OK what do you hate more than anything in the world, well almost more than anything in the world? That is some interloper coming into your city, state and telling what's wrong with it, bragging about "back home."
I once had a baseball cap that said: "Beautify the South. Put a Yankee on a bus." Yeah, yeah, yeah – we know 5 inches of snow doesn't shut down your city.
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