Amusing map that gets at NYC’s brand of provincialism, which goes something like this: “The City” is the center of the world and the only place worth living in (well, maybe, Paris or London, but…). The rest of America consists of backwater hinterlands inhabited by uncultured, simple people—the likes of whom roam around Times Square in droves with oversized sweatshirts.

Amusing map that gets at NYC’s brand of provincialism, which goes something like this:

“The City” is the center of the world and the only place worth living in (well, maybe, Paris or London, but…). The rest of America consists of backwater hinterlands inhabited by uncultured, simple people—the likes of whom roam around Times Square in droves with oversized sweatshirts.