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Top 10 intellectual cities in America?
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:21 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den 1. New York
2. Washington
3. Chicago
4. San Francisco
5. Boston
6. Houston
7. Salt Lake City
8. Durham
9. Champaign
10. Santa Fe |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:22 AM Author: arousing preventive strike salt lake city's black population is too low to sustain a healthy intellectual environment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385503) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:24 AM Author: startling irradiated weed whacker tyft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385521) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:25 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den It just takes one bull. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385527) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:11 PM Author: Flickering Sapphire Garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23390757) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:27 AM Author: floppy claret locus new version Bay Area Boston Area Seattle New York L.A. Boulder/Denver Austin D.C. Houston Ann Arbor Dallas / Fort Worth Chicago
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:29 AM Author: out-of-control passionate giraffe Denver/Boulder over SLC/Provo? LOL no.
Other than that your list is TCR. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:42 PM Author: titillating mewling chapel idea he suggested lol wtf is this weird flame? u mormon breh? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391062) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:29 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den LOL @ there being any intellectuals in Seattle, L.A., Boulder, or Dallas (wtf?). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385550) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:50 AM Author: honey-headed underhanded home just do hire dumb shits to run microsoft and amazon bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385632) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:19 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den You seem confused about what an intellectual does. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385914) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:14 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/31/us/education-in-metro-areas.html?_r=0
Already been done... |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:20 PM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den The question wasn't where are the most over-educated asshats. It's where are the intellectuals.
Hint: Gore Vidal never went to college. He's still an intellectual. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:47 PM Author: Maize church building philosopher-king Chicago is just a follower city. Washington DC has lots of ppl with TTT credentials
1. NYC 2. SF 3. Boston 4. DC 5. Chicago
after this, no city is really intellectual. LA isn't bad. Not sure why u picked Durham and Champaign; there are better college towns than those--New Haven, Princeton, Stanford (Palo Alto/Menlo), Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Charlottesville, even Austin or Boulder |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:50 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke You don't get a lot of top credentialed engineer/startup types outside of Champaign on a per capita basis than you do at Illinois.
Good call on the OP...if that's what he was going for. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:22 PM Author: aggressive clear area bbw The Michigan trolling must stop. Ann arbor blows (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391984) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 12:40 PM Author: Dull Fragrant Marketing Idea LJL at Chicago
Perhaps the small enclave of Hyde Park where da University resides could be considered intellectual.
But the rest of this Afromerican festering shit hole? LJL
I've lived here all my life and I just wish I were dead.
Weekend agenda: Killself |
Date: June 13th, 2013 1:23 AM Author: very tactful station scourge upon the earth total intellectual output or per capita in cities over 500k? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385508) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:25 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den I don't think per capita matters. Total output, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385524) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:51 AM Author: honey-headed underhanded home then let's just rank by population and then remove san antonio from the resulting list (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385635) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:20 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den LOL @ L.A., Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas or San Jose contributing ANYTHING to this country's intellectual life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385915) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:38 AM Author: honey-headed underhanded home I think you're mistaking the definition of "intellectual." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386586) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:25 AM Author: Trip parlour roast beef my city is not scholarship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385526) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:26 AM Author: startling irradiated weed whacker intellectual as in median iq, greatest # of high iqs, culture, what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385529) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:28 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den If I wanted high-IQ only, I would've asked for that. I mean, the cities which contribute the most to our national intellectual life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385543) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:30 AM Author: bull headed razzle-dazzle legend so you mean total numbers of xo posts per city? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385554) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:30 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385561) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:35 AM Author: startling irradiated weed whacker what the fuck do houston or SLC contribute to our "national intellectual life". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385572) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:37 AM Author: out-of-control passionate giraffe Let's face it, the only real contributors are NYC, DC, Chicago, SF/Bay, and Boston. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385576) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:39 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den No kidding, these are the most important ones. Hence my ranking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385587) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:45 AM Author: out-of-control passionate giraffe Right, but it makes a "top 10" kind of pointless. The drop after the first 5 is huge. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385607) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:18 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den Bro, it's where the argument begins. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385911) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:38 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den (shitlib) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385583) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:26 AM Author: Zippy adulterous location Boston/Cambridge
SF
NYC
DC
Seattle
Madison
Ann Arbor
Austin
Burlington? |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:30 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den What the fuck are Seattle, Madison, and Ann Arbor doing on this list? I'm not even going to ask about Burlington (hint: this isn't a list for "most pretentious asshats in the nation"). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385558) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:48 AM Author: Zippy adulterous location ru kidding (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385620) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:22 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den No, brother, I seriously don't see what those cities contributes to the intellectual life of this country. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385920) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 10:30 AM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke Who is this vapid bitch? Burlington? Seattle? WTF?
Why not just put Biloxi on there? Christ...
I can at least see Champaign on there for the incubators that created the interwebs. Ann Arbor? For what? Football? Madison? for what? Lesbian politics?
At least give some fucking justification and don't throw out random fucking college towns. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:32 AM Author: out-of-control passionate giraffe The list should basically be major eastern cities + SF/Bay + the whitest other cities in the country (Twin Cities, SLC/Provo, etc.). Lots of cities, like those in the Southwest and SoCal, and most of the South, are way too minority-heavy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385564) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:48 AM Author: Cordovan galvanic casino PROVO? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385623) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:52 AM Author: honey-headed underhanded home What's the point of this thread? To identify where you want to feel the stupidest, since OP is just as retarded as teh next assclown on xo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385640) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:56 AM Author: Blathering thriller ratface dilemma basically 1 NYC 2 Boston 3 Provo .... huge drop 4. Houston .... fathomless plunge 5. San Francisco |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:57 AM Author: Cordovan galvanic casino WTF is this Provo flame? How many Mormon pumos are on this site? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385656) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 2:09 AM Author: out-of-control passionate giraffe Per capita, Provo pwns the fuck out of the rest of the country. We're talking about a college town of 100,000+ that is 90% white, 90% college educated, and has a ton of start-ups. It's a Jello version of Silicon Valley. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385687) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:59 AM Author: Glassy knife lol @ SF/Bay Area not being first on any list (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385660) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:21 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den It really isn't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23385919) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:30 AM Author: Glassy knife You're a moron if you think Provo is over SF Bay Area.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/170884/DEGREED-CITIES.jpg
obviously this graph favors denser cities, but this is a good starting point |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:44 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den I don't have Provo on my list at all. But fuck no, Fag Central isn't the Intellectual Center of America. New York obviously is #1. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386965) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:56 AM Author: comical double fault sandwich Surprised to see buffalo and cincinnati ranked that high (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387021) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 12:00 PM Author: Bateful gunner Buffalo has become a major health sciences hub. Not a bad place to live if you can handle the weather (super low COL, some good public schools, and close proximity to major cities like Toronto). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387043) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 12:04 PM Author: comical double fault sandwich That whole city just looks depressing as fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387063) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 12:18 PM Author: Bateful gunner Parts of it are, but there's actually some fairly nice areas there in the city proper (and the suburbs near the university). Great architecture in the city and there's a nice arts district that has been completely revitalized in the last ten years. Can score an impressive victorian in the area for $200-300k.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/arts/design/16ouro.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
But yes, there's big segments of the population that are ignorant Buffalo Bills loving proles.
sorry for the Buffalo trolling. lived there as a kid and still have fond memories of the place. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 4:14 PM Author: exhilarant beta university circlehead Same here, brother. Still, when I go back to visit, it's fun for a few days and then I need to GTFO. I really, really can't imagine living there after seeing other places. If someone's life is Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburgh, etc., then it might not seem so bad, but once you see SF, LA, DC, NY or even Boston or, hell, Cleveland, it's no comparison.
Also, those Victorians that are now $200-300K were ~$100K 10-15 years ago. EV has really gentrified. The housing isn't as cheap as I remember it being when I was a kid.
EDIT: Also, your neighbors are almost definitely to be 90% proles, unless you spend $750K in Clarence. And then you live in Clarence and are spending as much as you would be most other places. |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 12:26 PM Author: Bateful gunner I agree that if you're still in your '20s and living in a truly cosmopolitan city, then the idea of living in Buffalo is downright depressing. I remember when I was living on my own for the first time in Los Angeles, and I just felt so grateful that I had escaped a place like Buffalo. Now, after 15+ years living between LA/SF/DC/OC, and married with kids, I can see the appeal of simplifying life in a place like Buffalo and giving my kids a normal laidback childhood.
Also, it's not just Clarence. Clarence, Williamsville and Amherst are all nice towns with a highly educated populace, where you can find/build reasonably priced homes. My parents recently downsized by building a new home in Amherst for just short of $300k. Their neighbors are all professionals.
Still, I'll never move back, barring divorce. Wife's a California girl and can't stand more than a week in Buffalo. |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 4:18 PM Author: exhilarant beta university circlehead There's some truth to wanting to give kids a normal childhood. I don't envy them in most CA public schools -- they seem to be either total shit, obscenely rich, or superstudy. And I really liked my parents' backyard and the neighborhood feel of the place. It's almost impossible to find that near SF/LA, short of having partner dollars.
Last two sentences: Ohai, me. Although there's some comfort in the wife's "no way," because then I don't have to waste too much time thinking about it when biglaw becomes particularly depressing.
(That said, we actually looked into moving back at one point a few years ago, but we couldn't find two professional jobs there that fit despite using every family resource I had to try to make it work. Sad, but again, now I don't have to waste much time thinking about how great it might be.) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 2:29 PM Author: charismatic indian lodge death wish Interesting. Divide those numbers by the total population densities of those cities and you'd get a good list for purposes of this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387989) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:57 AM Author: electric bonkers useless brakes defend this shameless fucking houston trolling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387025) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:28 AM Author: big plum lodge lol at listing NYC first on any of these lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386556) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:55 AM Author: light abusive meetinghouse round eye lol at you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386684) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:37 AM Author: Chocolate striped hyena There are no intellectual cities on america. You only have pockets of intellectuals scattered through-out the nation. Most americans are retarded.
Cupertino/Silicon Valley probably has the highest proportion of intellectuals though. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:39 AM Author: honey-headed underhanded home This. Basically the area around R1s, the Ivies, AWS, SV, certain streets in DC... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386592) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:43 AM Author: swollen chad patrolman ljl my school is an R1 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386610) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:44 AM Author: Insane misanthropic resort roommate lol at intellectual = code monkey app developers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386613) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:46 AM Author: Chocolate striped hyena What about the Google Driverless car? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386625) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:57 PM Author: Cordovan galvanic casino (Guy who thinks computers and smartphones were easy to design before they even fucking existed) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23388528) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:19 PM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den (Guy who considers Kitty Hawk an intellectual Mecca) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391959) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:42 AM Author: swollen chad patrolman Not in any particular order:
D.C. metro Boston metro NYC Austin San Francisco and SV Seattle Salt Lake City Urbana Durham/the NC triangle Seattle |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:51 AM Author: Wonderful Charcoal Market Prole Atlanta
Memphis
Birmingham
Detroit
Washington DC
Jackson
New Orleans
Houston
Chicago
Baltimore |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:52 AM Author: Appetizing azure twinkling uncleanness ljl at Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston, Birmingham
I think NOLA is a joke but it actually has a music and arts scene.
Baltimore is sps |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:52 AM Author: Wonderful Charcoal Market Prole Most bulls per capita (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386669) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:53 AM Author: Appetizing azure twinkling uncleanness Fair, got to have a good selection of bulls. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386675) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:58 PM Author: Cordovan galvanic casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23388542) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:54 AM Author: arousing preventive strike isn't detroit the big city with the biggest black majority? seems like it would be an intellectual haven. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386683) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:55 AM Author: Wonderful Charcoal Market Prole Fuck youre right I'll revise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386687) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:00 AM Author: Appetizing azure twinkling uncleanness Philly also had Camden as a nice bull breeding area. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386719) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:54 AM Author: light abusive meetinghouse round eye how's Chicago? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386680) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:58 AM Author: Appetizing azure twinkling uncleanness 1. NYC 2. Boston 3. SF 4. DC 5. Chicago 6. Portland 7. Seattle 8. Marfa, Texas 9. Los Angeles 10. Reno, Nevada
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:43 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den Nice job. Not a single credited response in 6-10, and you're vastly overrating Boston. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23386957) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:57 AM Author: Appetizing azure twinkling uncleanness Reno is the Cambridge of Northern Nevada. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387026) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 6:54 PM Author: bespoke wrinkle Cr. It's like good will hunting with a shoddy circus circus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23389744) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 12:20 PM Author: Exciting fat ankles jap all the universities + pe/vc/asset management + consulting + biomedical stuff, i think boston is ranked reasonably. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387143) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:21 PM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den Outside of Harvard/MIT, Boston's intellectually dead.
Just LOL at treating PE like it's some intellectual endeavor. They're glorified merchants. |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 12:55 AM Author: ultramarine deer antler center To be fair,
By this SPS logic, how the fuck is DC on any of these lists at all? It's filled with politicians, lawyers, and lobbyists--many of whom have high IQs, but all of whom are unquestionably nothing but glorified snakeoil salesmen. |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 12:57 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den D.C. also has think tanks and most of the leading news journals. Fuck, even The Atlantic isn't headquartered in Boston anymore (take a guess which city it's in now, retard). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23392685) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 1:00 AM Author: ultramarine deer antler center To be fair,
(Guy who thinks "leading news journals" are filled with "intellectuals," and not dumbass reporters and political hacks)
(Guy who thinks "think tanks" are filled with "intellectuals," and not glorified snakeoil salesmen peddling their wares)
(Guy who thinks the staff of "The Atlantic" is filled with "intellectuals," and not just a bunch of unbearably pretentious assholes who jack off every night thinking about the fact that they write for The Atlantic)
(Pumo) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 1:03 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den Oh right, what is The Atlantic compared to the musings of a retard who can't wipe his own shit like TBF? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23392711) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 1:04 AM Author: ultramarine deer antler center To be fair,
(Guy who thinks that someone has to be an intellectual themselves before they can correctly point out that THAT'S NOT SCHOLARSHIP) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 1:06 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den (Low IQ retard who doesn't understand the difference between necessary and sufficient conditions) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23392727) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 1:08 AM Author: ultramarine deer antler center To be fair,
(But in all seriousness, guy who thinks that The Atlantic is an "intellectual" publication)
Read some peer-reviewed scholarship and blow me sometime fgt |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 1:09 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den The Atlantic's a better magazine than any general interest periodical coming out of Boston. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23392743) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:31 AM Author: ultramarine deer antler center To be fair,
Noting that the logic that you used to attack Boston is shitty because it also easily applies to DC (which you didn't attack) =! Defending Boston
And LJL @ you using "general interest periodicals" as a metric for intellectualism. Can we debate Newsweek vs. Time next? Oh, what scholarship! |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 1:22 PM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den D.C. has an intellectual culture of its own. It's not just in Washington, but impacts the surrounding metro. Boston has Harvard and MIT. That's it. Sure, that's something, but it's not enough to put Boston ahead of New York/D.C./Chicago/San Francisco.
General interest periodicals are one metric for intellectual life. Any university can crank out specialized scholarship that's irrelevant to the rest of the community. That's a pretty sterile form of intellectual life and not very interesting.
Time and Newsweek may be third-tier publications, but even they wouldn't headquarter in Boston. |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 4:29 PM Author: laughsome bistre toilet seat Boston proper may not be as intellectual as DC, but Cambridge absolutely buttfucks DC on that dimension. For example, every bookstore in Cambridge >>>> every bookstore in DC and it's not close. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23396037) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 10:14 PM Author: ultramarine deer antler center To be fair,
cr
I have no great love for Boston, but it's just so absurd and random to decide that where general interest publications are headquartered is such a fantastic metric for measuring the "intellectual" quality of a city. Quality and number of bookstores makes just as much sense. And one metric crowns DC while the other crowns Boston. That's not scholarship.
"But DC museums >>>> Boston museums! DC is just so full of prancing scholars thirsting for the nectar of knowledge!" |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:26 PM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den Washington's an alpha city. Boston is alpha minus.
/discussion |
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Date: June 15th, 2013 1:09 AM Author: ultramarine deer antler center To be fair,
(Gee, I wonder where this pumo lives?) |
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Date: June 15th, 2013 3:54 PM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
HTFH |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:57 AM Author: comical double fault sandwich Chicago doesn't belong in this list. Outside of Hyde park it's full of dumb minorities and proles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387027) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 12:43 PM Author: Dull Fragrant Marketing Idea This is TCR^180.
Proler-than-prole whites, and minorities who, even for minorities, are dumb as fuck.
And everybody in this festering shit hole WALKS SO SLOWLY.
Dey be walkin' slow.
Please kill me |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 12:02 PM Author: Bateful gunner From my experience, San Diego is a pretty educated city. Lots of Bio/Engineering Ph.D.'s out and about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23387057) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 12:21 PM Author: aqua razzle mad cow disease 1. NYC 2. DC 3. Boston 4. SF/SV 5. Chicago |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:54 PM Author: big plum lodge Caltech and JPL put LA (Pasadena) in the top 10, no question. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23388505) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 4:20 PM Author: Fishy mediation people who are hurt Absolutely bizarre Urbana-Champaign trolling ITT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23388691) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 5:48 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke There would be no thread to troll on if it weren't for Champaign (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23396589) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 10:28 PM Author: swashbuckling clown Having done undergrad at UIUC I'd agree. For a university town, it has some surprisingly ghetto areas fairly close by the campus....many townies are pretty prole. Madison and Ann Arbor are definitely more intellectual. Still was the best four years of my life, douches. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23398169) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:18 PM Author: Dull Fragrant Marketing Idea Oh god the Chambana townies were unbearable.
They would watch Hee-Haw without any sense of irony. And talk incessantly about their newest pickup truck.
Ew. |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:28 PM Author: swashbuckling clown uh no, mostly more so prole in a ghetto/wigger sort of way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23398547) |
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Date: June 15th, 2013 12:41 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den Champaign: David Foster Wallace
XO: poasters |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:10 PM Author: aromatic violent jew 1. Washington 2. New York 3. Bay Area 4. Boston/Cambridge/128 5. Silicon Valley 5. Chicago |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:33 PM Author: lascivious boistinker lettuce Washington New York Boston Minneapolis |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:33 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke LOL at Minneapolis. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23390981) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:36 PM Author: lascivious boistinker lettuce Minneapolis is very underrated. People stay indoors and read because of the weather, and they're Scandinavian. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391012) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:39 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke I live here. Minneapolis is very much a put your nose to the grindstone, don't care if you have a degree; I only care about your work product town.
It's a great place to live and work, but to call it intellectual seems kind of off to me.
They'd rather hunt and fish than read a fucking book or talk politics or some kind of intellectual endeavor.
It's very industrious and prosperous based on heritage, but I wouldn't call it intellectual by any stretch.
Thoughtful, introspective and and industrious. Intellectual...just LOL. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:43 PM Author: titillating mewling chapel idea he suggested lol at the absence of Princeton NJ and New Haven CT on these TTT lists. seriously, just lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391075) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:44 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke Your definition of city must be really fucked up right about now.
Should we just go to US News and declare all college towns a city now?
Yay! Go fucking Dartmouth! |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:06 PM Author: titillating mewling chapel idea he suggested lol at you thinking that defining hanover as a city would put darTTTmouth on the list. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391313) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:42 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke Touche. So...how the fuck do you define it that New Fucking Haven isn't in the NYC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Huh? |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:43 PM Author: titillating mewling chapel idea he suggested are we friends? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391611) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:45 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke I don't associate with statistical retards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391633) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:44 PM Author: flatulent puppy property In no particular order: NYC DC SF Chicago Boston |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:01 PM Author: Histrionic know-it-all stag film turdskin DC is perhaps #1 for the most educated/intelligent... but remove completely from the list of intellectual. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391263) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:47 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke Who makes money? Is that what you want?
What is "intellectual"? Who gets more bang for the buck?
What the fuck is intellectual? |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:50 PM Author: Histrionic know-it-all stag film turdskin intellectual = shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23391696) |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:53 PM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke Evidently. Good luck making money with that.
I love how they try to use Minneapolis as a litmus test for Making money/intellectual.
We make bank...has nothing to do with intellectualism.
It's all about productivity. We don't accept average. |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:24 PM Author: Silver Boyish Gaming Laptop State 1. Chicago
2. Austin
3. Ann Arbor
4. Princeton |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 12:59 AM Author: aggressive clear area bbw What is with Ann Arbor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23392694) |
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Date: June 18th, 2013 8:21 PM Author: Zippy adulterous location Unfuckingbelievable trolling for the University of Michigan. Fuck you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23424616) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 10:36 AM Author: very tactful station scourge upon the earth toronto is probably pretty high up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23393935) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:40 AM Author: Shivering Duck-like Theater Stage Read the thread title, chuckles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23394256) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:07 AM Author: hairraiser brunch Tampa Orlando Dallas Phoenix
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:28 AM Author: Puce whorehouse yarmulke (Rudolph) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23394196) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:55 AM Author: hairraiser brunch Those cities have the biggest cuckold scenes in America (really the first three; Phoenix is debatable) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23394371) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 4:24 PM Author: opaque gas station halford College Park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23396004) |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 10:19 PM Author: Contagious trailer park messiness Depends on what you mean by intellectual.
Per capita=Tiny to midsized college towns get a huge boost Total intellectualism=Huge cities get a huge boost
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Date: June 15th, 2013 12:42 AM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den WTF is a per capita intellectual community? Would Albert Einstein wandering in the middle of the desert suddenly top the list? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23398944) |
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Date: June 15th, 2013 12:49 AM Author: adventurous sweet tailpipe tanning salon Portland is moving up despite having no prestigious universities. There are lots of bookstores and coffee shops filled with shitlibs, much like Seattle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23398987) |
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Date: June 15th, 2013 3:54 PM Author: mahogany racy trump supporter den Portland, like Seattle, is a net consumer rather than a net producer of intellectual culture. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2280545&forum_id=2#23401839) |
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Date: June 18th, 2013 8:23 PM Author: Zippy adulterous location We really need to split this into 2 categories: major metro and everything else
Major metro:
NYC Boston SF Seattle Portland DC
Everything else:
Austin Madison Ann Arbor Boulder "Research Triangle" (not sure how to split that up)
LOFUCKINGL at some of these lists. Sorry bros, Chicago is *not* intellectual. It's a big fucking city, but it's not an intellectual city. Minneapolis has pockets of that intellectual vibe, but it's a Midwest town that draws in people from 500 miles all around. People coming from Rapid City, SD to Minneapolis and rural Iowa to Minneapolis do not make it an intellectual place. The best school in Minnesota, Carleton, is not in Minneapolis, and the University of Minnesota is one of the weakest Big 10 schools. |