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[10] Honolulu
[11] Boston
[12] Houston and Dallas [tie]
[13] Los Angeles
[14] Atlanta
[15] Bay Area (including Sacramento)
Could only be happiest in the first nine though. Wouldn't live in any of these I listed in this post but do like them all, quite a lot actually. Way too much on the family side of things for me to handle being optimally happy in the Bay Area. Plus, I'm not as into their premier city as I used to be but Palo Alto is incredible though.
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I always think it's silly when people rate Vancouver so highly but don't include Seattle. If you have been to both there offer most of the same things except I think over the past decade Vancouver has become alot more "artificial" in a sense. Both great cities but I don't know how one could say Vancouver is superior.
I always think it's silly when people rate Vancouver so highly but don't include Seattle. If you have been to both there offer most of the same things except I think over the past decade Vancouver has become alot more "artificial" in a sense. Both great cities but I don't know how one could say Vancouver is superior.
When I lived in Seattle and first set foot in Vancouver it just seemed a little more cosmopolitan, way more dense and laid out quite different from Seattle. Even the setting seemed more dramatic with the mountains much closer to the city.
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I also like St.Louis, Ft Myers, Myrtle Beach, San Antonio, Oakland, Atlanta, and "Detroit." Ya, i said it. I know it looks like its been in a war, but when I visit I always have a good time, enjoy the people and traditions, and something is beautiful about that city. It's very raw and real....
Vancouver is better laid out for visitors, its more centralized, you can walk uninterrupted from downtown to its major neighborhoods, or catch Skytrain, which is extremely modern and fast. Its park system and paths right in the middle of the city is the only city I've visited that surpasses Chicago's. Plus as PWright said, it has that setting.
I visited both Seattle and Vancouver the first time years ago on a combination trip. Seattle seemed to be a bit more inaccessible. I think because its the nature of being an industrial city, and having no rapid transit (back then). However, after visiting and getting around the numerous districts of Seattle more, I came to appreciate what it has. Its kind of like LA in that fashion, except for the strong downtown. I wouldn't mind living there, especially when they get the light rail running. Vancouver seems like its either rich like a boutique city, Chinese or consisting of fringe neighborhoods with drug addicts. I don't have a problem with Chinese, but since I don't speak the language, I don't fit in. I only found a couple of areas that were more in the middle, like Commercial Drive.
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