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I picked Nashville. Not because it is so close to the North, not because it has anything that reminds me of a northern city. I picked it because frankly I just plain like it better than the other choices. I've been to most of the cities listed except a couple in Florida. Lived close to Dallas for a few years, and have close friends in several of the other ones.
As someone who was born in the North and lived the vast majority of my life in the north, I think most of the people who live in Chicago and NYC have no idea of what a Northern City really is. They think their cities are the typical northern city and no matter where they go they will find something at least close to it in any northern state or city. WRONG! I'm 45 years old, have never set foot in a subway, train, cab, bus, or any mass transit vehicle. Why? Because there isn't any available where I have ever lived. Sushi at 3 AM - nope. Shoot I can't get sushi at noon anyplace even close to where I have lived and live now. Ethnic food of any type is an iffy proposition unless you consider a typical Americanized Chinese or Mexican place ethnic. I also believe that if you moved from an urban setting in the North to one in the South you would fit in alright. Same also holds true for a rural setting as well though. I live right in town and have a house on the "best" street in town. I still see at least 1 tractor a day drive by in the winter, and usually 3 or 4 everyday during the Summer. There are more farmers and their hired hands than there are suit and tie businessmen in town. People are people no matter where you go. Rural folks relate to rural folks no matter where they are from, same as city folk relate to other city folk. While living in the South the town I lived in was looked down on by neighboring Dallas and suburbs because it was a "poor cow town." Same as the town I live in now gets looked down on by larger cities because we are a "bunch of Farmers."
The whole North/South BS needs to be put to rest IMO. No, all of us Northerners don't need to look south for jobs thank you very much, we are not going to freeze to death for lack of heating oil either. Just as all you Southerners don't date your cousins and whistle at your sisters when they drive by in her Daisy Dukes on the John Deere. We all live for the most part where we want to. I prefer the Northern climate and landscape, one of my best friends prefers the Southern climate and landscape. Doesn't mean I'm right and he is wrong or he is right and I am wrong. We are in places that are right for each of us.
Grand Rapids has sushi places open at 3 am, and a fabulous bus system
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It's just my opinion about where I'd want to live. What's so wrong with that? Some people wouldn't want to live down south, just like how some wouldn't want to live up north. It's opinion--it's not like I'm stating obvious facts that are totally wrong. I've been down there enough that I've formed an opinion.
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I would want to be able to be within close driving distance to the best gyros you'll ever taste (the neighborhood I live in has the highest number of greeks outside of Greece), have my choice of 5 different European supermarkets within 2 miles, have 5 different ethnic foods within one block, get extremely cheap/good sushi (not to mention 6 sushi restaurants within about 7 blocks) at any time of the day, and not to mention the tastiest bagels and pizza. Sorry, can't get all those within one neighborhood anywhere down south.
I would want to be able to be within close driving distance to the best gyros you'll ever taste (the neighborhood I live in has the highest number of greeks outside of Greece), have my choice of 5 different European supermarkets within 2 miles, have 5 different ethnic foods within one block, get extremely cheap/good sushi (not to mention 6 sushi restaurants within about 7 blocks) at any time of the day, and not to mention the tastiest bagels and pizza. Sorry, can't get all those within one neighborhood anywhere down south.
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So in just a matter of 10 minutes walking distance I can get: 2 Egyptian delis, 3 Moroccan restaurants, 5 Egyptian restaurants, 4 sushi restaurants, 4 pizzerias, 3 bagel stores (don't even tell me places in the south have actual BAGEL stores), 3 supermarkets specializing in imported European food.
If you can tell me the locations of these places in a city in the south, I'd love to locate them all on a map just to see it.
I would want to be able to be within close driving distance to the best gyros you'll ever taste (the neighborhood I live in has the highest number of greeks outside of Greece), have my choice of 5 different European supermarkets within 2 miles, have 5 different ethnic foods within one block, get extremely cheap/good sushi (not to mention 6 sushi restaurants within about 7 blocks) at any time of the day, and not to mention the tastiest bagels and pizza. Sorry, can't get all those within one neighborhood anywhere down south.
Change the 5 European supermarkets to Asian/Hindi/Ethiopian, shorten the distance from 2 miles to 1/2 a mile, throw in some of the best Vietnamese you ever dreamed of and you have just described my neighborhood.
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lol no bagel i've ever eaten in Atlanta tasted good.
Those who were born and raised in NY probably feel similar to the way I do.
As big of a Braves fan I am, I only visit Atlanta. I wouldn't ever live there. If you're trying to say it's similar to NY, it's not. I never saw anything close to the ethnic foods I listed. I think you're exaggerating.
I was raised in an urban environment, and as I approach the big 3-0 I'm coming to need it more and more.
We have cities with that "old school" urbanity in the South--New Orleans, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, etc. The only thing they're missing are heavy rail transit systems, but a few of the "New South" cities like my own have expanding light rail systems. I know they can't compare to the El in Chicago or METRO in DC, but they're decent starts.
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I've been to most of the cities listed except a couple in Florida. Lived close to Dallas for a few years, and have close friends in several of the other ones. 