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Texas: UT- Austin, TAMU, Rice, SMU, Baylor, Houston
NC: Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, NCSU, Wake Forest
Once you factor in the UT system (Dallas, Arlington, San Antonio, El Paso, etc) is better than UNC’s (Greensboro, Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington, etc), I think it’s heavily weighted towards Texas. Per capita and top-end is possible to argue I suppose, but it would be hard for me to ignore the depth in Texas education.
Feel like Georgia's secondary cities have good room to grow. Columbus has one of the best downtowns around with lots more on the way. Augusta is in good shape. Savannah is absolutely beautiful.
Florida has the best cities and it's not even close. In Miami and Orlando you have commuter rails and the brightline serving both regions. It is diversifying it's job market very well with tech and business. I can go on and on.
Florida has the best cities and it's not even close. In Miami and Orlando you have commuter rails and the brightline serving both regions. It is diversifying it's job market very well with tech and business. I can go on and on.
Florida has the best cities and it's not even close. In Miami and Orlando you have commuter rails and the brightline serving both regions. It is diversifying it's job market very well with tech and business. I can go on and on.
It’s between Florida or Texas and comes down to a matter of preference. However, the other states aren’t comparable really. How do you match up Atlanta vs Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville. It can be done, it just isn’t a realistic comparison.
I agree. Overall, I think it goes to NC even. Duke beats Rice and UNC Chapel Hill beats UT Austin. Pound for pound it’s no contest.
UT Austin ranks higher than UNC in Engineering, Business, Law, Computer Science amongst other things. How do you figure that UNC is better? I think UT Austin is ahead of Duke in most of those programs as well. It's ahead of Rice in pretty much everything. Rice is really small and selective for its overall student body but the top programs are UT are universally better than Rice.
Florida has the best cities and it's not even close. In Miami and Orlando you have commuter rails and the brightline serving both regions. It is diversifying it's job market very well with tech and business. I can go on and on.
I don't know about that. All of these states have nice cities. I would call GA an outlier because of the drastic drop from Atlanta to the secondary cities. I am not calling the GA secondary cities bad, by the way. I am just speaking about the overall sizes. If anything, I feel like NC And TX can also make the claim here since the cities are very balanced in those states.
UT Austin ranks higher than UNC in Engineering, Business, Law, Computer Science amongst other things. How do you figure that UNC is better? I think UT Austin is ahead of Duke in most of those programs as well. It's ahead of Rice in pretty much everything. Rice is really small and selective for its overall student body but the top programs are UT are universally better than Rice.
USNWR has UNC at #22 and UT Austin at #32. Both are pretty great.
It’s between Florida or Texas and comes down to a matter of preference. However, the other states aren’t comparable really. How do you match up Atlanta vs Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville. It can be done, it just isn’t a realistic comparison.
You are correct, it's a personal preference, but you couldn't pay me to live in Florida again. I was stationed at MacDill AFB from 2016-2020 and enjoyed it, but looking at Florida and their current Governor, insurance company issues...etc. I will politely pass.
In fact, for me, I would choose GA, NC, VA and TX before Florida, in that order.
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My preference for living, highest to lowest
Virginia
Texas
Georgia
North Carolina
Florida
Arlington/Alexandria would be my top pick for VA -- that's not really what people mean when they think of the South, but all five of these states have significant "non-Southern" areas like that
The Virginia Appalachians seem beautiful, though (been through there once as a kid but don't remember much). Would enjoy checking out Roanoke and Blacksburg
It's funny that people can easily understand there is a difference between NoVA (which I'll fight anyone that thinks it's in anyway different that the suburbs in Northern Atlanta) and the rest of Virginia but some how the other states in the South do not get the same treatment (well i guess Miami does). Spend 5 seconds in the part of Virginia that isn't NoVA (although you can certainly find plenty of southerness there) there isn't any mistaking where you are.
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