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Although I would agree that Houston, Atlanta, and Dallas do receive a fair amount of bashing, I would contend that there is a very vocal group of people who defend all 3 of those places, whereas places like Phoenix and Miami are hated on by about everyone and no one ever defends them.
I can't speak for Phoenix but there isn't much activity in the Miami Forum. So, I think that the lack of defense for Miami can be (at least partially) attributed to the fact that there just aren't that many Miami people participating here.
Atlanta and other sunbelt cities get hated on a lot, especially by Northeasterners.
And they keep on coming.
They want more space, but they want urbanity, and Atlanta/Houston/Dallas etc. which provide a pretty good balance of the two just aren't good enough. Nothing is. Oh well.
It's funny cause these cities are all good looking cities and have nice scenery.
I don't understand how some people can possibly think Miami is a third world city...
I have seen people here that actually say it... It makes you realize the ignorence behind some of these posters. so for that reason I have learned to take some of the posts as a joke
I'm too new and too focused in on specific forums to say. I agree with most of the choices named so far except that I've seen a fair degree of positive statements about Atlanta.
Of cooler places Chicago seems to garner a fair degree of negativity. Of regions I'd say Appalachia is about the most negative. Various disparaging threads about "hillbillies" and my attempt at "best Appalachian towns", or whatever it was, went nowhere.
From what I've seen CDF tends to value socially liberal places with very high population densities that are as unlike suburbs as possible. The further you get from that the less happy they seem to be with a place.
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