i think it’s pretty obvious that america’s three good cities are new york, atlanta and louisville. every other city is completely bereft of any attractive qualities whatsoever
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If your city doesn’t have street cars and/or Slugger Manufacturers what good are you?
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Last night when telling my neighbour about Vance draining the lake at Louisville, Ohio to fill a river for his rafting pleasure, he asked such a good question: Is that a Democratic riding? And guess what? Yes! It's a blue area of Ohio amid a sea of Republicans. "Fuck them if they don't vote for me"
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obviously you've never heard of a little place called the Florida panhandle
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IMO Duluth, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Bemidji, Minnesota
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This is the actual truth
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are you sure you didn't just sneeze on that third one?
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Real I miss living in Minneapolis so much lol
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Dover, Delaware...agrees, wholeheartedly.
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atlanta’s centers for primates and puppetry arts remain the envy of the world!
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Don't let Lexington hear you talking like that.
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LOUISVILLE MENTIONED LET'S GOOOO
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Mmmm, I really like me some towns, too.
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New Orleans...please.
aug 13, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah
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i think you mean louisville, lexington, and frankfort 😊
aug 13, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
what about Edson, Kansas, home of western Kansas' only tool shed restaurant?
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Louisville used to be great in that it was cheap as hell and had a great music scene.. but rent is like triple what it was 6, 7 years ago and I don't go to shows anymore. And New Wave Burritos is gone. I refer to my friend's shirt design..
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Never recovered from the death of Steve Ferguson.
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you're wrong lol ;)
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some good towns tho
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I think different cities are good for different people. Philly is great for people who want to build a strong community, Boston is good for well-off nerds motivated by social causes, Seattle is good for computer nerds, Miami is good for psychopaths, and Denver is good for outdoorsy athletes
aug 14, 2025, 7:39 am • 2 0 • view
Sure. What’s Buffalo got to be proud about? And what’s the deal with San Diego being “America’s finest city”? Or Columbus being in the center of it all. The center of what?
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Beef on weck is pretty good tbh, Buffalo at least has that.
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Doesn’t stand up to a three way tho
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getting tied up and beaten by evil women does though 🥰
aug 13, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Still not as good as rare roast beef, American cheese, mayo, and James River BBQ sauce on an onion roll
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmL...
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Louisville is highlighted by a giant bat and...
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I haven't been to Atlanta or Louisville, and I've only really been to NYC for a minute (one night in Queens), so I can't really argue.
aug 13, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm from a suburb of Boston, and The Onion article about Boston is 100% correct.
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what about rockville Maryland
aug 13, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
don't go back to rockville!
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Baltimore is cool i like the American visionary art museum
aug 13, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
And waste another year!
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oh yeah where the Flintstones live
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those cities do have decent suburbs, such as boston and philadelphia, asheville and durham (and), cincinnati, and indianapolis respectively, though.
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I can't help but suspect if you said to an average Bostonian or Philadelphian that their metros were "suburbs" of NYC they'd at minimum be Very Annoyed
aug 13, 2025, 3:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait until you tell people in Houston that they are just in a suburb of Mexico City or San Diego a suburb of Los Angeles
aug 13, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
And New York is just a suburb of Amsterdam
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Every town is just a suburb of the only city in the world, that's right! It's Bar-le-Duc, France!
aug 14, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
What about Athens, Georgia? “The Athens of Georgia”
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the simpsons dont live in any of those though
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based ball
aug 13, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
you know what philly doesn't want you either
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why am i being forced to choose between my girlfriend and the guy who makes the youtube videos with graphs i like so much
aug 13, 2025, 3:14 pm • 67 0 • view
Simply show her the graphs
aug 14, 2025, 11:08 am • 0 0 • view
i don't envy you
aug 13, 2025, 3:14 pm • 15 0 • view
go birds
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massive L on Bois
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they’re always saying kansas city is the louisville of the midwest
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LOUISVILLE MENTIONED !!!!! KENTUCKY ON TOP💪💪💪💪
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New York is the Houston of the Northeast.
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the entirety of wisconsin has cheese :(
aug 14, 2025, 6:48 am • 0 0 • view
like a lot of cheese :(
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It’s telling that you omitted Albuquerque.
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I’m guessing this Tennessee Williams quote is now antiquated: “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland."
aug 13, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Is this satire. It’s satire right?
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I’m noticing a concerning lack of this guy in those three cities you just mentioned, Jon
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Louisville’s weather was just a little too cold that one weekend I went there for my son’s soccer tournament several years ago. And I think I had to wait too long at one restaurant there once. Sorry, Jon, that crosses it off the list. ❌❌❌
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Atlanta has become expensive when for decades it was an affordable city RE: rent and mortgages, but I still like it here. I avoid all communities 50 miles outside of Atlanta because it’s always 1959 there and I’m a minority.
aug 14, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
you heard Jon, folks. time for everyone else to pack it in. we're done here
aug 13, 2025, 3:18 pm • 1 0 • view
They aren't allowed to make good cities anymore because of woke
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you raggedy bitch
aug 13, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view
1 for 3 is a pretty good batting average
aug 13, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
you’re gonna get a lot of pushback on this from a certain aggrieved metropolis…let’s just say your “Billings” will come due!
aug 13, 2025, 2:51 pm • 69 0 • view
Magic City shoutout!
aug 13, 2025, 2:56 pm • 7 0 • view
You made me do a double take from the Magic City in Ohio! It looks like they were named with the exact same spirit and early growth. I'll probably delete this later since it narrows down my assassination coordinates (lmao) but wanted to share www.barbertoncf.org/on-community...
aug 13, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Memphis would like a word vis-a-vis “attractive qualities”
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I legitimately love Memphis
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I’ve lived here my whole life. It ain’t perfect, but it’s such a special city. I love it so much.
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As someone who has never been the US, doesn't want to go and probably never will. The only city I'd be interested in visiting is New Orleans
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cc: @streetlightlily.bsky.social
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I think you are really sleeping on Beaumont, Jon
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Too bad none of those have decent pizza or barbecue.
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Things people have never said about Atlanta before.
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"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland."
aug 13, 2025, 3:15 pm • 7 0 • view
Savannah is a wonderful city!
aug 13, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Appreciate you putting Louisville in this list. Even though Louisville is kinda ass.
aug 13, 2025, 2:59 pm • 6 0 • view
such genteel rage bait
aug 13, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
You're not a city if the majority of the transportation modeshare is driving.
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ah man I really thought Johnstown had a shot. maybe next time!
aug 13, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Hot take!
aug 13, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Louisville mentioned ❤️ I also like Chicago though. And Cinci And Milwaukee
aug 13, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, lived in Lousville for years... not too bad. Atlanta and NY are WAY too large and expensive for me. I'm in the hollers of Eastern KY now... Where I can hear myself think.
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you know what Baltimore doesn't like you either
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He made a video about the complete destruction of our baseball team, the battle lines have been drawn years ago
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Then again, maybe he just misses The Crown (me too Jon, me too)
aug 13, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
jon bois is cooking let's see what happens here
aug 13, 2025, 2:54 pm • 8 0 • view
Nah, it's clearly DFW, Atlanta, and Oakland. Everywhere else is Seattle.
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Bro said Louisville like we wouldn’t notice
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Which Louisville?
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Philly is like NYC if NYC weren't too crowded to function, housing were less unaffordable, and the people didn't have their noses up their own asses all day.
aug 13, 2025, 3:13 pm • 3 0 • view
is it though
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Yeah but it only has like, 10 restaurants, tops
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Is Portland ME in Canada now? Did they take it? I really liked that city.
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I guess then that you live in Roanoke Va. so that you can be equi-distant from all 3. Wouldn't be good to have a favorite among them.
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Wow it’s like trout creek doesn’t even exist huh
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I always have FUN in Louisville, to the point where I wonder if my friends and I could buy a warehouse in the post-apocalypse district if we just passed the hat.
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Los Angeles (the city government): pretty bad Los Angeles (the city infrastructure): kinda tortuous Los Angeles (the city population/culture): pretty good Get Los Angeles culture with New York's infrastructure and a better government than exists in any US city and you'd have something great
aug 13, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
At least the last 2 of those have some culture.
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Ah yes, Louisville. The best suburb of Branson.
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It's a city named after Louie Anderson, how could it be anything but great
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people wanna flee to the peaceful prairie but cant! they’re all walled megacities so no one can leave :( Odd no one complained about this before
aug 13, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I would argue that Atlanta is pretty bad too
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All I know about Atlanta I learned from its Real Housewives franchise
aug 13, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
We foolishly went to the aquarium there on a Saturday last year. Nightmare traffic and I got hit in the with a stroller in the parking garage. I hate Atlanta with a hot, muggy passion. The only good city is Santa Fe, New Mexico.
aug 13, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Sometimes you simply have to say something uncontroversial and objectively true, Jon. I respect that. 🙂
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I love Lewieville
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I see what you did there. You said Atlanta when you really meant Macon.
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Please--and I mean this in the most constructive way possible--kill yourself.
aug 13, 2025, 4:05 pm • 2 0 • view
What? How is that constructive?
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Yeah Denver is pretty mid.
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I like how nobody has said "Dallas".
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this guy has very obviously never been to hartford...
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Only cities blessed by the extended presence of Jon are valid
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