ann arbor is overrated.

Ann Arbor’s suckitude has now apparently made it to the pages of Salon. Advice colunist Cary Tennis fields a letter from a lonely 34-year IT administrator living in “a Midwestern college town.”

Well, that could be…let’s see, Champaign, Madison or maybe even Columbus. But “Spinning My Wheels”’s complaints fit just a little too well. He’s “tried the bar scene, but they come in two categories: massive sports bars crammed with binge-drinking undergraduates, or smaller, pub-style places where grad students huddle around a table and discuss their classes and professors and don’t talk to anyone else except their waitperson.” He laments that “people come here to go to school, they associate primarily with people they meet in class, and then leave when they’ve got their degree,” which would seem to leave out Madison and its frenzied Wisconsin state government social whirl. And the clincher: he “took a yoga class last year hoping to meet some women.”

Oh, and Tennis’ advice? Move to Chicago, “the windy city of broad shoulders and blues and graduate students in economics.” Sigh.