Offering Fresh Perspective to “The Loo”

As a public service to those trendy kids, all 239 of them, in St. Louis who call the city “The Loo” (a British bit of slang for “the toilet”) and move to the city and its lofts to feel like they live in the Real City and who look down their retro-glasses adorned noses at people who don’t live life in the gritty Big City, particularly the people in the county who make up the bulk of the population in the St. Louis Metropolitan area, and who form coalitions and Web sites touting the development and resurgence of the city (a new crop of optimism every generation):

The city of Wichita, Kansas is larger than the city of St. Louis.

Carry on.

UPDATE:This just in: Evan has lost his job at the downtown coffeeshop that opened in a burst of fanfare two years ago but found that there aren’t actually customers downtown. Evan has moved back to Affton to live with his folks and look down at the other local yokels who could not make it in The Big City (even though he could not, either, and the city wasn’t that big). This brings the St. Louis Booster count to 238, which includes both actual city government employees who believe in the city line. Both are custodians at different facilities who grew up on the South Side.

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3 thoughts on “Offering Fresh Perspective to “The Loo”

  1. They can take heart, however, that they’re still bigger than Bakersfield, Corpus Christi, or Fort Wayne.

  2. They’re not done with Census 2010 yet.

    Of course, if you want to start counting phantoms who vote, it might be a different story.

  3. and who form coalitions and Web sites touting the development and resurgence of the city

    Uh oh. I sense a request for “public investment” coming up….

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