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From: sam@rocksvax.UUCP
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Subject: Rochester Stinks!! (east vs. west, continued)
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Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 08:49:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 11 08:49:26 1983
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Oh, c'mon Jim Carbin--say you really like Rochester, N.Y.....

It's probably not wise of me to let the cat out of the bag,
but the absolute affection of Rochesterians for their town
can best be seen in the conscious, institutionalized way they
have of publicly demeaning, slamming, and otherwise running
the place down!!  They doth "protest too much...", and are
really in love with the area.  It was easy to see in Tim
Smith's former message that he had acquired this affection
for the town, and in what may have appeared to an outsider
as a slur, was in reality a heartfelt expression of his
homesickness. (It's alright, Tim, some of us understood your
message).

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To cite a few examples:

* A city so small that if you drive a half hour in any
direction (except north) you're lost in the boondocks.

* If you attempt to drive north you run into Lake Ontario,
so lots of people are forced to keep boats to enable travel
in that direction.

* The plague of insufficient summer heat; so little, that
most people don't even have air conditioners in their homes
or autos, and have never experienced the joy of curling up
at home with a good book on a 105 degree summer day. Instead,
they are forced to spend much of the summer outdoors.

* Roads so lightly travelled that most Rochesterians have 
never experienced the sweaty palms and adrenalin rush of
major urban area streets and expressways.  Some say that
this laid-back commuter environment is what causes them to be
so infuriatingly pleasant.

* So much winter snow that, in desperation, much of the
populace takes up skiing and other winter sports; resulting
in unnatural good spirits (and health) for much of the
winter.

* Housing prices so reasonable that many never know the
joy of saving for years to acquire a modest home and a
character-building six figure mortgage. As a result,
many are forced to squander their excess money on recreational
pursuits, or fritter it away on investments. This results
in an infuriating number of affluent retired people in
the area.

* A job market so good that many just stay with one
company for their working careers; probably to retire
with large pensions and add to the burdensome number
of well-off retired glutting the many parks, museums,
restaurants, etc.

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Enough said, I wouldn't want to make anyone ill.  Besides,
I,ve got to get back to my disgustingly interesting, well
paid job. And tonight I,ve got to make that boring fourtyfive
minute drive home through farm country to my secluded 39 acre
wooded home; after supper I'll have to make a
ridiculously small mortgage payment on same. Oh nuts, then
I,ll have to plan for laying up the sailboat for the winter,
and maybe later take a look at the downhill skis. And this
Thursday the Philharmonic Orchestra concert series starts,
so we'll be faced with a decision on which restaurant to
eat at before, and.........................

Gee, this is all starting to sound good, and I wouldn't want
to mislead anybody on Rochester.


		 sam houston (xerox)