{"id":223,"date":"2014-12-09T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinschimmelfing.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2015-01-21T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:01:10","slug":"the-different-social-yardsticks-of-american-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/colinschimmelfing.com\/blog\/the-different-social-yardsticks-of-american-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"The different social yardsticks of American cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When comparing different cities, I like to bring up this little shortcut in how people in different cities seem to compare each other:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In <b>New York City<\/b> it&#8217;s: <em>&#8220;How much do you make?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In <b>Boston \/ Cambridge<\/b> it&#8217;s: <em>&#8220;What do you know?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In <b>San Francisco<\/b> it&#8217;s: <em>&#8220;What can you make, and how many people think it&#8217;s cool?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In <b>DC<\/b> it&#8217;s: <em>&#8220;Who \/ how powerful is your boss?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In <b>LA<\/b> it&#8217;s: <em>&#8220;What powerful people \/ how many people know who you are?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are the ones I have a pretty good idea about, here are others I&#8217;m less sure of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Chicago<\/b>: I have no idea (perhaps: <em>&#8220;How well can you make a pierogi?&#8221;<\/em>), please help me with that one!<\/li>\n<li><b>Philadelphia<\/b>: is tricky &#8211; it&#8217;s such a chill city that I think people just aren&#8217;t likely to care too much about comparing themselves to you<\/li>\n<li><b>Seattle<\/b>: likewise, although probably there it&#8217;s something like: <em>&#8220;What awesome backpacking trip did you do last summer?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Houston<\/b>: some variant of <em>&#8220;How classy is your family?&#8221;<\/em> (again not much knowledge there)<\/li>\n<li><b>Portland<\/b>: perhaps <em>&#8220;How organic are the vegetables you are eating and how many hours did it take you to harvest them yourself?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, to be fair I did not come up with the overall idea that there&#8217;s a common yardstick that people measure themselves against &#8211; that would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/cities.html\">amazing Paul Graham<\/a>. 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