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View Poll Results: Which pairing offers the better natural/outdoors pursuits, given your tastes?
Atlanta + Houston 35 58.33%
Miami + Dallas 25 41.67%
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Old 03-26-2020, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Green Country
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Dallas adds nothing to the Miami pairing, but Miami alone is still > Atlanta + Houston.
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Old 03-26-2020, 01:32 PM
 
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Scratch Houston and Dallas off.. It's Atlanta vs Miami basically and Atlanta has an edge with access to mountains..
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Old 03-26-2020, 02:05 PM
 
Location: California
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Atlanta is such a beautiful city. In fact, I would argue that Atlanta is one of the most beautiful cities in the entire country. I have always joked that, if the Atlanta metropolitan area did not exist, the region would be a United States National Forest.

Unfortunately, there are no neighborhoods in Dallas, Houston or Miami that even remotely resemble this residential street in Marietta, GA, which is what the typical suburban street in the Atlanta area looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9145...7i13312!8i6656

Even The Woodlands in Montgomery County, TX, which is mostly flat and swampy, pale in comparison to the forested, rolling hills of the Atlanta area. The rest of Houston made me want to vomit.
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Old 03-26-2020, 02:19 PM
 
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Atlanta is such a beautiful city. In fact, I would argue that Atlanta is one of the most beautiful cities in the entire country. I have always joked that, if the Atlanta metropolitan area did not exist, the region would be a United States National Forest.

Unfortunately, there are no neighborhoods in Dallas, Houston or Miami that even remotely resemble this residential street in Marietta, GA, which is what the typical suburban street in the Atlanta area looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9145...7i13312!8i6656

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Beautiful West Cobb...
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Old 03-27-2020, 12:42 AM
 
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Atlanta is such a beautiful city. In fact, I would argue that Atlanta is one of the most beautiful cities in the entire country. I have always joked that, if the Atlanta metropolitan area did not exist, the region would be a United States National Forest.

Unfortunately, there are no neighborhoods in Dallas, Houston or Miami that even remotely resemble this residential street in Marietta, GA, which is what the typical suburban street in the Atlanta area looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9145...7i13312!8i6656

Even The Woodlands in Montgomery County, TX, which is mostly flat and swampy, pale in comparison to the forested, rolling hills of the Atlanta area. The rest of Houston made me want to vomit.
That looks like a typical suburban streetview in most of the Southeast US. Hell, even in Dallas you can find neighborhoods of similar elevation. Maybe not the same tree coverage, but definitely similar elevation.
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Old 03-27-2020, 06:54 AM
 
Location: Greater Orlampa CSA
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I've really been meaning to get there! I love the industrial aesthetic, too.

I get what you're saying, but it really is quite pretty. The city in a forest thing is really rooted in Atlanta's culture and feel.. there may be a few southern cities that can match, but not many.

The fact that you can get to a trailhead that not long after, yields views like this, within a 10 minute drive, isn't lost on me either: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Li...867939!5m1!1e4

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Old 03-28-2020, 12:42 AM
 
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I've really been meaning to get there! I love the industrial aesthetic, too.

I get what you're saying, but it really is quite pretty. The city in a forest thing is really rooted in Atlanta's culture and feel.. there may be a few southern cities that can match, but not many.

The fact that you can get to a trailhead that not long after, yields views like this, within a 10 minute drive, isn't lost on me either: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Li...867939!5m1!1e4
Atlanta is a jewel.

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