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Seattle
Honolulu
San Francisco
Portland
San Diego
Salt Lake City
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Providence
NYC
....all of which pale to the most beautiful city in North America, though not the U.S.: Vancouver BC. The beauty of that place is god-tier. I couldn't include it in the list but had to mention it.
Yes, agreed - and your video demonstrates why. However, city proper size limitations set by the OP eliminated both Pittsburgh and Cincinnati from consideration. Both cities possess MSA's larger than one-half the cities of 350k+.
We all love Chicago, but Boston, the islands and area Rocky and sandy coast offers substantially more than Carson Beach in Southie....
The Boston area is a high-impact coastline that, while outclassed by San Diego or San Francisco (as far as consistent, large surf), Boston compares favorably to LA area beaches such as Redondo, Venice, (Santa Monica), and Malibu if it lacks the weather... LA surfers go out of town often - as most beaches including Malibu will see overhead surf about 15-20 days/year. As for New England, thanks to high tech wetsuits and drysuits, guys (and gals) can surf 3-4 hours without a problem on even the coldest days....
Devereux just outside Boston Harbor. While it's only slightly overhead, it's FRIGGING BOSTON! these conditions will bring huge crowds at LA area beaches like Venice, El Porto, Malibu - or Huntington in Orange County.
The Harbor Islands are great. But they're not all that accessible. Chicago has an exceptional string of parks (including beaches that are much more attractive than Carson) running for miles along the lake that anyone in the city can get to fairly easily on foot or via transit. The Harbor Islands require a ferry to get to. I'd wager that the vast majority of people in Boston have never been. There are articles about the Islands all the time talking about how they're Boston's "hidden gem." I've only been once. Chicago's lake front is a bigger part of daily life in the city than Boston's Harbor Islands.
Surfing in New England isn't comparable to surfing in SoCal. I grew up surfing Little Compton and Westport, and sometimes Wellfleet. I still surf when I visit family in the LA area. The breaks out west are consistently cleaner. Sure, we may have more overhead surf (almost exclusively in the winter), but a clean break isn't easy to come by. Technology does wonderful things for surfing in New England, but nothing beats surfing clean breaks in a 4/3 vs. a 7mm or dry suit. As a skier, your argument reeks of the same kind of homerism that the "ski the east!" crowd spews on the regular. I agree that we have better surf (and skiing) than people often give us credit for, but the West is still much better in both cases.
I apologize to everyone for allowing myself to be dragged in to senseless bickering but here is a neighborhood that does some quaint houses on a hill I just took coming home to give an idea what I think cumulatively adds to the beauty of Atlanta.Its just my opinion,
Seattle
Honolulu
San Francisco
Portland
San Diego
Salt Lake City
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Providence
NYC
....all of which pale to the most beautiful city in North America, though not the U.S.: Vancouver BC. The beauty of that place is god-tier. I couldn't include it in the list but had to mention it.
Vancouver looks is beautiful but its built environment with its generic architecture could be Miami .or any city.
Now Montreal I would have no argument
Since list is totally subjective, I'm just going to list the ten cities that are beautiful to me.
Washington DC
Boston
NYC
Philadelphia
Baltimore
San Francisco
Pittsburgh
Providence
Detroit
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