<story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt;Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior&lt;p&gt;In small town USA, the local culture usually is inferior. The local culture tends to be very monoculture. It&amp;#x27;s the larger cities where the culture tends to be more diverse. Getting out of small town into the nearest larger town opened me up to a hell of a lot more than the people that never left. However, even in that larger town, it&amp;#x27;s still limited. Yes, I eventually went to the west coast to have even more multi-cultural experience. Later, I even got to finally start travelling internationally to expand that multi-cultural experience further.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a broad brush to paint with, but my local culture 100% was inferior, but I imagine it&amp;#x27;s not unique</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&amp;#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&amp;#x2F;British and foreigners.&lt;p&gt;Frank Sinatra  had a song called &lt;i&gt;New York, New York&lt;/i&gt; and one of the lines is &amp;quot;If I can make it there, I&amp;#x27;ll make it anywhere.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s something I&amp;#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&amp;#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>Eh, I&amp;#x27;ve lived in small towns and major cities. One isn&amp;#x27;t categorically better than the other, they&amp;#x27;re just different. Your values align better with city life, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t make other cultures inferior (nor are you superior to the people who prefer them). I certainly appreciate the diversity of larger cities and small towns certainly aren&amp;#x27;t for me, but I can also appreciate having a functional municipal government, low crime rates, low poverty rates, dramatically less antisocial behavior, strong values &amp;#x2F; decency &amp;#x2F; civility, a simpler way of life, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt;Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior&lt;p&gt;In small town USA, the local culture usually is inferior. The local culture tends to be very monoculture. It&amp;#x27;s the larger cities where the culture tends to be more diverse. Getting out of small town into the nearest larger town opened me up to a hell of a lot more than the people that never left. However, even in that larger town, it&amp;#x27;s still limited. Yes, I eventually went to the west coast to have even more multi-cultural experience. Later, I even got to finally start travelling internationally to expand that multi-cultural experience further.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a broad brush to paint with, but my local culture 100% was inferior, but I imagine it&amp;#x27;s not unique</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&amp;#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&amp;#x2F;British and foreigners.&lt;p&gt;Frank Sinatra  had a song called &lt;i&gt;New York, New York&lt;/i&gt; and one of the lines is &amp;quot;If I can make it there, I&amp;#x27;ll make it anywhere.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s something I&amp;#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&amp;#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cinntaile</author><text>Small town culture is a thing in Europe as well! I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s inferior but it&amp;#x27;s certainly different from the culture in a bigger city.</text></comment>