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This thread is old enough to get a driver’s license. I’m sure the cities on here have changed significantly that IF—and I do mean if—the old posters came back that they’d change almost everything they said.
I think there should be a criterion that people actually spend a day or two in a city before talking about it on City Data.
1. New Orleans, LA
2. Atlanta, GA
3. Houston, TX
4. Huntsville, AL
5. Nashville, TN
6. Bowling Green, KY
7. Little Rock, AR
8. Austin, TX
9. San Antonio, TX
10. Biloxi, MS
11. Clarksville, TN
12. Charleston, SC
Least Favorites:
1. Memphis, TN
2. Jackson, MS
3. Shreveport, LA
4. Texarkana, AR
5. Beaumont, TX
6. Montgomery, AL
7. Birmingham, AL
8. Baton Rouge, LA
9. Jacksonville, FL
10. Miami, FL
11. Charlotte, NC
12. Killeen, TX
To live? I like Williamson County south of Nashville. I would happily live walking distance from the center of Franklin. Lots of green space. Good music scene. Pretty good airport. Good health care at Vanderbilt.
This list isn't specifically "visiting" or "living", it's just the places I find the most and least interesting or appealing in some way. Also no promises that I've been to all of these.
Favorite
Dallas, TX
Atlanta, GA
Marfa/Alpine, TX
Birmingham, AL
New Orleans, LA
Huntington, WV/Ashland, KY
Wheeling, WV
Biloxi, MS
Laredo, TX
Tulsa, OK
Least Favorite
Sarasota, FL
Cape Coral, FL
Myrtle Beach, SC
Gulfport, MS
Virginia Beach, VA
NW AR
Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg, TN
Waco, TX
Temple, TX
College Station, TX
(essentially: I really don't care about resort towns or "boring and sleepy but safe + low COL + good schools" type places)
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Originally Posted by Prickly Pear
This thread is old enough to get a driver’s license. I’m sure the cities on here have changed significantly that IF—and I do mean if—the old posters came back that they’d change almost everything they said.
True story, I just read a post I made back in 2011 on this thread and it really doesn't jive with how I see these cities now. Back then I was pro Austin and anti Dallas. My feeling is pretty much neutral on both of these places now. Some cities, it's been so long since I've been back that my memories or feeling on the places have faded out.
I didn't like Raleigh at all the time last posted. My sister has now lived there for a long time and raised her kids there. So the area has really grown on me and I really like Raleigh a lot now. I'm happy that my nieces had a good upbringing and access to a great education there. The downtown core has come a long way, it's clean, relatively drama free, the city is not severed up by too many highways. The metro offers a good quality of life for families. Something I appreciate now that I didn't back then.
For visiting, some of my favorite cities in the South now -
New Orleans
Raleigh
Atlanta
Savannah
Miami/Fort Lauderdale
True story, I just read a post I made back in 2011 on this thread and it really doesn't jive with how I see these cities now. Back then I was pro Austin and anti Dallas. My feeling is pretty much neutral on both of these places now. Some cities, it's been so long since I've been back that my memories or feeling on the places have faded out.
I didn't like Raleigh at all the time last posted. My sister has now lived there for a long time and raised her kids there. So the area has really grown on me and I really like Raleigh a lot now. I'm happy that my nieces had a good upbringing and access to a great education there. The downtown core has come a long way, it's clean, relatively drama free, the city is not severed up by too many highways. The metro offers a good quality of life for families. Something I appreciate now that I didn't back then.
For visiting, some of my favorite cities in the South now -
New Orleans
Raleigh
Atlanta
Savannah
Miami/Fort Lauderdale
Ha! The odds were slim but I called it. To be honest I have come across this with some of my old posts myself.
I’m new to the South so I have yet to travel but so far I also like Atlanta and New Orleans. St Petersburg is underrated for Florida, and it’d probably be where I go if Florida was forced upon me, and I really do mean forced upon me Florida is fun but that’s it, for fun. Like Miami is fun but just that… fun.
What I really like about Atlanta and New Orleans is that they have lots of history and culture to them, the cities are generally more progressive especially in comparison to their respective regions. Atlanta and New Orleans also has some sort of grit or tenacity that is very appealing to me. I don’t know how to explain it other than it feels like a city with diversity and struggles but is a survivor and it makes a place feel so much more real to me rather than some manufactured sterile environment meant for the highest bidder. Now that’s not to say that Atlanta and New Orleans don’t have suburbs that feel that way… but the cores certainly don’t. I’d rather be in a place with history and a troubled past than one that’s there solely to create a catered experience rather as a tourist or under the false projection of isolation from “those people” or a false pretense of urbanism when it’s actually the same cookie cutter lifestyle just sprawled vertically instead of horizontally.
Favorites
1. Savannah GA
2. Charleston, SC
3. Asheville, NC
4. Clearwater-St. Petersburg, FL
5. Atlanta, GA
6. Greensboro, NC
7. St. Augustine, FL
8. Miami, FL
9. Roanoke, VA
10. Boone, NC
Least Favorites
1. Orlando, FL
2. Jacksonville, FL
3. Winston-Salem, NC
4. High Point, NC
5. Houston, TX
6. Fort Worth, TX
7. Fayetteville, NC
8. Lakeland, FL
9. Danville, VA
10. Kissimmee, FL
Have you been to downtown Lakeland recently? It’s actually come a long way and really isn’t a bad city now.
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