Rate your city: why you love it or lump it.

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by hossoso

This is mostly bullshit but if it will keep people out of Seattle then I'm all for it.

Yeah, I'd rate us a 3. Not because it sucks here. But because we want all you f'ing Californians and Midwesterners to stop moving here.

 

[Connemara]

Columbus, OH--6 or 7

Pros:
-Vibrant downtown during the week (and weekend evenings)
-Many iconic and unique neighborhoods
-Many dining options, low-end and high-end
-Lots of museums, libraries, theaters, performance venues
-Large population, so a lot of diversity

Cons:
-Many assholes live in this city
-Bus system covers a lot of ground but often a pain ********** to ride
-Too many fat/poor/homeless people
-Simply gets boring after a while.

Were I looking to start a family here I'd probably give it an 8 or 9 because its ideal for that sort of thing. But I wouldn't want to graduate from school and spend 15 years here.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Yeah, I'd rate us a 3. Not because it sucks here. But because we want all you f'ing Californians and Midwesterners to stop moving here.

There is much hate of Californians. From Anchorage to Phoenix, people hate to see an influx of Californians.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Columbus, OH--6 or 7
Plus it rains more than Seattle.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

There is much hate of Californians. From Anchorage to Phoenix, people hate to see an influx of Californians.

Except jacuzzi salesmen. They love it.

 

[jpeirpont]

5
Hartford
Likes
- Improving downtown
- Good restaurant scene.
- Access to very good Jamaican & Soul Food
- Good museums and cultural institutions
- Reasonably easy to navigate, public transport is ok
- A good cultural fit for me
- Not many chain stores restaurants
Dislikes
-Not much retail
- Downtown has not improved nearly enough
- Not many cafe/bookstore
- Many people have bad attitudes
- Can be quite violent.
- Losing much of our black population to ATL, VA and etc
- Negative reputation outweigh reality

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by jpeirpont

5 Hartford
Come on people. Do I have to go around adding "More rain than Seattle" to EVERYONE's city? Doesn't anyone live in Phoenix or L.A. anymore?

 

[djs488]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Come on people. Do I have to go around adding "More rain than Seattle" to EVERYONE's city? Doesn't anyone live in Phoenix or L.A. anymore?

Okay dude, we get it, Seattle doesn't rain that much. But you said it yourself, it is eternally cloudy. That's not exactly an upper.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Plus it rains more than Seattle.
It's actually been a pretty dry summer, and it has rained mostly at night/early morning. I bike everywhere so I like that.

 

[Connemara]

I'll do hometown (well, I'm in the metro area, but I'll use the biggest city) now.

Albany, NY--6

Pros:
-Seat of NY state government so there's always a corruption investigation to keep one's interest
-Great deal of history in the area
-Adirondacks are a 40 minute drive away
-Easy to get to NYC
-Burgeoning restaurant scene
-Great NPR station!

Cons:
-Not much of a "city." Barely any skyscrapers, etc.
-A lot of douchebags can be found at the Albany clubs/bars
-Horrendous traffic during rush hours
-Can get very boring

 

[FLMountainMan]

Tallahassee - 9. Certainly not for everyone, but..

Pros -
Southern food
Approximately 30,000 coeds
The state capital
Small enough to be quiet, large enough to have most amenities
Lots and lots and lots of beautiful trees, the city is really dedicated to that
Cheap homes
Some of the best hiking in the Southeast is within an hour-and-a-half, over a million acres of public land with the Apalachicola Nation Forest, Tate's Hell State Forest, and St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge bordering the city.
Beautiful rivers and springs all over the place
Great college football, baseball, and basketball games to watch for dirt cheap.
Doak Campbell Stadium
Lots of great up-and-coming bands come through and play small venues
Four seasons in Florida, including fall foilage
Great campy festivals in the surrounding small towns, dedicated to things like worm grunting, mayhaw, possums, mullet, blue crabs, and mules

Cons -
Crappy latin food
Approximately 30,000 coeds when you have a great girlfriend
A crappy airport
The worst traffic engineering in any city I have ever spent time in, including Atlanta and Miami
The most liberal county in Florida, and consequently the highest tax burden in the state
An hour from the beach, albeit one of the nicest in the country
Wages are awful - I took a $10k pay cut to move here, and while I don't regret it, the wages here suck.

 

[Connemara]

You forgot about the..erm..interesting looking capitol building!

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Columbus, OH--6 or 7

Pros:
-Vibrant downtown during the week (and weekend evenings)
-Many iconic and unique neighborhoods
-Many dining options, low-end and high-end
-Lots of museums, libraries, theaters, performance venues
-Large population, so a lot of diversity

Cons:
-Many assholes live in this city
-Bus system covers a lot of ground but often a pain ********** to ride
-Too many fat/poor/homeless people
-Simply gets boring after a while.

Were I looking to start a family here I'd probably give it an 8 or 9 because its ideal for that sort of thing. But I wouldn't want to graduate from school and spend 15 years here.

Originally Posted by Connemara

I'll do hometown (well, I'm in the metro area, but I'll use the biggest city) now.

Albany, NY--6

Pros:
-Seat of NY state government so there's always a corruption investigation to keep one's interest
-Great deal of history in the area
-Adirondacks are a 40 minute drive away
-Easy to get to NYC
-Burgeoning restaurant scene
-Great NPR station!

Cons:
-Not much of a "city." Barely any skyscrapers, etc.
-A lot of douchebags can be found at the Albany clubs/bars
-Horrendous traffic during rush hours
-Can get very boring

Translation: these places don't have a vibrant **** scene

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by djs488

But you said it yourself, it is eternally cloudy. That's not exactly an upper.
That's not what I said. I said "partially cloudy" as in what the weather report calls this:

Yep... totally depressing.

 

[Meis]

Originally Posted by ClaretandBlue

Hometown: Chicago - Overall Rating: 9

PROS: Abundant entertainment options, great public transportation (for my uses, anyway), good employment opportunities, beaches and parks, sports teams, always something going on, decent home prices.

CONS: Tourists and the suburbanites (note: I don't consider all suburbanites bad, just the clueless ones), segregated communities (north vs south), not really on the cutting edge of anything (fashion, arts, etc..), not exactly a mecca of fitness, taxes are close to (if not, the) highest in the country.

I'm sure there's more, that was just off the top of my head.

+1

--Pretty sure we do have the highest taxes in the country (you think with all those taxes the CTA wouldn't be super cash-strapped...)
-- can't wait for fall when the tourists are a little less numerous than they are right now
--definitely agree w/ the decent home/apt prices, Chicago is quite cheap for a big city- especially if you stay away from "new to chicago and just graduated from a big 10 school and have mommy/daddy's $$" neighborhoods such as Lincoln Park. There are plenty of neighborhoods that are decently close (30min or less on el) that are dirt cheap, and decently nice.
And +/-/? all of the **** going on w/ trying to get the Olympics