ann arbor is overrated.

Writes David Brooks in the latest Atlantic,

You can construct your own multimedia community, in which every magazine you read, every cable show you watch, every radio station you listen to, reaffirms your values and reinforces the sense of your own rightness. It is possible, maybe even inevitable, that you will slide into a solipsism that allows you precious little contact with people totally unlike yourself. But in your enclosed sphere you will feel very important.

This is precisely what Ann Arbor Sucks has tried and failed to do ever since moving here. Brooks makes it sound so easy - “Now everybody can be a snob,” he writes - especially the part about not talking to people unlike yourself. Where does one sign up?