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Louisville for Kentucky. Especially the Highlands/Cherokee Park area. Tons of unique local restaurants (also great new restaurants in the Main St district), consignment shops & boutiques, pubs and just a fun and eclectic scene.
Columbus, Ohio gets a perfect score on your first 8 bullets. As for the topography, the gorgeous Hocking Hills are 45 minutes away.
Nah, Yellow Springs is more what the OP is asking. There's no particular neighborhood in Columbus that is more "eclectic" than YS. Athens probably comes in second.
Why Mobile? I never thought it to be very eclectic Mardi Gras aside.
The city has Gulf Coast culture, architecture, festivals,cuisine, and it is a Catholic city. Birmingham has the Largest metro but outside of that it is no different from Huntsville or Montgomery in the aspect of culture, cuisine, architecture, and etc.
It's very hilly (nicknamed the City of Seven Hills). It has a very diverse population, with most of its residents coming from Brazil, Vietnam, Ghana, Poland, and the Dominican Republic. It has dozens of music venues, including the Raven, the DCU, Mechanics Hall, the Palladium, among numerous smaller music venues. It is dominated by local (phenominal) restaurants and had minimal chain retailers.
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