NYC, Repeat After Me, Say...Aw Fuck It

There's been a whole "NYC is AWESOME!" vs. "NYC SUCKS!" battle going on in the bloggitysphere this week. Obviously I think NYC rocks, although I'm sympathetic to people in other cities having to hear NYC jagoffs screeching that bars in their town close so early compared to NYC's "4am!!!" And of course Mets fans need to be launched into outer space as soon as possible.

But this Sully reader's comment is very interesting, and the first of it's memé this week. Have I used "memé" twice today? Yeesh. Gag me with a biggus dickus.

Believe it or not, those who have been hating on NYC in the blogosphere recently, and those who have tried to defend NYC, have a lot more in common than they know:  Both groups think that Manhattan is the only part of NYC that matters.  This could not be further from the truth...Eighty percent of New Yorkers lives outside of Manhattan, yet you would never know it because the rest of the world shares a Manhattan-centric view. Did you know that Brooklyn would be the 3rd (!) largest city in the United States if it were independent? (And some experts say that 1/5 Americans can trace their roots back to Brooklyn, someway somehow!)  Did you know that Queens is considered the most diverse county in the United States, with over 140 languages spoken in the borough!?...Criticize Manhattan all you want.  I think some of the criticisms you have aired on the Dish have some validity - Manhattanites can be smug and obnoxious, cold and unfriendly, self-centered and self-absorbed.  But the rest of our great city isn't like that, and it's time people stop lumping the rest of the city in with Manhattan.