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Miami has everything any of these cities have and then a lot more. Beaches, national parks, near by destinations international and domestic for day or weekend trips and extremely diverse. Houston and Atlanta are nice cities but they just do not offer as much.
1. Miami
2. Houston
3. Atlanta
4. Dallas
Miami has everything any of these cities have and then a lot more. Beaches, national parks, near by destinations international and domestic for day or weekend trips and extremely diverse. Houston and Atlanta are nice cities but they just do not offer as much.
1. Miami
2. Houston
3. Atlanta
4. Dallas
miami offers nice beaches and vain, shiny, brown people. that's it
miami offers nice beaches and vain, shiny, brown people. that's it
1. dallas/atlanta
2. houston
3. miami
To be fair though. He did say for vacationers. That is clearly Miami. It's the better city out of the four to visit. All four have attractions, monuments, and landmarks. But Miami has a bigger impact with beaches, clubs, and warm year round weather (except January). Now to live is a different story.
Personally, I'd put it like this.
1. Miami
2. Atlanta, GEORGIA/ Houston
4. Dallas
1. Miami - Beautiful beaches, landscape, tropical climate. Miami simply interests me more than the other cities on this list.
2. Atlanta - Gets a bum wrap on this site, and while it's far from my favorite city, Atlanta has many redeeming qualities. Buckhead gets mentioned a lot here but there's a reason for that: it's a beautiful neighborhood. I wouldn't want to live in the suburbs, but the city of Atlanta is a pretty cool place.
3. Houston - Not my type of city. It's 580 square miles, and it's located right next to the ocean...yet the city doesn't seem to utilize Galveston Bay for any reason outside of oil. It's the gold standard for sprawl. It's just not for me.
4. Dallas - To me, Dallas seems like Houston, but with (somehow) even more sprawl and no nearby ocean. It's flat as a pancake and from what I've heard, it's oppresively hot. Thankfully there are some pretty lakes in the area, but I feel like that's the only redeeming quality. The impression I get of the Dallas culture is "all flash, no class". It seems to be a very plastic culture. I'm not intending to offend people from Dallas by saying this...it's simply the way Dallas comes across to me. The only reason I would ever go there would be to go to Cowboy Stadium, or to see the Red River Shootout.
1. Miami - Beautiful beaches, landscape, tropical climate. Miami simply interests me more than the other cities on this list.
2. Atlanta - Gets a bum wrap on this site, and while it's far from my favorite city, Atlanta has many redeeming qualities. Buckhead gets mentioned a lot here but there's a reason for that: it's a beautiful neighborhood. I wouldn't want to live in the suburbs, but the city of Atlanta is a pretty cool place.
3. Houston - Not my type of city. It's 580 square miles, and it's located right next to the ocean...yet the city doesn't seem to utilize Galveston Bay for any reason outside of oil. It's the gold standard for sprawl. It's just not for me.
4. Dallas - To me, Dallas seems like Houston, but with (somehow) even more sprawl and no nearby ocean. It's flat as a pancake and from what I've heard, it's oppresively hot. Thankfully there are some pretty lakes in the area, but I feel like that's the only redeeming quality. The impression I get of the Dallas culture is "all flash, no class". It seems to be a very plastic culture. I'm not intending to offend people from Dallas by saying this...it's simply the way Dallas comes across to me. The only reason I would ever go there would be to go to Cowboy Stadium, or to see the Red River Shootout.
you gotta do your research, man. dallas really isn't all that flat. in fact, the terrain ranges from slightly rolling to very rolling. houston is the city that's flat as a pancake
1. Miami - Beautiful beaches, landscape, tropical climate. Miami simply interests me more than the other cities on this list.
2. Atlanta - Gets a bum wrap on this site, and while it's far from my favorite city, Atlanta has many redeeming qualities. Buckhead gets mentioned a lot here but there's a reason for that: it's a beautiful neighborhood. I wouldn't want to live in the suburbs, but the city of Atlanta is a pretty cool place.
3. Houston - Not my type of city. It's 580 square miles, and it's located right next to the ocean...yet the city doesn't seem to utilize Galveston Bay for any reason outside of oil. It's the gold standard for sprawl. It's just not for me.
4. Dallas - To me, Dallas seems like Houston, but with (somehow) even more sprawl and no nearby ocean. It's flat as a pancake and from what I've heard, it's oppresively hot. Thankfully there are some pretty lakes in the area, but I feel like that's the only redeeming quality. The impression I get of the Dallas culture is "all flash, no class". It seems to be a very plastic culture. I'm not intending to offend people from Dallas by saying this...it's simply the way Dallas comes across to me. The only reason I would ever go there would be to go to Cowboy Stadium, or to see the Red River Shootout.
What would be the difference if Houston was 35 sq. miles??? It's still sprawl regardless of the land size and I'm not even sure why land size is a factor in determining a city. Atlanta sprawls out the most out of all the cities actually; Houston and Dallas just acquired more land. I doubt the last thing people are worried about in Houston is it being 580 sq. miles and if anything that's not even an accurate amount of land actually used or usable in the Houston area.
Have you been to Galveston?? Lots of construction and new projects coming up and blame the Missisippi River for Galveston's beach water.
Another thing is Dallas is not flat and it's pretty hill compared to Miami and Houston. Houston offers the most diverse area due to plains, bayous, swamps, coastal, and piney woods up north with rolling hills. I don't know if you've been to Houston or Dallas, but it seems you probably haven't.
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but I agree that Miami is the best with Atlanta second.
