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Urban character - Tie
Cost of living - Indy
Economy and employment - Indy
Weather - Hampton Roads
Recreational opportunities - Hampton Roads
More interesting and walkable neighborhoods - Tie
Crime Indy
Public transportation - Tie
More of a sense of community - Indy
Better downtown - Indy (not even close)
Traffic - Indy
Architecture - Indy
It's kinda hard to see how Indy wins in architecture when it has nothing like Old Town Portsmouth or the colonial architecture of the Historic Triangle.
You do realize that one area's population is growing twice as fast and has an economy that is 66 percent larger?
Unless the topic is explicitly about population and economic size/growth, those are usually among the last considerations in CvC matchups. Fairly or unfairly, it seems that Indianapolis routinely loses to other places in these matchups due to other reasons.
I voted for Hampton Road, however the gap between the two isn't as large as this poll would suggest.
The difference in the number of people voting for one over the other shouldn't be taken as an indicator of the size of the gap between the two places according to the stated criteria. Folks who believe that HR barely edges out Indy and those who believe that HR blows Indy out of the water would both vote for HR.
It's kinda hard to see how Indy wins in architecture when it has nothing like Old Town Portsmouth or the colonial architecture of the Historic Triangle.
By the same token Hampton Roads doesn't have architecture structures like Union Station (the first of its kind in the world), Soldier and Sailors Monument, Scottish Rite Cathedral (one of the largest Masonic building in the world), Murat Shrine Center ( the largest Shrine Center in North America), Benjamin Harrison House, James Whitcomb Riley Estate, Oldfield, Saint Mary's Catholic Church, Madam Walker Legacy Center.
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