I got in an "argument" on Facebook about how Atlanta is clearly better than Paris, and posted this response:
My wife grew up in Paris and now lives here in midtown, and likes it. We have taller buildings by far, a larger airport, a much larger granite mountain (which is quite gneiss), a much larger drive in, far better college football, better chicken sandwiches and burritoes (ever had a burrito in Paris? I have, yuck), I-285 is MUCH larger than the Peripherique, Piedmont Park is larger than Parc Monceau, the High Museum is, well, OK, not quite on the level of Musee'd'Orsay, perhaps, our symphony is led by a woman (even if she is French), we have more trees. especially of the pine variety, we have waffles on nearly every corner, we have good food from all over the world (except France), barbecue to beat anything they can muster, an hour or so drive to the mountains, many many more cars AND pickups AND SUVs, ... so, overall, they clearly envy us. We even have the same number of summer Olympics in the past hundred years...
