America's most overrated, overhyped, or overpriced cities to live (appointed, real estate market)

[Jake1256]

Originally Posted by The Cactus Leaguer

Ding! We have a winner.

I don't know what about Atlanta?

[bigtallredhead]

Originally Posted by AT205

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.

I have heard only good things about Austin, though I'm sure it has it's down sides too. -What are your beefs with the city???

[compelled to reply]

Some of you need to spend some time in (the real) Miami...

[bigtallredhead]

Originally Posted by Hatless Wonder

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

I agree 100% with that assessment. -Emil.

[downtownnola]

Miami and Los Angeles are ridiculously over-rated! They're expensive, congested and superficial... can't stand either place!

[compelled to reply]

Originally Posted by downtownnola

Miami and Los Angeles are ridiculously over-rated! They're expensive, congested and superficial... can't stand either place!

It's about time somebody acknowledges that!!!!

[Futcha]

Originally Posted by milquetoast

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.

Lost without what? The World Trade Centers are gone and yet we still are leading the world in almost everything. London beats us out in finance only because we lost the World Trade Center.

[Jake1256]

Boston, Atlanta, Austin, st. louis, las vegas, LA, Chicago.

[Spade]

Question. What exactly makes a city over-rated?

[milquetoast]

Originally Posted by Spade

Question. What exactly makes a city over-rated?

What makes a city over-rated, FutureCop? New York doesn't come close in leading the world in almost everything, ya gotta re-align your paradigm, dude! Get out of that hamster cage and see a little actuality. Please, don't be embarassing. More money was moving thru London before 9/11. I also wouldn't expect you to acknowledge the promotional whoring from New Yawk these past 6 years. You should try being on the receiving end of that crap! What was the topic of this thread again?