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San Jose! It's overshadowed because of them New Yorker Media bigwigs! New Yorkers are obsessed with San Francisco too much that they overlooked San Jose, which easily creams and beats New York. Think Studio 54 in Utopia, and that's San Jose with similar vibe outside, not inside a club as supposed to Studio 54. Remember Studio 54 motto: ecentric people of diverse background with different personalities. You come up with San Jose, and that's how San Jose is. It's very accepting to different race, gays and cool ethnic girls with some sprinkle of hot blonds. As for stars, you got Michelle Pfeiffer and Kim Basinger living in the SJ area. Sounds alot like outdoor Studio 54. There's nothing for San Joseans in New York, as quoted by Ed Asner who was on Mary Tyler Moore show.
Kansas City is a lot bigger/better/cosmopolitan/etc than people think. It's a metro with over 2 million people, but I'm not sure how many people know that. It has a lot to offer, but even a lot of residents here don't take advantage of it.
Ignoring a lot of the bickering later in the thread, this one has good info on things to do in the KC area.
San Jose! It's overshadowed because of them New Yorker Media bigwigs! New Yorkers are obsessed with San Francisco too much that they overlooked San Jose, which easily creams and beats New York. Think Studio 54 in Utopia, and that's San Jose with similar vibe outside, not inside a club as supposed to Studio 54. Remember Studio 54 motto: ecentric people of diverse background with different personalities. You come up with San Jose, and that's how San Jose is. It's very accepting to different race, gays and cool ethnic girls with some sprinkle of hot blonds. As for stars, you got Michelle Pfeiffer and Kim Basinger living in the SJ area. Sounds alot like outdoor Studio 54. There's nothing for San Joseans in New York, as quoted by Ed Asner who was on Mary Tyler Moore show.
I don't know that Studio 54 is something worth striving for, considering it was a bastion of shameless hedonism. I don't care that the crowd there was racially or ethnically diverse. I prefer to judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, and the crowd at Studio 54 generally lacked good character.
Gnutella, what about Cheryl Tiegs, Kim Alexa, Brook Shield, Sylvester Stallone, Elizebeth Taylor, Donna Summers, Andy Warhol, Meryl Hemmingway, Rod Stewart and Debbie Harry of Blondie? Were they part of a bastion of shameless hedonism? Sure, there were some people with poor judment of character, but most people there were larger than life and tolerate of others. It was so much fun and real there. It was like, "get off the sofa and stop watching tv at 11:30 and head to a place where everyone is having fun, including the older people and people who are in the art scene and are sophisicated." They sure had good character to me.
Huntsville, Omaha both immediately spring to mind as mid-sized cities that have done very well, and haven't really become "star" cities in spite of a serious track record of success.
Greensboro, which is a really solid and stable city perpetually overshadowed by Charlotte and Raleigh. That noted, Greensboro seems to want to out-do it's more famous neighbors in insane sprawl, and the many, many haphazard freeways cutting up the city do detract from a city that otherwise has many virtues.
Richmond VA might be the most perfect synthesis of dense/charming Northeastern city and energetic/upbeat New South city; it seems to fuse and embody the most positive attributes of two different but neighboring regions of the US. They've done a remarkable job of reinventing that city, while retaining a great deal of charm and distinctiveness.
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