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Are you planning to post any valid links on Atlanta or just the nonsense you've posted thus far? Someone can dig up trashy links like those you've posted on any city. Get real, please.
Miami has plenty of rednecks just like Houston, Dallas ,and Atlanta. Your right; Houston and Dallas both have illegal immigrants; However, illegals in Miami are a different story.
Anyways, does Miami offer the mountianous and heavily wooded scenery and strong historical southern culture of Atlanta?
The mixed variety of Southern, Creole/Cajun, Latino, and asian culture and much more with a diverse landscape of heavy forested areas with rolling hills to the north (Conroe, Kingwood, or The Woodlands) or swampy, coastal, and muggy areas to the south (Clear Lake, Galveston, or Kemah), or miles and miles of praries to southwest/west (Katy or Sugarland) all within one metropolitan area like Houston?
Is Miami anything like Dallas with it's prairies and rolling hills mixed in with southern/midwestern culture. Fort Worth's western and laid-back feel yet being located in the 4th largest metropolitan area in the country.
This was my point; I didn't mean do downgrade Miami, but it doesn't offer these things.
theres plenty of swamps west of Miami and southwest, very beautiful specially towards the west coast... but alright for the rest!
right that Atlanta video is very childish and shows the joke that some people make of cities...
You right every city does offer some different things but Miami IMO offers more then any of the others. Miami offers an international diverse city with culture from around the world. It has world famous nightlife something non of those cities offer, world famous beaches another thing non of the cities offer. Two National Parks within an hour drive. One of the them being one of the most diverse and delicate ecosystems in the entire world. Non of those cities have that either. Every place will offer different things but it is not like Miami does not offer some good land scape and nature. I would take Tropical Coral Reefs, Warm Clear Water beaches and the Everglades over some hills any day. Of course all a matter of personal opinion.
Good points. If the Everglades were in Texas or Georgia, they would've been drained and paved over a long time ago. They did that crap in Florida too, but there were enough people who had the foresight to realize that wasn't the best idea. In Texas, they woudve been dismissed as whackos and then would've tried to drain the Everglades to look for oil.
And Miami nightlife blows anything the other cities offer out of the water. And beaches? You ever been to Galveston?! Yuck, that water is ick nasty gross. The town is nice and charming in it's own way. Lake Lanier and those lakes around Dallas don't count.
Good points. If the Everglades were in Texas or Georgia, they would've been drained and paved over a long time ago. They did that crap in Florida too, but there were enough people who had the foresight to realize that wasn't the best idea. In Texas, they woudve been dismissed as whackos and then would've tried to drain the Everglades to look for oil.
And Miami nightlife blows anything the other cities offer out of the water. And beaches? You ever been to Galveston?! Yuck, that water is ick nasty gross. The town is nice and charming in it's own way. Lake Lanier and those lakes around Dallas don't count.
I thought that the mention of the lake beaches around Atlanta and Dallas was a joke...surely they weren't serious about that.
Are you planning to post any valid links on Atlanta or just the nonsense you've posted thus far? Someone can dig up trashy links like those you've posted on any city. Get real, please.
How are those links not valid? They are just as much Atlanta as any pics of an upscale restaurant or night club you could post.
How are those links not valid? They are just as much Atlanta as any pics of an upscale restaurant or night club you could post.
The video is a joke - a ridiculous parody of life in Atlanta...if you want to be taken seriously, post something real.
The CBS News article was from 2000...in case you're wondering, that's 10 years ago - not exactly current news. You simply lifted it from another thread where Rachael84 posted it yesterday: http://www.city-data.com/forum/12987139-post10.html
Yeah, and Miami offers things that the other three don't. All four have their strengths in something. LOL at the Texans (of course) on here trying to downplay Miami's status as a tourist destination. People do like beautiful beaches, you know...Also, Miami is between two national parks. The Everglades and Biscayne Seashore. that's something that Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta do not offer. The Caribbean/Latin culture of Miami is unmatched.
Your attack on Texans is getting old. Please for the sake of the board move on. Most Texans on here has acknowledged that Miami is a better place to visit and it has the supreme advantage of being on an ocean over the other three so I don't know where you see that it is Texans (of course) trying to downplay Miami's status as a tourist destination.
Is it just me or do other people not view Miami as a Southern city, it always seemed more like the NE (but not totally maybe Palm is closer to the NE than Miami at least in people) once you get South of Orlando. I have trouble comparing Miami to the others which have many similarities at least enough to make the comparison. Plus Miami is really unque in many ways in it's connection/gateway to the Carribean and influx of such populations
Is it just me or do other people not view Miami as a Southern city, it always seemed more like the NE (but not totally maybe Palm is closer to the NE than Miami at least in people) once you get South of Orlando. I have trouble comparing Miami to the others which have many similarities at least enough to make the comparison. Plus Miami is really unque in many ways in it's connection/gateway to the Carribean and influx of such populations
Please don't take this thread in that direction...it has been debated countless times on this site.
For the purposes of this thread, Miami is in the South. Yes, it's a unique southern city - but no less a southern city than the others.
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