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Top 10 intellectual cities in America?
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:21 AM Author: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: boyish meetinghouse people who are hurt 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: light public bath newt 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: talented office incel (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: bronze black woman 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: Peach tantric parlor messiness 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: Rough-skinned zombie-like police squad 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: 180 piazza feces 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Galvanic Therapy Stage 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: purple new version old irish cottage 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: Cream boistinker den 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.
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:23 AM Author: chest-beating dull organic girlfriend wagecucks 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: 180 piazza feces 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: 180 piazza feces 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: fluffy friendly grandma goyim 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: light public bath newt 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Honey-headed cumskin 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: light public bath newt 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: Peach tantric parlor messiness 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Peach tantric parlor messiness 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property (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: Sapphire Space Boston/Cambridge
SF
NYC
DC
Seattle
Madison
Ann Arbor
Austin
Burlington? |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 1:30 AM Author: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Sapphire Space 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: Peach tantric parlor messiness 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: lascivious nudist mother 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: 180 piazza feces 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: Unholy appetizing digit ratio 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: lascivious nudist mother 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: Peach tantric parlor messiness 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: pearly coffee pot locale 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: pearly coffee pot locale 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Splenetic sweet tailpipe 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: Razzle-dazzle orange international law enforcement agency 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: Splenetic sweet tailpipe 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: Razzle-dazzle orange international law enforcement agency 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: ruddy azn psychic 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: Razzle-dazzle orange international law enforcement agency 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: ruddy azn psychic 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: angry rehab dysfunction 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: Big Anal Whorehouse 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: Ungodly abode 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: Chocolate disturbing point 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: coiffed bright center 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: 180 piazza feces 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: Offensive Hairy Legs 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: vibrant awkward volcanic crater headpube 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: coiffed bright center 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: lascivious nudist mother (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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property (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: Offensive Hairy Legs 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: brilliant trailer park giraffe Atlanta
Memphis
Birmingham
Detroit
Washington DC
Jackson
New Orleans
Houston
Chicago
Baltimore |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:52 AM Author: cracking tanning salon 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: brilliant trailer park giraffe 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: cracking tanning salon 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: lascivious nudist mother (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: boyish meetinghouse people who are hurt 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: brilliant trailer park giraffe 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: cracking tanning salon 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: Chocolate disturbing point 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: cracking tanning salon 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: cracking tanning salon 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: Territorial Green Tattoo Hall 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: curious gold field chad 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: chestnut demanding sanctuary weed whacker 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: chestnut demanding sanctuary weed whacker 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: chestnut demanding sanctuary weed whacker 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property (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: chestnut demanding sanctuary weed whacker 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: chestnut demanding sanctuary weed whacker 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Sable frum faggotry private investor 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: chestnut demanding sanctuary weed whacker 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property Washington's an alpha city. Boston is alpha minus.
/discussion |
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Date: June 15th, 2013 1:09 AM Author: chestnut demanding sanctuary weed whacker To be fair,
(Gee, I wonder where this pumo lives?) |
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Date: June 15th, 2013 3:54 PM Author: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
HTFH |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 11:57 AM Author: Splenetic sweet tailpipe 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: Cream boistinker den 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: Razzle-dazzle orange international law enforcement agency 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: alcoholic corner idea he suggested 1. NYC 2. DC 3. Boston 4. SF/SV 5. Chicago |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 3:54 PM Author: Ungodly abode 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: cerebral roast beef 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: crawly factory reset button codepig 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: Cream boistinker den 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: crawly factory reset button codepig 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property Champaign: David Foster Wallace
XO: poasters |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:10 PM Author: irradiated toaster 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: aromatic cruise ship halford Washington New York Boston Minneapolis |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 9:33 PM Author: Iridescent location mediation 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: aromatic cruise ship halford 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: Rough-skinned zombie-like police squad 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: Rough-skinned zombie-like police squad 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: Rough-skinned zombie-like police squad 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: naked stead In no particular order: NYC DC SF Chicago Boston |
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Date: June 13th, 2013 10:01 PM Author: Contagious Hot Kitchen Marketing Idea 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: Contagious Hot Kitchen Marketing Idea 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: Iridescent location mediation 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: umber philosopher-king karate 1. Chicago
2. Austin
3. Ann Arbor
4. Princeton |
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Date: June 14th, 2013 12:59 AM Author: purple new version old irish cottage 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: Sapphire Space 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: chest-beating dull organic girlfriend wagecucks 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: tripping yellow clown gaming laptop 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: Provocative flesh set Tampa Orlando Dallas Phoenix
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Date: June 14th, 2013 11:28 AM Author: Iridescent location mediation (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: Provocative flesh set 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: turquoise pocket flask stock car 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: bat-shit-crazy exciting state hominid 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Mischievous box office 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: Bonkers Glassy Dragon Property 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: Sapphire Space 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. |