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That's just Miami beach though. Really South beach. The rest looks pretty ho hum.
Id take la's beach areas as a whole.
Santa Monica (two areas)
Venice
Malibu/palos verdes/dana point for scenery
Manhattan
Hermosa
Redondo
Long beach (a few areas)
Seal beach
Huntington
Newport (3 different areas)
Laguna
San Juan
All active/walkable beach areas.
Miami beach areas as a whole look far better than LA ones actually.
Miami has much more aesthetically pleasing views of the water. Apart from the rock formations, which I personally wouldn't consider visually pleasent or anything, LA water views usually look typical to that of beaches all around the continental US. And the sand in Pacific beaches are typically worse as well.
That's fine but I never said Chicago burbs weren't..its just not the same scale.
To me that's a sizeable difference.
Honest question - have you actually spent a considerable amount of time in the suburbs of Chicago (especially the north/northwest suburbs)? I don't think I'm trying to say it's the same scale, but it's certainly not small either. I'm responding to your post yesterday stating that outside of LA and NYC, there's really no sizable amount in the suburbs that have an international flavor - it's not about comparing to LA. It's about getting the facts right and the facts are that the suburbs of Chicago, a number of them, still have an international flavor to them where hundreds of thousands of people live.
What the property and such looks like? In that case it's entirely a matter of taste.
I'm open to the idea that LA overall can have the edge due to more luxurious residents. But the difference is mostly inland. I'm not buying that oceanfront property in the Miami area comes much cheaper than LA as a whole, which reduces the chance of any significant gap between the two.
Because the thread is also about interesting suburbs. And la just has alot those, some due to the international areas like in the sgv, South bay, Orange county etc.
Those aren't typical suburbs.
Then you have all those vibrant beach communities. And massive attractions Disneyland.. Anaheim isn't the most urban place, but its a huge tourist/convention mecca. It's actually going through a massive hotel boom right now.
That just doesn't exist in boston, philly, dc, Chicago.
Philly has no answer for coastal suburbs, the shore towns do not have the same dynamic. Pa does have charming towns and housing stock, but is not what I would consider interesting(beyond the novel aesthetics) or international(provincial townie culture). Philly and Boston suburbs are some of the most insular in the country, so while not necessarily interesting in the big attraction sense, they are some of the most culturally unique areas in America.
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