Adam Savage (Mythbuster) on San Francisco: “I travel a ton, like 100,000 miles a year. Everywhere I’ve been going for the last four years, every time I say where I’m from, someone goes, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. Sounds like things are really bad out there.’ It’s just not. If you drive around 96% of San Francisco, it’s among the most beautiful terrain in a major American city that you can possibly find.”

Shh! There’s a similar falsely rooted disdain for Tacoma. The key is to let everyone believe it so they don’t show up and screw everything up.