I must say I appreciate your ability to both stand up for your city and be a bit in on the joke. Well done.

It's so true. We are definitely calling this phenomenon "Pinkham's Law" from now on.

Somebody's ALWAYS gotta be that guy. I think it's Pinkham's Law. No matter what he writes about, or how he writes about it, someone's gotta be That Guy.

Aw, c'mon. There are provincial people every where and they should be mocked mercilessly. I live in Minneapolis, where people, will occasionally talk about being the "mini-apple", the NYC of the Midwest because of our theater scene. I once heard some asshole call St. Paul the "Boston of the Midwest" because, I don't…

It always cracks me up when people refer to Pennsylvania as an Atlantic state.

Yeah, because an arbitrary line delineated two centuries ago is TOTALLY what defines cultural boundaries for all time.

Montana through New Mexico are part of the West, though. I mean, you can squabble about mountain west vs. southwest vs. Pacific coast, but it's not like that's inaccurate.

Maryland (the parts of it that count, anyway), Delaware, and DC are definitely their own thing. Definitely not the North or the South.

So, even when the article ends by basically saying "yo don't be that guy, we'll just laugh at you if you come into the comments and be that guy," you're still gonna be that guy?

Hah the three of us are actually all pretty full of New York hate too. Unlike Mr. Pinkham, I thoroughly enjoy the land of my forefathers (Missouri, but the other side) and much of its food.

It always makes me laugh that people assume I'm from New York or have ever lived there just because I write for this website. In this case, it's doubly hilarious because NONE of us are from there — and actually, all of us outed where we're from during the post itself.

Did any of us say we were from New York? The most overrated city in the history of ever?

Camden is so shitty that it has character though, and also in proximity to some less shitty cities (Philly, NY). Also aquarium apparently.

Nah, inferiority there. Just MASSIVE inferiority.

I believe Camden is more of a "hellhole". I don't know if St. Louis makes you think The Rapture came and went.

Clearly he's never been to Camden, New Jersey.

A friend of mine drove cross country a few years ago. He said hands-down the biggest shithole he went through was St. Louis.

yum.

Having a thin crust is fine.

My family and I moved to St. Louis when my dad got a different job and the first night we moved in, we ordered Imo's pizza which is the go to place for "St. Louis style pizza." Imagine eating really sweet tomato sauce on a cracker with plastic glue cheese melted on top and you have St. Louis pizza. Our first…