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Paris and New York. It's annoying to see NY in every movie.
More annoying when "I'm moving to Paris" line in movies is like the ultimate jump in life. That you evolved as a human being and you became supperior to the rest of us poor non-paris visitors/residents.
More annoying when "I'm moving to Paris" line in movies is like the ultimate jump in life. That you evolved as a human being and you became supperior to the rest of us poor non-paris visitors/residents.
Went to Dubai once to visit a friend in the State department. And yes, it's Dubai. You won't find a more shallow veneer of prestige and glamour anywhere.
Nah, my parents are from Cincinnati, we moved due to my dad getting a great job. Dubai is an awsome place, the most pretentious and un pretentious place ever š
Yeah, nothing evokes the concept of high culture like Les Dennis playing Aladdin at the Brighton Metropole.
Was gonna say it's impossible for a city to be pretentious, but then I remembered Canton/Avon, Connecticut
To change things up a bit I will keep it Minnesota only and say Edina. It is a part of the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area full of very rich white people. The adults are mostly jerks, the kids are assholes, and they all have the idea that they're better than everybody else.
Hell, they even got called out in the movie The Mighty Ducks. Bunch of cake eaters.
Hell, they even got called out in the movie The Mighty Ducks. Bunch of cake eaters.
Paris by a mile.
I do know some great people there but god I just hate spending any time in that city.
I do know some great people there but god I just hate spending any time in that city.
I haven't been around a lot, but I don't see how any city can possibly best Dubai in pretentiousness.
This is true. NYC is a shithole, but refuses to take advice because "this is NY, things are different."
I have never felt Paris to be pretentious, and I speak terrible French.
Fucking French Canadians though, uber pretentious.
Don't forget when the local Sierra club fights to preserve a gas station rather than build housing.
There is a story from when the Eiffel tower was new: one writer found the tower so distasteful that he took his supper every night in the Eiffel tower restaurant because it was the only restaurant in the city where you couldn't see the Eiffel tower.
Los Angeles is the only answer but even that comes with the caveat that it's only certain sections.
Yeah that's not even remotely true.
In defense of ZĆ¼rich, everyone was incredibly sweet to my son when we were there. He literally got a present at every restaurant we went to.
I'm seeing a lot of New York.
Some of New York can be pretentious but its too large and diverse of a place to paint all five boroughs with that brush. Maybe people just walked down 5ave and broadway in manhattan a couple of times and came to this thread. :/
For what I've experienced, its been smaller towns in NJ, NY and NC. Ashville in NC, Montclair and Princeton in NJ and a couple of upstate NY towns.
Some of New York can be pretentious but its too large and diverse of a place to paint all five boroughs with that brush. Maybe people just walked down 5ave and broadway in manhattan a couple of times and came to this thread. :/
For what I've experienced, its been smaller towns in NJ, NY and NC. Ashville in NC, Montclair and Princeton in NJ and a couple of upstate NY towns.
I've spent months in NY, Portland, Etc etc and it's def SF nowadays with the Silicon Valley folk. Every late 20-something making $250k+/year feels so out of touch from reality and you run into it in every store, every restaurant, every hotel. *shudder*
It's especially frustrating when you consider the homeless situation in the area and how many "normal folk" are struggling to afford their BART pass.
It's especially frustrating when you consider the homeless situation in the area and how many "normal folk" are struggling to afford their BART pass.
Which is funny because a lot of people actually living in Paris and its suburbs do dream of leaving the city.
I also personally can't stand people calling the Champs-ĆlysĆ©es avenue "the most beautiful avenue in the world", it's so pedantic.
Yeah, of all of the cities I've visited, definitely this place.
Living in SF makes me mad very often.
Seconding this. After living out there for 20yrs, I eventually ended up leaving (and this was one of the many reasons I wanted to gtfo).
Tough to decide. A lot of cities could be seen as pretentious but usually like, justifiably so? Like you could make a case that cities like New York and Boston are pretentious in their feelings of self importance but...they ARE important! I guess I'd say like, Los Angeles? It's where the "beautiful people" live but in a lot of ways it's a steaming shithole with huge problems. But I mean, IDK. Pretentious is a loaded word.
How? By all the homeless people and dirty smelly sidewalks?
went to a wedding in Williamsburg a few weeks ago and the minister opened with a passage about how wonderful it was to see people travel so far to the beautiful city of New York.
The fuckin' city had to get a shoutout before we could move onto the bride and groom.
The fuckin' city had to get a shoutout before we could move onto the bride and groom.