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So far Portland is winning this poll. I'm not overly famiar with Porand. It was always the secong biggest coastal city in the northwest to me. I have seen pictures and it is gorgeous! Anyone care to chime in on what makes Portland so special?
I was very impressed when I visited Portland. I had high expectations but was not disappointed at all. The city has a strong urban vibe, beautiful natural surroundings, excellent transit infrastructure, major focus on sustainability (LEED buildings, green technology), and amazing food. Given my interests, the unending food truck options and excellent transit was paradise on earth.
That said, I don't think I'd want to live there. Well, I wouldn't mind but there are many other places above it on my list. From what I understand, employment numbers don't match its popularity...people would rather move there and be un/under-employed because of the lifestyle. Also, despite the fantastic culinary delights of the food trucks (and quality restaurants as a result of the competition) it lags far behind the rest of the PNW in Asian cuisine, which is very important to me.
Charlotte is a CSA not MSA therefore I wouldn't put it ahead of a handful of those cities. It is an important city but it is smaller than Portland, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Cleveland etc.
Charlotte is a CSA not MSA therefore I wouldn't put it ahead of a handful of those cities. It is an important city but it is smaller than Portland, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Cleveland etc.
Wrong. In this list Chaotte is the largest MSA at 2.2 million. The CSA of Charlotte is 2.4 million.
Charlotte is a CSA not MSA therefore I wouldn't put it ahead of a handful of those cities. It is an important city but it is smaller than Portland, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Cleveland etc.
You're probably thinking about Raleigh. The Raleigh-Chapel Hill-Durham CSA is significantly larger than the individual MSAs.
Charlotte is a CSA not MSA therefore I wouldn't put it ahead of a handful of those cities. It is an important city but it is smaller than Portland, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Cleveland etc.
Huh? In order for a city to have a CSA, it has to already have an MSA. Charlotte's MSA population is currently 2.3 million, larger than all of those cities you mentioned.
which city does the best for its size? Portland, Cincinnati, Charlotte, Austin
Which has the most diverse economy? Austin and Charlotte
The best economic future? Austin and Charlotte
The best skyline? Cincinnati, Austin, Charlotte
Which is the most underrated? Charlotte gets quite a bashing on here. Nashville, Cleveland, Kansas City
Nobody moves here to be near Frisco. They could pay less and be a lot closer.
Like where? The Peninsula is just as high and in most cases higher than San Jose in home values so it can't be there. Locations along the east bay are comparable to San Jose. Marin County is much more expensive than San Jose. Where is this phantom location of cheaper housing that's "A Lot" closer to San Francisco than San Jose?
You have to go into Tracy, Pittsburg or northern Sonoma County to experience cheaper housing and those locations are at equal or further distance away.
San Jose shouldn't be in this poll. All other cities are anchor cities in their CSA's. San Jose is not!
You're probably thinking about Raleigh. The Raleigh-Chapel Hill-Durham CSA is significantly larger than the individual MSAs.
That could be.
The Triangle was sitting almost spot on 2 million in its CSA in 2012. The Raleigh + Durham MSAs combined were over 1.7 million with nearly a million coming from Wake Co (Raleigh) alone. The rest comes from adjacent micropolitan areas. The Triangle is definitely one of the areas that suffers from being seen as two parts instead of one whole.
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