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On the contrary, I think Austin looks visually chaotic and disorganized. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason or cohesiveness to the development there. "Sure, let's just put a 10-story apartment complex right here between a gas station converted into a church, and a strip mall with three seperate beef jerky stores."
I'd agree that virtually all of the Central Valley cities in California are terribly unimpressive to look at.
This is exactly how I felt about Houston. Apparently they have no zoning laws and it shows.
While I tend to agree about the cities in California’s Central Valley being visually unimpressive, especially compared to the big costal cities, they are close to some amazing environments and scenery. I’ve seen personally so I’m sure you can find some photos online with snow capped mountains and/or palm trees. There’s definitely much worse out there visually.
At least Houston and Charlotte have skylines whereas Fresno and Bakersfield don't. San Jose and Sacramento also have far smaller skylines than Houston.
I actually think Houston looks visually exciting (then again, I think masterplanned, cookie-cutter suburbs are the best looking cities there are--and Houston's full of that).
Fresno, and Bakersfield don't even have a million people in their metros. Sacramento is still more exciting than Houston a city four times its size. Houston's skyline is big for nothing. lol SF is a third the size of Houston, and still blows it out the water.
Fresno, and Bakersfield don't even have a million people in their metros. Sacramento is still more exciting than Houston a city four times its size. Houston's skyline is big for nothing. lol SF is a third the size of Houston, and still blows it out the water.
Tell me how Sacramento is more exciting than Houston. And don't say it's because Sacramento is two hours from this, 90 minutes from that, etc. We're talking about Sacramento and its suburbs vs. Houston and suburbs, only.
Tell me how Sacramento is more exciting than Houston. And don't say it's because Sacramento is two hours from this, 90 minutes from that, etc. We're talking about Sacramento and its suburbs vs. Houston and suburbs, only.
Toledo. It was by far the ugliest city I've ever been through.
Definitely up there...my friend and I took a nice and unintentionally exhaustive tour of the city when we got lost looking for our hotel there in 2004. Extremely depressing place...even the arena where we saw a concert (called simply 'Sports Arena') was depressing.
Definitely up there...my friend and I took a nice and unintentionally exhaustive tour of the city when we got lost looking for our hotel there in 2004. Extremely depressing place...even the arena where we saw a concert (called simply 'Sports Arena') was depressing.
Well you met it 3 years before it's ultimate demise.
I was recently in Texas and Oklahoma and I have to say that I was fairly unimpressed. Austin was okay but it doesn't stand out visually. The hill country is beautiful but overall there's not much appeal there IMO. For a while, I thought that Oklahoma City was by far the ugliest city I'd ever been to until I visited Champaign, IL. Illinois as whole is the ugliest state in the country IMO.
Columbus, Ohio is pretty bland as well but it at least has some natural beauty. Dayton (like Austin) is okay as well. I like living here. We at least have hills and some natural beauty, though I wish the city itself didn't look so rundown in most areas. We do have nice suburbs though.
Pheonix, Indy, Toledo, Orlando, and inland California are all pretty bland imo.
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