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I agree that Seattle is the most liked according to City Data. But I think it's a bit, um, I don't want to say overrated because I don't really like that term. Overexposed maybe? I just don't see why it's so special.
I think Seattle wins because its a great city and really is not really seen negatively by any demographic groups as a whole.
Its not as offensive to neocons as SF, its not as offensive to liberals like a Southern city, hipsters like it, family oriented people like its clean and untarnished reputation, people likely to view Black people negatively peobably would consider that in viewing Seattle favorably, Seattle sounds safe and has a dazzling urban environment that compared to most other cities, is not as gritty to most people, etc.
Personal opinion depends on perception, experience and is also influenced somewhat by stereotypes.
It should be noted that the next favorite city is Portland, OR. Both cities are in the Pacific NW.
So, why do people have a favorable view towards the PNW? Do you? Or do you disagree?
For me both Seattle and Portland have the perfect blend of vibrant urban cores and suburban elbow room and abundant natural beauty. They are stimulating enough to keep busy, but also fairly laid back. They are both walkable moderately dense cities, but not super dense to the point they get on my nerves felling overly congested. Both cities have very good food and evolving culinary scenes, great beer towns, Oregon and WA wines are very good, and excellent coffee. For me I think the weather sucks up there and can't really deal with the excessive gloomy skies and lack of sunlight. Summers are awesome but the rest of the year far too gloomy, but otherwise they are the perfect urban layout, pretty well educated with interesting people and I enjoy both cities very much. I spent most of my 20's in Seattle, it was good times!
Last edited by Champ le monstre du lac; 04-25-2013 at 09:08 PM..
Well lets be honest, Seattle as a city has a lot of desirable qualities.
For an American city and for American standards: it's safer, more educated, cleaner, compensates you more, fair climate, stunning scenery, and excellent quality of life.
It's easy to like a place when the city isn't a filthy, nasty, crime filled, broken up looking, and pessimistic place with a bad reputation as well as a snoozefest where the it gets boring being around and makes you wonder "wow, I wasted money and time in this place".
Seattle has a lot going for it and we should keep it 100 to that.
More accurately, Seattle was chosen the most-liked city among the cities the researchers chose to include. The available choices seem to be totally arbitrary in terms of inclusion.
If the survey involved cities based upon populations within the city limits; then San Antonio, San Jose, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Austin, Columbus, Fort Worth, El Paso, Denver, and Memphis (all among the twenty-five largest US cities) were all ignored--while several smaller cities were included.
On the other hand, if the cities were chosen on the basis of metro area population; then Minneapolis, San Diego, Tampa, St Louis, Denver, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte (all among the top top twenty-five metros in population) were left out in favor of several smaller metro areas.
Whatever the rationale for this methodology, suggesting that Seattle was chosen as the "most-liked" US city is a logical fallacy in the form of a false dilemma.
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