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Los Angeles is vastly under rated, mainly because all styles are present. You can landscape in any fashion which makes it different than South Florida, but you can do tropical landscape as well.
You could just stick to the one neighborhood of Los Feliz and pretty well have all your bases covered. MCMs sit side by side with Storybook Tudor cottages, Spanish Revivals, Contemporary Hillside Moderns, Mediterranean Mansions, Craftsman bungalows and, even Pre-Columbian Mayan style temples (FLW’s Ennis House)
The Boston picture you picked is quite exceptional-- Acorn Street Beacon Hill. It's representative of Beacon Hill for sure, and not unlike a few other intown or close-in areas like Charlestown. But much of Boston and other core metro cities is wood frame, free standing buildings. But what I like about it especially is the street pattern-- some grid, not that much, many streets that wonder off on their own, roads that follow old trading routes, and narrow, often hilly streets. I like the proportionality of many Boston streets-- narrow enough so that they contain the space in a satisfying way. Beacon Hill streets do that for sure in the most charming and genteel way, but many of the older wood-frame neighborhoods in Roxbury, Dorchester, Cambridge, etc., have that unusual proportionality too--houses close to the street, two or three stories, narrow street, and if you're lucky, nicely painted period houses with porches and gables. The three-decker blocks have that property too. Makes for a nice urban space.
These areas are too big, I would pick NYC if it were an option, but the whole tri state area also includes a lot of suburban sprawl which does interest me and varies a lot anyway.
Cleveland also has some interesting architecture with the tall, skinny houses and older homes of various styles.
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