Third post tonight, this one on Cleveland's possible inferiority complex

For a while now, I've been noticing that while I (and others I've met both in person and online) feel that Cleveland has tons to offer, the rest of the country has ultra-low expectations of it (the image of burning river rather than plentiful streams in parks, for example), and many of the people who live here, well, they just refuse to appreciate what they have going for them.

Which brings me to another thing that's slowed me down with the posting (see previous two posts). I get frustrated with this attitude typified, I think, in one reaction to us almost breaking the snowfall record before we actually ended up breaking it (darn, I can't find the Plain Dealer column I'm referring to!). Anyway, the columnist was all, "we can't even win when we're competing with ourselves, how lame is that? Plus, who wants to win something like having the most snowfall? We can't even win something we don't want to win." Or something along those lines. And I was like, Geez, we just can't win with an attitude like that, can we?

So I did a search and found this article about Cleveland's inferiority complex:
Cleveland on the Couch

But then, recently, a native told me that there are people here who miss the yellow haze of pollution that used to hang over the city, because that meant there were jobs here. I was shocked that anyone could even think such a thing.

THEN, I started to get disgusted with myself and my attitude of, "Oh, you silly Clevelanders! What are you moaning about? I mean, *I* moved here from a more expensive part of the country, and *I* have job, and *I* think Cleveland's great!" I started to make myself sick, and I couldn't stand the thought of inflicting myself on anyone via the blog.