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Evansville seems like a cool little city with some hip artsy walkable neighborhoods. My architecture friend had a project there so spent a few weeks and raved about it as well. BUT...it's just not big enough and while Racine ain't bustling either, it is right in between Milwaukee and Chicago and easily accessible to both cities. So yeah, with the caveat that this is sight unseen, I'm picking Racine.
Kansas City v Houston
I visited Houston for the first time last summer, and to my surprise, found I liked it an awful lot. Houstonians are friendly as all-get-out, and the various racial and ethnic groups that live in Texas' answer to Los Angeles mix and (inter)mingle with an ease that I've not seen in any other American city. I could definitely live there.
But it's Texas' answer to LA, which means its many freeways are filled with Mario Andretti wannabes all driving 70 bumper-to-bumper. I witnessed (or in one case, bypassed thanks to the frontage roads) two rather spectacular car crashes in the three days of my visit. That's a pretty high ratio. And I had to call my slalom driving skills out of the deep recesses of my memory, where a visit to LA in the early 1980s had implanted them, especially to make it across five lanes of that bumper-to-bumper traffic doing 70 in order not to miss an exit ramp I needed to take.
Kansas Citians don't drive like maniacs on the area freeways, which are usually not clogged at all; the city is one of the least congested big cities in the country. And the city isn't located in what really ought to be a swamp, and it has winter, and it has more walkable districts (though still not enough of them).
So I gotta go with my forever hometown still. And Kansas Citians are pretty friendly too. They could still use some lessons in race and ethnic mixing from Houstonians, however.
Lansing. I lived in OH and really enjoyed it. But Dayton has its issues and it's losing city and metro population. I just couldn't live in an area that's dying like that. I also have family in MI
Lansing. I lived in OH and really enjoyed it. But Dayton has its issues and it's losing city and metro population. I just couldn't live in an area that's dying like that. I also have family in MI
Hampton. Better Metro area... proximity to places of interest like Richmond, The Northern Neck, and the Eastern Shore.
Covington KY or Utica NY
Covington, which is right across the Ohio River from Cincinnati and is home to that city's airport. Utica may be a nice little city, but it's not really near anywhere (or that close to somewhere else).
Baton Rouge, La., or Salt Lake City, Utah? (You've all picked up that these places have notable universities in them. What sets them apart is that they're also their respective states' capital cities. There aren't too many that are both.)
Covington, which is right across the Ohio River from Cincinnati and is home to that city's airport. Utica may be a nice little city, but it's not really near anywhere (or that close to somewhere else).
Baton Rouge, La., or Salt Lake City, Utah? (You've all picked up that these places have notable universities in them. What sets them apart is that they're also their respective states' capital cities. There aren't too many that are both.)
Salt Lake City is a nice metro. The city itself is underrated and has a great economy.
Murfreesboro, TN. I’ve never been but a quick google search shows me there’s some neat history there. From the pictures I’ve seen, I think I would prefer the scenery in Tennessee.
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