Greg wrote:

> I found San Francisco and it's inhabitants to be very insular and
> self-absorbed, second only to Washington DC. Both places struck me as
> more like small towns instead of cities. I find the "We're so
> sophisticated and we are also the Center Of The Universe" attitude so
> *very* wearying...

My experience has been that the people from NYC or Boston are both more
chauvinistic about their cities than the denizens of SF or DC. However, I
think Paris is probably the world's snootiest city.

Bob