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What cities have lots of bland, icky and characterless neighborhoods in your opinion?
-Omaha, Nebraska: newer areas are are very nicely planned, but the inner-portion itself a vast majority of it while getting better is just very old, characterless and boring. Lots of horrible cheap architecture
-Lincoln, Nebraska: This place really planned itself around the car, lots of cheap small old wooden homes with tons of old stuff all over their unmowed yards. Alot of people dont maintain their yards either or take pride in their homes.
Very little sense of community compared to other places and lots of vacant lots everywhere. Some neighborhoods are just look spooky. They have a few exceptions to the rule architecturally but not many.
-Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Most boring looking city other then the very hilly topography I have ever seen. The disctinctiveness of the neighborhoods compared to other cities is very, very low. Just very bland
-Indianapolis, Indiana: For a large city this is not a neighborhoody city at all.
How about trying to be original rather then most of the neighborhoods looking like rural towns?
-Davenport, Iowa: Didnt see much unique about this place either unlike its counterpart Dubuque.
-Dayton, Ohio: By Ohio standards for one of the larger cities in the state I found it to seem rather bland and it didnt seem like a place of diverse and interesting neighborhoods like Cincinnati or Columbus.
You want BLAND, CHARACTERLESS Neighborhoods?? You need look no further than LAS VEGAS NEVADA!!! Gated communities, Cinder Block walls, tacky strip mall upon tacky strip mall. That along with Urban Planning gone berserk!!
Omaha, Nebraska: newer areas are are very nicely planned, but the inner-portion itself a vast majority of it while getting better is just very old, characterless and boring. Lots of horrible cheap architecture
Come now, have you been to Old Town? I mean cobblestone streets, great restaurants, parks, horse-driven carriages, etc; I wouldn't call that bland!
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-Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Most boring looking city other then the very hilly topography I have ever seen. The disctinctiveness of the neighborhoods compared to other cities is very, very low. Just very bland
Sioux Falls is a city based on suburbs, it really isn't a "city". I mean it's a nice place to live with some great amenities but it truly is bland.
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Davenport, Iowa: Didnt see much unique about this place either unlike its counterpart Dubuque.
Very true. Davenport is very crime-ridden and many of the older neighborhoods are in a state of disrepair.
I find much of the high-growth "newer" Sunbelt cities to be full of bland and characterless neighborhoods. They have their exceptions, but in general, places like Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh, and Dallas, their neighborhoods just leave me cold. They oftentimes mirror the exurbs of many older cities that tend to have more unique and traditionally structured neighborhoods, places like Chicago, New York, Boston, DC, Philadelphia, etc. in the sense that they tend to be geared towards the automobile, oftentimes are divided into subdivisions with a similar housing stock, isolate residential areas from commercial areas, and just in general have little to no street life.
To me, any brand new housing development looks bland and has no character. No large trees, everything dry and just as bland as can be. There are a couple of new housing developments in the Coachella Valley, where I live, that are not bland and have character, but they are both too far from the main part of town. That wouldn't bother me so much, but my husband doesn't like to live anywhere further than 10 minutes of a grocery store, video store or copy store. The two places I'm talking about are about 15-20 minutes from the stores.
By Indianapolis if you mean downtown, I would concur. But ever been in the Meridian Street vicinity in the north central side of town? Kessler Street? Broad Ripple vicinity? Much of north central Indy in fact has splendid homes and neighborhoods. Indy is no Boston for sure, but it isn't that bad and you could do much worse.
I find much of the high-growth "newer" Sunbelt cities to be full of bland and characterless neighborhoods. They have their exceptions, but in general, places like Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh, and Dallas, their neighborhoods just leave me cold. They oftentimes mirror the exurbs of many older cities that tend to have more unique and traditionally structured neighborhoods, places like Chicago, New York, Boston, DC, Philadelphia, etc. in the sense that they tend to be geared towards the automobile, oftentimes are divided into subdivisions with a similar housing stock, isolate residential areas from commercial areas, and just in general have little to no street life.
In some of Dallas and Atlanta's older neighborhoods I find them some of the most beautiful architecturally with lots of charm and character.
By Indianapolis if you mean downtown, I would concur. But ever been in the Meridian Street vicinity in the north central side of town? Kessler Street? Broad Ripple vicinity? Much of north central Indy in fact has splendid homes and neighborhoods. Indy is no Boston for sure, but it isn't that bad and you could do much worse.
Agreed. I defy anyone here to show me a "bland and characterless" neighborhood in central city Indianapolis. (Mod cut). Much of inner-city Indianapolis housing stock is identical to Detroit and Cleveland.
Last edited by ontheroad; 09-24-2007 at 10:19 AM..
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