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All of that is culture tho.
1. There are places with centralized culture and others with a less defined downtown.
2. There are places where the culture is higher density and others where is more spread out.
3. There might be cultures where the neighbors mix and others where they don't.
A place can lack a downtown, have low density track housing for miles and never speak with their neighbors and still have culture. It's just that the culture isn't high density centralized culture.
Again. Just because it's not what you are used to doesn't mean it lacks culture.
Boston and Phoenix are about the same sized metros, they defer wildly, but neither of them lack culture. The Culture is just wildly different
Strongly disagree throughout the entirety of your post.
Music, art, film, theater, dance
Not sports. Not natural beauty.
This, sort of. Generally, the fine arts category. I'd add a general intellectual component, too. An elite university or two with lots of bright, engaged people exchanging ideas. Or a concentration of bright, world class people exchanging ideas.
For example, New Haven is something of a hell hole but because of Yale and all the activities there, the city has culture.
Huntsville, AL has the concentration of bright people.
It's the "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
When someone says a city has "no culture" they generally actually mean one of the items below:
1) they've never been to the city
2) they've been to the city, but spent most of their time visiting Target/Starbucks/Olive Garden and not really anything that would hint at the city's culture
3) they were in the city for a day or two, not really enough time to really discover the culture
4) they have an agenda to pump up their own city, need another city to serve as a punching bag to make themselves feel better
5) they claim they've spent a lot of time in the city, but 1, 2, 3, or 4 are true
You all are placing too much emphasis on architecture and too little on human interaction. Having an Olive Garden doesn't make a place devoid of culture, it's what the people inside the Olive Garden are doing that's the difference.
Ok. I ll play. What culture does Irvine California have? I don’t think a good Hospital is culture.
Irvine is an easy one.
I had a professor from Irvine.
Irvine is an overgrown College town so there's that line of culture. It has multiple schools with UC Irvine being pretty decent.
Irvine is a quintessential Socal Town which may be why quite a few movies were filmed there.
A quick Google of Irvine showed that it is home to USA Water Polo. See Irvine does have culture. It just doesn't interest YOU!
Everywhere has culture.
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