Are You a Snob?
 

I ran across this interesting article in Travel and Leisure magazine. I've lived in or near a few of these cities and I can't argue with the rankings.

America's Snobbiest Cities - Articles | Travel + Leisure

Are you a snob from one of these cities? Are you still a snob once you move to The Villages?

This article is 22 computer clicks/pages long. Can you list the snobby cities so we don't have to spend a lot of time sifting through the article? (I doubt Pittsburgh is on that list, but...)

You might get more responses.

Yikes! I thought people would be interested in reading the article but I guess I was wrong. Pittsburgh is not on the list.

Well, I am from San Francisco and I do miss the culture there but I don't think I'm a snob and I don't think San Franciscans in general are snobby -- you're as apt to see them dressed to the nines to go to ballet one day and in jeans and t-shirt to shoot darts the next. Truth be told, I'm not convinced any city (except, maybe, Paris, France) can really be called a snobby city. Just because a city has arts, good food doesn't make the people snobby. It simply makes them living in an area with diversity.

However, do I feel at least a little sorry for those who don't live in or near San Francisco? Who haven't had a chance to have an Irish coffee on a Sunday morning at the Buena Vista or the brunch at the Alta Mira? You betchya! I love my city and always will. But I really don't think it is better than other cities (except, of course, LA) -- it is my City and holds my heart. I expect that most feel the same about their towns and cities.

Am I a snob. I hope so.

I don't even read posts that are more than one paragraph!
:shrug:

Better a snob than a snot!

I agree. I think it's nice that our home cities have some of the finer things in life and I do love living in Minneapolis. However, it's time for me to get out of the miserable winters and move to The Villages where I'm sure there are no snobs at all.

2/3rds of my life I have lived in 3 of the snobby cities (Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago) but the other 3rd I have been in the Detroit area and soon The Villages, so that cancels out the snobby cities

I'm with you !

Let me get this right.

• You're retired;
• You don't have time to read the article;
• But you have time to respond to posts on TOTV;

You're snobs!

Minneapolis... a snobby city? Whoda thunk? That's still the Midwest, for Pete's sake. Okay, I give, OP. I'll go read the article.

Okay, I am on page 11 of the 22 page article, and I'm confused. I thought snobby meant that people looked down their noses at you. But so far in the article, I've only run across one city where the author said in the article that the locals looked down on you.

I will continue on with the article. But so far, I'm seeing a pretty good thumbnail description of what's available to enjoy in an number of cities.

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Let us know how it ends.

Looked through all of them and didn't find Detroit :)

Detroit is not listed, by living in the Detroit area, I have cancelled out all of the years of living in those other snobby cities

I thought the article was specious. I define snobs as those looking down their noses at others they deem to not have the same financial standing/level of education/cultural interests as themselves. The article was more about what's available in the cities, not how people act toward one another.

But I'm glad to see Detroit not on the list too. Nice people there!

Farmington Hills and Bloomfield Hills are NOT Detroit. Only about 700,000 people left in a city that used to be ONE GREAT PLACE. I'll venture a guess that anybody who currently lives in Detroit feels that everyone is a snob.

Well, then that would make people from Detroit non snobs. :BigApplause:

I think a snob, in this case, would be someone who wouldn't think of living anywhere else because their town or city has a lot of tasteful cultural activities and high-class shopping venues. If you come from anywhere else, you're a hayseed. Did I get it right?