Hippest Southern City (vacation, island, date)

[DailyJournalist]

The hippest southern city would have to be Baltimore, MD

[DeaconJ]

Originally Posted by DailyJournalist

The hippest southern city would have to be Baltimore, MD

According to "The Wire", Baltimore is pretty hip...

I love Baltimore, but hip is not what comes to mind when I think about it. I'm pretty sure most people on here don't even consider it a southern city.

I would give it to Athens, Chapel Hill, or Asheville...or maybe Austin.

[DailyJournalist]

Originally Posted by DeaconJ

According to "The Wire", Baltimore is pretty hip...

I love Baltimore, but hip is not what comes to mind when I think about it.

Maybe you should not get your information from fictional TV shows. Baltimore has a great urban scene and nightlife for a city its size.


YouTube - Baltimore Nightlife

[DeaconJ]

Originally Posted by DailyJournalist

Maybe you should not get your information from fictional TV shows. Baltimore has a great urban scene and nightlife for a city its size.

I've been to Baltimore dozens of times...I don't get any information from fiction - fiction is imaginary. But The Wire was realistic fiction and a pretty accurate view of parts of Baltimore.

Urban scene and nightlife don't exactly translate to "hip". I'm very familiar with what Baltimore has to offer.

[AK123]

Originally Posted by kdennis86

Austin, Texas is by far the hippest city in the south.

Only if you read certain magazines marketing "what's the new cool place" or permanently reside in Austin, never getting out anywhere else.

No real public transit or good cultural attractions either, which OP asked for.

Originally Posted by kdennis86

New Orleans is a dump.

A dump? I haven't been post Katrina, but originally it would fit a lot of what OP was looking for; I've had many a good time in that city.

[nyc2va76]

Miami point blank. I don't know why people deny the fact that it's in the south. It may be a city that is predominately hispanic but it is part of the south.

[Thomas R.]

Originally Posted by nyc2va76

Miami point blank. I don't know why people deny the fact that it's in the south.

It's not difficult to figure out.

It was incorporated in the 1890s. Its history before then was largely Spanish and military, not Southern US.

Its foundation was largely caused by a Cleveland, Ohio native named Julia Tuttle.

Its settlement was largely Northerners and those from the Caribbean.

It seems unlikely it could be South in cultural terms, more likely it's Caribbean or Northern transplant.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by BostonJad

Considering my admiration for the South, I would like to spend a weekend at some fun US city below Washington DC. Here's my requirements:

*Bustling Nightlife: lots of bars and clubs to enjoy my nights.
*Metro: need some way to get from place to place.
*Lots of cultural activities: parks, monuments and sights to enjoy my day. Better yet if they got a tour bus for the city.
*Not too expensive to find accomodation.

Love to hear the positives and negatives of the cities that come to mind. Here is a couple of cities I suspect might have what I am looking for: Atlanta, Nashville, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Austin, Houson, Dallas.

It depends on what you mean by "hip".

Some people look to what happens around Boston, or New York, or San Francisco, and whatever southern city emulates that must be "hip".

I take the view that "hip" is organic, it is not something you import from another place. Therefore I have to say that New Orleans hands down is the hippest southern city.

Miami is worthy of mention, although I think there's room for debate over how culturally southern it is.

[Bass&Catfish2008]

Back in the day Tulsa had a lot of distinct character/culture from art & architecture, excellent museums, to being the hub of country's distinct Western-Swing sound @ Cain's Ballroom.

Tulsa's fallen off a bit in recent years, but the Red Dirt scene (country infused with Southern rock...kinda like a grittier rockabilly) has at least kept the music vibrant and cool.

[eek]

probably miami, dc...baltimore. atl. one of those four.

i used to date a girl from miami that was pretty southern...she said stuff like:

chirrdren (as hard as she tried she never pronounced the word correctly.)