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Southaven, MS and Southfield, MI are quite similar in terms of population size and median household income. Both have a lot of homes are spacious multi-acre lots.
A big difference is that Southaven is much newer with many homes built since 2000, whereas Southfield's homes appear to be largely from the 1960s. Southfield has a much larger black population although Southaven itself is about one-third black. And Southfield is a suburb of Detroit as compared to Southaven being a suburb of Memphis.
I would pick Southaven, Mississippi for several reasons. Southaven has milder weather and pleasant rolling terrain with lots of wooded areas with homes of huge pieces of land in all directions. Southaven is newer and is very much still growing, as it is beginning to add higher-end retail developments, expand its convention center, and is adding hotels and apartments. Southaven has excellent schools and is extremely safe. And just minutes to the south of Southaven, you can already be in verdant countryside along with charming towns such as neighboring Hernando.
Southaven, MS and Southfield, MI are quite similar in terms of population size and median household income. Both have a lot of homes are spacious multi-acre lots.
A big difference is that Southaven is much newer with many homes built since 2000, whereas Southfield's homes appear to be largely from the 1960s. Southfield has a much larger black population although Southaven itself is about one-third black. And Southfield is a suburb of Detroit as compared to Southaven being a suburb of Memphis.
I would pick Southaven, Mississippi for several reasons. Southaven has milder weather and pleasant rolling terrain with lots of wooded areas with homes of huge pieces of land in all directions. Southaven is newer and is very much still growing, as it is beginning to add higher-end retail developments, expand its convention center, and is adding hotels and apartments. Southaven has excellent schools and is extremely safe. And just minutes to the south of Southaven, you can already be in verdant countryside along with charming towns such as neighboring Hernando.
Brandon, Mississippi or Bryant, Arkansas
Bryant... Both seem like pretty livable suburbs but I'd prefer to live in the Little Rock metro over Jackson's as it's larger, growing faster, and Bryant's proximity to Hot Springs is a nice feature as well.
Bryant... Both seem like pretty livable suburbs but I'd prefer to live in the Little Rock metro over Jackson's as it's larger, growing faster, and Bryant's proximity to Hot Springs is a nice feature as well.
St Clair Shores, MI or Mentor, OH?
St. Clair Shores since the Detroit area is larger and slightly more dynamic than Cleveland. I also appreciate the history of the auto industry, motown, the good middle eastern food, and the other unique things that Detroit has. It just seems more interesting than Cleveland.
Queen Creek, AZ or Lakewood Ranch, FL? ... a battle of the HOAburbs!
St. Clair Shores since the Detroit area is larger and slightly more dynamic than Cleveland. I also appreciate the history of the auto industry, motown, the good middle eastern food, and the other unique things that Detroit has. It just seems more interesting than Cleveland.
Queen Creek, AZ or Lakewood Ranch, FL? ... a battle of the HOAburbs!
Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! I'm going to be moving to Spring Hill this coming summer, so one could say that I would choose it not only over Mason, but over every other city and town in the entire country! To be fair, I don't know anything about Mason. But Spring Hill beat out a long list of other places I was considering. No doubt some people would dismiss it as being nothing more than cookie-cutter suburbia, and to an extent they'd be right. But that's exactly what I was looking for, and I found it.
Also, personal shout-out to Shakeesha, during my search I sent her a PM in regards to my search and her response was very helpful. So thank you!
Prattville. I'd rather be near Montgomery than Jackson. Mt. Vernon WA or Fredericksburg VA?
Mt. Vernon sucks but I'll pick it for the access to Bellingham 20 minutes away. I'd just think of myself as living in a Bellingham suburb.
Well Mt. Vernon's not a terrible place. Just kind of a mediocre town without much youthful energy --- the downtown is just kinda basic antique shops and bookstores, and dead most of the time. No university in town, and it's surrounded by featureless sprawl and casinos. The access to Whidbey Island and the San Juan Islands isn't nothing but would get boring pretty quickly.
Mt. Vernon sucks but I'll pick it for the access to Bellingham 20 minutes away. I'd just think of myself as living in a Bellingham suburb.
Well Mt. Vernon's not a terrible place. Just kind of a mediocre town without much youthful energy --- the downtown is just kinda basic antique shops and bookstores, and dead most of the time. No university in town, and it's surrounded by featureless sprawl and casinos. The access to Whidbey Island and the San Juan Islands isn't nothing but would get boring pretty quickly.
Laredo, TX or Morgantown, WV?
The latter is the smallest city in the US with rail transit thanks to the PRT (personal rapid transit) people mover system connecting West Virginia University's three campuses and the downtown. The system may have been a botch in the beginning, but West Virginia's topography made it a good idea (edited to add: Like many other cities in West Virginia, Morgantown is situated in a narrow river valley between steep mountains, which meant that as WVU grew, it couldn't expand its existing campus. The second one it built was on the other side of downtown, and all the traffic between them had to use the one main street through it, causing big-city gridlock in the town of (at the time) less than 30,000. The PRT was pitched as a way to break the gridlock).
The latter is the smallest city in the US with rail transit thanks to the PRT (personal rapid transit) people mover system connecting West Virginia University's three campuses and the downtown. The system may have been a botch in the beginning, but West Virginia's topography made it a good idea (edited to add: Like many other cities in West Virginia, Morgantown is situated in a narrow river valley between steep mountains, which meant that as WVU grew, it couldn't expand its existing campus. The second one it built was on the other side of downtown, and all the traffic between them had to use the one main street through it, causing big-city gridlock in the town of (at the time) less than 30,000. The PRT was pitched as a way to break the gridlock).
Boulder... Despite being one of the least diverse major college towns in the US, it's still a very vibrant and culturally enriching place that offers a high quality of life if you have the means to enjoy it. There are far worse places in the Deep South than Little Rock, but its urban infrastructure isn't attractive enough to draw me away from Boulder's amenities/natural beauty.
Malibu, CA or Coronado, CA?
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