Cities with underrated urbanity? (metropolitan, living, cost, better)
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I have parked on that street many times last year and drank a LOT of Centre Cup Coffee. Wheeling, WV is a unique city.
The interesting thing about Weeling is that area is not downtown, but a different neighborhood called "Center Wheeling" after Center Market. Has a nice little business district. Definitely in better shape these days than the downtown proper, which is pretty similar to a lot of small rust belt cities. Though downtown has rowhouses too.
Agreed. As a Seattle resident, I consider San Diego to be pretty similar in some ways. And Southern California (as well as the greater SF area) even does suburbia in a relatively urban way typically.
San Diego's downtown is basically going to look like a slightly more colorful version of Vancouver. Many of the same developers that built the Pacific NW towers are building out San Diego.
San Diego also has decent density in the University City area near UCSD. A fair amount of 5-6 story multi-family and 20+ story buildings. The university itself is expanding like crazy and the light rail that will link University City with the Mexican border will be completed in 2 years.
You'll need another 100-200(?) residential towers in a small area to feel like Vancouver, but your point isn't far off. DT SD has a nice residential and tourist vibe, without a pesky office core to deaden things in the middle. Fifth might be the best general-purpose restaurant street on the West Coast.
Another plug for Sacramento here. I'm on record as correctly identifying it as a mostly suburban-built city, but it certainly has notable swaths of urbanity. South Sacramento is pretty much the size of Pittsburgh (55 sq miles, 300k population), and though obviously structurally different, has nodes of decent urbanity...
The Grid (Downtown + Midtown) is really urban as well. Most people won't think about Sacramento in these discussions but it deserves inclusion!
I actually think Syracuse has the best Downtown in Upstate NY. Obviously it has fewer urban neighborhoods than Buffalo because it’s smaller but it’s more active and cohesive in the downtown core.
Milwaukee WI, is underrated.
I really enjoy visiting and spending time in the city
People like to make "rivalries" out of everything. I think Chicago and Milwaukee complement each other well. Two different flavors, yet with a few common traits.
People like to make "rivalries" out of everything. I think Chicago and Milwaukee complement each other well. Two different flavors, yet with a few common traits.
Milwaukee is one of those places that, to me, feels bigger than it really is. I've always liked that city.
I think Charlotte’s urbanity is underrated by people who haven’t been in the past 10 years.
1.) Charlotte isn’t as well engrained in peoples mind as having a pretty urban core
2.) Charlotte’s not too well known
3.) particularly people who haven’t been and know little about it typically have the strongest opinions and always cite the low density numbers, which unfairly paints it as one of the least dense cities in the US due to its yuge city limits. Huge portions of the city is literally nothing.
People who visit tend to comment that it’s a bigger city than they thought.
Also, I think the urbanity of southern cities in general is underrated.
Last edited by Charlotte485; 03-07-2019 at 05:32 PM..
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