Country Discussion: USA

[BigDunc'sFod]

Native New Yorker here. I’d definitely recommend visiting the Met if you like museums. Has a bit of everything. An incredible place.
The High Line is very cool. Great example of urban planning to “reclaim” land.

Lower East Side for the kosher deli experience. Junior’s cheesecake in Brooklyn or midtown.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions about your visit

One last thing—sell those Yankees tickets and go see the Mets instead

Why haven't we met

Mets, truly the Everton of baseball

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

I’m off to NYC in a few weeks. Third time since 2015, only going for a week. Doing the beast, Summit at Vanderbil, taking in a Yankees game, and going to Coney in the evening. Does anyone else have anything they can recommend, they may be off the beaten track?

Not really off the beaten track like but the Intrepid is pretty good, and, depending on what's on, stopping by little island after doing the high line can be fun

 

[SerenityNigh]

Or 'Herbs.'

Boils my piss how they drop the H.

Other than that, nice place. There's looneys everywhere so can't use that stick to beat them.

How’s abouts “buoy” pronounced the same as the “Bowie” knife, named after the guy who died at the Alamo.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Hold on there! I will not hear the Mexican restaurants of my native Golden State traduced!

I'd like to sample more widely among the TX, AZ, and NM variants but I wouldn't survive the current heat index. I live in Massachusetts now. I suspect if MassMex existed, it would take the form of chowda. Good Brazilian food though.

I am abso-f*ing-lutely not eating from any Mexican restaurant north of Tulsa unless it’s in CA. Some of those place up
North sell plates of inedible garbage.

 

[BNJ1878]

How’s abouts “buoy” pronounced the same as the “Bowie” knife, named after the guy who died at the Alamo.

Yeah, one if the guys on a clients yacht says 'boowee' which raises a smirk but it doesn't bother me.

'erbs' is just plain lazy.

 

[Nightman]

Better guests than hosts - maybe the truest stereotype about Americans. We're awful guests. I'm chalking that up to having oceans on both coasts - we don't have to deal with anyone else. Two hours by train gets you from Chicago to Springfield, IL. Two hours by train gets you from Paris to Brussels or Berlin.

Did they ever get that mono-rail fixed and working again?

 

[Billy Dean]

Always have a nice time there. As an adult only been to NY/NJ, DC and Gettysburg. As a kid went also to California and Florida.

There are loads of places within the country that I still would love to visit, e.g. Texas, Tennessee, the north west, Philly, Chicago, Louisiana and many many more places.

I like the food culture there. There is lots of good food. But you can also fulfill all your gluttonous junk food fantasies there, which you can't really do anywhere else. I also like the beer culture, just an amazing amount of good quality craft beer available.

 

[bigjonny]

There is an art museum (Norton) and it’s decent. The HIE is next to festival plaza which is nice when there is something going on. Downtown area is mostly dead but I have been told Stray Cats is a fun jazz (or piano?) bar, although I have no idea if it’s any good.

There is a local coffee (Rhino) with a few stores. Southern Maid donuts was a favorite of Elvis and worth buying a dozen if they are hot. Dripp donuts downtown is good for food truck style donuts.

For lunch the local favors are Herby Ks (shrimp poboy), Strawns (diner), or Monjunis (hearty Italian but the best are sandwiches; muffuletta and poboy). For dinner the local favorite is Superior Grill (Mexican) but Fat Calf Brasserie is a fun upscale joint.

It’s not going to be crawfish season so I don’t have any recommendations of that sort.

Thank you.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Must be a great country.
Seinfeld learned me that American women are really really into short, balding fellows. Incel heaven.

 

[Chewbacca]

I don't pay too much attention to US politics so I may have this horribly wrong, but it seems that the right wing party is a lot more popular with the lower socio-economic groups, but the left wing one is more popular with the well off.

That seems to be the wrong way round to me

More “educated” v “uneducated” I would have said.

Same in some of our politics. Look at the coalition of rabid financial neoliberals and knuckledragging racists that supported Brexit.

Well rounded, well educated folks tend to social democracy. Eton educated thickos and “left school at 14” thickos tend to the right.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I don't pay too much attention to US politics so I may have this horribly wrong, but it seems that the right wing party is a lot more popular with the lower socio-economic groups, but the left wing one is more popular with the well off.

That seems to be the wrong way round to me

Bit of a stereotype and definitely over simplified but here goes. I think the democratic Party tends to court the middle class as they tend to have more (overtly) progressive views on race, gender and sexuality than the average poorer working class person. Though a lot of the party's progressive stance is merely lip service.
Possibly has a lot to do with the fact the that the DP is financed by the same type of people as the GOP.
We've seen a parallel in Britain with New Labour. Spain's 'left wing' party is on a similar path and, from a distance, most countries seem pretty similar.

As with most things, we've all got more in common than we sometimes think

 

[Blue peter]

Not really off the beaten track like but the Intrepid is pretty good, and, depending on what's on, stopping by little island after doing the high line can be fun

Thanks mate, I’d never heard of Little Island, just been checking it out and it looks cool. Defo going on the list

 

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Why haven't we met

Mets, truly the Everton of baseball

Live just outside of DC these days.
Actually was back home last week and caught the Mets/White Sox game on Tuesday

 

[Nightman]

Would like to visit San Diego and Denver. Been to neither.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Appalachia as a cultural region is pretty amazing. It also gets stereotyped with lot of white poverty; and to be sure, there is lots of poverty in this demographic (and oxy/meth) but there is a lot of diversity, including stuff you are not likely to expect like an LGBT+ community, progressive artists and farmers, and Jewish, and African-American communities. Berea college gets a special should along these lines.

As an eco-region it is one of the most biodiverse temperate (not tropical) regions in the world.

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