Okay, basically this is a thread that generated from the Andrea Yates trial thread that I wanted to give it's own thread before it got out of hand. I did a search, couldn't find any threads like this, so here it goes.

How rich and spoiled is your hometown? More than mine (I doubt it). Let's hear some examples. Here's some from mine.

-For a new PARKING GARAGE they now have a $50,000 stained glass window, again, for a PARKING GARAGE

-Whole town shuts down at 9:00, very few businesses remain open after 9, everyone's too lazy.

-For a town of around 130,000 people, there are 3 used clothes stores that I'm aware of (lived here for 17+ years (with a short break in the middle, but moved back when there were still more than 50,000 less people here than there are now), so most likely there's not too many more)

-6 McDonalds restaurants, 4 Burger Kings, 3 Wendy's, 3 Subways, 5 Starbucks, 2 Caribou Coffees, and a whole lot more along the town borders just in other towns.

There's a whole lot more, what I have here isn't hard to match, but I don't wanna put down the whole of it and discourage anyone else from posting.

Yuppies have destroyed towns so well it would draw a sigh of envy from Ghengis Kahn himself. These are the same people who destroyed "alternative" culture (when alternative meant being different, not wearing the same clothes), brought on such plagues as Harley Davidson theme restaraunts and the House of Blues (see George Carlin for humorous perspectives on these), came out here and invaded all the sleepy small towns, clogging up the roads with their Lexuses, and driving up the prices of houses and apartments so high, that no one but the soul-less, cultureless morons like accountants and lawyers can afford to live there.

A good example of this is Royal Oak, Mich. Once the Main-Street strip was home to lots of alterno-youth, new-agers, and so on, somewhere got invaded by all the yuppies in the 1990s, resulting in all the good original shops closing or moving, places like Noir Leather (a non-offensive fetish store) which made its mark in the town, but got [i]pushed[/i] out by the yuppie businessmen. Apparently mannequins in shiny boots of leather holding bull-whips and maces just don't fit in with the image of those trendy coffee-bars and cigar bars. Oh yeah, there are some "used clothing" stores around, but its overpriced trendy-crap, not clothes that a deranged circuis clown wouldn't be caught dead in. A few years ago a group of us went to downtown Royal Oak to grab a bite to eat, and we ended up at (or sitting outside of) one of those "trendy" coffee bars and while sitting out there all these yuppie "kids" had motor-cycles and all this trendy biker gear (not the stuff that hardcore bikers wear mind you, this [i]loud[/i] stuff that probably was rejected from Burlington Coat Factory for being too ugly.) Anyway these kids go and sit on their motorcycles, and just for ten mins straight kept rev rev rev reving the engines, not going anywhere, not warming the bikes up, just revving the engines to make a statement. Vroom Vroom Vroom!!!..."ok we get it, your penis doesn't work, now put that bike in gear & hightail your I-wish-I-was-cool-ass down to the McDonald's Playland where you belong!" The one that killed me was the "Woodward Dream Cruise." Basically one of those moneymaking events that started life as a showcase for old cars like Pontiac G-T-Os and Ford Rancheros, the one time I went there a year or so ago the whole of Woodward Avenue was full of suburban soccer-moms and yuppie dads in...get this: P.T. Cruisers (basically a retro-mini-van), beeping their horns and thinking that the car they just bought is a "retro-car." If that wasn't a laugh I don't know what is. Wonder how many Michiganders on this board ran into that phenomemon.

Their recent thing they destroyed here was the Detroit Electronic Music festival, converting it from a quasi-underground place for dance & syn-pop artists to some overground money-grubbing mess. Expect Britney Spears to sing there next year. :p

As for the original topic, how spoiled is my hometown? My current hometown South Lyon is a small town (or was!) Unfortuantely, many of the woods are being destroyed in favor of these overpriced, badly contructed "Model" homes, and with all the people moving in, the traffic is getting bad. Try to get away from the city, and it follows you. Nearly everything in this one-horse-town is closed by 10 O'clock, except a couple stores and gas-stations. For entertainment, there is nothing in town worthwhile (unless you count a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a bug-zapper), I have to go 10 miles south to Ann Arbor for anything worthwhile (or 126 miles to Cedar Point.)

Stained glass windows for a parking structure? Sounds to me like something authorised by someone who is concerned with the condition of his headlight windshield wipers on his Volvo. (Wipers for Headlights are for people who have too much time on their hands.) We don't have a major fast-food problem yet here (just one restaraunt per chain so far), not as bad as my old-town closer to Detroit, where it seemed like McDonalds was suffering from Wallgreens Syndrome (i.e. on every street corner.) For me spoiled excess means Farmington, MI and/or Novi, MI.

mmm i have a feeling this could become a flamer.cause there may be ppl like me whos perants a drive PT cruiser and like having coffee on street cafe's. how would u feel if i said to you that all the alternatives are taking over towns and cities and replacing the cafe's with op shops that sell scummy clothing.....i dont really mind alternative ppl but just think about what u are starting here

Starbucks sucks, their regular coffe is nasty, it tastes burnt.

Hey, Smokey, as a Michigandar myself, I know exactly what you mean. The "small quiet town" is going by the wayside now. I live in North Canton, as close to Plymouth as you can be without living IN Plymouth, and that small quiet town is Yuppie heaven now.

Even Canton was mostly farm land when we moved there 20 years ago. Now the quiet outskirts have become havens for humongus houses. It kills me when people move to these new subdivisions and then COMPLAIN about the traffic and "lack of services". Get real people.

And, unfortunately, these people are passing their attitudes down to their kids. Sure, we've got LOTS of fast food restaurants now, but try to get an order that isn't screwed up, then deal with the rude upstart to get it fixed.

Avalanche, Smokey's point about the dream cruise isn't about the kind of car people drive, but the dream cruise was SPECIFICALLY created as a showcase for OLD CLASSIC CARS. New retro cars like PT Cruisers don't fit that description. And, unfortunately, that's what the dream cruise turned into. Instead of a weekend of people showcasing classic cars that they poured their guts into to restore, it's become a chaotic week of people attending "just to be seen" inching their way down Woodward in their fancy retro cars.

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My town is defenately spoiled. Most of the homes are over $200,000 dollars. Mine is like 300,000. Their is even a nickname for our town "the east cobb snobs". Also buckhead is a rich and spoiled town. I think east cobb and buckhead are the nicest towns in Metro Atlanta.

well i live in a rather small town across the river from mckeesport PA. i live in the moderate spot, but there is a rich spot of about 40 or so houses. then theres the ghetto, but that really isnt that big either. houses in my area are priced from about 20,000 to about 120,000.

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There are sections of my town that are governed by the "Historical Committee" and they have control over everything from the color of the houses to what you're allowed to do in terms of building additions. If your house looks too run-down, they start complaining and make you paint it. If you want to paint it you basically have to choose between white and white.

There's also a huge stink about putting traffic lights up anywhere in town. There are some very dangerous intersections that are governed by stop signs only and there are accidents there all the time. Attempts have been made to put a traffic light in but it has been said that the light will destroy the aesthetic beauty of the Square. I'm so proud of this place. :)

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I haven't seen anything on here too bad yet (mods may see it differently, it's up to them anyway), but as avalancheboy mentioned, I forgot to mention myself, this could easily become a flame thread, and let's really try to keep away from that, try your best to show your distaste for whatever's coming into your town in as kind of a way as you can.

Okay, going on, Erik, I know how you feel with the people telling you every little thing that has to go on with the exterior of your house. I live in a subdivision where vegetable gardens are not allowed, neither are satellite dishes (not even the little 18" ones), and a whole neighborhood can unite for or against one person having a deck built or a padio poured. It's really pathetic. Also, the darkest you were allowed to have your house painted up until a few years ago was a brick red color, but some people had their house painted a dark blue, yeah, the house kind of stood out, but it looked nice, and the neighborhood tried to fine them, but the people refused to pay, and in the end they had to drop that rule.

Also, our downtown area has the same problem with the bikers as one mentioned earlier, basically people trying to rip off of real bikers when they're obviously not, just trying to look tough, sitting there, doing nothing but reving, yeah, they can do that, but I'd like to see them ride. When I first moved to my town, to the south there was a lot of farmland, that's been replaced by houses up to 10,000 square feet. It's really pathetic. There's houses in my town, actually a lot of them, with movie theaters and elevators. Going on, our town also has a ghetto, but that ghetto would be considered nice in Chicago.

I wish my town would hurry up and move into the 20th century (ya heard me). It's insane! Yhe township here doesn't seem to be doing anything anymore since the "new guy" got hired. And he's been here for a year and has done nothing. We were supposed to get a Sonic, but NTUA (Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, they do power and water stuff on the Rez) doesn't want this place to expand. It's insane. People move out of here because we don't have anything, but some idiots in the town don't want this place to expand. It really sucks. PM me if you want to see my website about this town. Hopefully we'll get that Sonic soon. It's driving me insane.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by edh101985 [/i]
[B]My town is defenately spoiled. Most of the homes are over $200,000 dollars. Mine is like 300,000. Their is even a nickname for our town "the east cobb snobs". Also buckhead is a rich and spoiled town. I think east cobb and buckhead are the nicest towns in Metro Atlanta. [/B][/QUOTE]

Ha ha ha edh... I can vouch for the east Cobb phenomenon. Although there's a lot of "new wealth" in Buckhead, I would say that the people there tend to be more down to earth than their cobb equivalents. Cobb is weird.

BTW, Dekalb isn't from Dekalb County, she lives in Gwinnett County, which is probably worse than Cobb!

for the love of pete, a yuppie thread?

anyways, i've got a question. what do all of you define as a yuppie in the first place? i've always taken the classical definition of a yuppie as being a derivative of the Young Urban Professionals--in other words, the college-educated youth with high-paying jobs that would move to the large cities, in the process destroying culture and diversity. but it seems you guys are talking about smaller towns being overrun by upper-middle classers who are obsessed with development and trendy coffee shops. so what exactly are we talking about here?

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My definition of Yuppie has changed over the years. It used to be one of Young Urban Professionals, but lately it seems to be a catch all phrase for baby-boomers with a high income. My definition is baby boomers with a high income, but with no culture (i.e. trying to be hip, but being incredibly lame.)

Also I wasn't out to offend anybody with the descriptions of P.T. Cruisers and Coffee Bars. As oldCP'er pointed out, the purpose was to describe the worst aspects of people who are trying to be cool, but miss the mark by a long shot, just as this thread seems to be aimed at the worst excesses of some towns (i.e. cookie cutter levitown houses with elevators, stained glass windows for parking garages, neighborhood associations who throw a hissy fit over your grass being one pico-meter above the required height, and so on.)

As for coffee bars, I remember a time (around ten years ago) when coffee bar meant relaxing hole-in-the-wall for people who could be themselves. Today it seems coffee bar is defined by all these Starbucks (whose coffee tastes more like mud than coffee, if you are near the Canadian border you are better off going to Second Cup) places, which when you think about it is more like the McDonalds of coffee bars (even they are trying to get in on the thing) and tend to attract people who dress alike and try to be cool.

Well in Chattanooga the section where I live my property touches a subdivision but I do not live in it. Most of these people are real nice but there are a few morons there. For instance someone was once complaining that someone had a junkyard (This guy co-owns a funeral home and someone owning a junkyard is the least of his problems now because his embolmer's brother ran that creamatory in Georgia.) Our town though is usually controlled by people up on Lookout Mountain and all the other big shots. We lost Putt-Putt Golf because someone wanted to build some real fancy hotel condos or something there. ANother thing we lost was our alpine slide on Racoon Mountain because someone wanted to build a subdivision. Really there is no place for teens to hang out. Yeah we have three malls one there is nothing but a small ice skating rink in. The other one a few rich snobs complained about all the teens being in and so they put a curfew on the mall. The third one does not have the space to hold all the people that came from the other mall that added a curfew and the people who regularly went to that mall. We have a lot of mini golf courses and also Lake Winnie which are great places to go in the summer but not in the winter plus you would get tired of playing the same 18 holes constantly. If we were to get one place that was actually cool and was designed for capacity then the snobs would complain about something whether it was the noise or something else.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Pantera Psycho [/i]
[B]Okay, basically this is a thread that generated from the Andrea Yates trial thread that I wanted to give it's own thread before it got out of hand. I did a search, couldn't find any threads like this, so here it goes.

How rich and spoiled is your hometown? More than mine (I doubt it). Let's hear some examples. Here's some from mine.

-For a new PARKING GARAGE they now have a $50,000 stained glass window, again, for a PARKING GARAGE

-Whole town shuts down at 9:00, very few businesses remain open after 9, everyone's too lazy.

-For a town of around 130,000 people, there are 3 used clothes stores that I'm aware of (lived here for 17+ years (with a short break in the middle, but moved back when there were still more than 50,000 less people here than there are now), so most likely there's not too many more)

-6 McDonalds restaurants, 4 Burger Kings, 3 Wendy's, 3 Subways, 5 Starbucks, 2 Caribou Coffees, and a whole lot more along the town borders just in other towns.

There's a whole lot more, what I have here isn't hard to match, but I don't wanna put down the whole of it and discourage anyone else from posting. [/B][/QUOTE]

well that is naperville for ya.

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