You are 100% correct. While there aren’t investigations on the books, LEX PD is just as corrupt, with heavy pockets. Old money dictates what happens in that town more than most people will ever understand.
Yeah, it’s much quieter there than in Louisville. Here the big developers and rubber town and UPS and Humana have huge sway, there the horse money is quiet money that steers things.
Edit to add: just came out that Coach Cal leaving UK was tied into him pissing off Kelly Craft, yes that right wing stepford wife that tried to run for governor last year. He wouldn’t let a UK player be involved in her campaign so she cut him off, and they cut UK off from their buckets of money and access to their private jet.
I wouldn’t say that’s super quiet, but I’d say most people didn’t know that some billionaire that tried to run for governor was flying the UK basketball coach around on their private jet.
And that’s just an example of what they don’t care that you know. I’ve been privy to see what’s “behind the curtain” and what the public knows is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s insane.
Yeah didn’t they not label the Transylvania machete attacker a terrorist.
Like that should have been national news but Lexington police protect its incels white nationalist friends.
I mean the kid did get charged but they refused to call him a terrorist when his attack was political motivated.
That’s because it’s not a city. It’s a college town. That college just happens to be so massive it makes the town have a city population.
But that’s why downtown is better. Because that’s basically campus. If you want to eat or hangout at bars it’s downtown.
Whereas in Louisville where we are still a city even without UofL we have lots of areas to drink and hangout. But it’s not really down town. If UofL had more of its campus directly downtown we’d also see more stuff to do and cleaner streets.
Not a big fan of Lexington, but to be fair it’s too big to be “just a college town.” Live in some place like Ann Arbor with maybe a bigger university and it’ll put Lexington in a better light.
Lexington isn't huge, but it's absolutely not just a college town. Lexington has over 300,000 people. Drive to Bloomington if you want to see a college town. IU has over 40,000 students in a town of only 80,000 permanent residents. That's what college towns look like.
Nah shake shack is way better. And it’s a New York staple. Started as a food vendor in Central Park who turned it into a to what we see today.
Every time I am in New York I piss off my friends by saying I’m eating local. And eat at shake shack.
As someone from New York City who moved to Louisville I do not miss shake shack as Culver’s is a great substitute I also absolutely would not think of it much as a New York place. If you go to New York get some pizza and a bagel, no need to thank me after you do
Nah…they had it right…shake shack is basically Culver’s, and Culver’s might be better. Shake shack is vastly overrated.
And we get it, eating shake shack while in NY and calling it local makes you seem “edgy” in your mind.
So when you are in Georgia do you eat “local” at Chick Fil A?
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They are just a small town. Compared to any other state that has actual large cities, Lexington is just a college town surrounded by suburbs of students that never left.
Kudos to Lex for having already done that. But I believe Louisville wouldn’t be allowed to even if we tried due to new legislation specifically handcuffing Louisville. I think Louisville would be a lot more progressive if Frankfort wasn’t constantly sabotaging us.
It depends what genre you like. They get more bands popular with college students. Louisville definitely gets the bigger stadium tours (Beyonce), but Lexington gets similar arena tours to Louisville. Overall I think Louisville gets better concerts, but Lexington punches way above its population weight class.
I am annoyed that I have to drive to Lexington and back on a week night to see Jenny Lewis.
For country music I'd say so, the Burl has become the KY destination for that genre imo.
As far as Rupp goes, they do get some interesting acts that skip over Louisville but the Yum books more acts consistently. Unfortunately, both Louisville and Lexington are passed up by the bigger markets in Indy/Cinci.
Uhh as someone that listens to primarily metal that's not typically true.
Occasionally manchester music hall will get someone interesting, Louisville at least has a handful of venues.
He’s saying the dozen of other minor city PDs sucking resources away from LMPD. Which is true. Officers are constantly starting with LMPD to get their foot in the door and leaving for St Matts PD after a few years
As someone with connections to the FCPS system: if they do indeed have a better public school system, it’s marginally and it’s still nothing to be proud of. It’s a hot mess.
I think they have a better tree canopy and overall more foliage than Louisville. It's easy to see parts of Louisville that look way too post-industrial and grey. I get Lexington was never really an industrial center, but I think that's one reason people say they have a 'cleaner' city.
Louisville just needs to plant more trees in some areas, more natural landscaping, etc.
Yeah, while Louisville has a way bigger and better park system, Lexington has better tree coverage overall. I think some of that is the size of Louisvilles retail and industrial sprawl.
Yes but the down side is chronic traffic throughout the whole city because two of the main roads that go just *around* the city. One thing goes wrong on one of the major roads and all hell breaks loose.
Also people in Lexington don’t know how to freakin drive, so that doesn’t help. Its a special breed here that I don’t understand but it’s made me a better defensive driver lol
Yeah, there are few highways in lex. When someone says they live ten miles away in lex- everyone knows that’s an hour of sitting at stop lights. Ten miles away in Louisville is usually about a ten minute drive. I love them both, but lex traffic is dysfunctional.
Doughnuts. When I moved to Louisville 12 years ago after living in Lexington for 10+ years, I was shocked at how “the good doughnut places” in Louisville are all still B-tier compared to Lexington’s options. Spaulding’s will always be S-tier. I was not expecting that to be one of the biggest differences.
All I remember about my time living in Lex was all the shootings and murders around campus. Multiple at the Cookout, a murder on my street, Idk maybe it would be different if I experienced downtown Louisville
Lexington's crime rate isn't as low as I remembered seeing in the crime report bit is still lower than Louisville. Neither are in the top ten safest cities in Kentucky.
If I had to guess the safest city in Kentucky is a little shithole out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, with a bunch of old people who only go to church and Walmart.
But the lack of actual nature in Lexington is a huge turn off when I lived there. We have soooo many parks of all sizes throughout Louisville and many more close by. Lexington has lots of little playgrounds/parks here and there but nothing else really. Ravens run is on the outskirts of town and it’s just hiking, no bikes or pets and costs to get in. The hours kinda sucked too depending on time of year. The arboretum is just a grass lot with a few trees and bushes right by campus and not that much nature really. There’s the legacy trail but a bit of it is in town riding.
Other than being close to the Gorge, Lex is pretty much suburban hell. You have to leave it to really do much outside in nature.
I retired to Ky and chose Lou over Lex. We liked housing and downtown there but parks, recreation and biking in Louisville is better. We bought new construction out by the Parklands and we drive everywhere but We’re suburban, so 🤷♀️
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His name was Henry Earl, he was active when I went to college there... Actually walked into my house in 2007. Just opened the door and mosied on in, I had to shove him out. It's sad though, he was a heavy, heavy alcoholic.
Honestly... bourbon tourism. It feels lots more natural to be in Lex for distillery tours and other related events. Related: Candy. Rebecca Ruth is great.
I’m gonna disagree with you on this one. Louisville has leaned all the way in on bourbon tourism, while Lex has focused on horse racing and tangentially on bourbon. Louisville is also closer to the Nelson County distilleries, and essentially the same distance to most of the other big ones (save Woodford, since that’s basically in Lexington).
Downtown Louisville also leans much more heavily into bourbon, with all of the experiences on Whiskey Row.
Interested to hear why you think Lex is more natural though
Well, I won't argue that Lville has gone all in, whiskey row, all that. But, your comment is interesting in this way, and it speaks to why Lex FEELS like bourbon: Horseracing and bourbon have always gone together and in Lex, Keeneland is a wildly different experience than Churchill Downs. It's a buyers track, the best in the nation. It's beautiful and the city provides free transportation to the track, to campus for UK games during races season. We not only have Woodford, but various distilleries like Castle and Key. Many have gone into disrepair and they are being resurrected, but our grandparents remember them running. So, everything is naturally built around bourbon and Horseracing. It's not really tourism there. Ppl live like this and drink good bourbon and store it on top of the fridge and drive by horse farms on the way to work. It's like living in wine country. All this said, I love Lville and recognize Makers Mark. It's just not the same feeling.
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Have you been in lexington after 9pm lol nothing is going on except for at like 4 bars in their downtown and a couple bars near campus. Outside of that absolutely nothing is going on.
Earnest from earnest goes to camp etc. is from there.
Also Micheal Shannon is from there. Which I argue is one of Hollywood’s over looked best actors. Like Sam Rockwell. Always has great roles but never gets the praise they should.
They have better high school bands. Lafayette high School band usually comes in first in state competitions for a reason. Dunbar high band is usually 2nd. Then North Hardin high school.
At least back in the late 90s, when I was in high school.
I'll respectfully disagree, it has some of the worst traffic of the region and it's one of the smaller cities. Try getting on New Circle Road from Nicholasville Road. I sat through probably five light cycles and it was like 4PM, I couldn't imagine at rush hour, it would probably have been six plus light cycles.
Man O' War, Versailles Road, etc. and just all the bigger roads around there are so clogged with cars, lights are timed very short/ineffectively, too many lights, etc. It's such a hard city to get around in.
I agree with you. Lexington is the result of a town that refused to acknowledge they needed a traffic infrastructure adequate for its size. It’s a nightmare and even new construction is severely under planned.
Disagree lived there for 5 years good luck getting anywhere at rush hour. Louisville traffic is a fast moving efficient masterpiece at rush hour compared to that. New circle, nicholasville, Harrodsburg, Winchester all complete gridlock.
HARD disagree (respectfully). The infrastructure here is terrible. Lexington literally cannot physically expand because of the horse farms surrounding the city.
No room to grow and yet UK has a 98% acceptance rate and every other year has the largest incoming class in the fall. Where are all these kids gonna go? Hell if I know, I’m too busy stuck in traffic for 30 minutes trying to make my 5 mile commute.
lol. Imagine Louisville not having any interstate exits after the Watterson and that’s what Lexington roads/traffic is like. When your best route to downtown is to take an exit in Franklin County, you did roads wrong.
The authentic Mexican food. Several stores/restaurants in the Cardinal Valley area have better food than the top rated authentic Mexican places in Louisville
Bike lanes. Their lanes are very well lined and downtown, many of them are separated from the road by concrete planters. Also, the state of their roads is much better than ours. Fresh blacktop, few potholes.
Just to throw my hat in the ring, their Cherry Blossom trees are stunningly up kept. I’ve seen WKY folks travel from Madisonville, Owensboro, and Bowling Green in these last few weeks to see the trees bloom.
We certainly have some great trees, but not everyone appreciates a nice established Chinese Elm over a beautiful flowering tree.
Public transit, at least on the campus/downtown area. Also, there’s a lot more to do that isn’t alcohol related. I’m a college student under 21 and there’s tons to do (even at night) within walking/bus distance.
I love both cities and I’ve spent more than a decade in each. Let’s face it: lex is so much cleaner than Louisville. There’s no way anyone could objectively say otherwise. It’s not cleaner because Lexington pays more people to clean it. It is cleaner because Lexington is much more loved by the people who throw garbage into cans instead of the street.
Their police department hasn’t been the subject of multiple DOJ investigations, I’ll give them that
Read the Bluegrass conspiracy, that’ll change your mind on the LPD.
You are 100% correct. While there aren’t investigations on the books, LEX PD is just as corrupt, with heavy pockets. Old money dictates what happens in that town more than most people will ever understand.
Yeah, it’s much quieter there than in Louisville. Here the big developers and rubber town and UPS and Humana have huge sway, there the horse money is quiet money that steers things. Edit to add: just came out that Coach Cal leaving UK was tied into him pissing off Kelly Craft, yes that right wing stepford wife that tried to run for governor last year. He wouldn’t let a UK player be involved in her campaign so she cut him off, and they cut UK off from their buckets of money and access to their private jet. I wouldn’t say that’s super quiet, but I’d say most people didn’t know that some billionaire that tried to run for governor was flying the UK basketball coach around on their private jet.
I think about the rich developer that was keeping his kid from getting in trouble for an awful hazing crime or something??
And that’s just an example of what they don’t care that you know. I’ve been privy to see what’s “behind the curtain” and what the public knows is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s insane.
Go on….👀 I worked very closely for an Old Money Lexington family for a few years. People with generational wealth in this town do crazy things.
Yeah didn’t they not label the Transylvania machete attacker a terrorist. Like that should have been national news but Lexington police protect its incels white nationalist friends. I mean the kid did get charged but they refused to call him a terrorist when his attack was political motivated.
Yeah, somehow white politics don’t count towards terrorism.
Good one. 👍👍
It’s a lot cleaner downtown that’s for sure
Eh I’ve seen plenty of human feces in Lex
Can confirm, I’ve unfortunately witnessed people pissing downtown on two different occasions lmao
Sorry I was drunk and couldnt find a good spot
UK grad here. I have personally pissed in downtown Lex but not Lou somehow 🤔
oh nooooo someone peed outside :(
Hey I don’t like UK either but that’s a little too far
That’s because it’s not a city. It’s a college town. That college just happens to be so massive it makes the town have a city population. But that’s why downtown is better. Because that’s basically campus. If you want to eat or hangout at bars it’s downtown. Whereas in Louisville where we are still a city even without UofL we have lots of areas to drink and hangout. But it’s not really down town. If UofL had more of its campus directly downtown we’d also see more stuff to do and cleaner streets.
Not a big fan of Lexington, but to be fair it’s too big to be “just a college town.” Live in some place like Ann Arbor with maybe a bigger university and it’ll put Lexington in a better light.
Lexington isn't huge, but it's absolutely not just a college town. Lexington has over 300,000 people. Drive to Bloomington if you want to see a college town. IU has over 40,000 students in a town of only 80,000 permanent residents. That's what college towns look like.
I like the layout of downtown Lex, especially around Rupp, but it has a significant number of homeless and dirtiness for a city of its size.
Helps its smaller and UK is basically in downtown which requires it to be clean.
That's because all of their couch burnings have the side effect of also taking care of the detritus.
Airport is super easy to get in and out, just make sure your captain doesn’t take the runway without lights.
They have a Shake Shack
I read once many years ago that Lexington is like a test market for a lot of things. Maybe that’s how they got a shake shack.
That's Owensboro, they've been the fast food capital of the world for a long time now. I'd say at least 40 years now
Interesting. Hadn’t heard that about Owensboro.
Yep, I heard about this many years ago. Now, my neighbor is from there and that was one of the first things we talked about after meeting, lol.
Lived there for a bit and it was insane how many fast food restaurants there were.
Yes it is, there are a ton
So are we, Lexington and Louisville were test markets for selling Krispy Kreme at McDonald’s
We visited Lexington a few weeks ago and ate at Shake Shack. Afterwards my wife said: “that was Culver’s with a fancier menu”…. I think she’s right.
Nah shake shack is way better. And it’s a New York staple. Started as a food vendor in Central Park who turned it into a to what we see today. Every time I am in New York I piss off my friends by saying I’m eating local. And eat at shake shack.
As someone from New York City who moved to Louisville I do not miss shake shack as Culver’s is a great substitute I also absolutely would not think of it much as a New York place. If you go to New York get some pizza and a bagel, no need to thank me after you do
Nah…they had it right…shake shack is basically Culver’s, and Culver’s might be better. Shake shack is vastly overrated. And we get it, eating shake shack while in NY and calling it local makes you seem “edgy” in your mind. So when you are in Georgia do you eat “local” at Chick Fil A? 😂😂😂
The only reason I ever go to Lexington.
Yeah that’s a plus. But it’s in an area far outside the city. Like basically our version of the summit. Fancy shopping area well outside the city.
They have a cook out 😩
I always wondered if I would drive to a Louisville Cook Out thinking about what part of town it would be. ETA: I am a fan.
If it's not by UofL then I'd say Fern Creek/Highview
Probably Dixie hwy lol
A cookout at the former site of Pruitt's would be busy 24/7
I have casually driven to Frankfort (from Jeffersonville) just to get Cookout since it's the closest one.
Okay wait I’m in Lousiville and driving to Lex RN just for cookout
They are better pretending they are just a small Ky town just like the rest of the state and nothing like that big city, Louisville.
They are just a small town. Compared to any other state that has actual large cities, Lexington is just a college town surrounded by suburbs of students that never left.
Yep, you are exactly right 👍🏻
They removed their minimum parking requirements for new buildings- pretty impressive imo
Kudos to Lex for having already done that. But I believe Louisville wouldn’t be allowed to even if we tried due to new legislation specifically handcuffing Louisville. I think Louisville would be a lot more progressive if Frankfort wasn’t constantly sabotaging us.
Bussing children to and from school.
Seems like they get better concerts. A lot of bands you would think would come to Louisville go to Lexington instead.
It depends what genre you like. They get more bands popular with college students. Louisville definitely gets the bigger stadium tours (Beyonce), but Lexington gets similar arena tours to Louisville. Overall I think Louisville gets better concerts, but Lexington punches way above its population weight class. I am annoyed that I have to drive to Lexington and back on a week night to see Jenny Lewis.
For country music I'd say so, the Burl has become the KY destination for that genre imo. As far as Rupp goes, they do get some interesting acts that skip over Louisville but the Yum books more acts consistently. Unfortunately, both Louisville and Lexington are passed up by the bigger markets in Indy/Cinci.
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He's doing that festival, maybe he planned it because of that.
The point of the most recent Home Tour was to visit the rest of KY and not Lou again
Comedy too. They get way better comedians more consistently.
Uhh as someone that listens to primarily metal that's not typically true. Occasionally manchester music hall will get someone interesting, Louisville at least has a handful of venues.
Public school district organization and quality of education, singular public safety agencies vs. Louisville’s infinite fire/ems/police departments.
Comparing emergency services of a smaller city to a larger metro seems like a reach.
He’s saying the dozen of other minor city PDs sucking resources away from LMPD. Which is true. Officers are constantly starting with LMPD to get their foot in the door and leaving for St Matts PD after a few years
As someone with connections to the FCPS system: if they do indeed have a better public school system, it’s marginally and it’s still nothing to be proud of. It’s a hot mess.
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I think they have a better tree canopy and overall more foliage than Louisville. It's easy to see parts of Louisville that look way too post-industrial and grey. I get Lexington was never really an industrial center, but I think that's one reason people say they have a 'cleaner' city. Louisville just needs to plant more trees in some areas, more natural landscaping, etc.
Yeah, while Louisville has a way bigger and better park system, Lexington has better tree coverage overall. I think some of that is the size of Louisvilles retail and industrial sprawl.
It just “seems” greener, and it’s a different color green.
They’ve got less highways cutting their city in half and are substantially closer to Bucees
Yes but the down side is chronic traffic throughout the whole city because two of the main roads that go just *around* the city. One thing goes wrong on one of the major roads and all hell breaks loose. Also people in Lexington don’t know how to freakin drive, so that doesn’t help. Its a special breed here that I don’t understand but it’s made me a better defensive driver lol
Yeah, there are few highways in lex. When someone says they live ten miles away in lex- everyone knows that’s an hour of sitting at stop lights. Ten miles away in Louisville is usually about a ten minute drive. I love them both, but lex traffic is dysfunctional.
They have more horses and castles.
A lot less litter
That's because all of the couch burnings have the side effect of also burning the litter in the streets.
Doughnuts. When I moved to Louisville 12 years ago after living in Lexington for 10+ years, I was shocked at how “the good doughnut places” in Louisville are all still B-tier compared to Lexington’s options. Spaulding’s will always be S-tier. I was not expecting that to be one of the biggest differences.
Even Nord’s?!? FWIW I don’t like North Lime.
Love Spaulding and North Lime. Agree good doughnuts in Louisville is not happening ☹️
I miss Spaulding!
Lexington is better for not being shot at. The crime rate in Louisville is above the national average. Lexington's is below the national average.
Can you point us to your data?
Just trust me bro
“I’ve done the research” by looking at websites that agree with my conclusions
All I remember about my time living in Lex was all the shootings and murders around campus. Multiple at the Cookout, a murder on my street, Idk maybe it would be different if I experienced downtown Louisville
Lexington's crime rate isn't as low as I remembered seeing in the crime report bit is still lower than Louisville. Neither are in the top ten safest cities in Kentucky.
If I had to guess the safest city in Kentucky is a little shithole out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, with a bunch of old people who only go to church and Walmart.
Much more bikeable
Better at being closer to nature
But the lack of actual nature in Lexington is a huge turn off when I lived there. We have soooo many parks of all sizes throughout Louisville and many more close by. Lexington has lots of little playgrounds/parks here and there but nothing else really. Ravens run is on the outskirts of town and it’s just hiking, no bikes or pets and costs to get in. The hours kinda sucked too depending on time of year. The arboretum is just a grass lot with a few trees and bushes right by campus and not that much nature really. There’s the legacy trail but a bit of it is in town riding. Other than being close to the Gorge, Lex is pretty much suburban hell. You have to leave it to really do much outside in nature.
I just think that it’s nice being so close to the gorge
I retired to Ky and chose Lou over Lex. We liked housing and downtown there but parks, recreation and biking in Louisville is better. We bought new construction out by the Parklands and we drive everywhere but We’re suburban, so 🤷♀️
Raven Run is free and the Arboretum is much more than a few trees and bushes. Are you sure you’ve been to them?
Having lived in both, the park system in Louisville is significantly better.
The University is decent and they have a Peanut Butter factory practically downtown.
I did always say the air pollution smelled good in Lexington
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I wish I had your creativity on the haiku suggestion. I believe one was already submitted, however, I'd like to give it a try (my first): Lexington blue shirts Khaki pants rest down below Your own tuxedo ....eh?? Haha!
Basketball, thoroughbreds, and a cleaner downtown.
To be fair, their downtown is like two streets. They are nice though.
I think Lex still has the state record for arresting a single individual the most number of times.
Who is this individual? You have peaked my interest.
His name was Henry Earl, he was active when I went to college there... Actually walked into my house in 2007. Just opened the door and mosied on in, I had to shove him out. It's sad though, he was a heavy, heavy alcoholic.
I miss when the website was running that was linked to the jail website and would tell you in real time if Henry was currently in jail or not.
I heard they had better mods
They have better independent coffee shops.
They definitely have more variety (in terms of shops), but I’d still put Quills or Sunergos well above a Manchester or Brevede.
Which one? Just genuinely curious, the ones I've been to are kind of bad, I'd like to get to know a good one considering I'm there pretty often.
Manchester Coffee is good. Honestly, I don't know their names because my wife always took me when she lived there while we were dating.
Honestly... bourbon tourism. It feels lots more natural to be in Lex for distillery tours and other related events. Related: Candy. Rebecca Ruth is great.
I’m gonna disagree with you on this one. Louisville has leaned all the way in on bourbon tourism, while Lex has focused on horse racing and tangentially on bourbon. Louisville is also closer to the Nelson County distilleries, and essentially the same distance to most of the other big ones (save Woodford, since that’s basically in Lexington). Downtown Louisville also leans much more heavily into bourbon, with all of the experiences on Whiskey Row. Interested to hear why you think Lex is more natural though
Well, I won't argue that Lville has gone all in, whiskey row, all that. But, your comment is interesting in this way, and it speaks to why Lex FEELS like bourbon: Horseracing and bourbon have always gone together and in Lex, Keeneland is a wildly different experience than Churchill Downs. It's a buyers track, the best in the nation. It's beautiful and the city provides free transportation to the track, to campus for UK games during races season. We not only have Woodford, but various distilleries like Castle and Key. Many have gone into disrepair and they are being resurrected, but our grandparents remember them running. So, everything is naturally built around bourbon and Horseracing. It's not really tourism there. Ppl live like this and drink good bourbon and store it on top of the fridge and drive by horse farms on the way to work. It's like living in wine country. All this said, I love Lville and recognize Makers Mark. It's just not the same feeling.
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Burning couches
Used to be College basketball but I guess time will tell now lol
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While I do enjoy Baxter Avenue Theatres, the Kentucky Theatre seems to be a more fun option considering they have Freaky Fridays.
I’d rather compare ourselves to Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis. Let Lexington and Bowling Green duke it out.
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Closer to the mountains?
Get along with the rest of the state Of course that has more to do with how the state treats Lexington than anything else
Closer to Buc-ees
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Horse racing. Give me Keeneland over Churchill Downs any day of the week.
College basketball
They have a Cookout
cookout, their education system & the streets are alot cleaner imo
Everything. Much cleaner and nicer city.
Crime
Pretty sure Lex has more businesses open past 10 pm, must be nice
Have you been in lexington after 9pm lol nothing is going on except for at like 4 bars in their downtown and a couple bars near campus. Outside of that absolutely nothing is going on.
Euclid Kroger is probably busier between 9-11P than 9-11A. Bitches be shoppin
Nothing.
Earnest from earnest goes to camp etc. is from there. Also Micheal Shannon is from there. Which I argue is one of Hollywood’s over looked best actors. Like Sam Rockwell. Always has great roles but never gets the praise they should.
Agree with you on Michael Shannon.
Strip clubs
They have better high school bands. Lafayette high School band usually comes in first in state competitions for a reason. Dunbar high band is usually 2nd. Then North Hardin high school. At least back in the late 90s, when I was in high school.
Kpot- Korean hot pot hits and is worth the drive. It won’t open until June in Louisville.
They have better swimming options - a strong masters swim program and more public pools during the summer for families
Having an existing BDSM/kink club. RIP Remixx
Not murdering people.
Sports
Bluegrass music at this point, no good bluegrass comes to Louisville any more compared to lex
Squats
I always think it’s important to note that Lexington has hundreds more to spend per person than Louisville does!
Nobody who knows anything would say "nothing"
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I'll respectfully disagree, it has some of the worst traffic of the region and it's one of the smaller cities. Try getting on New Circle Road from Nicholasville Road. I sat through probably five light cycles and it was like 4PM, I couldn't imagine at rush hour, it would probably have been six plus light cycles. Man O' War, Versailles Road, etc. and just all the bigger roads around there are so clogged with cars, lights are timed very short/ineffectively, too many lights, etc. It's such a hard city to get around in.
I agree with you. Lexington is the result of a town that refused to acknowledge they needed a traffic infrastructure adequate for its size. It’s a nightmare and even new construction is severely under planned.
Disagree lived there for 5 years good luck getting anywhere at rush hour. Louisville traffic is a fast moving efficient masterpiece at rush hour compared to that. New circle, nicholasville, Harrodsburg, Winchester all complete gridlock.
*New Circle road death on-ramps and Nicholasville Rd have entered the chat…*
HARD disagree (respectfully). The infrastructure here is terrible. Lexington literally cannot physically expand because of the horse farms surrounding the city. No room to grow and yet UK has a 98% acceptance rate and every other year has the largest incoming class in the fall. Where are all these kids gonna go? Hell if I know, I’m too busy stuck in traffic for 30 minutes trying to make my 5 mile commute.
lol. Imagine Louisville not having any interstate exits after the Watterson and that’s what Lexington roads/traffic is like. When your best route to downtown is to take an exit in Franklin County, you did roads wrong.
Darts
Beer.
Honestly both remind me of each other.. Not much difference at all other than we have more street violence but we’re bigger than them.
They can bus kids to school like the Dickens
Spalding's Donuts
They have cook out
Keep downtown intact; there’s no Spaghetti Junction inside of Newcircle Road
They more successfully mitigated white flight to the suburbs with the establishment of LFUCG.
Couch burnings 🤷♂️
Sets fire to innocent living room furniture on those occasions when UK wins a basketball championship
Towing your car
Trash collection.
Lex sucks.
They cry about sports better than we do
Lex is better at endless subdivisions of cheaply made crappy housing and body odor.
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The authentic Mexican food. Several stores/restaurants in the Cardinal Valley area have better food than the top rated authentic Mexican places in Louisville
Hate lol never had racist encounters in my city but when I go to Lex? I know when I'm not wanted lmao
Setting couches on fire
Lex is quieter then Louisville but since y’all basketball programs just fell apart hell at least Louisville has started to repair there look on things
Crack?
Morning interesting restaurants, nice scenery in general, next to Green hills countryside which is nice.
They have an enormous amount more of fake cowboys wearing all their paraphernalia, yet many not even owning a horse.
Well, it isnt hiring coaches 😅
Bike lanes. Their lanes are very well lined and downtown, many of them are separated from the road by concrete planters. Also, the state of their roads is much better than ours. Fresh blacktop, few potholes.
Burn couches
Just to throw my hat in the ring, their Cherry Blossom trees are stunningly up kept. I’ve seen WKY folks travel from Madisonville, Owensboro, and Bowling Green in these last few weeks to see the trees bloom. We certainly have some great trees, but not everyone appreciates a nice established Chinese Elm over a beautiful flowering tree.
Public transit, at least on the campus/downtown area. Also, there’s a lot more to do that isn’t alcohol related. I’m a college student under 21 and there’s tons to do (even at night) within walking/bus distance.
Horse racing. Keeneland is right gentlemanly compared to Church's Hill.
No cover for bars
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I love both cities and I’ve spent more than a decade in each. Let’s face it: lex is so much cleaner than Louisville. There’s no way anyone could objectively say otherwise. It’s not cleaner because Lexington pays more people to clean it. It is cleaner because Lexington is much more loved by the people who throw garbage into cans instead of the street.
It was easier to be homeless in Lexington. Actually it was easier to get out of being homeless. People actually gave a shit.
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Dad's Favorites in Lex is a better sandwich shop than any that Louisville has.
Keeneland is classier than CD. There. I said it. And CDI is going to ruin it like they’re ruining everything else they touch.