Name a yuppie-fied, fundie filled neighborhood that you hate the most

[MrScorpio]

Naperville, Illinois

God, I hate that place

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. Padnaram Village in South Dartmouth, MA

If I had the means I'd make it a toxic waste dump

[WCGreen]

Westlake, Ohio.....

My home town......

[Beware the Beast Man]

77. Add Pepper Pike to the list.

[WCGreen]

96. Yea, Old PP is pretty darn yuppiefied....

That picture of me and Michael McDonald that I post now and then...

Was taken at a house party in PP...

[KitchenWitch]

2. Eden Prairie, MN

Woodbury, MN
Maple Grove, MN

[SmileyBoy]

5. EDINA, MINNESOTA

E very

D ay

I

N eed

A ttention

(Acronym used by St. Louis Park HS students)

[KitchenWitch]

7. Believe it or not - Edina went for Kerry in the last election!

[WCGreen]

52. I have a client living there....

he is a fundie....

[KitchenWitch]

95. Is he "old money" or "new money"?

[WCGreen]

97. New money....

He just moved there.. he is a software salesman....

[Left Is Write]

117. We used to call them "cake eaters" many, many years ago.

That was back in the days of Edina East High School and Edina West High School.

I went to Burnsville.

[KitchenWitch]

120. I went to Lincoln High School

Yes they were the cakeeaters!

[Left Is Write]

124. The now-defunct Lincoln High School.

I briefly dated a kid from Lincoln my junior year.

My husband would have gone to Lincoln, but it had gone the way of the dinosaur by the time he started high school (he's a young'un). He went to Jefferson.

[KitchenWitch]

125. Yup

All the schools I went to closed right behind me.

[Left Is Write]

126. That's because they knew they'd never have another student...

as wonderful as you.

[KitchenWitch]

127. LOL

um, er, I was kind of a problem child...:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

90. I know a few VERY FRUSTRATED liberals who live in Eden Prairie.

I understand Burnsville has gone Republican also. Sad.

[Az]

3. Grand Rapids MI, HQ of Amway and fundie central

Got relatives living there. Its wise to pull all your darwin fish off the car before heading into that territory.

[Beausoir]

18. Lived there for 5 years.

The people there were just...weird. Apologies to any normal Grand Rapidians..I never met you. Just weird people.

The city was infested with crime and yet people behaved as if it was the best city in the world. Complete denial. Blocks and block of burned out buildings and nobody did anything about it. Just build more church/palaces and everything will be fine.

[gollygee]

29. I was just up there yesterday

They have Costco up there. I wish we'd get one.

[noonwitch]

32. They have a dem for mayor right now, so progress is coming

But the suburbs are very republican. I grew up in Kentwood. It was a little republican Peyton Place in the 80s. The mayor had an affair with the city treasurer, and they were both married to other people.

The best things about Grand Rapids are 1. The city doesn't really have slums, not compared to Detroit. Their worst neighborhood doesn't even compare. They made good use of the money Clinton sent their way to clean up some of their worst areas. The riverfront is very pretty at nice, and fairly safe to walk down.
2. There are some awesome places to eat there. Yesterdog, Cherie Inn, Beltline Bar, the Arnie's chain, even cheap old Russ'(a dutch "Big Boy" type of restaurant chain) are all excellent places to go, and none of those are very expensive.

[bleedingheart]

59. funny we go with all our liberal bumperstickers

the city is more liberal than the suburbs and recent layoffs in the banking and furniture industry are causing some to wonder why they vote the way they do...

[democracyindanger]

4. South Carolina

[MrScorpio]

6. I move through that state as fast as I can

I feel ya

[China_cat]

16. Yeah. Well, I have to live here.

[Left_Winger]

28. So do I and it's not all that bad if you know where to go and where not to

As far as yuppified and fundie crowded: Ft. Mill.

Howdy China Cat!

:hi:

[China_cat]

58. Charleston.

Where, as it is aptly put, the natives are a lot like the Chinese...they eat a lot of rice and worship their ancestors.

[Left_Winger]

62. One of my best friends is an actual SOB

"South of Broad St.'er". His family are Charlestonians and he grew up in Columbia, but returned to Charleston after USC.

The town of Ft. Mill which I mentioned earlier is a horrible place: the original inhabitants are the ones who gave Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker a home for the PTL KKKlub (really freaky religious nuts), but now it is a "green-flight", bedroom community for Charlotte. I continue to work there because the salary is good, but I reside in Columbia.

Glad to encounter another Sandlapper here.

:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

8. Barrington, IL

Home of Willow Creek Community Church. :puke:

[enigmatic]

9. St. Albert, Alberta

Ugh.

[Canadian Socialist]

26. I see your ugh and raise you an "eeewww"

Terrible little town. So full of itself.

[Whoa_Nelly]

10. Riverdale, CA

http://www.rivdal.org/home.html


Pastors Charles and Wilma Spencer were living in Fresno and attending the Calwa Assembly of God where Rev. Ralph HaIl was pastor, when they felt the call of God upon their lives. In an act of faith, they went as counselors for Youth with a Mission to the Bahamas for the summer In 1964. At this time Bro. Spencer gave up his position at Reynolds Aluminum as Purchasing Agent after 10 years. Upon returning in September of that year, they returned to work until October of 1965, when Bro. Spencer heard the Lord speak to him one night about the community of Riverdale.

More at this site (if you really feel you must...)
http://www.rivdal.org/staff_more.html#Pastor
EXAMPLE:

[MrScorpio]

11. That has to be the whitest family in California

They need more sun

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. And super crooked as well

Bro. Spencer (the big guy with large family in the second pic) bought a huge motorhome, and registered it at a phony address in Oregon to avoid paying CA registration tax. These fundies also actively participate with Free Republic..***GAG***

[Arugula Latte]

43. Yikes. Scary looking people.

They look very bovine-like and cultified.

[Arugula Latte]

44. self-delete

[Initech]

13. My city - Yorba Linda, CA

I mean come on, it's where Richard Nixon, the guy responsible for this era of insane republicanism got his start.

[khashka]

14. Katy TX

Jeebus, Jeebus, Jeebus!

A whole town and I live here!

(And before any Christians accuse me of bigotry - I'm reading a book right now by a committed Christian - and his faith is inspiring. We've continued an email conversation for nearly ten years, and while we often disagree we rarely argue. I do not share his faith, nor he mine. But his faith inspires me, even if I don't share it)


But this Jeebus stuff makes me sick and I live with it every day.

What happened to Jesus' teachings - humility, turning the other cheek, when a man asks for your cloak give him your coat as well?


Don't even get me started.... or rather check out my next thread....

[ceile]

80. How about the Woodlands?

I can barely stand to drive through that place.

[Loge23]

15. City Place - West Palm Beach FL

Unlike it's funky cousin to the north, Clematis St., City Place watering holes seem to be inhabited at 5p - 8p by scores of nazi youth wannbes from the pretend corporate businesses downtown.
Overheard at Brewzi's recently was an inane prattle from a 30 something pig about her close encounter with Robert Redford. "...he just bashed the entire administration, which I didn't like (groans from her posse) but he's soooo gorgeous!!!"
Similar boot-licking from an adjoining table about running their followship business by taking cues from their favorite idiot reality TV shows. What a world.

[sendero]

17. Plano Texas..

.... more morons per square mile than anywhere else in Texas.

And I live close to there, but I avoid going north as much as possible.

[Lumily]

22. I'll name three.

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Plano, Texas
Cumming, Georgia (currently live near here)

I've lived in all three. I'm starting to believe that I'm cursed.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

56. Cumming, GA, Shit, my nephew just moved there from

Ft. Lauderdale.

I had a bad feeling when I heard about this move. I adore my nephew and the thought that he's stuck in a place full of fundies makes my skin crawl.

I really want him and his wife to move back to the Chicago area. Problem is wifey is Florida born and bred and is afraid of Chicago winters.

I'm not a practicing Catholic, but I think I'll definitely start saying a novena or a Rosary for him. He needs to come home....

[serryjw]

94. You WIN the Award!

I lived in Dunwoody for years and watched the growth in Cumming, I NOW live in Denver with Focus on the Family in COsprings I have to agree. No nothing about Plano except it's in TX and JCP HQ is there.

[snooper2]

79. I live in Plano

:cry:

[Dastard Stepchild]

19. I was going to say Naperville! :)

I lived there for about 10 years. As a fuckin' teen, fer chrissakes.

We don't talk about those dark days.

Did you happen to have the unfortunate task of visiting there?

edited for sp.

[MrScorpio]

30. My wife's niece lives in Lisle

Naperville is just up the street.

I new the jig was up when people stared at me, like I was some space alien, when I went to the bookstore.

My niece, who's behind me in this pic, has very dark features

Needless to say she has had her problems with Naperville too

[Dastard Stepchild]

69. tsk... I could tell you stories...

Let's just say that one of the biggest unspoken (yet strangely spoken) fears of the fine citizens of Naperville was that the Mexicans from Aurora and the African-Americans from Bolingbrook would "spill" into the fine stock of their fair little hamlet. And I won't even bring up the, ahem, "diversity" of my high school. Really, there is nothing to bring up. Tsk... and the Riverwalk... better not be anything but a bright shining white adolescent on summer evenings. They even kicked my motley assortment of punk rawkers and skaters straight to the curb, and we were all as lily white as the flower.

I've not been there in years, so I'm not sure if the aforementioned sentiments remain as strong as they were even 10 years ago. My guess would be yes, but I can't say that with certainty.

That is a very happy picture above... love the smiles on those two cuties in front.

[JI7]

20. probably some place in Orange County California

only because i know the place more than others. but i think with more minorities moving in and the right wing racists leaving it might change sometime in the future.

Loretta Sanchez represents a district in OC and of course it is a seat once held by the asshole Bob Dornan.

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Saffron Indian Bistro on Bluemound Rd. in Brookfield and a little gelato cafe on Main St. in Waukesha are the only things worth a damn.

[eyesroll]

34. Penzey's Spices is HQ'd in Brookfield.

(Although they opened up a Glendale store recently, so I don't have to schlep anymore.)

Otherwise, your assessment is accurate.

[Magrittes Pipe]

35. Ooh, yeah, I forgot about Penzey's.

I'm running low on herbs and spices, too. Once I get a job, I'm gonna have to place an order.

[eyesroll]

39. Their Fox Point seasoning makes great roasted chicken.

Their hot-chocolate mix does NOT make great hot chocolate with rice milk, however. x(

[xmas74]

55. You took my answer!

If you ask about white-bread racist assholes the first place I always think of is Waukesha.

[RetroLounge]

75. Yup, that was my answer too...

I hate having to drive into that Repug hell-hole for work.

I put a DU sticker on my car so people would know I'm not from there.

RL

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

81. That's where I live!

I'm surrounded by Bushbots. But, hey, somebody has to do missionary work among the heathens.

And you're right about Penzey's. I'm like a kid in the toy store every time I go there.

[jane_pippin]

85. Yes, and an extra special boo to Brookfield from me.

I can't stand going there. I know, good people live everywhere and they live there too, but still. BOO to you Brookfield. Even your mall is square.

[LynneSin]

23. Just about anything south of the Canal here in Delaware

Delaware is the only state with both a Yankee and Old South region and it's divided by our Canal. But mind you, just like how we have plenty of great liberals in redstates so we do south of the canal. And Rehobeth Beach is a progressive haven!

[henslee]

24. Pasadena, CA.

[ellisonz]

76. Nope.

Pasadena is not fundieland in any sense of the word. Especially compared to La Canada, Sierra Madre or San Marino. The majority of the population isn't even white...

[driver8]

115. You are absolutely right. I live right next to La Canada...it is

"white bread central."

[hyphenate]

25. I feel blessed

That I have never had to live that closely to or near any of these places you guys have mentioned. Born and raised in Boston, I heard the clarion call of democracy early enough in my life to stay as far away as I could from any bastion of crookedness and hypocrisy such as these. ;)

[GOPisEvil]

27. I'll answer for Fenris: The Woodlands, TX

Nice golf course there though. ;)

[flamingyouth]

51. HAHAHA - you beat me to it

:D

[Fenris]

53. HA!

:spray:

[imperialismispasse]

31. The Main Line just outside Philly

The people there are such snobby assholes.

[Bridget Burke]

37. But I doubt they're "Fundies"

Probably Episcopalians. (Not that there's anything wrong with that--but they attend that church because all the right people belong.)

Wasn't Grace Kelly's family considered a bit beneath the Main Line? Yes, they were wealthy. But they were Irish Catholics.

[imperialismispasse]

41. They are not fundies in the born again sense

But they are Christian (of whatever variety) conservative republicans. The northeast doesnt really have a whole lot of evangelist churches.

[Burma Jones]

33. Tulsa, OK

[hippywife]

121. I'll second that

since I unfortunately work there and live just outside of Tulsa.

[Dukkha]

36. Virgin, Utah

This tiny southern Utah town has enacted an ordinance requiring a gun and ammunition in every home for residents' self-defense.

or La Verkin, Utah

voted to create a UN-free ordinance in the city

[Cathyclysmic]

38. Chagrin Falls, Ohio

I don't know if it's freeper filled, just annoying and a great name.

[distantearlywarning]

40. Eastern suburbs of Colorado Springs.

Miles and miles of houses that all look exactly alike, filled with fundie soccer moms and their SUVs and their fundie spawn.

[rockymountaindem]

42. Oh shit, I got stories...

I'm only 18, but when visitors come and we drive them back from the airport on Powers Bvld, I sound like an old man saying "when I was a kid, there weren't nothin' out thar!"

Briargate is quite the same way, but better looking with nicer houses.

[Arugula Latte]

47. Oh yeah. That area is quite horrible.

Stepfordlandland on the Front Range. I have some relatives there. They fit the bill perfectly.

[rockymountaindem]

49. Hey! Everybody quit bustin' on The Springs!

Only I can do that!!!

Besides, it has one redeeming quality: the most beautiful girl in the world lives there, but nobody knows it. It's kind of a sad paradox.

[Zomby Woof]

45. Bellevue, WA

:scared:

Or Issaquah, WA.

[XemaSab]

87. Hey now

Issiquah gave us Modest Mouse, so they're redeemed.

Many of their songs are about how bad it sucks there tho...

[miss_kitty]

100. I was just gonna say...

:P

[ismnotwasm]

110. We were minding our own business in an old Malibu

Driving down Front street in Issaquah. Not breaking any laws. In the car was a Native American, a black man, My husband (who has a beard and longish hair) and myself. Got pulled over and harassed. My husband had a lot of fun with that one, because the cop tried to say our plates didn't match the car we were in. Turned out to be a mistake of course. (Cop: I'm very sorry sir. My husband: "ha he called me SIR!) We knew it was going to happen, because this white women in a Huge SUV was behind us and we saw her eye rolling and cell phone talking self, pissed off because we were doing the speed limit.
Modest Mouse is definitely a redeeming factor, but I have other Issaquah stories.

[friesianrider]

111. OMG I had a horrible ebay experience w/someone from Bellevue...

He was some Lt. Col. in the military and was an asshole right from the get-go (I just knew he was a freeper). Long story short he accused me of selling a fake collectible to him because his 12-year-old daughter was a "serious collector for the last year" and she said so. :eyes: Just so happened the company that made the collectible was having their yearly celebration for collectors a few weeks later. I said take the piece to them - if they say it's fake I'll refund your money. He wrote me about 17 times saying "I can't wait to find out you're a liar" and "your bullshit story about it being authentic had better hold up but I know you're a scam artist!" After the celebration was over, I finally wrote him saying I assumed since he hadn't written me that he took the piece and learned it WAS authentic. Never wrote me back. Soooo...guess your expert pre-teen was wrong, eh? Then the dickbag leaves ME a negative because *I* was rude.

Ugh. Sorry, I will just always assocuate Bellevue, WA with that jackass.

[miss_kitty]

112. I remember that story

I will always associate Bellevue with several assholes jackasses, not the least of who are Slade Gorton (former thug Senator) and Jennifer Dunn (former thug rep)

No need for you to apologise from your special memories and associations.

[ismnotwasm]

119. Jennifer Dunn is a horrible human being

If it didn't violate certain laws, I would tell the world why. Just trust me.

[Arugula Latte]

46. Sugarland, Texas. (I've personally never been there, thank goodness!)

Home of Tom Delay and other rich, evil Repukes. No thank you.

[GOPisEvil]

54. That's Sugar Land to you, dammit.

:P

All of Fort Bend County pretty much sucks, with the exception of those liberals unfortunate enough to reside there.

[grace0418]

48. HOLY CRAP I WAS GOING TO SAY NAPERVILLE!

You beat me to it. But then again, you and I have had a discussion about the "joys" of Naperville before, haven't we?

[Dastard Stepchild]

70. I had the same visceral reaction to seeing the word Naperville...

I was going to say that as well. :)

[grace0418]

83. My husband's brother used to live there and I would shudder

every time we drove through. His subdivision was like suburban death to me- all the houses looked the same, no shops, no restaurants, no trees, no life. Yuck. I'd rather live in a tiny little apartment in the city for the rest of my life than one of those subdivisions. To each his own I guess.

[Dastard Stepchild]

89. I lived there...

:cry:

[grace0418]

92. I'm sorry to hear that sweetie

Did you at least live in the cute little downtown area? That was the only part I liked.

[Dastard Stepchild]

101. no..no..

That is but a tiny portion of charm in an otherwise bland and nondescript burb. I lived in one of the blandest houses on one of the blandest blocks. Every house was identical, save the exterior color. Think Edward Scissorhands.

I went to high school there. Twas a nightmare. A nightmare, I say.
:scared:

[Loge23]

50. South Denver

How about the "tech center" in south Denver?
Major Yuppie scum trap there.

[abbeyco]

57. Highlands Ranch, CO

It is it's very own whiter than white Stepford community. ICK!!!

:puke:

[Southpaw Bookworm]

60. Potomac, Maryland n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

66. Actually Potomac is home to a lot of liberals. Lots of money there, to be

sure, but it's by no means monolithically Repub. Unlike a place like Plano, TX which is economically something like Potomac, but politically in a different, shrub worshipping, universe.

[LisaM]

108. yes, I had liberal relatives there

they finally moved when my aunt retired, but just a little farther out to the country.

[ProfessorGAC]

61. I'll Go One Better

Although Naperville was the first thing i thought of when i saw your post title, (so we obviously feel the same), i'll say DuPage County.
The Professor

[RubyDuby in GA]

63. Cobb County, GA

Evolution warning stickers in the textbooks. Need I say anymore?

[antigone382]

73. Forsyth County, too.

The higher those people stick their noses in the air, the more you can see the red necks beneath them.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

64. Clackamas County, Oregon, just southeast of Portland

Headquarters of Lon Mabon, the man behind most of Oregon's anti-gay initiatives, and Bill Sizemore, Mr. Tax Cutter.

This is also the area that voted against having North-South light rail come into their area because of a whispering campaign that said that all the "black gangs" in north Portland were going to ride down to the area and recruit their children (at least the ones who hadn't already been recruited by gays :evilgrin: ).

Milwaukie, Oregon recalled its mayor and two city council members who wanted to renovate that suburbs nearly boarded-up downtown by centering development on the light rail station that never got built.

[dean_dem]

65. Wyndham in Richmond, VA

We call them the Pod People.

[durutti]

67. Ligonier, PA. n/t

[madinmaryland]

68. Greenwich, Darien, Weston, and Westport

in Connecticut.

It's at least very yuppie and very repub. Not exactly fundies though, mostly catholic.

[Chovexani]

71. Williamsburg

The Yuppie Borg is slowly assimilating Brooklyn, and one of the first stops for the cube was Williamsburg. Rents are sky high and they brought all their stupid bars and lame ass hipster crap with them.

I hate yuppies.

On Edit: I hate fundies more though, so I have to go to my sister's new town, Laurel, MD...nothing but strip malls and there is a fundie bookstore in every one of them.

[antigone382]

72. Peachtree City, Georgia.

For I have been to hell, and it is called Peachtree City. Even their Wal-Mart is stuck-up.

Though the sidewalks for biking and exercise are kinda nice.

[RubyDuby in GA]

84. Don't bother going there if you don't have a golf cart

Seriously, this is how people get around. Even their punk bastard kids have them. And then there are the bad seed kids that routinely steal them.

I go out of my way to avoid Peachtree City.

[lady raven]

74. Ponca City, OK

Maybe not yuppies in the TRUE sense of the word (since we're a town of only about 30k. But most of them think they are. Fundies everywhere. Most repug county in OK, and that's saying a lot.

[ellisonz]

78. Santa Clarita, CA

[XemaSab]

82. Altoona Iowa

and its sister city, Clovis California.

I swear to God there are subdivisions in both places that have the same streets, houses, mailboxes, trees, etc.

This was in Altoona during the primaries:

[DS1]

86. notsomuch yuppie but ALL fundie.... Maynard MA

which also boasts the largest bar-stool per asshole ratio in the state

[lizziegrace]

88. New Albany and Dublin, OH n/t

[Left Is Write]

91. I could name several communities nearby.

I don't want to get that specific about my own area, though.

[SIU_Blue]

93. If Naperville, IL could be sold

to Mexico, I'd write up the paperwork Myself.

Naperville = :puke:

[Mutley]

98. Columbia, Maryland

Don't ask! I've had bad experiences there!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

99. Most of Long Island, New York

[Jamastiene]

102. Richmond County, NC. Name the neighborhood here and I hate it except

Roberdel, but I'm beginning to even question that one too. Damn, I hate this place. Money. I need money to leave.

[fleabert]

103. roseville, CA

[AlCzervik]

104. Blech, Roseville is the worst!!

[fleabert]

105. I avoid it like the plague. I love my little midtown community!

happy little liberal spot here!

[AlCzervik]

106. Flea, one of these weekends we gotta have a meet-up.

i'm doing a 5k for "My sister's house" shelter on Nov. 5th, i think the race is around Land Park.

[fleabert]

107. I am game! there's a great coffeeshop in my neighborhood just

waiting for a Sacramento DU meet-up, it's gay owned and operated. :-) Pick a date and I'll give you the address! we could invite other Sac DU'ers!

[AlCzervik]

109. excellent!! I'll let you pick the date or maybe we could throw a

few dates outs there and we could poll it in the California forum?

[fleabert]

113. okee dokey... weekend day or weekday evening or weekend night?

[AlCzervik]

114. anytime weekend is usually ok for me, my only problem is my husbands

travel schedule, he'll be in China from Oct. 18th through the 30th but then he's home, well not home but back in Ca.

[fleabert]

129. my dh is unpredictable as well...what do you think about

next Saturday? sometime in the afternoon for coffee would be great. (I know lots of meetups involve drinking, but I am not really into that these days) :-) That would be the 15th. I can check Butch & Nellie's hours, and see what's best, but I assume they are open during the afternoon on a Saturday. They have great espresso and coffee, and a little patio.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

116. It's impressive how many people mentioned Naperville, IL

I have begun to think that living in pod people suburbs does something to one's brain. Or maybe it's all the exhaust fumes that the residents breathe in while sitting stuck in traffic during their self-inflicted hour-long commutes.

[MrScorpio]

118. Naperville, Il is a remarkable place

I live in Newport News, VA and despite the religiosity (a church on every corner) and the right wing bend to the politics here (plenty of "W" stickers on pickups), this place is very tolerant to multiculturalism. All races and classes pretty much live in harmony side-by-side. Rich neighborhoods and poor alike, no one looks or feels out of place.

Naperville on the other hand made me feel unwelcome the first moment I showed my face.

That and the miles of lacrosse playing scions of the nouveau riche who have absolutely no fucking clue about the real world outside of their pampered existence, and their disdain for any element that upsets their precious balance of power.

The attitude of that place reeks to high heaven.

[sakabatou]

122. I have yet to visit one but...

my dad says Bakersfield is a crummy place.

[undeterred]

123. I hate Naperville, IL too

and all my relatives are part of creating that culture. :puke:

[yellowdogintexas]

128. Colleyville Texas, except for my two friends who live there and

are 1. Not Fundys, 2. Very Liberal 3. Yuppified but in a very good way and 4. Sisters.

[Robeson]

130. Franklin, Tennessee....

...is the Republican capital of middle Tennessee.