[ SECRET POST #3232 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3232 ⌋

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(Beyoncé)


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[Spider-Gwen/Marvel]


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[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]


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[Monogatari]


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[Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Dragon Ball Z]








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Comments

Re: Things you wish were cheaper

[(Anonymous)]

Hm. I didn't realize I was no longer young, liberal or college-educated.

Re: Things you wish were cheaper

[(Anonymous)]

I was exaggerating for effect.

Re: Things you wish were cheaper

[(Anonymous)]

But when you make sweeping generalizations that are obviously incorrect, the effect is that you look like you don't know what you're talking about. I mean... if that's what you wanted, then I don't want to stand in your way, but it would've been just as easy and a lot more accurate to say something like, "The problem is, at the end of the day, cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, New York, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, SF, or LA (and maybe, like, Austin and Nashville and Miami) are so popular with young, liberal college educated people that there's only so much room and rents are high."

Re: Things you wish were cheaper

[(Anonymous)]

Well, but I don't think it's just a question of them being popular with people. If I had thought it was just a question of popularity with people, I would have said that. I think it's part of a broader trend of social polarization in America. I didn't just want to get across that lots of people live in those places - I wanted to get across the sense of the population concentrating itself into those places, of this as the result of a large group of people simultaneously all making the same choices.

And while it's obviously and literally untrue to say that everyone wants to live in those places, I think it gets across the sense of it being a broader social phenomenon better than the way you phrased it. And that's what I wanted to say.

Re: Things you wish were cheaper

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but I'm not seeing a huge difference between what the ayrt said and what you said originally... probably because ayrt was directly quoting you, with a few tweaks for phrasing.

Re: Things you wish were cheaper

[(Anonymous)]

The other anon's post frames it in terms of those places just happening to be very popular with those people. Like, it just so happens to be the case that people like those cities.

What I want to emphasize is not just that they happen to be popular. It's that it seems like there's this phenomenon where people will hardly even consider living somewhere besides these very short list of places. Where there's this whole cultural mindset that disregards anywhere outside those places. It is not just that people have positive feelings about those cities in the same way they might do about television shows or types of fruit.

To me, those tweaks for phrasing completely change the sense that I wanted to convey. And I might not have succeeded in that, but you know.

Re: Things you wish were cheaper

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I feel like what you meant in your original post was pretty clear and, while it was obviously a generalization, I don't think it was inaccurate. I also didn't find it offensive or annoying. Not sure what other anon's problem is; they seem to be taking it rather personally.