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i really wish more cities would plant trees so they can have the beauty of coral gables, or inner sacramento, or even west hills houston. trees provide shade and beauty two neccesiites to hapiness. i dont realize why cities dont all do this, must be too lazy or funding.
I agree with you that Sacramento's trees are amazing, especially considering the fact that it doesn't get a lot of rain and it's hot and dry in the summer.
Yes any where there is usally an old neighborhood even in belgium and france there is older tall trees. many of the new homes have smaller trees but i dont have faith they will become as epic as the trees like in sacramento and philadepliha.
Also i will say san francisco which is only 100 miles away has no trees. i swear there is not 1 tree in that whole city besides few parks. unlike historic old brooklyn where there is tall trees and city mixed san francisco is boring and ugly to me and has more a greek style to it, similar to athens i would say. same goes for seattle, and slightly portland, portland has some good forested neghborhoods but otherwise the rest is sprawl and i dont think the trees get big. seattle has literally no trees and if it does they are tiny little landscape trees.
Raleigh, Charlotte, and Atlanta all have to be up there.
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I compiled a list of the top 10 forested towns in the US. In my mind these are the best neighborhoods in the us. Often these are high income areas of cities as stated in many sources before, "canopy/tree coverage correlates perfectly with income levels, low income areas have hardly if any trees, and high income areas are dense of flora and fauna". This is a sort of sad but its common throughout the entire world, not jsut the us. Let me in on any more towns in the us if you know (or world), plz no Canada (they do have quite a lot of canopy in there cities tho).
Click the links below the city, to see an example.
yes atlanta is ok but not nearly as good my other mentioned cities in terms of canopy. raleigh and charolette are honerable mentions but i wouldnt say the top 10.
yes atlanta is ok but not nearly as good my other mentioned cities in terms of canopy. raleigh and charolette are honerable mentions but i wouldnt say the top 10.
Sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong about Atlanta if you tried. This is a City IN a forest.
Yes it is indeed good, in certain higher income areas but still a lot of the city is tree less, looks like buckhead and druid hills take all the tree street level canopy and its not teh similar cobblestone tree lined streets as other southern cities, its more hilly and with large properties. its really nice but you have to look at the other ones i mentioned. Atlanta is definetley before chicago and new york, i jsut forgot about it.
Raleigh and Charlotte are just as forested as Atlanta. If you ever fly into RDU and look out the window, you won't see anything but green. Drive around the heart of the Research Triangle, and it doesn't look developed since you can't see anything due to the longleaf pines. It actually looks a little rural, especially in North Raleigh on 540, but it obviously isn't. Charlotte fits in the same boat, along with other southern cities like Richmond, Columbia, Birmingham, Nashville, etc.
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