What part of town 'are' you?

[H]

Okay, here’s the deal, I was running about this morning and was downtown where I noticed my favorite local coffee shop had opened up a new downtown location. I went in and ordered my norm, but it wasn’t the norm…. The coffee was, but not the environment… it was real trendy and sleek and formal. I usually go to the midtown location, which is artsy, eclectic and laid back. I realized that the owners were catering to the markets by the feel of the store. Pretty smart, that is a good thing, but I also realized that I am not ‘downtown’; I am ‘midtown’. Just about everywhere I go ‘midtown’ is artsy, eclectic and laid back and 'downtown' is trendy and sleek and formal. This is an epiphany for me… I am ‘midtown’.

So what are you, and I mean your personality, not where you live; oh, and please elaborate?

[noottamevas]

I also realized that I am not ‘downtown’; I am ‘midtown’.

What is the difference between 'midtown' and 'downtown'? Several years ago, Mattoon quite refering to its business district as 'downtown' and started using 'midtown'. I never understood the difference.

If 'midtown' is is artsy, eclectic and laid back and 'downtown' is trendy and sleek and formal, what is crime, desolate, and blighted?

[H]

If 'midtown' is is artsy, eclectic and laid back and 'downtown' is trendy and sleek and formal, what is crime, desolate, and blighted?

I dont know, why dont you tell us... that is what the 'other' choice is for.

...maybe that is the 'wrong side of town'... or just 'the worng town'

[sisterceleste]

Big oaks, utilities underground, community pool, tennis courts and nature trails. Its the Burbs and I love it.

[Queen B]

I am country all the way. I hate lines, I hate to wait, I hate traffic, I only like crowds when I choose.

[Michele Zone]

"I'm a little bit country... I'm a little bit cosmopolitan" Throw in a little bit military and a little bit international. I think they call that a banquet -- or schizophrenic.

My dad grew up on a farm in a share-cropping family during The Great Depression. My mom was orginally from Danzig. a "free state" (freistadt) or independent city, not formally part of Germany (it is now Gdansk Poland). She has tales of shopping at the fish market for live eels and the like (and them getting away and chasing them all over the kitchen floor!) and studied for a time with a taylor and wanted to be a doctor before dropping out of school to take care of her mother who was dying of cancer (oh the irony). I grew up in a house on the edge of town, where there was a patch of woods behind my house and the high school had woods to one side and suburbs to two others, across from the elementary school that was surrounded by woods on 3 sides (not anymore, but it was when I went there). We always had imported delicassees (sp?) at meals and a lot of the people I knew were bilingual and bicultural. Of course, we also spent time on the military base and my very first memory is of sitting on my mom's lap in a tank. My sister swears I was less than 18 months old -- which makes sense because I know it was Ft. Benning and then dad moved the family to Germany for a while and then he retired when I was 3. So I had to be pretty young to ride on a tank on "family day" or whatever.

I didn't really feel at home until I came to Solano County. Fairfield has a highly diverse population. This county is also the most agricultural one in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I have my "little bit country" -- but it is in the Bay Area, and Fairfield is smack dab in the middle between San Francisco and the state capital -- so I have my "little bit cosmopolitan". And there is a significant military base here.

I can't think of a more perfect match for me. I imagine I will be here A While.

[pete-rock]

I guess I'd have to put myself in "Midtown" -- not the trendy, sleek and formal of downtown, and not the bucolic life of the suburbs.

[michaelskis]

OH MY GOD!

I it just dawned on me that I am such a hypocrite and live in the suburbs. I am so moving into the city.

[donk]

I'd say I am an area in transition / gentrifying.

I am a bit rough around the edges, don't always look the best- but have good features to work with, need abit of attention to bring those features out my $$ value increases each year, without me doing much.

[Michele Zone]

I'd say I am an area in transition / gentrifying.

I am a bit rough around the edges, don't always look the best- but have good features to work with, need abit of attention to bring those features out my $$ value increases each year, without me doing much.

I want donk's answer added to the poll. Either that or I want to steal it and claim credit for it.


(Y'all didn't really read my long-winded answer, right? So I can just substitute this and no one will be the wiser, right? )

[Duke Of Dystopia]

You forgot the INDUSTRIAL section of town.

a Kind of gritty
b Less watched
c Interesting but ignored
d Hard working

[Hceux]

When I was living in Kingston, I enjoyed the benefit of being able to walk to the downtown core to do my necessary things (banking, grocery shopping, shopping, library, eating out, etc) and then return back to my apartment that's located away from the downtown and found in the midst of a neighbourhood with trees, neighbours, and backyards. The walking commute between the downtown core and my apartment was about 3 to 5 minutes. I loved it. For the small town that Kingston is, I'd consider this midtown.

Now, I'm in Toronto and I'm living way out in the edge of the proper city of Toronto. I'm missing how I could just walk to a neighbourhood and do everything that I need/want to do. At least I can walk to the bank, a small grocery store, and a library from where I am, but, for other things, I must jump on a bus. Thankfully there is frequent bus rides, but it's still a ride away that preventing me living a midtown way of life, imo. The fact that I'm only a ravine away from the stereotypically worst neighbourhood in Toronto doesn't do a thing for oozing a "midtown" feel in this area, which clearly lacks it.

[Coragus]

I'm in a house that was built in1893 and a 10 minute walk from the center of downtown. That should be somewhat qualified though, because my city is only about 9,200 people, not including the "sprawl zone" in the surrounding townships.

[Gedunker]

I voted downtown, because I'm older but still viable

[the north omaha star]

I am a midtowner with downtowner tendecies.

[boiker]

Midtown.. but in a very middle class/blue collar portion of midtown. More BBQ places, and "home cooking" ethnic restuarants, used furniture stores/reclaimed house hardware/fixtures. I'll lean towards the artsy and trendy occasionally.

[Jaxspra]

I don't think I can pick just one...if I had to though it would be mid-town...
Suburbs - little too boring for me ALL of the time, but nice some of the time
Downtown - too much effort ALL of the time but enjoy it sometimes...
I like midtown...sort of doing my own thing, not worrying too much about others...laid back...thats the key word....

[ikeaboi]

Too casual for Downtown, to exciting for suburban. Midtown for me all the way.

[dandy_warhol]

i'm an other.

i'm a country with hints of downtown. i don't want to be around people, i prefer trees and open spaces to narcisstic idiots and crowds. but there is a part of me that yearns to be sophisticated and classy and have other people do my bidding. every now and then i even practice my dismissive wave. i want to be prepared should i ever have the opportunity to use it!!

[pete-rock]

I am a midtowner with downtowner tendecies.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Didn't grow up blue collar, but just can't seem to let go of my Detroit blue-collar surroundings.

[illinoisplanner]

Spent my childhood in working-class suburbia, am now in a working-class neighborhood in upper-middle class suburbia.

[btrage]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Didn't grow up blue collar, but just can't seem to let go of my Detroit blue-collar surroundings.

Same here. Live in a blue-collar midtown neighborhood. However, many many years from now, when the kids are gone, and I'm closing in on the end of my career, I can hear Ms. Downtown calling my name..............

[SGB]

I put Other.

I live in the former village of a rural town of about 5,150.

I'm about 1/3 of mile from what's left of the downtown.

[Suburb Repairman]

I live in a country/exurb right now, but plan to move more toward my personality location in about a year. My personality is definitely a midtowner. I'm a pretty laid back guy and not much for trends for the sake of being trendy and seen. I'd rather be watching the game with some close friends on the couch drinking an adult beverage I opened or made rather than going to some uppity club/bar to drink overpriced vodka-based drinks.

[jread]

I like working downtown and I like escaping to midtown after work. I could, however, live and work downtown and be happy. I do prefer midtown's laid back attitude, though