It's not Columbus itself; it's the suburbs. The Columbus suburbs are... distressing.
The lazy dismissal of the citizens of "flyover country" is one way to quickly get on my bad side; in other words, if you use "Midwesterner" as shorthand for "ignorant and unimaginative" I will get ticked off.
Am I a Midwesterner? Buffalo, Cleveland, Tucson... It's like I've always lived a little too far east, or a little too far west, or a little too right in the city. Anyway, my preferred slightly-offensive use of the word "Midwesterner" is as a synonym for "someone thinks ketchup is too spicy."
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:18 pm (UTC)The lazy dismissal of the citizens of "flyover country" is one way to quickly get on my bad side; in other words, if you use "Midwesterner" as shorthand for "ignorant and unimaginative" I will get ticked off.
Am I a Midwesterner? Buffalo, Cleveland, Tucson... It's like I've always lived a little too far east, or a little too far west, or a little too right in the city. Anyway, my preferred slightly-offensive use of the word "Midwesterner" is as a synonym for "someone thinks ketchup is too spicy."