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 People's image of your city may be 5, 10, 15 or more years out of date.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?>

Is Washington DC USA's most European like city?

What do you think? Its a really really beautiful city and it reminded me of the pictures of the European cities that I have seen. The architecture was amazing and the planning and everything, truly one of my favorite US cities. Your opinions?>

How big is religion in your city?

Honolulu is one of the rare cities in the world that religion isn't wildly spread among its citizens. New statistic shows that only 33% of the people in Hawaii's main city is religious. I thought this was quite shocking and there are numerous sites about Honolulu's strong atheism. "33.32% of the people in Honolulu, HI are religious, meaning they affiliate with a religion. 17.55% are Catholic; 7.35% are Protestant; 3.36% are LDS; 4.26% are another Christian faith; 0.73% in Honolulu, HI are Jewish; 0.00% are an eastern faith; 0.07% affilite with Islam." So is religion big in your city? (No religious debates or battle, this is a clean thread, no prejudice).>

Metro areas in more than one state

Do metro areas in more than one state operate differently than those in just one state? Do the state boundaries make a difference in how the parts interelate? on perceptions. Is there a fundamental difference between places like Miami, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Cleveland, etc. -and- New York (NY, NJ, CT), Philadelphia (PA, NJ, DE), Chicago (IL, IN, WI), Boston (MA, NH), St. Louis (MO, IL), Kansas City (MO, KS), Cincinnati (OH, KY, IN), Washington (DC, MD, VA), etc. ...or do they tend to function the same way?????? (special note: obviously San Diego's relationship with Mexico and Detroit's with Canada is a HUGE difference when compared to other metro areas....my interest here was more about the subtler influence of being in more than one state)>

The Chicago Flag

As a native Chicagoan, I've always had a warm feeling towards our city's flag. At college, I even had one on my walls. All of my friends from other parts of the country/world thought this was rather odd. Question is, is Chicago alone in this way, ie having a flag that virtually all of its citizens are aware of? >

Post WWII Years: Bad for the US?

How negative was the effect of the post-World War II years in the United States? America emerged from the war as the only major economic power. Its industries, supplying the war effort for the US and her allies, is what drew our economy out of the Depression...far more than the *** Deal did. The devastation of the war crippled the industrial power of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, etc. US factories went into overdrive in peace as they did during war. The war woke up a pent up need for consumer goods...and every major appliance seemed to have developed in time for that huge shhift to suburbia. Although in their waning days, the 1950's were still a time of colonialism and the US benefitted from the raw materials of these colonies as did their European "owners". The US population was still relatively low due to immigration laws from the beginning of the 20th century that kept their numbers under strict control and with a quota system to determine which countries sent us immigrants. In addtion to that relatively low population density was a land loaded with resources, one of the most favorable pieces of land for any nation...and remarkably for one so large. Add to this all the largest-by-far generation in the history of the United States, the Baby Boomers, who grew up in the only world they k***: safe, afluent, spoiled to a degree by parents who had been through depression and war and wanted to give all they could to their children in this *** age of affluence. Thus "life was good" (for many) in the 1950's and into the 1960's before the decaying of our industries and the social ills and inequalities of society finally being addressed during the civil rights movement. But the salient point here is this: the huge group of baby boomers, a group that seemed to be "empowered" from birth, grew up in the only world that they k***: A WORLD OF UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS THAT IT WOULD LAST. Lasting or not, it became the mind set that we could have it all, all that we wanted, that supply and demand did not have to exist, that affluence was open for all, that the world outside our shores could be held at bay. How ultimately did that mind set that the world would always remain our oyster, that we could always have what we wanted color the way the US sees economic issues today? How much did living in fantasyland make us ill-prepared for what happens when fantasyland closes down?>

FORBES BEST CITIES FOR BUSINESS AND JOBS

Best Places For Business And Careers 04.05.07, 6:00 PM ET For a state with just over 8 million, NC seems to blow the competition away with 5 metros in the top 25 and 2 in the top 10. Amazing. Is it something in the water? Rank Metro/Cost Of Doing Business/Job Growth Educational Attainment/Population (thou) 1 Raleigh NC 27 35 12 978 2 Provo UT 67 17 30 465 3 Boise ID 19 19 84 560 4 Des Moines IA 49 64 50 531 5 Knoxville TN 14 49 88 662 6 Albuquerque NM 34 56 53 813 7 Durham NC 33 124 6 462 8 Fayetteville AR 11 8 140 417 9 Nashville TN 42 47 82 1,438 10 Olympia WA 113 21 40 233 11 Ogden UT 58 33 96 499 12 Gainesville FL 52 67 13 243 13 Naples FL 79 3 46 317 14 Richmond VA 26 72 64 1,193 15 Lincoln NE 15 114 24 284 16 Edison NJ 174 93 25 2,323 17 Tallahassee FL 81 68 16 339 18 Mercer County NJ 156 46 20 368 19 Omaha NE 69 113 60 821 20 Spokane WA 47 60 97 447 21 Charlotte NC 44 91 54 1,563 22 Tampa-St. Petersburg FL 104 26 129 2,691 23 Asheville NC 10 70 127 398 24 Winston-Salem NC 7 121 110 455 25 Atlanta GA 119 100 36 5,064>

Feeling Doomed.

Is it wrong that I dont want to live in the same state my family resides in? Have any of you guys moved away from your home state and family? I live in New York and while New York City is great, when I finish highschool I want to go to college and live in a diffrent state/city.>