Do you ever get annoyed (irrationally) when someone doesn't like your city?

[babar]

It makes no sense, but sometimes when people put down Chicago, I get a little bit annoyed!! Like I made the city and they are personally insulting me or something!

I know it's silly, but does anyone else ever get like this about a place they've lived for a long time?

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

Nope! I live in the DC suburbs, and DC gets hacked on daily. Not a biggie.

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

Nope! I live in the DC suburbs, and DC gets hacked on daily. Not a biggie.

 

[Muffin]

babar,

I know just what you mean. And it's not always irrational. Especially when they say something like "I don't know why anyone would want to live there" or provide a whole list of specifics they don't like, some of which happen to be things you do like.

And believe me, New Orleans gets knocked on a regular basis.

 

[Goofyta]

Texans take a lot of pride in their state and don't like it when people talk bad about it. So, I feel you.

 

[danacara]

Dude, I live in New Jersey. People who live in poverty-stricken hovels love to rack on New Jersey. I get ticked, but hey, we have enough population density here already - we don't really want everyone to love the place! Hee hee

 

[coqui]

I know what people mean here.

For example they think the 16th largest city in the nation only has cows and that there's nothing to do here.

I found many more things to do here than I did when I lived near DC.

I guess people just don't like towns they aren't from.

 

[disykat]

I get annoyed when people complain about the rain here - especially if it's a pretty dry year. Why does everyone keep moving here if it's so terrible?

 

[Robinrs]

I take New York tawk VERY personally.

Now as for Atlanta, I'm doing all the criticizing!

 

[helenabear]

Sweetie, we are #15 now... get it straight No, I seriously don't mind that people call Columbus a cowtown (after all that is why we have the concorde fly into here ) and cut on it. I like where I live and I will probably live here all my life if possible... if people don't like it, I just say that they don't know all the city has to offer

 

[browneyes]

No, I usually chime in with them. I don't live in a city though. I live in a very tiny town.

 

[Cindy B]

I have been to many many cities and know what I like and I don't.

Everytime I have gone to Chicago, I have gotten terribly horribly lost, and was always late for every seminar. The airports are busy, and its just not what I like.

I lived in NJ for 19 years, I know what Dana is saying as well. In fact we are reconsidering a move back there, so I have heard it all well... you want to move where? Why? Personally my family is there, and Southern New Jersey is much much different than North Jersey. I have found in my unscientifical research that people think of NJ, they think on Northern NJ, instead of S. NJ.

My parents live in the middle of the Pine Barrens in an isolated part of S. Jersey... I can't tell you how many people have asked me if it is near Newark.. (Its almost three hours away!)


It doesn't bother me when people knock Philadelphia, or even my specific suburbian area (The Main Line). I know what is mostly said isn't true, and there are some things that are... I am embarassed at some reflections of the city, and what has happened in the past...


I have also lived in Cleveland OH yes the "mistake by the lake". I can't tell you how many relatives of mine still asked if the lake was on fire in 1995 (they don't get out much). I loved Cleveland, the people were amazing, and the city itself was beautiful, compact, and the spirit was thriving.

I've been to Columbus as well, I know that it isn't all cornfields...

 

[mrsapalm]

I lived in Fort Worth for a year and thought I would just die. I hated it (for many, many, many reasons) and couldn't wait to get back to H-Town. I love Houston so, so much, but there's a bitter rivalry between D-FW and Houston, so I have to show my loyalty.
As for Houston, a lot of people knock it, but I'm one for "Don't knock it 'till you try it." I've found that the bulk of people who Pooh-Pooh (silly little bear ) Houston haven't even been here. Shows what they know!
-MrsAPalm

 

[UncleKyle]

I hate the sterotypes given to Kentucky. Like we all are married to our sisters and we never wear shoes. The fact is those people do exist but are very rare in this state. The only things people know us for are horses, basketball, and whiskey. But when I've met people that come here they always fall in love with this state. Or at least louisville

 

[JerseyJanice]

Like Dana and Cindy said, when you're from New Jersey, you have to be tough when it comes to hearing jokes about NJ.

However, there was only one time that I got very annoyed about it.

In a conversation, I stated that I didn't think that I could live anywhere else because I was so used to NJ. I never said that I couldn't live elsewhere because I thought New Jersey was the be-all and end-all of places to live. All I said was that I was used to it.

One person in that conversation inferred something completely different (that everywhere else to live was awful? that I thought NJ was the bees' knees? who knows?) and got very insulted, then started hurling NJ insults at me.

It was a strange discussion, to say the least.

 

[honeywolf7]

Yeah, at the place that I used to work when I did data entry we had a temp one time who said she really disliked Denver (I know I'm not living there now, but it's still home as far as I'm concerned)....first, I thought she must be nuts and second, I disliked her immediately (especially since she came from Cleveland and thought it was a nicer city than Denver.)

 

[Mermaid02]

I get irritated when people dump on Maine.... or assume none of us pronounce our "R's" (which I do).

 

[Lars624]

I live about 45 minutes NW of Detroit & everybody has bad ideas about Detroit. I don't let it bother me..........but if someone criticizes the town I actually live in it does make me a bit defensive.
babar - I love Chicago!!!! I'll be in Chicago to Christmas shop, go to the theatre & just generaly have fun the weekend before Thanksgiving & I am so excited!!!

 

[Steve H.]

I live in Cleveland -- it comes with the territory. Does it bother me? Why would it??

 

[snoopy]

I'm very protective of my hometown, Baltimore, not so much the city I live in now, D.C.