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1) Denver, CO: Wide open western views, rocky mountain views, dynamic growing city with a strong history of the cowboy and gateway to the west.
2) Indianapolis, IN: Great midwestern, middle sized yet bigger city. Not too rough, not too safe, not too diverse, not too cultured, not uncultured, good middle of the road experience.
3) Birmingham, AL: Southern style on display in a mid-sized city.
4) Pittsburgh, PA: Northeastern historical manufacturing/steel city that helped build the US. Dynamic, digital city that is becoming diverse. Good lower key city.
5) San Diego, CA: California style right by the dynamic and beautiful Pacific Ocean. Big city, but not LA or San Fran proportions. Good city to see that is less bustling yet growing. Good Cali culture.
Also, I'd say they should add in 5 national parks on this trip--and it should be a road trip between the cities for like 2 weeks-3 weeks if they could.
I'd add in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Hot Springs.
This is a great list of looking at the more mainstream USA cities compared to the media view of life revolving around NY, LA, and Chicago.
Northeast, West, Midwest, Gulf Coast, and Upper South all covered.
Who needs Florida when you have Houston, a Texas city with Florida weather?
Houston is not like White Sands and soaring palms of coastal Florida or the high-rise to skyscrapers living you can find. No hurricane-proof newer housing I've seen in Ft Lauderdale, Orange groves, the Everglades, DisneyWorld ...... the last goes on.
Houston is not like White Sands and soaring palms of coastal Florida or the high-rise to skyscrapers living you can find. No hurricane-proof newer housing I've seen in Ft Lauderdale, Orange groves, the Everglades, DisneyWorld ...... the last goes on.
Chill DavePa, they were talking about the weather not the list of other things you mentioned.
Oh, you had to ask! I don't know how to "best" represent the US. Most of us live in urban areas as defined by the census bureau, that is, cities and their suburbs. I think suburban is more representative than the cities in that most people in an urban area live in the burbs.
So, maybe . . .
Suburban DC, e.g. this Crystal City where Amazon is going in
Suburban Chicago-Naperville which is often named on of American's "best places".
Suburban Denver-of course, my suburb, Louisville, Colorado. (Has also been ranked #1 several times by "Money" magazine)
Some Texas city/suburb
Suburban LA. I'm not real familiar with its burbs except for Pasadena, and that's pretty upscale.
Five isn't very many for the whole US. Ten would probably be easier.
I'll help with the suburban LA part: come to Irvine, CA! A city just as well-planned, clean, efficient, and highly ranked in education and economy as Singapore!
Chill DavePa, they were talking about the weather not the list of other things you mentioned.
But my comment was on Houston like Florida.... for more tropical Texas its further west like Corpus Christi ..... I just never likened Houston to Florida to weather or look or attributes. But still definately a warmer climate then most of the US. It still gets a brown winter..... and just added my 2-cents. Florida gets its own class in distinction .... IMHO. As Texans like for their state too.
I've heard coastal Texas called the poor-mans Florida .....
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