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The nature: So much water! Located between a massive river, an enormous bay, and the Atlantic Ocean, with rivers running through all the cities. Yeah, it makes transportation a @#!%$, but it really is lovely. And then you've got the salt marshes you'll find all over the place on the small rivers and riverlets, the lush deciduous jungles we have as forests, the lagoons of Back Bay, Lynnhaven Bay/River, and the swamps of First Landing and the Great Dismal... There's just so much, and my favorite thing about the area is that they've (at least in VB) found a way to balance it out.
The people: The people here are lovely, full-stop. And for the most part, everyone's cooperative and seems to get along. People are laid-back but busy at the same time.
The weather: Believe it or not, I like the weather here. The heat doesn't bother me- the cold doesn't either. There's a good balance of everything. Instead of it staying hot the entire summer, we still get cold fronts that knock the temperature down 20 degrees or so.
The food: Believe it or not, the food here's getting better. Don't listen to the fools who say that it's "nothing but chains". You just gotta know where to look.
The unconventionality of it all: Hampton Roads is, at its core, very weird, wrapped in a thin veneer of Generic Americana. "It's a big suburb and disconnected!" Whereas most cities start at a single point and radiate outward, Hampton Roads is composed of five or six of those different "points". As a result, rather than there being a core city and a bunch of suburbs, you have seven unique and interdependent cities with their own identities. Some people claim that the lack of a coherent identity is holding the place back; I think it's one of the things that makes the area unique. Furthermore, people seem to see an endless sprawl of strip malls, which they seem to have conflated with chains and franchises. Ironically, our many strip malls is where you'll find an enormous number of hidden gems, from antique shops to cafes to some of the best restaurants in the state.
Don't like:
-The traffic: Somebody shoot me.
This metro baffles me. It's my home (I was born and raised here), and it could be so much better than it is. So much more influential. But for some reason, it's THE most misunderstood metro in the country. It's also the most ignored. (Cities with 1/3 the size getting far more name recognition). I feel like there's a LOT of potential energy building up in the area, though. It's difficult to pin down. Things are changing... It's just anyone's guess when we're gonna hit critical mass.
Living in St Louis and I looovee the look even tho its really abandoned in alot of areas ,it gives the city a feel and just the overall red brick and the way the neighborhoods are just gives it its own name apart from other cities. And I hate the crime rate. Crime here is seriously no joke if you live in city limits.
Living in St Louis and I looovee the look even tho its really abandoned in alot of areas ,it gives the city a feel and just the overall red brick and the way the neighborhoods are just gives it its own name apart from other cities. And I hate the crime rate. Crime here is seriously no joke if you live in city limits.
I'm a former St. Louis resident. St. Louis is really underrated - it has so many beautiful neighborhoods, parks, and cultural opportunities. I used to live three blocks from Forest Park and miss it terribly. However, as much as I loved my Central West End neighborhood, I do NOT miss the crime... and it's gotten a lot worse since I left five years ago.
I'm a former St. Louis resident. St. Louis is really underrated - it has so many beautiful neighborhoods, parks, and cultural opportunities. I used to live three blocks from Forest Park and miss it terribly. However, as much as I loved my Central West End neighborhood, I do NOT miss the crime... and it's gotten a lot worse since I left five years ago.
Oh yea most definitely , specifically 2014 the crime rate rose ridiculously. Your right tho. St Louis has a lot of nice neighborhoods that are underrated . St Louis is getting alot worse honestly.
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