America's most overrated, overhyped, or overpriced cities to live (promotional, centers)

[AT205]

Originally Posted by Spade

I disagree and I said as a city, it has the best scenery in the state. There isn't a city in Northeast Texas at the level of Austin and there won't be for another 100 years. But even so, I know of the little hills and tall trees in East Texas and it is very nice. But the the hill of Austin and west cannot be beat in Texas.

Isn't Austin awesome! Everytime you drive through a new street in the west area there is always something that will catch your eye.

I like it here, but it's not the greatest all-around. I got some beefs about this place . But the scenery is great! I think out-of-staters just assume all of Texas is flat.

[milquetoast]

Originally Posted by mead

While NYC is certainly really expensive, I definitely wouldn't call it overhyped. You have to shell out some cash if you want to live in the center of the world.

Ahhh.. there it is! The provincial blast from the past. Steinberg's little pic looks like the pathetic illustration that another New York entity, Time, used to visually describe my hometown on its cover in the early 90's. The caption? " Is Los Angeles going to hell? " Bet none of your cities ever received that kind of crap, splashed all over a piece of media that is supposed to serve the country- not make the idiots in the newsroom chuckle. Says more about New York than anything else. Still, that's also in the past. The hype after 9/11, which came from all forms of New York media, set up the rest of America in a relatively unattractive light. The comparisons were numerous and condescending, and are only starting to fizzle out now, 6 years later. If you haven't been reading, then you wouldn't know. This old drawing from The New Yorker, is just an old precurser from a city that tells you that you're lost without it, yet it still wants your money to save it. Center of the universe? That would be sad.

[Jake1256]

Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, las Vegas, Boston.

[movin'on]

Originally Posted by The_Anonymous_American

Every city in America with a casino is vastly overrated. Casinos act like bug zappers for the "dead enders" of our society.

Interesting comment. I live in a place that has a few casinos and I don't see the attraction. Could you explain what you mean by bug zappers for the dead enders of our socieity?

[anonymous]

Even though I'm a southerner and typically don't like to see people talk bad about the south, I agree with what many people are saying about southern cities like Atlanta, Houston, and Austin being overhyped and overrated.

Atlanta, for example, has everything I hate about the north, combined with everything I hate about the south.

[Hatless Wonder]

San Diego and Los Angeles are over-hyped and very, very overpriced.

[madmann101]

Originally Posted by anonymous

Even though I'm a southerner and typically don't like to see people talk bad about the south, I agree with what many people are saying about southern cities like Atlanta, Houston, and Austin being overhyped and overrated.

Atlanta, for example, has everything I hate about the north, combined with everything I hate about the south.

exactly how are they overrated? I think their underrated because their always critcized about their sprawl and not feeling like a "REAL CITY?" please explain because I just don't get it.

[KimoJimo]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

Las Vegas and Phoenix: extremely overhyped. Actually, ludicrously overhyped.

Man, do I agree on that! Despised both!

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by KimoJimo

Man, do I agree on that! Despised both!

Theyre great vacation destinations, but after a week, Im screaming to get out. Some love it, I hate it. Me, I hate it.

[The Cactus Leaguer]

Originally Posted by astroline95

orlando. the most overrated "city" on the planet.

Ding! We have a winner.