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The Woodlands has always seemed way more woody than the majority of Houston, but ost of exurban Northern Houston has that feel so don’t know if it’s unique enough to say it’s a different metro area. Also it’s homes are very Houston even if the topography is different.
O'Fallon, MO. Although it's a suburb of St. Louis, it has the characteristics of a booming sunbelt suburb: multitudes of new subdivisions sprouting out former farmland; wide multi-lane roads; and topography that's rolling and varied enough that it's not completely boring but also not too rugged to develop on. If O'Fallon was suddenly placed into Forsyth or Cherokee County
(really any sprawling county in the outer ring of the Atlanta area) it would fit right it.
The Woodlands has always seemed way more woody than the majority of Houston, but ost of exurban Northern Houston has that feel so don’t know if it’s unique enough to say it’s a different metro area. Also it’s homes are very Houston even if the topography is different.
This is true across much of the I-10 corridor. North Baton Rouge suburbs are hilly and feature pine trees, unheard of in BR and New Orleans. The northshore of New Orleans is the same.
Always thought Beech Grove in the Indianapolis area felt like a Chicago suburb, maybe somewhere in the south suburbs like Matteson or Worth or South Holland. Just having this kinda denser, older, dated feel with a small walkable downtown feels unusual in the Indy area.
This is true across much of the I-10 corridor. North Baton Rouge suburbs are hilly and feature pine trees, unheard of in BR and New Orleans. The northshore of New Orleans is the same.
And you drive over water for 24 miles to get to it.
Burr Ridge right outside of Chicago reminds me of the North Atlanta suburbs with the hilliness and big mansions. People think all of Chicagoland is pancake flat but there's some topography in the burbs.
... and hence the name: Burr Ridge... I've always thought of Chicagoland as pancake flat but, of course, there are always exceptions. Just from these Google Street View photos, this area looks surprisingly rural being so close to such a mega-city as Chicago... Nice new-ish houses.
Irvine feels like it should be a Bay Area suburb. Outside of Hollywood, SoCal is largely blue collar, small business, slow-paced, and Hispanic. Irvine, however, is very Asian (especially Chinese/Taiwanese and Korean), highly educated, corporate, and fast-paced, with a lot of tech, finance, and pharma, just like the Bay Area.
I'd say Irvine would be like a posh East Bay burb like San Ramon, as Irvine has virtually zero homeless and I'd believe San Ramon also doesn't.
Strong disagree here. Have you been to SoCal? Irvine is not the only majority Asian suburb. The entire San Gabriel Valley region is filled with cities that have majority Asian demographics. And the SGV is certainly not a blue collar side of town. The build design of Irvine is no different than many South/Central Orange County cities. Theres also different Asians in each city. San Ramon has far more South Asians, while Irvine is dominated by East Asians. The SGV by the way is predominantly East Asian too.
Strong disagree here. Have you been to SoCal? Irvine is not the only majority Asian suburb. The entire San Gabriel Valley region is filled with cities that have majority Asian demographics. And the SGV is certainly not a blue collar side of town. The build design of Irvine is no different than many South/Central Orange County cities. Theres also different Asians in each city. San Ramon has far more South Asians, while Irvine is dominated by East Asians. The SGV by the way is predominantly East Asian too.
I grew up in Orange County. I get that LA has a huge Chinese population in the SGV. But that's diluted by the large Hispanic population. In the Bay Area you proportionally have a lot more Asians than in LA. Sure there are pockets of rich Asian suburbs in LA but I'm arguing that they feel a bit out of place in Greater LA and might as well be Bay Area suburbs plopped into LA.
SoCal definitely doesn’t feel as Asiany as The Bay Area
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