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== Real Life ==
=== USA ===
* Granby, Colorado was this until [[wikipedia:Marvin Heemeyer|Marvin Heemeyer]] destroyed it in the Killdozer, his homemade armored bulldozer.
* [http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/10/media-newspapers-news-biz-media-cx_jz_1210boringcities.html This list] of the ten most boring cities in America. Arizona is well-represented with three cities on the list (Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert), with California and Nevada also having multiple cities appear.
* Alamogordo, New Mexico: a sleepy suburb-without-a-city in the middle of nowhere, but with such events as the Trinity Nuclear Test Site forty miles north, [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983|the burial of ET: The Game just outside city limits]], and (more recently) the [[Harry Potter]] Book Burning by local [[Principles Zealot|zealots]].
* Abbottabad, Pakistan was this to most of the world until May Day, 2011, thanks to the death of Osama bin Laden.▼
** [[Lampshaded]] by the guy who live blogged the raid without realizing he was doing it.▼
** Also lampshaded by ''[[The Daily Show]]'' which said that it sounds like the name most New Yorkers would come up with when thinking of a Middle Eastern city.▼
* Ohio. All of it.
* Vermont, definitely. There are three questions that get asked when you say you're from Vermont. ''Where's that?'', ''What state's that in?'' and ''Isn't that part of Canada?'' Not kidding.
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* Inverted with St. Louis, Missouri. Stuff [[I Used To Be Cool|used]] to happen here (the World's Fair, the Olympics), and now we're probably best known for a [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17361995 recent BBC documentary] about how racially and economically disparate the north and south sides of Delmar Boulevard are.
** And on the other side of the state, Joplin was more or less unknown until the May 22nd, 2011 tornado hit and took out much of the city.
=== Not USA ===
▲* Abbottabad, Pakistan was this to most of the world until May Day, 2011, thanks to the death of Osama bin Laden.
▲** [[Lampshaded]] by the guy who live blogged the raid without realizing he was doing it.
▲** Also lampshaded by ''[[The Daily Show]]'' which said that it sounds like the name most New Yorkers would come up with when thinking of a Middle Eastern city.
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