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Much of Memphis is dirty, particularly areas just east of downtown, as well as southeast of downtown. Only until you get out toward Germantown, Bartlett, or Cordova does it become nice.
The suburbs look like crap compared to some parts of the city. If Cordova is your idea of nice then i dont know what to tell you. There are some really nice neighborhoods within the city limits. Here are some birdseye views of some neighborhoods in Memphis:
The suburbs look like crap compared to some parts of the city. If Cordova is your idea of nice then i dont know what to tell you. There are some really nice neighborhoods within the city limits. Here are some birdseye views of some neighborhoods in Memphis:
The road that 6 & 7 are touching is Poplar Avenue. There's basically a "Poplar Corridor" from Downtown to Germantown. It's the areas of the city that have remained affluent even after white flight. I attribute it to the large number of private schools. The Poplar Corridor is usually around 1 mile on each side of Poplar, some areas it's half a mile on each side, others it's almost 2 miles on each side. So we're talking about a large area of nice neighborhoods.
What makes you think that I've only seen it from the freeway. Even then, you're admitting that Houston's freeways are ugly?
The Clear Lake area is nice, as is the Galleria area, the Woodlands, and Conroe. There are other areas. Overall, though, I wasn't impressed with the look of the eastern Houston area, with its massive oil refineries towering over the horizon, or the tackiness of its freeway advertising (everywhere, and to the extreme), or its mediocre beaches in Galveston.
If I recall, if you drive from the east heading west along I-40, and you instead continue west onto what was originally supposed to be I-40 (west of where I-40 shifts onto the loop), this freeway dead-ends into some very slummy, hardcore neighborhoods.
Are Freeways supposed to be pretty?? And if they are Houston has some of the best freeways in the country, according to alot of trucking websites.
Well every city has neighborhoods that can be considered nice. I just wasn't impressed with the city as a whole. Actually found it to be quite dull and bland (perhaps except the University area). But then that was 8 yrs ago. Hey maybe it's changed a little. Might have to take a trip down there one weekend.
You just must not have been to the right areas of town. And when it comes to dull and bland, Houston pretty much takes the cake.
You just must not have been to the right areas of town. And when it comes to dull and bland, Houston pretty much takes the cake.
Over Birmingham? Beg to differ.
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