what, not New York?

[fflo]

from findyourspot.com, where I should live in this country [and my reactions]:

Portland, OR   [sure]
Hartford, CT   [mebbe]
Worcester, MA   [mebbe]
Providence, RI   [mebbe]
New Haven, CT   [mebbe]
Baltimore, MD   [sure]
Milwaukee, WI   [well ... i dunno]
Boston, MA   [mebbe]
Chicago, IL   [sure]
Eugene, OR   [mebbe]
Medford, OR   [don't think so]
Danbury, CT   [well ... i dunno]
Corvallis, OR   [nah]
Frederick, MD   [mebbe]
Sheboygan, WI   [nah]
Charleston, WV   [don't think so]
Madison, WI   [mebbe]
Gaithersburg, MD   [nah]
Eau Claire, WI   [nah]
Oshkosh-Appleton/Neenah, WI   [don't think so]
Bend, OR   [no freakin' way]
Little Rock, AR   [no freakin' way]
Washington, DC   [mebbe]

I decided to say I wanted there to be a Jewish community, even if I eschew religion in general. Know what I mean? Who wants to live in the U.S. where there are no Jewish people, unless you're going rural?

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

By the way, you didn't try to email me at "peteralway@aol.com" did you. That's not my address. Mine doesn't have an r in it.

No Big Apple for me, either

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Most of the places I got sound okay to me, except for Vegas and anything in the Deep South.

Boston, MA
Hartford, CT
Providence, RI
New Haven, CT
Baltimore,MD
Honolulu, HI
Worcester, MA
Danbury, CT
Cape Cod, MA
Charleston, WV
Frederick , MD
Las Vegas, NV
Sacramento, CA
Baton Rouge, LA
New Orleans, LA
Little Rock, AR
Portland, OR
San Francisco, CA
San Jose, CA
El Cajon, CA
Alexandria, LA
Washington, DC
Natchitoches, LA
Cambridge, MA

I'm going to make my call now. Maybe my stomach will stop doing backflips soon.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got that. Added it to my e-address book, but didn't e-mail yet. Stay tuned!

Re: No Big Apple for me, either

[fflo.livejournal.com]

There's only one cure for that ailment, I'm afraid!

[fatfeistyfemme.livejournal.com]

portland portland portland!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I do hear that all the cool people are moving there.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

fflo, all those Wisc. cities musta came up cause you said you liked water.
here's what i got. the only relaly preferences I gave were GLBT stuff

Honolulu
Little Rock, Arkansas
Alexandria, Louisiana
Hartford, Connecticut
Portland, Oregon
Danbury, Connecticut
Charleston, West Virginia
Eugene, Oregon
Fayetteville, Arkansas
El Cajon
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Sacramento
Boston
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Frederick, Maryland
Corvallis, Oregon
Providence, Rhode Island
Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana
Washington, District of Columbia
Santa Cruz
Baton Rouge
Ventura, California
New Orleans
Baltimore

[fflo.livejournal.com]

How good can Shreveport and Baton Rouge possibly be for ze queerz? Of course I am merely conjecturing based on loose cultural stereotyping, but still.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

I know. It's a strange list. But I refused to give preferences concerning weather etc. Oh yeah-- I also valued being near universities and dog-friendliness, so maybe those things help explain the eclecticism of this list.

Also-- let me put a plug in for Milwaukee. If you don't mind lotsa snow. It has charm, culture, Jewish people, and a socialist past. And it's near lotsa water. Nonhumid summers. Probably your more truly midwestern friends can say more about it than I can though (I can hardly claim midwesternness any more).

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

and Cape Cod is not a city! But I loved visiting there

Re: No Big Apple for me, either

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

VJs...,

we'll have to go to El Cajon, CA, togather (have to find out where it is first)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Milwaukee just seems so remotely located to me, somehow.

You don't think you carry the Midwestern pseudo-gene in you? I was surprised to find out how much mine had remained present if dormant until called up by local culture again. (Or would it be my Plainsian pseudo-gene? I suppose there are some differences.)

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

Milwaukee is 1 hour from Chicago. By train, I think it was. However, driving with my parents from Milw. to Chicago last year took hours.

Midwestern pseudo-gene, dormant until called up by local culture again

Well, that's true. Recently I assumed it was OK to make these cheddar cheese potatoes from a box for a brunch (my mom would do that). I would not be surprised to attend a funeral and see 14 different kinds of jell-O, as was the case at my grandmother's funeral in Redgranite, Wisconsin, a few years (well, 7 years) ago. I remember being in the Catholic church during the funeral service and smelling onions and being aware that the "Ladies of the Sodality" (whatever that means--I wasn't raised Catholic) were downstairs cooking sloppy joes and setting out many Jell-O salads. Some of the ingredients in the various jello salads could be: marshmallows, carrot bits, peas, canned cranberry, various fruit chunks, cabbage (Yes!). I was moved to look on the web ....

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000662grandmas_pineapple_cucumber_lime_jello_salad.php

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/jello/1.html

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/4.html

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/6.html

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/sad/4.html