Louisville

A Border City situated by the falls of the Ohio River. Despite it's downtown facing the Indiana shore, it thinks it's in the middle of Kentucky. Despite being situated along the lower rim of the Midwest it thinks it's in the middle of the South. Locals refer to the northern half of the metropolitan area as "Southern Indiana" despite Evansville being much farther to the south. A city with what is possibly the most irritating regional pronounciation of a city in the USA, right up there with Norfolk Virginia. Though there is some variation in the regional pronunciation, the typical pronunciation used by people in the local media (TV and radio) could best be described as "Loo-a-bull" (pronounced in such a way that sounds as if one is gargling ______, quickly swallowing on the second syllable) which could be translated as "getting a male bovine to sit on the toilet." A city that merged with the large county (Jefferson) where it served as the courthouse, back in 2003, imperializing the area around it, accelerating municipal hype, and giving developers an excuse to pave over the rest of the county.