Phoenix vs Orlando: Downtown (comparison, Los Angeles, life, people)
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They said for awhile, I think its been long enough. Plus I don't think this one has ever been done. This is about downtowns mainly, Skylines just enhance the enviroment of downtowns, so thats why i mentioned it. So it shouldn't be closed. (please don't close this mods)
They closed a skyline thread like yesterday or 2 days ago, so no, this one will close, plus, you need to be SURE that this hasn't been done before, not just think it hasn't been done before.
Ok I fixed the title.. This is about downtowns now, skylines just enhance the enviroment of downtowns, thats why i posted pictures of their skylines. So it shouldn't be closed. (please don't close this mods)
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Ok I fixed the title.. This is about downtowns mainly, Skylines just enhance the enviroment of downtowns, thats why i posted pictures of their skylines. So it shouldn't be closed. (please don't close this mods)
From my experience as much as I love Phoenix, it's downtown is like Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, where it's a concentration of businesses for the most part. It can become very vibrant but after a certain hour it's dead.
With Orlando from my experience when I went to Disney/Universal I stayed at I believe the Radison and I was lucky to get that apparently that day when I got in every hotel in the area was either booked or looking to be maxed out, and the downtown was pretty vibrant. It was a Saturday. Well I can't say it's downtown was the most vibrant I have been in, but it was good for a city of it's size.
But that could be just me on my experience. I feel Orlando is highly underrated outside of it's theme parks, the city seems to never get any credit for it's dining, hotels, even nightlife.
I feel Orlando is highly underrated outside of it's theme parks, the city seems to never get any credit for it's dining, hotels, even nightlife.
absolutely agree. People think Orlando = I-drive + Disney. Heck, Disney isn't even technically in Orlando (it's really in parts of Orange and Osceola County).
Orlando has an incredible downtown that is highly underrated on this forum. Anyone who lives here or has visited and ventured off the beaten path will tell you how nicely done and vibrant our downtown is. If you've visited Orlando before and don't recognize these photos, you're not alone. I would put downtown Orlando against the downtown of many larger metros any day, including Phoenix, which when I visited had a very boring downtown because everyone was in Scottsdale or over on Mill Ave by ASU.
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