"Culturally sidelined"

"If only I had a Globe and Mail subscription to cancel," says Bronwen Eyre.

One of their columnists " intimates that bad manners exist only in the West" because, he claims, his waitress in Banff somewhat graphically begged the indulgence of a washroom break.

Yet:

Many famous, creative people hail from, and love, culturally sidelined places. The Bronte sisters cherished the isolated Yorkshire moors; American novelist Philip Roth is deeply connected to "pastoral" New Jersey, where he grew up . . .

"Culturally sidelined places" -- that cries out for a Top Ten Signs list.