hard h shithole is a shibboleth
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 March 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
I knew something was off with the poor KC showing, and I was right - I had not adjusted the density calculation for its historical footprint as I had done with Louisville, e.g. Reworking the figures places KC just behind STL in the overall ranking (roughly 20th place), and ahead of it, just behind Detroit (and Silicon Valley), in the age-agnostic one. That is, it's firmly in place with the traditional cities that still rank ahead of the bigger Atlantas, Dallas/Houstons, and Phoenixes.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 15 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
The only large core cities that are still losing people are almost entirely contained within the rust belt.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
I left Minneapolis in 1995. Figured I had accidentally started a trend.
― pplains, Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
Plugging in the Canadian cities, not entirely apples to apples but I think close enough, I rank Toronto and Montreal just behind Philly and ahead of LA. On an age-agnostic ranking, LA beats MTL, but TO pulls ahead of both Philly and LA, while still trailing Boston/DC/SF etc. Vancouver ranks right behind the Twin Cities, just ahead of Seattle, but age-agnostic it pulls ahead of both, right behind Miami.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
If we just give you this thread, would you concentrate the entirety of your ILX posting energies on further elaborations of your urban demographic model?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
according to my own matrix - i won't bore you with the details of how this is worked out - vancouver, bc ranks slightly ahead of scranton pa, but somewhat behind vancouver wa and perpendicular to boise id. toronto and montreal are tied with sequim wa but slightly ahead of sioux city ia
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
well, that's not so surprising, vancouver is in the northeast while sioux city, being high on the windy steppe, has long attracted new residents from mongolia as well as the argentinian reaches of the altiplano.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiplanohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Assessmentshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Passagebasic stuff can't believe i'm having to explain all this
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
making amendments to the matrix
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
I moved to Minneapolis in 1994, btw.
― pplains, Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
its not a major american city but i was watching the first episode of Flint Town on Netfix, their sad documentary series on Flint, Michigan and i flashed back to years ago when maria and i drove across the country and we were on the highway going by/passing Flint and i got an overwhelming feeling of danger/dread that i had never experienced before. i remember thinking in my head: oh jeez please don't break down please don't break down. like i really really wanted to get past the city exits as quickly as possible. i was afraid that if we broke down nobody would ever find us. or wolves would eat us? it was weird. i've driven through a lot of bad shit in eastern cities, nyc, philly, camden friggin' nj. never felt like that before or since.
just thought i'd share that here.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
Flint - the R'lyeh of the USA.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
Flint is among the two dozen or so that have declined under the 100K mark, along with other frequently-dismissed cities like Camden, Gary, Scranton, Trenton, and Youngstown, but I still rank it just ahead of Ann Arbor for urbanity
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
wow, that's crazy that trenton has less than 100k people. i always think of it as more populated. even my ailing neighbor springfield, ma has more people than that. they might not all be happy about it, but they are there.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
worcester has an even bigger population than springfield. almost 200 thousand. little-known fact.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
The Trenton metro area, which is coterminous with Mercer County, is much larger, 370K, but Trenton proper has been under 100K for the past four decades or so.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 15 March 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
Worcester is a fascinating city. All of the advantages of the first half of the twentieth century, and all the disadvantages from the second half.
― rb (soda), Thursday, 15 March 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
This fella would like a word with you about saying Ohio is the Northeast.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYYCl24X4AIiCP-.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 16 March 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
Yeah but Butler Co. is SW.
Layers upon layers, like cheese on chocolate on spaghetti.
― pplains, Friday, 16 March 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
Mmm chili mac
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
It's 100 miles from Columbus. That'd still be the same metro area in Texas.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 16 March 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Please to read again: "Northeast" was shorthand for "Northeast quadrant of the country" (for which I assume no visual aid is necessary). While I'm not sure the Western Reserve shouldn't be incorporated into a "Northeast" that the Feds officially extend to the Western NY/PA borders (and I'd tend to extend it below the Mason-Dixon to include DC), I wouldn't regard anything west of the Appalachians in those states as the Northeast.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 16 March 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link
tbf you also have previously located arkansas within the appalachians so i'm rolling with the assumption that all of this geography is loosely or indeed randomly assigned
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 March 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
And no one else has ever used "Northeast" as shorthand for "Northeast quadrant".
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 16 March 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
Please to read again: I wrote a post that referred to the "Northeast quadrant of the country" then subsequently used "Northeast" as a shorthand reference to same. I then edited the post without noticing that I had excised the former description. Thank you for your concern.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 16 March 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
I grew up in Zone 17 but when my parents divorced my mom moved us into the Moot Realm. Still have family there.
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 16 March 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
salt lake city is a waking nightmare for the most part. it's a place that gaslights you for wanting to partake of things like "clean air" and "genuine culture"
― map, Friday, 16 March 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
streets are too wide for the chariots
― alomar lines, Friday, 16 March 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, March 15, 2018 10:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i too would like to thank ez snappin for his concern in a very sincere manner. (also dude that earthless record is ill)
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 March 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
The top 75 US/CDN cities on my age-half-inclusive measure (of traditional urbanity?)...NYCChicagoBostonSan FranciscoWashington, D.C.PhiladelphiaTorontoMontreal(Newark)Los AngelesBaltimore(East Bay)Minneapolis-St. PaulVancouverSeattleOrange CountyProvidenceMiamiLong Island(Camden)DetroitNew HavenSt. LouisKansas CityPittsburghClevelandDenverMilwaukeeDallasPortlandSan DiegoAtlantaHouston(Wilmington)San Jose-Silicon ValleyNew OrleansBuffaloHartfordBridgeport-StamfordRochesterSacramentoCincinnatiFort LauderdaleWorcesterColumbusRiverside-San BernardinoHampton RoadsTampa BayLehigh ValleyLouisvilleVentura CountyFort Worth(Tacoma)HonoluluSan AntonioGrand RapidsPhoenixLas VegasAlbany(Reading)SyracuseRichmondAustin(Trenton)StocktonCharlotteOmahaFresnoSpringfield MAIndianapolisSalt Lake City(Akron)OrlandoRaleighToledo(Scranton)MemphisAlbuquerqueDayton(Santa Rosa/Sonoma County)El Paso
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
The top 50 on my age-agnostic measure (of big-city-ness less concerned with traditional urban form?)...NYCChicagoBoston/Washington, D.C./San FranciscoTorontoLos AngelesPhiladelphiaMontrealMiamiVancouverSeattleBaltimoreTwin CitiesDetroitKansas CitySt. LouisPittsburgh/DallasSan DiegoSacramento Houston/PortlandDenverClevelandMilwaukee/AtlantaHartfordTampa BayLas VegasPhoenix/BuffaloRochesterNew OrleansHampton RoadsHonoluluCincinnatiColumbusSan AntonioLouisvilleGrand RapidsFresnoAustinCharlotteAlbanyOrlandoRichmondSyracuseRaleighSalt Lake CitySpringfield, MAAlbuquerqueIndianapolis
yes but which are shitholes
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
That is not my preferred nomenclature, dude.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
sad that we'll never know
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/781703956/utah-woman-charged-with-lewdness-after-being-topless-in-her-own-home
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
“worst state” to be fair. it’s fuckin weird out here folks. west valley city is a gritty burb directly adjacent to salt lake city and is far from the worst shithole city here though. that would be somewhere completely cursed like vernal or nephi.
― cheese canopy (map), Sunday, 24 November 2019 05:07 (four years ago) link
or price. carbon county has something like 44 opiate scrips per capita
― cheese canopy (map), Sunday, 24 November 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link