What do you call u?

No US university is referred to by its oficial name but by some shorter, preferred name. What name is most proferred when people in your state refer to their local universities? For example, here in Chicago, the University of Chicago is the U of C, the University of Illinois (Urbana) is U of I; the University of Illinois at Chicago is UIC. period; nothing else. Most people would refer to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Madison and the University of Iowa as Iowa. Indiana University is more commonly called IU. Cal would seem to be the Bay Area's choice for what it calls the Univ. of California, Berkely. I've heard Angelenos use both USC and SC for the Univ of Southern California. I don't think any Mississipian calls the University of Missisippi anything else but Ole Miss. Don't Atlantans refer to Georgia Tech as Tech? Mpls-St. Paul's University of Minnesota is far more often just the U (as opposed to U of M) locally. How about your own local universities? What names are preferred locally.>

Which state has the biggest sense of "State Pride"

Well, which state has many people thinking they are from their state first and then our country, or Which state people refer to themselves the most.... etc. I believe it is Texas. You know, you always see those "Don't mess with Texas" bumber stickers. The other day, I saw a little sign on a door that said "Hi, I'm from Texas, what country are you from?" LOL. That's funny. I have relatives in Texas and they are always telling me how great Texas is and how it's the "best". I mean, are they brainwashing them down there or is it really that great? LOLOLOL Well, please reply. Thanks! -macon4ever>

We're not what you think.

Often times perception of what a city is like lag far behind the reality of what the city is today. People's image of your city may be 5, 10, 15 or more years out of date. Share with us some of the ways that your city today differs from the paradigms people have about it based on the way it used to be. Why would we be surprised if we vistied your hometown and end up saying, "I had no idea that ______ has become such a terrific city." What don't we know about what you have become?>

How do your suburbs make your city what it is?

For all the talk we get into here on how large our cities are, it is metropolitan population that is a far more salient statistic in what makes a city tick than the city's own population. All the acolades that we pour on cities like San Francisco or Boston that manage to be so major, so vibrant, and yet so small are meaningless if we don't consider the huge size of the Bay Area and metropolitan Boston. So why not examine our cities by looking at their suburbs, too. Those suburbs are separated from the city by little more than an arbitrary city limits. Under then municipal services, there is no real distinction between the city and the towns that abut it. Let's talk about your city. What contributions do your suburbs make due to their size or their offerings that largely impact the nature of your city itself, the beneficiary (or the victim) of the suburbs that surround it? Does LA, as a city, benefit by having Disneyland, the Rose Bowl, Rodeo Drive, Malibu, the Santa Monica pier in its surroundings? How influenced is Detroit as a city by the attitudes of subrban Detroiters to it? Can you really understand DC if you do not understand VA and MD? Is part of what makes us take Miami so seriously lie on the beaches that run from Miami Beach to perhaps as far north as Palm Beach? Does Dallas's money and power get muted if you don't look at north Dallas, beyond city limits or to University Park (SMU), Irving (Cowboys), Arlington (Rangers)? Are Clayton's high rises park of what makes St. Louis work the way it does? Is Marin's mellowness and Silicon Valley's technology integral parts of what makes San Francisco tick? Can even mighty New York City be fully understood without getting an understanding of the Jersey towns and cities on the Hudson's west bank?>

is there something to do in phoenix?

well i posted this question on the west coast forum but since noone answer lets posted here. i am planning a trip to phoenix and i wanted to see how exactly is it? any thoughts oh btw i am planning this trip on august. my guessing is that is provably really hot. but how does the temperature feel does it feel the same as miami or worst?>

Does city influence what suburb is like?

Can you tell anything about a suburb by knowing the size (and other factors) of the city to which it is a part? In other words, are two suburbs, each with a population of, say, 20,000, and are located in a section of suburbia developed at the same time and are made of up subdivisons and sprawl, in the same region,but one is a suburb of a city of 2,000,000 and the other a suburb of a city of 750,000 very much alike or do they differ in nature because of the size (and importance?) of the city to which each is attached?>

Does city influence what suburb is like?

Can you tell anything about a suburb by knowing the size (and other factors) of the city to which it is a part? In other words, are two suburbs, each with a population of, say, 20,000, and are located in a section of suburbia developed at the same time and are made of up subdivisons and sprawl, in the same region,but one is a suburb of a city of 2,000,000 and the other a suburb of a city of 750,000 very much alike or do they differ in nature because of the size (and importance?) of the city to which each is attached?>