ann arbor is overrated.

If everyone doesn’t stop being so nice to us, we’re going to lose our edge. Maybe that’s Geoff Larcom’s sinister plan. Writes Larcom, “When your father is a city official, you marry your high school sweetheart, then you live and work here, the old glasses can get a teensy bit rose-colored about Ann Arbor. For perspective, I self-prescribed a trip to ‘Ann Arbor is Overrated’…This is a skeptic with fresh eyes who enjoys tweaking the city’s fascination with itself.” Larry Kestenbaum, whom Larcom interviewed for the column, offers some insight as to how to square Ann Arbor’s high cost of living with its at least superficially left-wing politics.

The one quibble we have is that the headline, “Bloggers offer us some food for thought,” on a column just about this site and its posters implies that we’re the only blog around. The Ann Arbor blogosphere (sorry) has grown exponentially in the past year or so, and it’s been exciting to watch.

Also, Talk About Town reports that Ypsi’s water tower has made it into Esquire.