schools in East Austin, and the worst drivers in America. And yes, I lived in Boston for seven years. Everyone in Boston drives like a Bostonian. Austin drivers drive in no predictable manner.
I can’t think of many, but the accent and the driving come to mind. I guess there’s also that we’re stuck up and snooty, but since I’ve lived here all of my adult life, I really don’t have anything to compare it to.
Heh. I live in the Greater Heights area of Houston–another “unlikely” pocket of liberalism in our Red State. In fact, all the Texas cities tend to vote Democratic–even Dallas! But things get weird in the 'burbs & in the countryside. (And not the good kind of weird.)
I visited Austin recently &, while it’s certainly changed, it’s still awfully cute. I believe you about all the problems, but it was a nice change from Big Houston.
What’s the occupancy rate in this monstrosity?
This is precisely what I came in here to say. My parents are too young to remember it being smokey and pitch-black. Check out thesephotos of U. Pitt’s famous Cathedral of Learning before it was scrubbed down a few years ago. It hasn’t been that bad for nearly two generations.
The steel mills are gone. Most heavy industry is. Today, Pittsburgh is a hub of medicalresearch and banking. Perhaps surprisingly, due to the urban feel but low cost of living, it’s also a popular location for movie shoots.