A: If you are willing to flush money down the drain by spending money on coffee that is not local, seasonal, organic, artisanal, sustainable, single-source, or market driven, you certainly can afford to buy kale that has dirt clumps coming off it and eggs from a chicken who lives in more space than you do.<\/p>\n
Q: Why is San Francisco the<\/em> Smug Epicenter of the U.S.? I mean, I\u2019m from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and you know how Smug that is.<\/p>\n A: Look, Smug Portsmouth resident, you are just not at that level. Everyone who lives in San Francisco believes it is the one truly livable city in the world and only proles, hayseeds, and other Wal-Mart shoppers would want to live anywhere else.\u00a0 They may be right!\u00a0 And that is why Smug Scout loves those pompous San Franciscans, even though they despise L.A. and do not let ANY social graces get in the way of expressing that.\u00a0 Smug Portsmouth residents do not assert their superiority so aggressively, perhaps because you people want to keep unsavory riffraff, in particular the dregs from Massachusetts, out of your utopic little city. \u00a0Smug Scout completely approves of that shuddering distaste for riffraff, which is also shared by San Franciscans, who of course rely on extortionate real estate and restaurant prices to keep the hoi polloi at commuting distance.\u00a0 In short, where Portsmouth is a private club, San Francisco is an arrogant commune.\u00a0 But of course part of being a Smug Portsmouth resident is believing that you do <\/em>live in the Smug Epicenter of the U.S., and Smug Scout respects that view.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Q: Is it Smug to live in a reclaimed house? A: Do you mean a foreclosed and condemned hovel in South Central?\u00a0 That is not Smug, that is crazy.\u00a0 Even after you have cleared out the squatters and fumigated the … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/smugscout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_5764.jpg\" "\\"IMG_5764\\"")
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