Describe the biggest cities in your state in five words or less.

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Hwy 61 Revisited

June 16, 2020, 02:31:30 PM  
I'll start with PA's ten biggest cities. I would have put more, but they're somewhat hard to find.

       
  • Philadelphia: Long history... of sports failures.
  • Pittsburgh: Steel, ketchup, and furry conventions.
  • Allentown: The crossroads of Pennsylvania.
  • Erie: Another mistake by the lakeTM.
  • Reading: Wrongest side of the tracks.
  • Scranton: Biggest employer is Dunder-Mifflin Paper.
  • Bethlehem: Hey everybody, it's Christmas City!
  • Lancaster: Oh, you're in Amish Country.
  • Harrisburg: Mentioned on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt!
  • York: No, we're not Old York.
And you may ask yourself, where does that highway go to?
--David Byrne

NWI_Irish96

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June 16, 2020, 02:40:35 PM   Last Edit: June 16, 2020, 02:43:20 PM by cabiness42
1 Indianapolis - World's largest sporting event home
2 Fort Wayne - On the way to northeast lakes
3 Evansville - A League of Their Own
4 South Bend - greatest college football program home
5 Carmel - World's roundabout capital
6 Fishers - Trying to be another Carmel
7 Bloomington - Home to Indiana University
8 Hammond - Gateway to Chicago
9 Gary - steel town with urban decay
10 Lafayette - Just east of Purdue
Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

hotdogPi

#2
June 16, 2020, 02:42:14 PM  
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 16, 2020, 02:40:35 PM
1 Indianapolis - Home of the world's largest annual sporting event
2 Fort Wayne - On the way to northeast Indiana's lake country
3 Evansville - A League of Their Own was filmed here
4 South Bend - Home of the greatest college football program of all time
5 Carmel - World's roundabout capital
6 Fishers - Trying very hard to be just like Carmel
7 Bloomington - Home to Indiana University
8 Hammond - Gateway to Chicago
9 Gary - Once great steel town a victim of urban decay
10 Lafayette - Just east of Purdue

Quotefive words or less
Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 53, 79, 107, 109, 126, 138, 141, 159
NH 27, 78, 111A(E); CA 90; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32, 320; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, WA 202; QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 36

NWI_Irish96

#3
June 16, 2020, 02:42:46 PM  
Quote from: 1 on June 16, 2020, 02:42:14 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on June 16, 2020, 02:40:35 PM
1 Indianapolis - Home of the world's largest annual sporting event
2 Fort Wayne - On the way to northeast Indiana's lake country
3 Evansville - A League of Their Own was filmed here
4 South Bend - Home of the greatest college football program of all time
5 Carmel - World's roundabout capital
6 Fishers - Trying very hard to be just like Carmel
7 Bloomington - Home to Indiana University
8 Hammond - Gateway to Chicago
9 Gary - Once great steel town a victim of urban decay
10 Lafayette - Just east of Purdue

Quotefive words or less

fixed it
Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

ozarkman417

#4
June 16, 2020, 02:53:08 PM  
St Louis: The Gateway Tourist Trap

Springfield: Bass Pro's meth lab

KC: BBQ w/ side of fancy shops

Columbia: Carried on Mizzou's back

Jefferson City: Wait, that's the capital?

more to come..

kphoger

#5
June 16, 2020, 03:09:52 PM  
Quote from: ozarkman417 on June 16, 2020, 02:53:08 PM
Springfield: Bass Pro's meth lab

:-D  A former co-worker of mine and I began referring to Springfield as "Meth Capital USA".

Quote from: ozarkman417 on June 16, 2020, 02:53:08 PM
KC: BBQ w/ side of fancy shops

Count much?
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

STLmapboy

#6
June 16, 2020, 03:21:59 PM  
St. Louis: Apple with a rotten core
Springfield: Ozarkman already summed it up
KC: Better burbs on Kansas' side
Columbia: College kids and midway point
Teenage STL area roadgeek.
Missouri>>>>>Illinois

kphoger

#7
June 16, 2020, 03:35:35 PM  
Wichita – It is a normal city.
Kansas City – The other, rustier one.
Overland Park – Higher class than Wyandotte County.
Olathe – Overland Park with strip malls.
Topeka – Capital, but nobody goes there.
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Max Rockatansky

#8
June 16, 2020, 03:38:07 PM  
Los Angeles:  Traffic, traffic, traffic, and traffic
San Diego:  Traffic, parks, and cool Coast
San Jose:  Somehow San Francisco's little brother
San Francisco:  Manhattan of the west coast
Fresno:  How is Fresno in fifth?

Sctvhound

#9
June 16, 2020, 04:22:14 PM  
Top 10 cities in South Carolina:

1. Charleston- Holy City with heavy tourism
2. Columbia- Capital with a university
3. North Charleston- Hub of commerce and airport
4. Mount Pleasant- Fast-growing haven of northeast
5. Rock Hill- Charlotte's brother with more space
6. Greenville- Classy town with green space
7. Summerville- Eventual center of Lowcountry
8. Goose Creek- Most people forget it's a town
9. Hilton Head Island- Upper middle class tourism hub
10. Sumter- Air Force hub, little going

Myrtle Beach is 14th. Lower middle class tourism hub.

Brandon

#10
June 16, 2020, 04:44:28 PM  
Illinois:

Chicago: Big stinky violent onion shoulders.
Aurora: Wants to be Naperville.
Joliet: Steel, stone, racetrack, warehouses, octopus.
Rockford: Forgotten by Chicago, rusting away.
Naperville: Chicago bedrooms, lily white town.
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton, "Game of Thrones"

"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." - Reg, "Monty Python's Life of Brian"

Hwy 61 Revisited

#11
June 16, 2020, 04:54:45 PM  
More cities in PA:


Wilkes-Barre: Pittsburgh's hockey team, Scranton's boringness.
State College: Nittany Lions ROAR!!
Altoona: Once renamed for a movie.
Johnstown: Flood.
Carlisle: Also known as Little Harrisburg.
Gettysburg: Fourscore people live here.Chambersburg: Gettysburg's tall little brother.
Pottstown: Don't mistake us for Pottsville.
Pottsville: Don't mistake us for Pottstown.
Stroudsburg*: Artsy-fartsy college town.
*I'm counting Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg as one town because, well, they basically are.
Hazleton: ¡Quisqueyanos Valientes!
Williamsport: SC's Little League Little Brother.
New Castle: Fireworks Capital of the World.
Lebanon: Hey, what about our sausages?
Norristown: Little Philadelphia, yo!
And you may ask yourself, where does that highway go to?
--David Byrne

kphoger

#12
June 16, 2020, 04:59:23 PM  
Quote from: Brandon on June 16, 2020, 04:44:28 PM
Aurora: Wants to be Naperville.

Aurora – City with a vacant downtown

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He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Scott5114

#13
June 16, 2020, 05:17:14 PM  
Oklahoma City: Hopefully someday we'll be Dallas.
Tulsa: Hey, Oklahoma has art too!
Norman: We wish we were Austin.
Lawton: Downtown? Pah! Build a mall!
Edmond: Manila folder, in city form.
Ada: Life exists outside Pontotoc County?!

Quote from: kphoger on June 16, 2020, 03:09:52 PM
Quote from: ozarkman417 on June 16, 2020, 02:53:08 PM
Springfield: Bass Pro's meth lab

:-D  A former co-worker of mine and I began referring to Springfield as "Meth Capital USA".

Having lived in Springfield for about a year, I had a much more positive experience. Although it remains the only place I've ever seen anyone publicly flying a Nazi flag (in the back of a truck, right down National).
uncontrollable freak sardine salad chef

frankenroad

#14
June 16, 2020, 05:19:04 PM  
Ohio

Cleveland - self-proclaimed craft beer capital [of] Ohio
Cincinnati - self-proclaimed craft beer capital [of] Ohio
Columbus - TBDBITL and football
Dayton - we used to make cars
Akron - we used to make tires
Toledo - we got nothing

2di's clinched: 44, 66, 68, 71, 72, 74, 78, 83, 84(east), 86(east), 88(east), 96

Highways I've lived on M-43, M-185, US-127

jp the roadgeek

#15
June 16, 2020, 05:34:18 PM  
Hartford: Needs the Whalers back now.
New Haven, It's Apizza, not a pizza
Bridgeport: Waterfront, but lots of crime
Stamford: Wants to be New York
Waterbury: Brass City and brass knuckles
New Britain: Hard Hittin Hardware Hub
Bristol: Home of the Worldwide Leader
New London: Coast Guard, Electric Boat, casinos
Meriden: Waterbury's only slightly refined cousin
Greenwich: Billionaire or you're a pauper
Danbury: The less snobbish Fairfield County
Middletown: Townie, or burned out Wesleyanite?
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

Hwy 61 Revisited

#16
June 16, 2020, 05:57:43 PM  
Quote from: frankenroad on June 16, 2020, 05:19:04 PM
Ohio

Cleveland - at least we'renot Detroit!


FTFY.
And you may ask yourself, where does that highway go to?
--David Byrne

Roadgeekteen

#17
June 16, 2020, 06:32:06 PM  
Boston: best sports city
Worcester: lots of colleges
Springfield: basketball hall of fame
Lowell: former mill town
Cambridge: Harvard and MIT
New Bedford: Whales and I-195
Brockton: literal dump
Quincy: Red Line
Lynn: I dunno
Fall River: Battleships
My username has been outdated since August 2023 but I'm too lazy to change it

Ben114

#18
June 16, 2020, 06:34:39 PM  
Quincy should be
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on June 16, 2020, 06:32:06 PM
Boston: best sports city
Worcester: lots of colleges
Springfield: basketball hall of fame
Lowell: former mill town
Cambridge: Harvard and MIT
New Bedford: Whales and I-195
Brockton: literal dump
Quincy: Red Line
Lynn: I dunno
Fall River: Battleships


Quincy should be city of presidents

hotdogPi

#19
June 16, 2020, 06:35:23 PM  
Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 53, 79, 107, 109, 126, 138, 141, 159
NH 27, 78, 111A(E); CA 90; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32, 320; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, WA 202; QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 36

Flint1979

#20
June 16, 2020, 06:45:29 PM  
Detroit - coney islands, liquor stores, crime, cars and sports.

bing101

#21
June 16, 2020, 07:35:37 PM  
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 16, 2020, 03:38:07 PM
Los Angeles:  Traffic, traffic, traffic, and traffic
San Diego:  Traffic, parks, and cool Coast
San Jose:  Somehow San Francisco's little brother
San Francisco:  Manhattan of the west coast
Fresno:  How is Fresno in fifth?
Sacramento: Washington D.C of the west.

Roadgeekteen

#22
June 16, 2020, 09:53:12 PM  
Quote from: Ben114 on June 16, 2020, 06:34:39 PM
Quincy should be
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on June 16, 2020, 06:32:06 PM
Boston: best sports city
Worcester: lots of colleges
Springfield: basketball hall of fame
Lowell: former mill town
Cambridge: Harvard and MIT
New Bedford: Whales and I-195
Brockton: literal dump
Quincy: Red Line
Lynn: I dunno
Fall River: Battleships


Quincy should be city of presidents
Completely forgot about the presidents.
My username has been outdated since August 2023 but I'm too lazy to change it

Max Rockatansky

#23
June 16, 2020, 10:00:42 PM  
Quote from: bing101 on June 16, 2020, 07:35:37 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 16, 2020, 03:38:07 PM
Los Angeles:  Traffic, traffic, traffic, and traffic
San Diego:  Traffic, parks, and cool Coast
San Jose:  Somehow San Francisco's little brother
San Francisco:  Manhattan of the west coast
Fresno:  How is Fresno in fifth?
Sacramento: Washington D.C of the west.

I don't know if I'd go that far.  The Capitol complex on Capitol Mall is surprisingly pretty scenic though.  When I think of Sacramento I think more of; trains, Old Sacramento, Sutter's Fort, and mining claims. 

bassoon1986

#24
June 16, 2020, 10:24:25 PM  
New Orleans: Awesome food, floods a lot
Baton Rouge: Not enough bridges, but football!
Shreveport: Everybody thinks we're in Texas
Lafayette: Happiest city in the country
Lake Charles: Smallest City with a loop?
Bossier City: Always the sister city
Kenner: wait, this isn't New Orleans?
Monroe: Duck Dynasty and Delta
Alexandria: Every Google brings up Virginia
Houma: One ways divided by canals


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