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What's so wrong about being envious of my friends who have gone to Portland? It really is a beautiful city. I am actually going to try to take a trip there within the next year or two.
So you have been ranting, raving and recommending a city you have never even been to?
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins. And seriously, it is also considered a sign of emotionally immaturity in some people if it becomes an obsession according to a psychology professor I had in college.
I know that with all the hype, Portland has many different types of people other than hipsters, I wish people would believe that. I would wager that is true of the other cities that have that unfortunate reputation as well. We have all different types of people here.
But at the end of the day, not all places are for all people and I don't believe there is any reason to be jealous of these particular places mentioned by the OP. Of those I have been to, and I even live in one of them, I consider them to be nice but so are many other places in which people are perfectly happy and content to be.
I currently live in Seattle. I lived in Boston a few years ago. Seattle is not exciting at all. But I could see why people would want to live here. I've actually been thinking about moving back to Boston or somewhere new like San Francisco. I'm torn between San Francisco and Boston...anyone like one city over the other? Why? I'm single, female, 32 yrs old.
Good question. I can understand someone giving their own opinion based on their own experiences in a particular city but I don't get it when they believe everyone else draws the same conclusions about that city.
And when it's a city in which they have never lived or even visited but are going solely by media hype, I really don't get where they are coming from. Is this a result of the dumbing down of a new age where people are too lazy to think or explore for themselves?
I don't see how anyone can be jealous of a city. If they like something in another place that's not in their own, they could always just move.
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