What's your favorite and least favorite US city?
Dec 29th, 2007, 06:37 AM
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Have to laugh that until cmfong posted Detroit I was trying to figure out why it wasn't mentioned! Guess noone even considered spending time there.
My favorites are;
NYC,Cgo,SF,Sea,Bos and of course the mountains, trails and lakes of SW Montana
Las Vegas doesn't cut it for me.
Loved the food in NOLA but would never return.
My favorites are;
NYC,Cgo,SF,Sea,Bos and of course the mountains, trails and lakes of SW Montana
Las Vegas doesn't cut it for me.
Loved the food in NOLA but would never return.
Dec 29th, 2007, 07:34 AM
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I don't like Texas, except for Austin, which I love.
I give Chicago a slight edge over NYC, because of the slower pace and the way you always have easy access to the water. Love them both.
My other favorites are Boston, Philly and DC. Honorable mention goes to Charleston and Baltimore.
I can't stand the sprawl cities, San Antonio, Dallas, Atlanta, Tulsa.
Cincy, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Savannah, Cleveland, didn't hate them, but I don't need to go back.
I give Chicago a slight edge over NYC, because of the slower pace and the way you always have easy access to the water. Love them both.
My other favorites are Boston, Philly and DC. Honorable mention goes to Charleston and Baltimore.
I can't stand the sprawl cities, San Antonio, Dallas, Atlanta, Tulsa.
Cincy, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Savannah, Cleveland, didn't hate them, but I don't need to go back.
Dec 29th, 2007, 08:07 AM
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Hi Fdecarlo- I don't personally see the angry people thing, although I agree there are friendlier cities. I've lived here since 75, and for a long time wanted to live elsewhere. During the last 5 years I have seen positive changes, and am actually considering retiring here. I never thought I would feel that way. And I also have learned to appreciate the smaller cities and towns around us (Los Gatos, Campbell, Mt. View, Palo Alto).
Dec 29th, 2007, 08:28 AM
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Speaking of Cincinnati- my ancestors settled there in 1800 and my husband is president of a business there. However, I think they've done terrible planning in the city proper. Across the way in N Ky you can watch all the traffic flow south to the Newport Levee and all the neat places that have been built there. The pedestrian bridge starts at a neat place in Ky and ends in a lousy area of Cincinnati. They really screwed up on the riverfront.
Dec 29th, 2007, 09:11 AM
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Favorites, in order--Chicago, Seattle, NYC
Least Favorite. Boston. Totally unfair, based on one visit only, but I have absolutely no desire to go back. I'm sure that people who know it better may very well love it.
Least Favorite. Boston. Totally unfair, based on one visit only, but I have absolutely no desire to go back. I'm sure that people who know it better may very well love it.
Dec 29th, 2007, 09:50 AM
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I had ones that I didn't care much for the first time, but enjoyed more on the 2nd or subsequent visits. NYC was in that category, and Chicago and Tucson also. Portland has also really improved for me, since my first visit 23 years ago to my last trip in June.
Dec 29th, 2007, 11:37 AM
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Favorite: Washington DC, Sedona, Chicago
Least Favorite: Atlanta is the worst!
I live in the Detroit area. Granted, not many people come here just for the sake of coming to Detroit, but if you do happen to have family or business in the area...it's not the worst place ever. We have great sports teams (Wings and Pistons) a really good museum (Green Field Village/Henry Ford Museum) and some great shopping (Somerset Collection in Troy or Great Lakes Crossings). The Downtown area is trying too...Hard Rock Cafe, Comerica Park and Ford Field are downtown now too. Ok, just had to put my $.02 worth in
Least Favorite: Atlanta is the worst!
I live in the Detroit area. Granted, not many people come here just for the sake of coming to Detroit, but if you do happen to have family or business in the area...it's not the worst place ever. We have great sports teams (Wings and Pistons) a really good museum (Green Field Village/Henry Ford Museum) and some great shopping (Somerset Collection in Troy or Great Lakes Crossings). The Downtown area is trying too...Hard Rock Cafe, Comerica Park and Ford Field are downtown now too. Ok, just had to put my $.02 worth in
Dec 29th, 2007, 05:19 PM
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Loved Las Vegas, but don't really think of it as a city, per se, but rather as a very large (and dissolute) tourist attration where a lot of people happen to live. Ditto for Orlando, just substitute wholesome for dissolute.
Real cities? Love New York, where I grew up, and am quite fond of Philadelphia where I live now (just outside). I adore Savannah, and St. Augustine, and have a sneaking fondness for Jacksonville, Florida. Boston is nice, but I have been very cold, very bored, and kind of hungry there at various times. I've been kind of bored in Charleston, too, even though it's pretty. I have a hard time thinking of someplace so awful I would never return. I guess I'm just the kind of person who thinks places are interesting if I've never been there before.
Real cities? Love New York, where I grew up, and am quite fond of Philadelphia where I live now (just outside). I adore Savannah, and St. Augustine, and have a sneaking fondness for Jacksonville, Florida. Boston is nice, but I have been very cold, very bored, and kind of hungry there at various times. I've been kind of bored in Charleston, too, even though it's pretty. I have a hard time thinking of someplace so awful I would never return. I guess I'm just the kind of person who thinks places are interesting if I've never been there before.
