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But a lot more houses in Seattle will have a view of the water because of the hilly terrain, and all though swimming isn't as huge, boating definitely is.
That's hardly the same as being on the water with a dock and direct access from your backyard though.
Minneapolis is very water oriented. It is in the name of the city (Minnea comes from the Dakota word for water). There is a chain of lakes running though the heart of the city. There are 300 plus lakes in the metro. Almost everybody lives near one, so going to the lake is a thing people do here as part of their daily lives.
Miami wins here. Just look at Google maps to see the amount of homes with docks in the backyard and direct access to extensive waters. Then to the east you have the beaches and warm blue green Caribbean waters. To the west is the swamps of the Everglades.
Seattle is pretty well associated with floating homes. I would love to live in one, seems pretty fun. Does Miami have floating homes? That would be pretty sweet (though I'd probably be nervous during hurricane season).
I'd say Seattle and New Orleans. Both are surrounded by salt and fresh water, both have seafood as a culinary staple, and both have a heavy fishing industry. New Orleans has less fishing industry feel when compared to Seattle but once you begin to go south towards to gulf, shrimping boats dominate the landscape.
Overall I'd say Seattle first, Nola second. I would place Miami low on the list and put cities like Boston and Baltimore ahead of it due to history more than yachts that snowbirds own.
I'd say Miami, just because when I think of those other places, I usually think of other things besides water also. When I think of Miami, my mind almost immediately flips over to Miami Beach, and aside from a high Hispanic population, and partying (by the pool/water/beach also), I don't think of a whole lot else. Out of the other ones, yeah probably Seattle, because I think about Pike Place Market and seafood, I also think about the rain/grey skies over the Puget Sound, how it's surrounded by water, etc. Boston would probably be third, though I more prominently think about Higher Education and Colonial History before I think about the waterfront, perhaps because of the size of the city, and many major parts that aren't along the water. When I think about the nautical NE, I think more about the smaller towns surrounding Boston, than Boston itself.
How about Newport News/Norfolk/Virginia Beach? Kinda surrounded by water.
But Seattle and San Francisco are the true winners here, though SF is not getting many votes. In Seattle you have water on both sides of the city, (Puget Sound to the west, Lake Washington to the east), plus a couple of grand lakes within the city limits, Green Lake, and Lake Union. You only have to credit ancient glaciers for this, but so be it. Seattle is perhaps the boating capital of the US. (Cold water? I don't know where that was mentioned as a requirement).
Miami wins here. Just look at Google maps to see the amount of homes with docks in the backyard and direct access to extensive waters. Then to the east you have the beaches and warm blue green Caribbean waters. To the west is the swamps of the Everglades.
besides Chesapeake Bay, I don't know any other place where you can make very long boating trips in calm water, for instance once when I was a kid my family went on a boating trip from Redondo all the way to Sucia Island which was like a 150 mi trip (we had to refule at Friday Harbor), and on the way back we had to take refuge at Hat Island because we got cought in a storm.
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