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I was an introverted kid. I'm a clear E now. Nobody gave me that, I built it. Your Meyers Briggs type is a collection of dots on 4 different lines, not a light switch. Half of people retest as a different type. That's not the test being broken. That's you, moving. Mine moved twice: introvert at 15, ENTJ at 22, ENTP at 35. On purpose every time. —— #mbti #entp #personality #introvert #extrovert

Everybody has a city they unexpectedly loved and a city that left them wondering what the hype is about. Your personality type explains both, and only two of the four letters matter. E or I is the door. N or S is whether there's anything to read. The other two the city can fix. I'm an ENTP, here's my list. Drop your type, the city you loved, and the one that didn't work. —- #psychology #meyersbriggs #personalitytype #cities #urbanism

Introverts and extroverts never live in the same city, even when they do. Extroverts become locals through people, introverts through place, and cities don't offer both doors equally. That's the Seattle Freeze. It isn't rude, it's a city with one door. Which city let you in, and which cities have you felt unwelcome in despite people saying you’d love the city? —— #seattle #neworleans #introvert #extrovert #cities

Every city has a tourist box and the real city is never in it. The box has a critical function: tourists get entertained, locals get paid, harvesters harvest, nobody bothers anybody. But it only works if the box stays in the box. Grow too fast and the edge breaks, and the whole city starts playing to tourists. As a visitor you should go once, say you did, then peel the onion from there. What's your city’s tourist box? ——- #urbandevelopment #tourism #cities #anthropology #geography

Tourist, transplant or local. Which one do you wanna be? —- #cities #anthropology #geography

Transplants can ruin your city, but they don't have to, and it has almost nothing to do with the transplants. The same person gets converted in Philly in two years and renovates Austin into California. Two things decide it. Does the city have an immune system, Philly's is attitude, New Orleans runs a background check, Austin's lost. And do they stay. The transplant's kid is a lifer. Churn ruins cities, not transplants. Charlotte's problem was never where people came from. It's that they leave fo

Tourists don't ruin a city. Transplants do. New Orleans took 19.75 million visitors in 2019. Charleston took 7.4 million. New Orleans is the one that still has its culture. A tourist goes home, so whatever gets built for tourists stays in a box. A transplant stays, and the people who build for transplants are the Harvesters. Charleston's metro grew 20 percent in the 2010s. New Orleans is still smaller than it was in 2000. Nashville grew 20%. Memphis grew 1.5%. Where's the box in your city, and w

Every city in America is run by six kinds of people. The Lifer is of the place, their identity and the city's are the same thing. The Builder showed up while it was cheap and made something. The Harvester makes money off what somebody else made, and one question separates the two kinds: what did you build before you started taking? The Transplant either earns in or tries to turn your city into the one they left. The Seeker feeds the scene or consumes it. The Drifter isn't looking yet. Most peopl

Birmingham and Memphis are Rust Belt cities. They just happen to be in the South. Birmingham was founded on one of the only spots on Earth with coal, iron ore, and limestone in one valley. The Pittsburgh of the South, 340,000 people by 1960, then the steel died on Ohio's schedule. Memphis was the cotton capital that lost the crop economy underneath it. The Sun Belt boom skipped them because it rewarded blank slates, and getting skipped is what saved the bones. Birmingham has spent a decade lever

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America isn’t one country. It’s 10 cultural nations that happen to share a flag, each founded by different people for different reasons 400 years ago. Once you see the map, you can’t unsee it. #americanhistory #culture #culturalgeography #usgeography #uncledjpj

There are a few US cities that people have completely written off but the architectural bones in these cities rival cities in Europe. #cleveland #buffalo #stlouis #baltimore #architecture