City with Mountains & Hills OR City with Water? (quality, Chicago, size)
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LOL I would not have guessed that is a thing but I can see why it works. Are the pools heated up there?
We get a good 6 month pool season here in the southwest which I don't mind at all. Put another way, if I'm traveling for the purposes of going to a beach I'm not heading to the Northwest. If I lived there I would be inclined to hang out by the beach sometimes because I like it but the mountains would be the bigger draw.
Yes pools are heated, but probably not during mid-summer.
The public outdoor pools open in May and close mid-September in normal times...during the pandemic I'm not sure.
Most people don't travel here for the beaches, some do. Wreck Beach, North America's largest nude beach attracts people. The other types that are attracted to beaches in the area are looking for remote long stretches of beach, or places like Tofino for it's surfing. However the beaches are packed in the summer.
Too many tourists never leave the downtown peninsula and miss out on places like Spanish Banks or nearby lakes like Alouette Lake.
Water. Though we love the mountains, my wife and I love to kayak, so water would be our choice between the 2. Though Charlotte doesn't have a river in the center of the city, it has the Catawba River, Mountain Island Lake, Lake Norman, and Lake Wylie on its edges and the South Fork River in its western suburbs. We never have a problem finding fun, free places to launch our kayaks. We love doing day trips to Charleston and Asheville (Asheville has both) as well for water sports.
I would have to choose water. A city without water, or just the thought of not living near water sounds very strange and unnatural to me. The only exception I would make would be desert landscapes since those are the most beautiful in my opinion. And also CDMX, although it has some small lakes and canals, it’s not really built around any large significant body of water.
I will say that living on an island, too much water can sometimes be a bit of an inconvenience at times. Usually when trying to travel in/out. Manhattan for example has huge bottlenecks at every bridge and tunnel. And Long Islanders have to travel through their entire island and NYC just to go literally anywhere else (by land travel).
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