Denver is apparently America's fourth most pretentious city
https://cafevalet.com/blog/san-francisco-cited-as-most-pretentious-american-city/
The rising cost of living is something I fear, but you know what? Otherwise, I wear so-called pretension - especially appreciation of creativity - as a badge of honor.
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these kinds of numbers are meaningless and arbitrary and they make me angry
^ It's composed of five cities, two of which are quite pretentious.
Local business concentration (63% of the overall score) is based on the following five metrics from business data providers Infogroup and Localeze:
The number of independent coffee shops per capita. The higher the concentration, the more pretentious.
The number of yoga studios per capita. The higher the concentration, the more pretentious.
The number of art galleries per capita. The higher the concentration, the more pretentious.
The number of Whole Foods per capita. The higher the concentration, the more pretentious.The number of Walmart stores per capital. The lower the concentration, the more pretentious.
Area interests (25% of the overall score) is based on the following five metrics from Facebook Audience Insights.
Indexed number of people interested in philosophy by metro area. The greater the interest, the more pretentious.
Indexed number of people interested in poetry by metro area. The greater the interest, the more pretentious.
Indexed number of people interested in Moleskine notebooks by metro area. The greater the interest, the more pretentious.
Indexed number of people interested in Sting by metro area. The greater the interest, the more pretentious.
Ownership of electric or hybrid cars by metro area. The higher the ownership, the more pretentious. (This data from Edmunds / R.L. Polk)
Area activities (12% of the overall score) is based on two metrics from business data providers Infogroup and Localeze.
The number of community gardens per capita. The higher the concentration, the more pretentious.
The number of opera-related events per capita. The more events, the more pretentious.
That's called bravado, AU. People don't actually feel that way. They might love living there and think it a special place to live, but most people don't go around feeling godlike for just living somewhere. They just project that because, well... you interact primarily with Redditor sports fans, who are massive stuffed shirts.
The populist right in this country seems particularly intent upon pushing this mandarin intellectual/salt of the earth working man dichotomy even though they are really even more insufferably bourgeois than the average liberal or leftist.
^^ Oh hey, someone else who uses Ghostery to block things!
I'm pretty sure it's mostly the opposite in that it allows you to individually block all sorts of trackers and gives you the option of not giving Ghostery itself your data. But I, too, am a layman, and playing this by ear.
I mean, there are some aspects I find a little ehhh here and there, but mostly it seems pretty legit. It also takes care of a lot of stuff a simple ad blocker can't.
San Francisco is more complicated. It has a lot of independent coffee shops because it has a lot of independent businesses and a lot of coffee shops; the yoga craze there dates to pre-hippie days; it's basically the gayest city on earth by dint of tradition; and trying to fit a Walmart on those hills would be asking for trouble,
See my "ehhhh" earlier. At least they tell you this right off the bat.
Indeed.
Exactly.
I find it terribly useful, and aside from making a note of what kind of trackers I block it doesn't mine my personal info in the way that, say, Facebook or Google does, which is a nice change of pace.