ann arbor is overrated.

We wrote this thing for Consider Magazine a while ago for their “Is Ann Arbor Over-rated?” issue. (Yes, they hyphenate “overrated,” although at one point they split the difference by making it two words. We do not. It’s a choice everyone has to make at some point.)

Now it seems to have appeared (although not on their website, so here’s a reprint) opposite Ruthie Freeman’s piece “Ann Arbor: Bright Lights, Big City.” The respective pull-quotes: “Ah, there, as P.G. Wodehouse would say, you take me into deep waters.” And, “There is romance in a big city, a city like Ann Arbor that offers…a cosmopolitan passion for newness and change that keeps a person’s heart rate going as they hurry from cafe to cafe in a sea of people who don’t go to sleep to dream.” A summation of the whole A2 debate — arch stuffiness versus heartfelt wonder.