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All of New Orleans is not like that though. Especially not year round.
All cities have variations but New Orleans is pretty festive year-round. The thing here is that if you have to pinpoint very specific times and places as examples, then that most likely means this isn't a defining characteristic of the city.
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What part of Baltimore did you visit because Little Italy is exactly as the op described. I think you are relying on stereotypes too much here.
Well I live in DC and have spent a lot of time in Baltimore and I'm not talking about the Inner Harbor and Fells Point. I was in west and north Baltimore this past weekend and am familiar with many other parts of the city and outlying areas. I'm not relying on stereotypes whatsoever, trust me on that.
St. Louis has to be up there. I can also see Baltimore and Pittsburgh too. Possibly Cincinnati. Something about the old brick middle sized cities give me that vibe. So many old relics and an almost stuck in time feel of the older neighborhoods gives me that feel in these cities. Especially on a dreary fall afternoon or a winter morning. Seattle's weather gives it that vibe, but it has a much more new and optimistic feel in my opinion.
Honestly, having just gotten back from Seattle, there is both a bro and anti-bro culture...almost similar to Chicago in a way? Old Ballard, surprisingly, has gotten quite brotastic. Capitol Hill has a totally different feel, very urbane and impressive neighborhood IMO.
Some cities (I'm looking at you, Miami) are like a sun-splashed frat party where everyone is on Valium and has a smile eternally etched into Botox-enhanced jaws. That's not what I'm talking about here.
I'm also not talking about economic depressed places, where everything is boarded up and the Boomers are loaded up on opioids. Dayton, Ohio is depressing. It's not really melancholy.
I.'m talking about which cities have a noticeably melancholic aesthetic, which is easy to sense and hard to describe. It's a little romantic, poetic. It's smart people sipping lattes alone or with a book in a cafe. It's maybe a little less gregarious than a typically American city. It's more contemplative, even somewhat solemn. It's like fall in Boston or Chicago in the fall, beautiful but living in the shadow of the winter to come.
Some European cities are known for this, especially Lisbon and Paris (and I think Amsterdam, too).
Boston is vibrant and not melancholy in the fall. It’s melancholy as hell in winter and spring though. Grey/blue/beige vinyl three story buildings, old infrastructure, sea breeze, seagulls/pigeons, snow banks, train rattling overhead, dark at 4, stores all closed by 8 and lacking just about any greenery.
Melancholy by definition is not the opposite of vibrant or happening. Seattle and Pittsburgh for example are vibrant AND have a melancholy vibe. El Paso and Omaha are not melancholy by any stretch but you wouldn’t call then vibrant. Paris is Melancholy for fock’s sake.
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