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So, we're going to pick on Dallas now? I'm also going to push back on this. Freakonomics did a 2 part podcast earlier this year on why people are moving to Dallas. Hint, it's not just for jobs or LCOL (though I would also argue that these are "cool"). I love this quote from a lady they interviewed that moved from NYC to Dallas:
Dare I say it... it seems there's a fair amount of close-mindedness on these forums based on certain stereotypes. To me a big city with good jobs, reasonable cost of living, vibrant art scene, diversity, great universities, and a bunch more is cool. This is not to diminish the coolness of large coastal cities, I just don't see the point in limiting my perspective to such a narrow range.
I wouldn't describe Dallas universities as incredible, though I love that person's positivity.
Washington legalized marijuana on the exact same day as Colorado.
Overall, for cool states I would put Washington, Oregon and Colorado at the top. All have tons of breweries, super strong stoner culture, cool music (that's more WA and OR), awesome outdoor scenery and activities, really hip cities (WA - Seattle, Bellingham; OR - Portland, Bend; CO - Denver, Boulder), etc. etc.
Colorado in particular is definitely where I keep hearing people wanting to move to - and in turn, make Denver area (along with Boulder and Fort Collins and CO Springs) more and more expensive. Washington state is also attracting tech people away from SF Bay Area. And of course, to nobody's surprises those two states grew fast, really fast.
Oregon...well, Portland area is still attracting people (and at times, weird/eccentric people). No more liberal hippie type to the coast, though...those people are definitely aging.
Sure. People are moving to Colorado. But are they cool
People? From my experience (having even
maybe 30 times since 1986) it’s very bro. They take things and make them worse (like turning bluegrass into jam band nonsense).
The Hispanics and Asian population are usually out in the burbs instead of being in the city anyway.
Just drive along Buford Highway in NE part of Metro Atlanta...
Atlanta (city proper) demographics reminds me somewhat of DC - also very black and white with a dividing line, areas that are gentrifying, with very diverse suburbs.
Personally to me Atlanta is not really "cool"...it's not a bad place to live but as they said, it's "too busy to hate" as its reputation is more of a place where corporate type can make a living. Reminds me of Dallas (which is anything but "cool") in that sense.
Atlanta is cool because of its place in the "culture." It's the city that's the biggest contributor to hip-hop. It has celebrities in town all the time. You see Hollywood A-listers all over the city, Sports Athletes living in the city in their offseason. You have tech companies investing majorly in Atlanta to hire black talent. COL is rising rapidly as a result.
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Georgia—> Really just Atlanta
I think Savannah is pretty cool, one of the coolest places in all of the United States.
Athens, GA also looks like an interesting small city... perhaps even cool?
According to my husband who lived in ATL for 3.5 yrs, who worked for international music labels and with many recording artists/bands, Athens is really charming and cool, many beautiful Antebellum architecture there. A cool college town with booming music scene.
That lifestyle was driven by the hippies and anything goes attitude—great music/bands, “summer of love”, drug culture, nature, chill and laid back….evolved with a great culinary and wine scene (NorCal). Has definitely taken a hit in the past decade or two with growing homeless populations, crime, tech nerds replacing artistic types, too woke/politically correct types, etc.
There might be cool cities, doubt there are cool states—as good portions of CA used to be; that ship has sailed.
People who live in CA still think it's pretty cool. Like 39M people. Most that leave do so due to cost - if they could still afford it, they'd stay (mostly).
Also, I think anyplace where celebrities live and work and make movies is always going to have that cool factor.
Finally, most of the top tech companies are still HQ there. Anytime I read about coolest employers to work for, or up and coming tech dream jobs, etc. like half of them are in California somewhere.
I personally don't want to live in CA, but the only people saying it's not cool anymore are people who don't live there.
I personally don't want to live in CA, but the only people saying it's not cool anymore are people who don't live there.
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I'm also going to push back on this. Freakonomics did a 2 part podcast earlier this year on 
