Posted on 11/13/2006 4:30:24 AM PST by secret garden
You have a valid point there - unfortunately.
Thank you!
I must have blinked-did that ass**** Rangel actually infer that people from Mississippi or the rest of the south were uneducated?
In his defense, I'd note that he's been fighting that raspy throat for at least a decade now. That's gotta make a guy a bit cranky.
SD
And that makes it a classic case of ignorance ASSuming the ignorance of people because of their location below the Mason-Dixon line...
He implied that Mississippians (indeed all people) were stupid for not wanting to live in New York.
SD
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He's an idiot-I can't imagine why anyone would want to live in a place where you pay several thousand dollars for 500 sq. ft. a 4th floor walk-up that you don't even own, ride/walk/drive to work in the traffic from hell, have no yard, live packed like sardines in a can and shell out three times as much for dinner for two in a mediocre restaurant then it costs here, and have to be concerned about being mugged every time you step outside after dusk-unless you were transferred there by the company you work for.
At the risk of getting something thrown at me, I don't see the harm of re-visiting a word-some of them are very interesting.
You don't have to sell me. I wouldn't live in New York if you paid me.
Thanks...
The Sabres are 14-1-1, playing at Carolina Hurricanes tonight, going for a record-extending 10-0 road start to a season.
I woulnd't live in New York if you paid me either. However with that said, growing up in NYC I did have a large backyard, with a huge magnolia tree, a veggie garden, a swimming pool and a garage.
Wow-where in NYC did you live? Everyone I've ever known who was from New York and had that stuff lived in a 'burb, or on Long Island.
I couldn't agree with you more. I have family and friends up around and in NYC and fail to see the attraction of what keeps them there.
Admittedly, I've only been to NYC four times in my life, so I never thought of the city proper as having 'burb-like neighborhoods, because I never saw them except on Long Island, where my cousin lived for the 7 years her husband was working there.
I grew up in Brooklyn.
(Robt scoots into classroom late, almost trips and takes a peripatient prat-fall on floor.)
Drove through Manhatten once during a move from New London to Fl.
(Pulling small U-haul with an even smaller Monza station wagon - must have looked like a complete hick as I gawked at the buildings! Went over acouple of bridges, past the Empire State Bldg, out towards NJ and points south.)
Got yelled at by a cop for NOT driving through the pedestrians still crossing the crosswalk.
Folks, I live in NYC. Not peripatetic enough to make my way to Mississippi, though I've visited quite a few of the states.
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