Generally, Iowans are Iowans no matter where you go. There are some different issues in Des Moines than in the real rural areas. But I haven't seen any real difference outside of just local issues.
Massachusetts is a global community.
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.
Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.
Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.
Boulder is a very smart community.
Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.
There's a lot of life there, but it's a different sort, because there's a lot less immigrants and a lot more racial, the mix of black and white in particular. I've actually never been to their worship for an extended period of time, so I can't comment wisely on it.
Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.
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