It's tough. talking to people you realise how much smarter you are compared to the rest of the country only because you grew up in NYC. it's an arrogance, but well deserved. I can't explain it. I'm surmising another date. don't be offended.

1/6/2008 2:55:46 AM

do tell

1/6/2008 2:56:33 AM

wat

1/6/2008 3:00:21 AM

you know, alot of Southerners hate Northerners. mostly the reason why is just cause of intelligence.

1/6/2008 3:03:52 AM

yeah, northerners are generally pretty damn stupid

1/6/2008 3:17:24 AM

ya...i'm living in NY now..there are a lot of self-righteous douchebags in NY

i miss raleigh

1/6/2008 3:37:11 AM

its not that we're self-righteous. it's just we're aware that the state of the WORLD evolves around NYC. it's like THE CITY on a global scale. and besides if NYC didn't exist where would the world be in terms of good taste. especially in fashion, music, art, etc. the only thing the rest of the country has us beat in is Conservatism and I'm will to trade that in.

1/6/2008 4:33:24 AM

1/6/2008 4:46:35 AM

is this thread a joke? i thought the world laughed at people from NYC

1/6/2008 9:17:52 AM

preach on, brother. one of the things I wish I could change about myself is the fact that I'm not from the City.

1/6/2008 9:25:22 AM

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/Ranking/2002/R02T050.htm

NYC has around 53%, but Wake county isn't far behind with 46.2%.

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/Ranking/2003/R02T160.htm

In fact when compared by cities, Raleigh is #2 where NYC is #29!

1/6/2008 9:38:40 AM

This thread is pretty fucking stupid. Assuming that Southerners hate Northerners because Northerners are smarter... wow

Black people must hate white people because white people are better at working (and as such, get better employment)

fuck me, there's so much wrong with this argument

1/6/2008 10:59:12 AM

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"it's just we're aware that the state of the WORLD evolves around NYC."

Honestly, I feel the same way. I was born in Queens but grew up right outside in CT... I know I shouldn't feel that way because it's super arrogant but I honestly believe it's the truth...

^^ those really don't have much meaning given the huge difference in sample size. It's pretty damn impressive that 53% of New Yorker's have a bachelors degree IMO if those numbers are what I think they are (I skimmed them) given there are 8M+ in the city...

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 11:12 AM. Reason : x]

1/6/2008 11:10:58 AM

oh come on, you're not even from the city

you don't even rock a 212... shit

I mean, are you even a 646?

1/6/2008 11:13:02 AM

Fuck, I'm from Maine and it's obvious out there that the world revolves around New York

1/6/2008 11:13:21 AM

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"Honestly, I feel the same way. I was born in Queens but grew up right outside in CT... I know I shouldn't feel that way because it's super arrogant but I honestly believe it's the truth..."

are you seriously that much of a douchebag

1/6/2008 11:14:25 AM

I don't agree about the people being smarter part... there are way too many people in NYC for that to be true.. but I absolutely consider it the center of the country (and quite possibly the world).

Dispute it. What city is more well known and talked about? I mean, for fucks sake, they tape New Years eve shows and replay them at 3am EST even here on the west coast.

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 11:16 AM. Reason : x]

1/6/2008 11:16:11 AM

I'd say the world revolves around the major financial centers of the most powerful economic entities

but because of technology (i.e. the INTERNETS) the locality doesn't matter anymore

1/6/2008 11:16:34 AM

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"especially in fashion, music,"

yes, because Milan, Paris, London, California obviously don't exist.



you should have said finances, but then I would have shouted out the euro.

1/6/2008 11:17:28 AM

old center of the world, London?

1/6/2008 11:17:29 AM

London > Rome > Constantinople > Rome > Athens

surely I'm missing some

let's flesh this out a bit

1/6/2008 11:19:39 AM

NYC has wont the Most Arrogant City award yearly since 1981

1/6/2008 11:20:13 AM

i was born in queens, but i'm not proud of it.

My dad is this way, He thinks new york is the greatest and everyone else is below all new yorkers. I never realized other people actually felt this way too.

its a great city and all. . but not the greatest.

1/6/2008 11:21:46 AM

I want to move there for grad school and I recognize the city's greatness

but arrogance is ridiculous... especially if you understand a little of the way the world works

1/6/2008 11:21:48 AM

uhmmm. i don't believe every southerner is stupid, but percentage wise there aren't very many "smart" people outside of NYC. NYC is center of the elite in America. the elite in just about everything. you have to be familiar with NYC if you're truely on the realm of universal intelligence. there's no way around it.


BTW: grew up between Bklyn (718) and hell's kitchen (212).

1/6/2008 11:22:02 AM

i watch that show too.

1/6/2008 11:23:17 AM

how the fuck are you classifying "smart"?

holding Ph.Ds? advanced degrees? professional degrees?
IQ?

1/6/2008 11:23:54 AM

he doesn't dare touch that because of RTP and the degrees in this place.



He means smart as in "who is more arrogant and thinks they're smarter"

1/6/2008 11:24:55 AM

streetsmahts

1/6/2008 11:24:56 AM

apparently smart = 'has the most locks on your front door', NYC wins

1/6/2008 11:25:36 AM

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"its a great city and all. . but not the greatest."

what cities greater ? name one. very had to do. only city that could rivel it is .............. don't know. maybe Paris (been there and it's a French NYC) . . . nyc trumps it. NYC is an island connected by bridges, etc. it's the most amazing city built. ellis island, donald trump, the architecture, film, broadway, the new WORLD TRADE CENTER that's coming, empire state building, spanish chicks, hiphop, madison square garden.


i mean really. NOTHINGS GREATER THAN NYC.

1/6/2008 11:25:47 AM

Gotta place on 92nd thats been in the fam for years, Aunt lives on West end ave.

I wanted to live there for a while and go to Law school but then i realized that it would probably lose its little quirks to me. Like every time i visit my aunt, i have a little routine of places i really look forward to going to. . if i lived there, those places would lose their specialness i think.

I dont know, i thought Rome was pretty awesome. And the buildings in some european cities are far superior to most in NYC. Tokyo tops my personal list though, its the only city so far that literally took my breath away when i first saw it at night.

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 11:28 AM. Reason : adas]

1/6/2008 11:26:06 AM

pictures of NYC give you a chubby, dont they

1/6/2008 11:26:47 AM

I suppose he's talking about the "urbane sophisticate"

but there's no way to qualify that

I admit to you that NYC has lots of super cool stuff going on all of the fucking time
lots of cities do but there is a load of it going on in NYC

1/6/2008 11:27:05 AM

and before guiliani it was like AMSTERDAM. i mean it used to be called AMSTERDAM. don't you guys get it. the thing I don't understand is how any person from NORTH CAROLINA could just be content with living there. NYC is the mecca of everything. ASIDE from NYC everything else is the sticks. the only reason I'm in MIAMI is cause of the weather and mostly everyone here is from NYC or a foreigner. not a lot of dumb southerners here to mingle with and fuck up my edgyness.

1/6/2008 11:28:39 AM

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"Tokyo tops my personal list though, its the only city so far that literally took my breath away when i first saw it at night."

point taken. i'll be there this year. i heard Tokyo, was pretty fucking VEGAS, G. probably doesn't have as many good looking women or people for that matter like Manhattan though. nothing like a Manhattan chick.

1/6/2008 11:31:13 AM

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"Tokyo tops my personal list though, its the only city so far that literally took my breath away when i first saw it at night."

point taken. i'll be there this year. i heard Tokyo, was pretty fucking VEGAS, G. probably doesn't have as many good looking women or people for that matter like Manhattan though. nothing like a Manhattan chick.

1/6/2008 11:31:36 AM

ill agree that tokyo doesnt have that "melting pot" like Manhattan does.

1/6/2008 11:33:03 AM

Hong Kong > Tokyo... well, when it was British-owned... haven't been there since it went back to China

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM. Reason : x]

1/6/2008 11:33:58 AM

Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris all beat out New York for various reasons.

Hell, San Francisco is a better and "smarter" city thank New York.

The only hot shit that happens IN NYC anymore is performing arts and investment banking. Everything else has pretty much rolled out.

1/6/2008 11:35:14 AM

visualise growing up in the middle of this ! definitely, you'd be alot sharper more sophisticated person than growing up near 440 or some rural county in NC or anywhere else in america for that matter.

after growing up here everything else you see is SOOOOOOOOOOOO insignificant.



[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM. Reason : ayo !]

1/6/2008 11:35:17 AM

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"Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris all beat out New York for various reasons. Hell, San Francisco is a better and "smarter" city thank New York."

all the other cities are just cities you compare to NYC. i'm talking about NYC culture, the people, it's far more superior. NYC craddles americas best @ everything. SF is cool . . . its got more gays and Asians if you're into that type of thing.

1/6/2008 11:39:30 AM

1/6/2008 11:48:02 AM

i'm living upper east side right now...NY is definitely not smarter than Raleigh, not even sure how you can quantify a sweeping generalization like that though

1/6/2008 12:06:43 PM

^you've never met Amsterdam718 before, have you?

1/6/2008 12:10:16 PM

i think we have to question how we define "smarter". i mean being classified as smart in NC is ridiculous when you factor how far behind the educational system is there. and even just culturally. so yeah NC has "smart" people, but culturally they aren't defined and they have no idea of the global scale. growing up in NYC you're dealing with different cultures constantly. it in turns makes you a brighter person.

1/6/2008 12:10:26 PM

just by reading your comments, i can tell you're a brilliant person

1/6/2008 12:20:58 PM

I know he's probably speaking of primary education system, but our secondary education system is next to none


NC State
UNC
Duke
Wake Forest


that's just for starters.

1/6/2008 12:21:59 PM

^ can't deny that. that's why i went to college in NC. it's cheaper and its relaxation. its like mingling with the common folk for 4 yrs. there's nothing wrong with that. in order to diagnose the problem in America you have to see it head on. living in NC i see why American sucks sometimes. it's all the land mass outside of NYC that lessens America's public opinion in NYC and in the world.

1/6/2008 12:25:28 PM

i assume thats why you're still on a NC message board, to "mingle with the common folk"?

1/6/2008 12:30:27 PM