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Date: May 13th, 2012 4:36 PM
-Great Mexican food.
-Riverwalk downtown is really cool and unique. See: http://www.traveldestinationinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/San-Antonio-RiverWalk-light-festival1.jpg
-True culture/history (Alamo, etc.).
-Walkable, pleasant downtown
-Not full of neurotic East Coast strivers.
-Doesn't have the urban/suburban sprawl of Dallas and Houston |
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Date: May 13th, 2012 5:50 PM isn't SA the fattest city in the country |
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Date: May 13th, 2012 5:51 PM That's all part of its charm. After all, don't all females have secret rape fantasies. You might say Anchorage is a dream come true for ladies! |
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Date: May 13th, 2012 5:19 PM - Overall nice city - Good urban character/density with gorgeous old mansions - City is built upon beautiful green rolling hills - Large population of smart educated folks due to multiple universities - Limited crime (the ghettos are small and isolated) |
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There are also weird rural-feeling places inside the city that pre-date postware suburban sprawl
see: http://g.co/maps/2pgx9 |
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- beautiful, walkable downtown (the plaza) and underrated architecture - second most fountains of any city in the world -fantastic BBQ, jazz - ridiculously friendly people - cheap as fuck COL |
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- Good music scene (Animal Collective, Beach House, Wye Oak). Good arts due to MICA
- Part of the DC combined statistical area but COL is about 1/2 of DC's.
- Credited city neighborhoods like Fells Point, Canton, Mt. Vernon, Hampden
- People really are much less pretentious and striverish than other east coast cities. You can go to a bar and strike up a conversation with anyone from a doctor to a auto body worker and it isn't unusual.
- Camden Yards
- Crime is overstated. Most homicides/shootings are due to drug gang turf wars which are relatively self-contained (at least for people not living in the ghetto). |
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-Mud Hens AAA baseball, which is supported fanatically by the locals
-a compact little downtown and some pleasant walkable neighborhoods around the city with bars and restaurants
-a national-level art museum and other institutions built up during the industrial glory days
-a nice-enough location on a river with plenty of parks in the area, and close to lake erie itself
-lots of old brick industrial-era architecture that looks neat nowadays
-cost of living and housing is insanely cheap.
-plenty of countryside and farms nearby if you want to try and be a "locavore," along with enough hipsters to give the city some of the usual hipster food/beer amenities that people seem to like these days
-a central location, in a way. an hour north: detroit. two hours west: fort wayne. 2 hours east: cleveland. 2½ hours south: columbus or dayton. the 3 to 4hr drive belt includes pittsburgh, cincinnati, indianapolis, chicago, grand rapids, and gets you most of the way to toronto.
downsides: crime; race riots; population decline and general malaise. |
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Date: May 13th, 2012 7:04 PM
Incredibly unsophisticated, prolish population which cannot be undervalued.
Unlike everything else in the Midwest, it's positioned in such a place that it requires much longer commutes to interesting areas. Even Ann Arbor is really 45-60 minutes away. If you're in South Bend or something, at least you have Indy + Chicago. Toledo's closet real city is Detroit... everything else is really far.
Boring as shit. There is absolutely no industry there.
The Art Museum is boss. The river front is cool. |
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Maybe it's the people I know but Indiana strikes me as a place where the boredom forces young people to do nothing except work on their bodies, like blacks in prison |
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Went there a long time ago and it seemed like a great place to live |
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fucking awesome area
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and then the hills are 180 and are only a 15 min drive away from downtown oakland or "telegraph" |
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Date: October 9th, 2012 6:43 PM
Lake Merritt is one of the most underrated neighborhoods in the entire Bay Area
Rockridge/Temescal
MacArthur BART area is very credited |
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Only bad thing is the weather which is tragically bad. |
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--Diverse
--GORGEOUS MEGAMANSIONS
--Cultured, intelligent folks
--Safe
--Great schools
--Arty
--Close to NYC without actually living in that shithole |
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fat sandwiches. |
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I'm not sure that it's "unheralded" because it's a consensus great little city, but I'm not sure enough people have taken the time to visit. Great weather, food, people, art scene. And it's so pretty. Lots of natural attractions nearby. |
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Date: October 9th, 2012 4:32 PM -desert weather is great (at least for me, I love dry heat) -decent food -roadtrippable to Las Vegas and LA -dope mountains -hot bitches -smell of orange blossoms =180 |
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Date: October 9th, 2012 4:40 PM
-for less than a MFH shoebox you can get a 3br oceanfront apt and have a reasonable commute to downtown. It's one of the few cities out there that where you can work a professional job, live at the beach and not have it be crazy expensive.
-tons of hot dumb UNF chicks that all go to bars within blocks of your oceanfront apt mentioned above.
-some cool scenery nearby & historic areas, (e.g. amelia island, south ponte vedra, st augustine)
-FL/GA weekend is a ton of fun
-literally every chain restaurant and fast food chain you can imagine |
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-Clean
-tons of boats/restaurants (seafood is great there)
-Friendly People
--Nice Downtown full of historical sites
-Nice Artistic feel |
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Date: October 9th, 2012 4:46 PM - Wonderful scenic views - Country living at its best - Fly fishing central - Zero pollution - No colored people - Centrally located (in state) - Cheap home prices |
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it takes forever to get anywhere from bend. youre not gonna be hopping in the car to go to portland or the coast all the time when it take 3.5 hours to get to either. in practice, eugene is really the centrally located oregon city.
that said, bend is 180 |
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Date: October 9th, 2012 8:46 PM - U of L med school brings educated people around - HQ of 3 F500 companies is pretty impressive for it's size - Old Louisville neighborhood has beautiful architecture - Inner neighborhoods are safe, walkable, and you're like 20 minutes from beautiful rolling bluegrass if you want to chill and go hiking or whatever. |
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Date: October 9th, 2012 9:02 PM
Great college basketball.
Great times to be had at the keeneland spring and fall meets.
Derby and oaks at Churchill.
Amazing bourbon selection at cheap prices.
Nice older neighborhoods like the highlands, st. Mathews, Chevy Chase, Richmond road at a low COL
Reasonably free of hardcore eastern ky rednecks. |
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Date: October 9th, 2012 6:38 PM
-An hour away from Yosemite
-cheap COL compared to everywhere else in the state
-everything is in Fresno proper. No commuting, etc.
-3-4 hour drive to SF
-every corporate food chain known to the USA
-a surprising amount of things to do if you're local and make some bros |
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livable. houses are cheap. schools are good. nice shops and boutiques. |
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--amazingly photogenic
--great music (jackson 5) and film scene (original gangstas)
--beautiful beaches
--indoor air quality |
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--good economy and capital of huge state
--college town as secondary identity
--close to nice beaches
--never snows
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plenty of things to do (credited classical music performing arts since FSU has one of the best music schools in the country - pop into free professors' chamber music or doctoral recitals that are held almost daily), good selection of food (some of the best pizza i've had anywhere is at momo's, kool beanz cafe, cypress, and sage are awesome, kitcho has 180 sushi because all of it is super-fresh from the gulf and their seafood supplier is literally next door), amazing ecotourism (swimming in wakulla springs, canoeing the st. marks or wassica rivers, sailing at shell point), two of the best undeveloped beaches in the u.s. are a two-hour drive )st. george and st. joseph's peninsula), pretty awesome to be so close to the deep south without actually being the deep south because you can pop on up to thomasville, ga and have a 180, straight-from-the-farm southern buffet at the market diner restaurant. |
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-Surprisingly nice, clean downtown area (Five Points) -Fantastic Southern cooking -Good civic life: people spend their lives here, care about the city, and work hard to make it a better place -Increasingly home to a highly educated population because of UAB (big medical school/life sciences center) -One hour from Tuscaloosa, best college football town in America -Reasonable drive to Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans -You can get a mansion for nothing -Bama bros >>>>>> NYC hipsters |