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[urbpan]

"...just when you start getting used to being able to walk down the street without tensing every muscle in your body, you get reports of an incoming blizzard. You brace for it, but instead of snow, it rains for 12 hours and then drops to the 20s, encasing the entire city in ice and gutting your hopes for an early spring.
...It's a killer, but Boston beats out warmer parts of the country in other ways. I'd rather be stuck in eternal winter, for example, than to have to stand for a minute in the company of Creationists and people who think the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is funny."
-Joe Keohane, editor of The Weekly Dig. (our alternative weekly paper, from this week's issue)

Can someone out there please refute this? Not because I don't believe it, but because I do. Must I choose between a comfortable social climate and a comfortable weather climate?

Comments

[ninthraven.livejournal.com]

I lived for 8 years in Houston, TX. There are liberals and free-thinkers in the South, I swear. But they are of a different ilk than Yankee liberals and it takes some getting used to. Most of the people I hung out with in Texas were Pagans like myself (and yes, it was a pretty large and cohesive community).

Living in DC with a best friend who is from the Boston area, I am constantly running up against the disconnect.

Although I don't know that I would really want to hang out with someone who couldn't stand "for a minute in the company of Creationists..." While I may not agree with them, they are humans, too. Arrogance is arrognace - and people from both the North and the South have it.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

The arrogance that New Englanders have toward our countrymen south of the Mason-Dixon line is pretty firmly established. In that newspaper, its almost an official editorial position.

[ninthraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, and vice versa.

I only choose not to live in the NE because I hate the snow and cold that much.