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My family has owned cabins in the mountains near Asheville since the 1930s. I think that description of Asheville is pretty accurate, unfortunately.
You think Asheville is the most overrated city in GA??? You should read the blatant boosterising in the Augusta forum, by all accounts it would seem like a Shangrila of progressiveness and fine living. I worked there for the past eight years, all I can say is...check out the WAGT and WRDW news websites, or better yet, dare to tour outside the Masters ministrip to South Augusta, Harrisburg or past East Boundary Road, and grit your teeth...
You think Asheville is the most overrated city in GA??? You should read the blatant boosterising in the Augusta forum, by all accounts it would seem like a Shangrila of progressiveness and fine living. I worked there for the past eight years, all I can say is...check out the WAGT and WRDW news websites, or better yet, dare to tour outside the Masters ministrip to South Augusta, Harrisburg or past East Boundary Road, and grit your teeth...
I've been to Austin twice and loved it. Nice parks, hiking trails, great scenery, lots of food options ..
Only other city on the list I been to is Chicago. And I visited 10+ times. It's not over-rated either.
To me, publicity and media attention is not the same thing as being over-rated. Over-rated is that the city does not live up to the "hype". Both cities do. There is so much to do and enjoy. Yes, there are things to dislike about them, but overall they were great.
I can't tell you. I'm not particularly interested in this subject, but no one said it was a zero-emission city. I'm not really clear on the difference to be quit honest. All I know is the air pollution has drastically gone down over the years.
Air pollution dropping would indicate less carbon emissions in the air. I still think that perhaps Denver now RANKS lower in total air pollution in the country, but perhaps hasn't lowered it any.
Air pollution dropping would indicate less carbon emissions in the air. I still think that perhaps Denver now RANKS lower in total air pollution in the country, but perhaps hasn't lowered it any.
Well Los Angeles still has the worst air in the country despite it's air being much cleaner today than before, especially compared to the 1970's.
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Well Los Angeles still has the worst air in the country despite it's air being much cleaner today than before, especially compared to the 1970's.
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I thought Houston now holds that esteemed spot.
There was a fluke few years, around 1999-2000, that Houston had more ozone days than Los Angeles. Al Gore took full advantage of this to trash Houston/Texas in his presidency bid. Ozone however, is only one measure of air pollution (particulates are another measure, for example.)
Since then though, and currently, the top ozone air pollution cities are all in California according to the ALA.
You think Asheville is the most overrated city in GA??? You should read the blatant boosterising in the Augusta forum, by all accounts it would seem like a Shangrila of progressiveness and fine living. I worked there for the past eight years, all I can say is...check out the WAGT and WRDW news websites, or better yet, dare to tour outside the Masters ministrip to South Augusta, Harrisburg or past East Boundary Road, and grit your teeth...
You realize Asheville is located in NC, right? I think Augusta is a nice town, not that I'd live there or anything...
I'll submit the opinion that Cleveland is a better "Chicago alternative" than Detroit is, with two caveats: 1) Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford are great, like, good enough to be the only reason you go to Detroit, and 2) I was born and raised in Cleveland. If you are looking for some of the Chicago feel but you don't want to go to Chicago (I don't know how many people fall in this category, but still), I think there's more of that in Cleveland than in Detroit, and if there isn't, it's easier to find. Cleveland looks better every time I go back.
Visiting Detroit for architecture strikes me as pretty dumb, I guess it has cool everyday architecture (houses and stores and stuff) that would be pleasant to live in the midst of, but to visit? Boring. And Cleveland has it as much as Detroit does. Of course, Chicago has an entire boat cruise devoted to architecture (I recommend this, by the way), which puts the author's opinion at a new level of dumb.
I like Detroit, though, I'm going there next month in fact for a day trip.
1) there is more to do in Detroit than Henry Ford or Greenville village which aren't even in Detroit. You wouldn't have to leave midtown for a great cultural experience. Tons of restaurants, festivals including DEMF which is the biggest tech fest in the world, sports events, casinos, motown/hitsville, Eastern Market etc.
2) of course; YOU'RE FROM CLEVELAND!
as for visiting Detroit for architecture being dumb....you are far off the marker sorry. Chicago and Detroit's architecture is actually very similar. Chicago's westside looks much like Detroit's eastside. The southside looks a lot like Detroit's westside and you can pretty much find similar building downtown although Chicago has way more newer buildings since Detroit's is all Pre-war except for Campus Martius. Detroit, like Chicago, also has Mies van der rohe. Does Cleveland?
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