by edsas » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:30 pm
Omaha Cowboy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:11 pm
TitosBuritoBarn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:42 pm
That was really poorly researched. I feel like I googled for click-bait top-10 lists with questionable research Omaha is on and made assumptions for each one.
It’s mostly a BS video.. But I will say, the talk about Omaha drivers and their inability to merge, is spot on...
Ciao..LiO...Peace
Terrible video.
I don't mind something that roasts Omaha (which this seems to be doing), but for it to be funny, it needs to be true. There were just too many falsehoods in this.
The biggest ones to me were:
1. Omaha is flat. What? The guy claims to have spent 5 hours in Omaha. I don't believe it, because that's more than enough time to figure out that the city is about as hilly as they come. It might sound weird, but I would actually classify Omaha as hillier than LA (where I lived for 11 years). While it's true there are mountains surrounding LA (including a small range that cuts right through the metro), the LA basin where the bulk of city development exists is pretty level. Omaha's hilliness is much more prevalent by comparison. Nobody would call LA flat, but I'm saying it right here, Omaha is characteristically way more hilly. The bluffs surrounding Omaha (especially on the Iowa side) offer some pretty rugged and picturesque views. They might not be the San Gabriels, but they're fairly noticeable from the varying vantage points around the city.
The video goes on to suggest because Omaha is flat and surrounded by nothing but farm fields (uh, no), that there are no opportunities for mountain biking or hiking.
Yeah, sure.
2. Omaha has no food scene. Again --
What? TV dinners? Really. Omaha's restaurants are fantastic and are in league with cities three times its size. Just ask the New York Times food editor who recently called Omaha a farm-to-table trend setter.
3. There's nothing to do. Yeah, again. What? Being a city of 1 million, there are some obvious limitations. But I'm constantly amazed by the quantity and quality of entertainment options in our city. It was especially surprising moving back from California in 2010. I never lived in Omaha before then. I grew up in Grand Island and went to college in Lincoln, moved to LA and then to Omaha. As a kid in Grand Island in the 1990s, I remember coming to Omaha to go to Civic and a few other spots for a limited offering of concerts. Flash forward to 2010 to the present and the number of venues just blows me away. Love Stir Concert Cove, Sokol, Slowdown, Orpheum, the Holland and -- of course -- CHI. (Throw in Westfair and SumTur) You truly can't catch everything that comes through town any more. That's the mark of a city with an entertainment presence.
Then look at theater options (soon to have not one, but two Alamo Drafthouses for Chrissakes!), Film Streams etc. The zoo, The Jocelyn, The Durham, Loritzen. On and on. I'm preaching to the choir.
Would Omaha have a few more nicer entertainment options if it were twice its size? Sure. But to paint Omaha as a sleepy little hollow whose residents are on the brink of madness due to boredom is just absurd.
So, anyway, it's mostly just a harmless video meant to pad the guy's youtube bank account. I'm just glad Omaha gets so much great press in established media outlets, because reputation ultimately matters in potential economic development. Videos like this are obviously not going to have a huge impact in the long run. But, since Omaha is still trying to lift itself up onto the big boy stage, I'd rather videos like this didn't exist.
[quote="Omaha Cowboy" post_id=297378 time=1547529065 user_id=218]
[quote=TitosBuritoBarn post_id=297367 time=1547505745 user_id=157]
That was really poorly researched. I feel like I googled for click-bait top-10 lists with questionable research Omaha is on and made assumptions for each one.
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It’s mostly a BS video.. But I will say, the talk about Omaha drivers and their inability to merge, is spot on...
Ciao..LiO...Peace
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Terrible video.
I don't mind something that roasts Omaha (which this seems to be doing), but for it to be funny, it needs to be true. There were just too many falsehoods in this.
The biggest ones to me were:
1. Omaha is flat. What? The guy claims to have spent 5 hours in Omaha. I don't believe it, because that's more than enough time to figure out that the city is about as hilly as they come. It might sound weird, but I would actually classify Omaha as hillier than LA (where I lived for 11 years). While it's true there are mountains surrounding LA (including a small range that cuts right through the metro), the LA basin where the bulk of city development exists is pretty level. Omaha's hilliness is much more prevalent by comparison. Nobody would call LA flat, but I'm saying it right here, Omaha is characteristically way more hilly. The bluffs surrounding Omaha (especially on the Iowa side) offer some pretty rugged and picturesque views. They might not be the San Gabriels, but they're fairly noticeable from the varying vantage points around the city.
The video goes on to suggest because Omaha is flat and surrounded by nothing but farm fields (uh, no), that there are no opportunities for mountain biking or hiking. :lol: Yeah, sure.
2. Omaha has no food scene. Again -- :lol: What? TV dinners? Really. Omaha's restaurants are fantastic and are in league with cities three times its size. Just ask the New York Times food editor who recently called Omaha a farm-to-table trend setter.
3. There's nothing to do. Yeah, again. What? Being a city of 1 million, there are some obvious limitations. But I'm constantly amazed by the quantity and quality of entertainment options in our city. It was especially surprising moving back from California in 2010. I never lived in Omaha before then. I grew up in Grand Island and went to college in Lincoln, moved to LA and then to Omaha. As a kid in Grand Island in the 1990s, I remember coming to Omaha to go to Civic and a few other spots for a limited offering of concerts. Flash forward to 2010 to the present and the number of venues just blows me away. Love Stir Concert Cove, Sokol, Slowdown, Orpheum, the Holland and -- of course -- CHI. (Throw in Westfair and SumTur) You truly can't catch everything that comes through town any more. That's the mark of a city with an entertainment presence.
Then look at theater options (soon to have not one, but two Alamo Drafthouses for Chrissakes!), Film Streams etc. The zoo, The Jocelyn, The Durham, Loritzen. On and on. I'm preaching to the choir.
Would Omaha have a few more nicer entertainment options if it were twice its size? Sure. But to paint Omaha as a sleepy little hollow whose residents are on the brink of madness due to boredom is just absurd.
So, anyway, it's mostly just a harmless video meant to pad the guy's youtube bank account. I'm just glad Omaha gets so much great press in established media outlets, because reputation ultimately matters in potential economic development. Videos like this are obviously not going to have a huge impact in the long run. But, since Omaha is still trying to lift itself up onto the big boy stage, I'd rather videos like this didn't exist.