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Originally Posted by Crawford
ESL, Gary and Flint actually suck, though.
I mean, no doubt they're full of nice people and they've been totally screwed by the feds and everyone else, and they do have potential, but I think it's fair to say that these are objectively unattractive places to live right now.
To me, it isn't crazy when someone is saying East St. Louis sucks, it's when they're saying one of our great American urban centers suck. Like when people say that Portland is a riot zone or Chicago a shooting gallery. And SF is apparently the worst city on earth.
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I get what you're saying, but my original point was about how those of us in the rust belt won't be feeling too sorry for the negative media attention minneapolis and portland have garnered recently.
Our region has been the national media's whipping post for a couple generations now, and it gets old. So whenever they start picking on someone else it's kinda like
"phew".
That said, it is nice to at least have a US president who isn't actively tweeting about how much of a shit-hole chicago is on a weekly basis.