Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071227/sc_livescience/mostliterateuscitiesminneapolisandseattle" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/livesc ience/20071227/sc_livescience/mostliterateuscitiesminneapolisandseattle</a> Uh have you seen Road Trip's posts? ;p
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Uh have you seen Road Trip's posts?>> RoadTrip's scintillating and well-informed posts? ;-)
Originally Posted By vbdad55 okay - so now people are literate because there are resources per capita around for them to use ? St. Louis ?
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF I would never have put St. Louis before San Francisco. That's just...odd. I'm undecided about the Twin Cities. Sure, we have GREAT library resources across the entire region, but...a library with TONS of copies of the latest tomes by Laurell K. Hamilton, Danielle Steel, Dean Koontz, etc. doesn't necessarily indicate "well-read."
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<okay - so now people are literate because there are resources per capita around for them to use ?>> The criteria also included newspaper circulation, number of bookstores and educational attainment. All pretty good evidence of a literate population. If y'all could read you'd have known that. ;-)
Originally Posted By barboy My favorite features to the Twin Cities has nothing to do with its literacy ranking and everything to do with Steve Lombardozzi and Caribou Coffee.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Ugh...Caribou Coffee... I know they're a local point of pride around here, but...I don't care for them. I should just send you the $10 'Boue card my boss ever-so-thoughtfully gave me...
Originally Posted By barboy Chain or no chain, locally loved or hated...... I found that Caribou the best; even better than Blue Mountain coffee when I was in Negril, Jamaica.
Originally Posted By barboy "$10 'Boue card" If I were the one behind Caribou's marketing schemes I would make sure those gift cards would come labeled $10 "bucks", $25 "bucks" and $50 "bucks" respectively.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <If y'all could read you'd have known that. ;-) < Having visited Minn and St Louis often - the fact that they rank ahead of towns like Madison WI and Austin Tx where the population is generally recognized as very well educated compared to most places tells me all I need to know about this finding. btw - wasn't St Louis in the top 10 crime cities ? I guess they were killing each other over the last copy of Psychology Today at the newstand.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF ^^^ See, that's what I mean. On any given day in San Francisco, you see so many people reading. Doesn't matter if it was on the bus, BART, MUNI, the various cafés and coffee shops and such; I just never have seen so many people in one area read so much. One of the best independent bookstores I have ever been to (Stacy's) is located in SF. We have nothing here that even comes close; all we have are Borders and Barnes & Nobles stocked with pretty much the same stuff. The library system in SF is terrific; most of the time I could find just about anything I wanted to read. Here, I wind up ordering a lot of books from online sources because the libraries here don't carry them. The best thing I can say about the Twin Cities libraries is that they make it very easy to borrow books across systems. (The library in Trippy's location is especially good.) If I recall, readership of the Star Tribune went down while that of the Pioneer Press went up (and I can't figure THAT one out). >>the fact that they rank ahead of towns like Madison WI and Austin Tx where the population is generally recognized as very well educated compared to most places tells me all I need to know about this finding<< You said it best.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Er...OK. I lived there for 8 years, and I generally found it a friendly town.
