Spanish insight

We had dinner the other night with a geologist from Spain who just moved to town to oversee his country's local gas and oil interests. At one point, the conversation turned to how different our respective hometowns are from Santa Cruz. As I was giving my two cents, the geologist stopped munching on his suckling pig and stared off into the distance with a sincere look of confusion.
"Philadelphia," he said. "How is Philadelphia? You don't hear much about Philadelphia. It's kind of like the Paraguay of the United States."
Not a bad analogy, I thought. But where does that leave Cincinnati? French Guyana?