Top 5 West Coast Cities (population, people, downtown, skyline)

[18Montclair]

San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Las Vegas
Portland

[5Lakes]

SF
Seattle
Portland
San Diego
LA

[PDX_LAX]

Originally Posted by dopeboy206

In terms of culture, music, nightlife, cosmopolitan, ect.

I consider anything west of the rockies to be "west coast", hell even Denver is pretty western.

Cosmopolitan:

1. Los Angeles
2. San Francisco

- huge drop off

3. Seattle, then the rest

Places I'd want to live:

1. Tie between Los Angeles and Portland, I can't decide!
3. Bay area
4. Seattle
5. San Diego

[timeofseasons]

In no particular order:
San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland

[TheWereRabbit]

Originally Posted by rah

Well it depends on what you consider "major." There are 10 cities with 400,000 residents or more:

Los Angeles
San Diego
San Jose
San Francisco
Seattle
Portland
Fresno
Long Beach
Sacramento
Oakland

okay. then 5 metros. Sactown and Fresno not being included.

Don't play dumb you know what they meant:

North to south:

Seattle
Portland
Bay Area (SJ,SF,Oakland)
Southland (LA,Long Beach, whatever ****ty inland empire cities you want to consider "major")
San Diego

There are only 5 cities on the American West Coast. I will stand by that claim. Portland barely even counts.

[rah]

Originally Posted by TheWereRabbit

okay. then 5 metros. Sactown and Fresno not being included.

Don't play dumb you know what they meant:

North to south:

Seattle
Portland
Bay Area (SJ,SF,Oakland)
Southland (LA,Long Beach, whatever ****ty inland empire cities you want to consider "major")
San Diego

There are only 5 cities on the American West Coast. I will stand by that claim. Portland barely even counts.

Portland barely counts?

Apparently you are no longer "just south of insane" but right on top of it.

Also:

Oakland and SJ = San Francisco?
Long Beach = LA?

Maybe you could get by with that if this thread were called top 5 west coast metros...but it says cities. There's no distinction between "cities" and "major cities" either. There are several "major cities," as well as many more medium sized cities, and even more smaller cities on the west coast.

[pistola916]

This is all subjective and based on preference, not who I think are the best.

San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Portland
San Diego

My hometown of Sacramento doesn't make the cut. However, to say that it is not a major west coast city is absurd. Sac has a metro area of over 2 million.

[TheWereRabbit]

Originally Posted by rah

Oakland and SJ = San Francisco?
Long Beach = LA?

Whoaaah now. I never said that. I don't want krudmonk to kill me in my sleep.

Okay, maybe I misunderstood the question but I thought it implied "major".

If it just top 5 west coast cities then I want to nominate Monterrey.

[rah]

^oooops, you're right...my mistake...got a little carried away into argument mode I guess, and somehow jumped to some weird conclusions about what I thought you were trying to say (and i was worried myself that i might incite krudmonk's wrath just by mentioning the possibility of SJ being equated with SF ;P)

But i still think that Portland more than "barely counts" as a real city.

[Julian/SWE]

Seattle
San Francisco
San Diego
Los Angeles
Portland

I guess... Not really sure since I can change my mind about these kind of things.