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"Fast paced" is really vague. In terms of traffic or what? I'm pretty sure everyone commutes to and from work at the same time so this topic seems arbitrary to me.
I based my ranking on things like how fast people walked and the speed of customer service. Do people seem especially stressed or under pressure? Do they make plenty of time for small talk and pleasantries or are they just too busy?
It may seem odd that Atlanta was placed last, but I simply never experienced much of a bustling environment there. Traffic was bad, but the main cause of that was the area infrastructure.
How are u sure without giving a reason? Are you basing this off population? If Seattle and Minneapolis were the same size (in term of city limits) as Houston those two cities would surpass Houston's population right now by a good margin...
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This is a really interesting group to compare IMO because Houston and Atlanta are much bigger than Seattle and Minneapolis, but they are also much more decentralized and less dense. My instinct would be that Houston and Atlanta might feel more fast-paced during the day downtown, but Seattle and Minneapolis might feel more fast-paced consistently throughout the urban core.
Is Houston really less dense than Minn though? I wonder what Houston's density would be if you take it's inner 55 square miles...
Then you should compare that to Mpls' inner 58 square miles, because that's the size of the City of Mpls, which I believe is in the ballpark of 7,000 people per square mile.
Is Houston really less dense than Minn though? I wonder what Houston's density would be if you take it's inner 55 square miles...
Don't have stats for Houston's inner 55 square miles, but its inner loop's (97 square miles) population is 443,949 with a density of 4,743 Loop 610 - Population
Minneapolis is 407,207 in 52 square miles with pop density of 7,417
I thought the OP was asking more about how people act in line at the post office, how chatty you are with the checker, and as a result how slow life is, etc. which would have me rank them as
1. Seattle, full of "Amholes" and "Amazonians" and jazzed on coffee, busy, and glued to their phones.
2. Twin Cities, full of midwestern reserve and efficiencies, so little chatting
3. Houston, big city but still Texas where you have to chat and be pleasant regardless of how long the line is
4. Atlanta a modern big city but still very southern so conversation is required.
I only lived for a short time in Atlanta and this was years ago, but coming from the upper midwest, I couldn't believe how slow everything moved! Texas is similar. Example, in Chicago, waiting in line at the post office, no one talks and you better be completely prepared and know what you want when you reach the head of the line. In Texas, everyone chats in the line and when you reach the head of the line, no matter how long the line is, the clerk talks to you, "oh, you are sending this to DC, my brother lives in DC." "Oh really, my sister lives there." "How long has she lived there?" And on and on.
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