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Milwaukee is up there for sure. I’m going to throw my hat in the ring for San Diego as well - it gets a fair bit of talk on here but otherwise I think it’s that quietly large place in California people don’t even get to because LA and SF exist - and I think folks in San Diego are perfectly happy about that.
These are the cities you always hear talked about in the national media:
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
LA
Las Vegas
Chicago
Detroit
Houston
Dallas
Austin
New Orleans
Miami
Orlando
Atlanta
Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Anything else is generally a complete mystery or regarded as irrelevant to most Americans.
I see several on the list that are talked about, but not for good reasons. Those include Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, and St. Louis, and more frequently recently, Minnesota. I would avoid all of those.
What bad things are associated with Milwaukee, where this city would be equated to like Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, etc? I swear at first glance to me, those cities have a worser reputation than even Milwaukee. Yes in Milwaukee I'm aware the abandoned Northridge Mall exists, but outside of those in the urbex community who look at such pics a lot(myself included), the average person who doesn't live in the Milwaukee metro area wouldn't be aware of that former mall.
And as for Minneapolis(which an earlier poster said, I suspect this earlier person mistyped and didn't mean the whole state of Minnesota), this city never had a bad reputation till the George Floyd shooting. And until pics and videos of looting(including at least one Target location plus other various stores, and to Target's credit they rebuilt that store over closing it), surfaced online.
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Originally Posted by jennifat
These are the cities you always hear talked about in the national media:
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
LA
Las Vegas
Chicago
Detroit
Houston
Dallas
Austin
New Orleans
Miami
Orlando
Atlanta
Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Anything else is generally a complete mystery or regarded as irrelevant to most Americans.
Some of these cities in the poll NEVER get mentioned much, except when the scores of ____ pro sports team are mentioned online or in TV newscasts. I suspect Omaha wouldn't get mentioned much, if it wasn't for the College World Series.
And is Providence the biggest New England city, that never gets a lot of talk on the news or online? I'm sure Providence not having any pro teams, is partially why.
Norfolk, VA(and also any of the other Hampton Roads cities and communities, like Virginia Beach) never is talked about much, either.
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Honolulu doesn't get enough of a mention as it has a variety of factors that make it pretty unique:
-One of the most developed cities in the world that is within tropics, only behind Singapore
-Large number of skyscrapers for its population
-Has a new metro line that just came up and running
-Not a small far flung small outpost of a few thousand people but actually a 1 million+ population metropolis
Some of these cities shouldn't be in your poll though because they get plenty of burn on here...
Indianapolis, Columbus, Baltimore, Salt Lake City, Louisville, Cleveland, Birmingham, Memphis, St Louis, Portland, New Orleans, Detroit, Kansas City, and Jacksonville get plenty of discussion on here. That's like half your list lol. The other 16 cities can stay...
Most of those cities you mentioned don't get talked about in a positive light. Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit are constantly dogged in the forum and outside the forum. They are whipping boys for websites like Wallethub and are the poster child for either Rust Belt ruin, urban decay or the butt of jokes and social media memes. Indianapolis, Columbus, Salt Lake City, Birmingham, Portland and New Orleans get a lot of love on this forum and outside of this forum.
Most of those cities you mentioned don't get talked about in a positive light. Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit are constantly dogged in the forum and outside the forum. They are whipping boys for websites like Wallethub and are the poster child for either Rust Belt ruin, urban decay or the butt of jokes and social media memes. Indianapolis, Columbus, Salt Lake City, Birmingham, Portland and New Orleans get a lot of love on this forum and outside of this forum.
Jacksonville specifically rarely gets talked about on here. Unless it's some outraged new poster being indignant, and making an ignorant/inane comment about how it's "the largest city in Florida". Even then the discussion ends up being about how city population is a terrible metric lol, and not really about Jacksonville.
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