Metros With The Nicest Collection of Suburbs 2023 (state, largest, places)
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I’m going with Washington. Imo those suburbs have the perfect mix of urbanity, transit, diversity, modernity, things to do, good schools, natural scenery, recreation, etc. also the climate is not harsh.
My wife is from the the burbs of NYC (Westchester Co) and I’ll still take LA over NYC. A lot (or should I say most) of the really nice suburbs (or exurbs more like it) are a hike from NYC. In LA they’re literally right in the middle of the action.
Every major city will have no shortage of really nice suburbs. In some they’re farther out from the city center, others are closer.
Chicago for the nicest in terms of diversity of suburbs- you’ve got the quaint North Shore suburbs with beautiful nature, greenery, quaint downtowns, mansions. Then you’ve got collar “suburbs” like Evanston and Oak Park that are really like extensions of the city. Throw in the traditionally modern Northwest and Western suburbs, and the older more blue collar South suburbs, and you have a ton of variety, all connected to the city by rail.
It can’t be denied that LA has a nice collection of suburbs too.
My wife is from the the burbs of NYC (Westchester Co) and I’ll still take LA over NYC. A lot (or should I say most) of the really nice suburbs (or exurbs more like it) are a hike from NYC. In LA they’re literally right in the middle of the action.
Every major city will have no shortage of really nice suburbs. In some they’re farther out from the city center, others are closer.
I certainly think NYC and LA, based on sheer size alone, have the most diverse collection of suburbs to choose from.
Most of the nice, safe, upscale suburban communities in Orange County are so difficult to access from the job and entertainment centers of Los Angeles County due to exceptionally heavy traffic on all freeways and arteries throughout the region. Accordingly, I do not consider Orange County (at large) to be a suburb of the city of Los Angeles. If you have ever lived in either Los Angeles or Orange counties (as I did for many years), then you would probably feel the same way. Many, many people who live in the coastal and southerly areas of Orange County do not consider themselves to be within the orbit of Los Angeles (or San Diego, for that matter) and rarely, if ever, travel to Los Angeles. In fact, aside from the natural scenery, the two places are different enough to the point where they might as well be different states. In my opinion, the Inland Empire, especially Riverside County, is a much closer approximation to Orange County than Los Angeles or San Diego counties, even though most of Riverside County is rather downscale relative to Orange County.
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