…really, really suck.
Can you believe I got called by a recruiter who hadn’t even bothered to look at a map to figure out where Rochester is in relation to NYC? She seemed shocked when I said it would be a 6-8 hour drive for me to “commute”. She kept referring to NYC as “the city”, as if none of the other centers of population in New York (or indeed, probably the world) count as cities in her world view.
Feh.
But it could have been cool if they’d let you telecommute full-time.
She is probably in Houston or something like that.
And careful with the generalizations about NYC people there, Eugene. Some of our best mates…
Yes, because everyone knows people in Houston don’t know anything about New York. Why would we need to? We’re perfectly happy strolling down the street in our 10-gallon hats, carrying our shotguns.
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I thought you kept shotguns on a rack, in the back window of your pickup. Live and learn.
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No, I just meant that she was probably unacquainted with the geography of NYS. Which means, now that I think of it, that she’s probably from NYC.
Well, most people do keep some in the back window of their pickup trucks. But, heck, there’s only room there for 3 or 4 – what are we supposed to do with the rest of them? Strap them to the huntin’ dog?
Actually, flying has taught me a lot about geography. I’ve actually flown quite a bit in the NY area, and I was actually surprised the first time I was there that there was so much farmland so close to NYC. I’ve flown over Rochester once while dodging a thunderstorm – you guys have some sort of little lake up to the north, right? 🙂
There is no provincial like a New York Provincial. “The City”, I love it… the people most afflicted with this disease actually believe a sub-section of the Borough of Manhattan to be “The City”; other boroughs do not count. And Hoboken, across the river from sacred Manhattan, generally doesn’t count as The City to people living in Brooklyn or Queens, even though geographically speaking they are all the same. Many people in my family still believe that if you leave the island of manhattan you cannot get peoper healthcare, and when Brenda & I got married in the Pocono Mountains, a mere 70-minute drive from Manhattan, many of our friends and family were visibly unomfortable, and itching to get back. Yeah, it’s a shame that our wedding photos featured rolling hills as a backdrop instead of bricks and bums. They don’t get it, they never will. Is it a wonder why I moved to Colorado?
Goes to show what I know about people; I’d have expected a New Yorker to err the other way — if you can’t get there on the subway, then it must be on the moon.
(Of course, many such places actually are on the moon if you don’t own a car, because this is the USA and we don’t believe in commie pinko public transit, but I mean beyond that.)
@Jed:
THat’s just it, most NYers believe that to the letter. And the funniest part is, a lot of my acquaintances with the worst “NYC is the center of the universe”-syndrome were from Kansas, rural Texas or someplace similar. It’s such a load of crap.
What always amazes me is that inhabitants of The City can’t understand why the rest of us don’t want to live there.