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Chapel Hill, NC gets a lot of recommendations on here too. Though Chapel Hill is cute and has some great restaurants, I found it to be rather sprawling and suburban.
You obviously didn't have a clear picture of Chapel Hill as it's anything but sprawling, and not especially suburban. Chapel Hill's city limits encompass just 19 square miles, most of which is rural/undeveloped as evidenced by this map:
You obviously didn't have a clear picture of Chapel Hill as it's anything but sprawling, and not especially suburban. Chapel Hill's city limits encompass just 19 square miles, most of which is rural/undeveloped as evidenced by this map:
Perhaps we have different definitions of "suburban" and "sprawl" because it seems that your map proves my point exactly. Chapel Hill is a maze of dead-end roads and cul de sacs!
The area is definitely not not urban, and it's too well developed to be rural, which in my book means suburban. And the fact that there are pockets of forest between developed sections, only proves that the areas is sprawling.
The Northeast, it's treated as the gold standard for regions in the U.S., and I don't understand why. I'm not taking anything away from the region, but some feel as though every region should aspire to be the way they view the Northeast, which is usually an urban oasis full of rich people, a place where driving doesn't exist because everything you could possibly ever need is within walking distance.
I voted the South. Not that it's a bad region but CD is the only place I've seen people rave about it, most of the time it's actually the complete opposite.
Lol these votes are joke. The South gets a massive sh*t taken on it every day on city vs. city. People just aren't being honest. The South never wins any polls unless it's going against itself or it's something negative, so how is it overrated on C-D? The people voting on the South are probably just continuing their daily C-D dump on the South.
I would pick the PNW, not because it's terrible, but because it's not as terrific as people make it seem. It's really good, but some people make it sound like the promised land.
Atlanta could be why the South leads in votes. Many on city data portray it as a progressive cosmopolitan city {homers} yet when I went to Atlanta it's racially segregated social atmosphere was rather undeniable.
Just tuning in to this thread, but given the fact that the Northeast somewhat sets the tone on how urban development should be here on C-D, i'd have to vote for Northeast on this one.
I voted the South. Not that it's a bad region but CD is the only place I've seen people rave about it, most of the time it's actually the complete opposite.
Your all missing the point though. We are not voting for the worst place but rather places that are overrated on CD. Even as far as Texas goes, the only city that seems to get a lot of recommendations is probably Austin. I can't think of one poll where Houston or Dallas have ever won. Even worse when your talking about the South so it's hard to understand how the south is winning.
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