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Well, for towns that have more of a culture I would consider Savannah, GA, Memphis, Nashville, Asheville, maybe the college towns near Raleigh, and possibly Charlottesville and Charleston (those last two may be the most conservative).
Don't forget Richmond, and NoVa too (although I guess it's too expensive for you)
Well, that changes things. Then I would like at Northern Virginia at a city like Alexandria or Arlington. Otherwise believe it or not a city like Salt Lake City would be a great option as it's very progressive (really!) and an outdoor recreation hub.
Frat house wasn’t his only description of Charlotte. It defiantly seems like a town full of bros to me (like Denver).
That was the one that jumped out to me as I'd never heard it. I suppose any rapidly-growing city with a healthy economy could be described as "bro-ey" and would include the likes of DC, Raleigh, Dallas, SLC, Seattle, Atlanta, Nashville, etc and Boise, Madison, Charleston, Omaha, etc on the smaller end. Places with a lot of newer, upper-end residential and commercial construction will have those areas populated by those most likely to afford living there (excepting those already well-established in life). At this point it's essentially shorthand for homogenized 21st century urban American culture and life.
Sure, pretty much every place has pockets of that (like Scott’s Addition here in Richmond). In some places it’s more pronounced. In my travels Denver stands out as being particularly saturated. People wear sports jerseys to gallery openings!
I haven’t spent much time in Charlotte and cannot say that it seems particularly bro-y. I agree with the rest of his description and hear that said a lot about Charlotte. I do hear more positive things about the city than negative of course.
If you've lived in Durham and Winston-Salem, then the Richmond area won't come across as being drastically different apart from the more urban neighborhoods such as the Fan, Jackson Ward, etc. Richmond is bigger than Durham and W-S, but all three cities used to rely on tobacco and managed to diversify their economies in recent decades. Outer suburbs in Henrico and Chesterfield are even more similar to the Triangle and Triad, although I suppose it's easy to make an argument that most suburbs in the South are indistinguishable. Still, I remember visiting Short Pump once and it was basically the same as Southpoint in Durham.
You might want to check out Baltimore. It is similar to Richmond but bigger and less southern.
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