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From: tsmith@laidbak.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: East vs. West
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Date: Sun, 9-Oct-83 01:42:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  9 01:42:17 1983
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OK, that's it! I've laid off this East-West discussion so far.
Very patient of me too, considering that I grew up in the East,
lived for 12 years on the West Coast, and have lived for 6 years in
the MidWest too.  So I have some modest basis for my opinions.

But when James R. Carbin jumps in and starts talking about
Rochester, New York, and in favorable terms, well that's too
much. Can he, an obviously intelligent and well-travelled
man, really mean it? Is he talking about "anus mundi",
my old home town? The city that has fewer days of sunlight than
any other in the USA except Seattle? The city where a June without
snow flurries is like crackers without cheese? The city that
has more snow fall each year than Boston and Chicago combined?
The city where, in the words of a long-ago columnist for the
Democrat and Chronicle, a debutante is "any girl without a police
record"? The city where stuffiness has been raised to a fine art?

Please, James, leave! Leave now, before you become completely 
deranged.

Oh, by the way, West is best. No doubt at all. For weather, scenery,
people, jobs, schools, and just about anything else you can name.
And that's a well-considered opinion.

Tim Smith (...!laidbak!tsmith)