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Originally Posted by spencer114
Baltimore has the best suburbs, the best schools and better housing/ renting options of the cities on the list (the OP asked about suburbs). Charlotte has the 4th smallest downtown on the list.
The OP didn't list much in the way of criteria and listed a bunch of cities that are pretty different (in size, built environment, climate). By default, which city has the most opportunity and amenities was the criteria I used. Charlotte is the outlier (the most different built environment, climate) so I assumed that Charlotte in particular would be uninteresting for them. If it had been a contest between Tampa, Columbia, Raleigh and Charlotte, I would have been more kind to Charlotte (but someone interested in Baltimore and Pittsburgh probably isn’t a Charlotte kind of person).
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The OP asked how would you rank these cities with the quality of suburbs being one of the criterium. The fact that you completely ignored Baltimore's deep-seated issues with respect to crime, schools, political corruption, etc.--issues that have a much more direct impact on day-to-day living than the size of a city's downtown--was very telling on your part IMO.
The OP gave specific criteria and Charlotte has plenty of opportunity and amenities, and I'm pretty certain they wouldn't have listed Charlotte as an option if they thought it was so uninteresting especially since they mentioned nothing about built environment or how old the place is. And Charlottesville is the real outlier of this bunch, being the smallest and a quintessential college town.
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