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I'd say DFW. You have beautiful, tree-covered neighborhoods like Lakewood in the city limits, then mind-numbing, treeless suburban sprawl on the prairie.
Phoenix is the same way. You literally have upper middle class neighborhoods a mile away from run down apartments and low income housing in many areas of the city.
A mile away isn't that close. In San Francisco it can often change block by block!
I'd say DFW. You have beautiful, tree-covered neighborhoods like Lakewood in the city limits, then mind-numbing, treeless suburban sprawl on the prairie.
In my opinion, DFW really doesn't belong on this list. There are just too many other metros with more of a contrast. While there are suburban areas that fit your description, there are others that don't. Here in suburban southwest Dallas County, we have lots of trees and hills, particularly Cedar Hill.
Detroit is a city of great contrasts. Affluent neighborhood of Palmer Woods is adjacent to areas like this. Beautiful Indian Village neighbors some really poor and decayed areas.
Ill go with Southern CA. The nicest areas could only be a few miles away from a complete dump. Just going down a few streets, I can see how the cleaniless changes so fast.
Everyone's afraid to say it on City-Data because of the pro-Philly homers but Philadelphia has to be in consideration. It has some beautiful areas but overwhelmingly it's ugly, tacky or just plain hideous.
Many of Houston hoods look like our suburbs in Baton Rouge. The only ones that look bad are the inner city ghettos like 2nd/3rd/4th/5th ward.
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