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Could just be Chicago. Which can be just as scary as Mab, some days.
Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.
Nincompoops. (Quincy,
In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. That
Bergen, and Oldfield. The
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.
Thunder Point, Oregon, because
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.
Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.
Baltimore, looking at a genetics textbook. Her
L.A. I could live without.
on the outskirts of Johnson
I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.
San Francisco, December 2011
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
Detroit ... where 'mother' is half a word.
I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.
Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.
I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.
I love being in Chicago.
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.
Seattle, I get a call from Ben.
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
If not in San Francisco, then where? Not Madison, Wisconsin, again, please, dear God.
outside the city. Fortunately for them,
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
Brownsville, having missed their road and wandered in the
We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.
As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.
Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.
There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.
I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.
In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.
It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It's definitely always a place that's going to be very special to me.
Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy.
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
...Minnesota, Wisconsin, all around there... has the kind of women I liked when I was younger. Pale-skinned and blue-eyed, hair so fair it's almost white, wine-colored lips, and round, full breasts with the veins running through them like a good cheese.
I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.
Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.
in Staten Island. It
Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.
In Stockton, Illinois,
I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya.
from Uppsala, a Swedish city that doesn't interest many people. Even the inhabitants of Uppsala* themselves are embarrassed; the name of their city sounds almost like an excuse. Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world.
It's no secret I was willing to commit to Minnesota for five years. I'm very happy with my contract. I'd love to be in Minnesota. But like anybody else, I want to win.
I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.
New Orleans in an amazing town.
The cool, grey city of love.
South to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington. Today,
I have to go back home for a while." "Ohio?" "Omaha." "Right. Omaha. Why?
I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.
Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.
Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers
Nashville, man. That's the place to be.
That underlay the city of Chicago.
I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.
places, and incidents
Anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection
Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!
In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
Brownstone building overlooking the East River. A bunch of BMWs and
Atlanta. I was forgetting more and more about my life in Chicago, and I prayed that it was forgetting about me. As
Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents?
Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.
In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.
My god, Portland was fucking weird sometimes.
California, the department store state.
any city or town in the Upper Midwest that's known more for what it used to make than what it makes now.
Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk
Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.
I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day,
I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?
Detroit, the heart of the country ... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people