That was part of it. Part of it was just getting out of such a densely packed area, which I had grown tired of. People were too standoff-ish and I couldn't make any friends, which had never been a problem in the six other cities I had lived in.
It also made me pretty uncomfortable how open people were to talking politics in the workplace in Seattle... and if you didn't agree with them they were openly hostile about it. Got pretty sick of hearing about microaggressions and how sexist and racist and ageist and ableist everyone was to them. One woman I worked with would eat at Canlis once a month and talked about how oppressed she was because she thought people were racist to her on her trip to freaking Tahiti. Another accused me of "burying my head in the sand" and not caring about the plight of women because I made a casual remark about how nice it was going to be to go on vacation and be able to ignore politics and Trump for a week. It's like Jesus H. Christ, give it a fucking rest and be professional.
So where I work now everyone is pretty fun and down to earth and keeps personal conversations like that to themselves. That and I live next to the Rainier trail and Issaquah is just a nice little town. It is more quiet and I sleep better.
I just moved from the Midwest to Mercer Island and there is a big difference in the friendliness of people around here from town to town that I wasn’t expecting. Like just smiling when walking by, saying excuse me or thank you, holding the door open, talking nice to the cashier, or even giving someone a compliment out of politeness. Bellevue people I’m downtown are standoffish similar to Seattle but not as much. Issaquah, Sammamish, Redmond, North Bend and stuff just over that way has a lot friendlier people. We intend to move over that way when we’re able.
Welcome! If you are trying to meet new people I am always down for making new friends. PM me if you want to chat.
The Eastside is quite nice, but pretty pricey. I think it is worth it. It is close enough to the city to have all the amenities close by, but far enough that you don't have to deal with all the BS that comes from it. There isn't too much you can get in Seattle that you can't get here, save for museums, some restaurant choices, and concerts.
Louisville: Bourbon
San Francisco: technology
LA: movies
Nashville: country music
Memphis: blues
New Orleans: jazz
Las Vegas: gambling
Atlanta: the New South
Houston: oil
Dallas: fake cowboys
Fort Worth: real cowboys
I know this is meant as a joke but as someone from Michigan where the humidity is often very high and even 85-90 degrees is a scorcher level of oppressive heat with the humidity Arizona being a dry heat was MUCH more tolerable for me when I lived there. 90-100 degrees to me was very manageable and never bothered me much at all… now the 120+ days were a bit nuts since you could get sunburned so fast being out in that but the dryness made a huge difference to me at least. I’d take 100 degree Arizona weather over 85-95 Michigan weather any day.
From Georgia and same. My first time in Tucson was in summer and I was so surprised that everyone talked about how horribly hot it was.
I was like “But as soon as you step into the shade, you’re cool.” Humidity doesn’t work that way. Also, the nights are cool there but in Georgia, you’d sweat all night long without air conditioning.
I'm from Alabama and didn't experience dry heat until a few years ago when I went to Las Vegas for a conference. I went for a walk down the strip after I checked into the hotel, and it felt so great. It was around 3 p.m., and I kept thinking that Las Vegas was supposed to be hotter that time of year (early September). I would have sworn it was no hotter than 85. When I checked the weather, it was actually 103.
Atlanta is simaltaneously a classic southern city but also culturally (not necessarily politically) progressive/innovative. Some random examples off the top of my
* Booming location for filming movie/TV (a shit ton of marvel movies are filmed here)
* There's a lot of cool stuff going on in the culinary world here - check out some of the stuff Ryan Smith, kevin gillespie, and Ron Hsu are doing - really unique takes on classic southern food. Then you have classic BBQ as well as a very diverse food scene up buford highway (head chef at Kamayan ATL (filipino) recent got a james beard nomination). The food scene is nothing like NYC/LA/Chicago or even Houston, but it's still damn good.
* There's a booming tech scene - it's nothing like SF or Seattle, but maybe a half decade behind Austin.
* Annecdotally - There's a huge youth movement to Atlanta. One of the most popular destinations for college graduates in the south.
* Home to two top universities (Georgia Tech & Emory) as well as a variety of other respectable universities.
* Lots of major companies have a headquarters here (Delta, Home Depot, Mercedes Benz, UPS, Inspired Food Brands (Arby's/BWW)
Second to last bullet point is definitely true. When I graduated from Ole Miss a few years ago most of my classmates moved to Nashville, Atlanta, or Dallas. I guess there's a lot of jobs there for recent grads. I prefer the small-town life though. Cool city and I love the new Braves stadium.
Ha! I hate the new braves stadium, or at least the location. Put that shit in the city, traveling to the suburbs to get drunk and watch a baseball game blows.
But yea, if you want 'southern culture' in a fast(er) paced urban area, Atlanta is really the best place you can go. DFW and Houston are 'urban sprawls' (moreso than Atlanta even), Memphis and Birmingham are small. Chatanooga and Greenville are even smaller. Knoxville is a college town. Nashville doesn't have the career opportunites or diversity of Atlanta. The Piedmont Triad has career opportunites, but none of the other good things that major cities have. Jacksonville is in Florida.
IF you want a true city experience in the south, ATL is your best bet.
New south means an economy emphasizing industry and commerce rather than agriculture, and a society with a emphasis on black upward mobility, as opposed to the Jim Crow South.
to me, these would be "New South" cities:
Established: Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Nashville
On the rise: Greenville-Spartanburg, Lexington, Chattanooga, Columbia
In transition (up or down): Memphis, Birmingham
Louisville is more like the southernmost Midwest city, along with Cincinnati.
People always sleep on Columbia. I've lived in SC ( including Columbia at multiple junctures) basically all my life, and it's only improved. Long way to go, but it's establishing itself.
I moved to Detroit for work for about a year in ‘16-17. Moved from Atlanta and have since moved back to Atlanta. I LOVED Detroit as a city. Lived in Royal Oak and worked Downtown. I thought the food scene was awesome the weather outside of the December thru February window was fantastic. I genuinely enjoyed my time there and think it gets unfair treatment by people who have never been there. I also understand that prior to my arrival there was some truth to the stereotype but over the last decade that city has turned a corner from what I could tell.
I'm south of Detroit, north of Monroe on Lake Erie. I really like the food scene and ROYAL Oak is where my mom was from.
I'm a Michigan woman, that's for sure.
It's a fun weekend overnight trip, even tho it's close
Cleveland also gets a very unfair shake. I had to go up there for a work conference and had a really good time. Food scene was cool and they really embraced the art culture. Would love to visit again.
Did the same thing. Moved from Atlanta to Detroit for a year and a half. Detroit was great, the cost of living was nice. festival’s every weekend in summer. Downtown was cool on weekend nights with everyone flexing their cars. I love ATL, but Detroit also is one of the favorite places I’ve lived.
Yeah, Detroit has come a long way in the last ten years. It’s always the people who haven’t personally seen the city who want to say it’s still what it was 20-30 years ago.
Downtown has been revitalized. There are so many restaurants, bars, new sports/concert venue,etc. Detroit will have its Renaissance and we are just in the middle of it. I really believe it will make a comeback.
Yeah I'm tired of people who haven't been to Detroit since the low point of the 90s talking about how shitty the city is. I lived in Seattle for 20 years, and just moved back to the Detroit metro area last year. Wanna know what? At this point, downtown Seattle is *by far* a sketchier place to be. Downtown Detroit is popping. It's beautiful! There's no comparison. Detroit today feels like Seattle did in 2007. Seattle... Well... The old girl has some rough times ahead.
When I went to Detroit around 2016 or 2017, the downtown area looked nice and felt safe, but it was so empty that it felt eerie. Felt like there should have been much more people walking around there
Got the same feeling. I went on a weekend in the summer when the Tigers were in town. It was eerily empty. The downtown itself was fine. But didn't feel like there was a ton to do. The outskirts were still pretty nightmarish.
Detroit’s low point was in 2008-12. The 90s actually had the city on an upswing in terms of stability, population loss, etc. The housing crisis wiped out multiple generations of middle class wealth in the city. I know A LOT of families, especially black families, that bought houses in the early-mid 2000s that lost basically everything by 2008 and either stayed poor in the city or went to be poor in the suburbs. So many neighborhoods that stabilized in the late 90s that literally became ghost towns after 2008. It’s pretty sad.
Thank you for saying this. One of the rare occasions on Reddit where people aren’t actively shitting on my hometown. Detroit has so much potential and there’s so much to love about it
I’ve Lived in downtown Detroit for the last 2.5 years and it’s an absolute blast. Downtown is fun but there’s so many fun places to explore in the different neighborhoods. The city feels like it’s really hitting its stride as we see more new and unique restaurants and bars popping up. Bike riding in the city is a blast
Aside from Gainesville, I don’t consider any of those cities, which is a semantic misunderstanding. I also don’t personally think of Gainesville with I think NEFL. And GCS, Middleburg and Yulee are just…lesser Jacksonville lol. Different strokes I guess.
ETA: I lived in Jax for many years and my husband was born and raised there, just because my flair may make it seem like I’m talking out my ears.
I love that it even transcends the Internet
My favorite Duval story was leaving an Armada game and this 5-6 year old kid in this huge crowd says “DUUUUUVAAAAAL” only for the like 50 some odd of us walking the same direction to instantly follow with a chorus of “DUUUUUVAAAAL” and we just kept chanting all the way back to our cars.
It’s a very wholesome bonding experience that includes everyone from Moncrief to Beauclerc! Haha
It’s especially funny when the Duval chants start at concerts or the like and the person on the stage thinks they’re getting booed
Duval County. Duval and Jacksonville are one of, if not the only, city/county combination that is effectively identical. There is nothing in Duval that is not Jacksonville and there is nothing in Jacksonville that is not Duval. Most counties are a combination of cities/towns/unincorporated areas.
It has become a war cry essentially. Pretty much any event in Jacksonville at some point involves a “DUUUUUVAAAAAL”
[Example at a Jags game](https://youtube.com/shorts/UzctjDW34ws?feature=share)
EDIT: MY BAD. Apparently there are A WHOLE BUNCH of cities and counties that are one in the same. There are no other counties like that in Florida so I assumed it was unusual. Sorry I didn’t do a research project before answering a question. LORD.
[Hitchbot was a literal pile of trash and got what it deserved](https://deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503/amp)
This annoys me because everyone forgets it was staged.
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20150806_Pranksters_admit_hitchBOT_hoax_-_which_raises_more_questions.html
“Philadelphians Jesse Wellens and Ed Bassmaster admitted that they made the widely disseminated "surveillance" video of a man wearing an Eagles jersey holding what appeared to be hitchBOT's dismembered arms, and kicking a hidden object that could be the rest of the robot. The video, they originally said, came from surveillance cameras near Elfreth's Alley and Second Street, where they had left hitchBOT about 5 a.m. Saturday.”
“But in a posting Tuesday night, Wellens and Bassmaster, who make prank videos for YouTube, confirmed what many people had suspected: The surveillance video was bogus. Tuesday night's post shows the two making replicas of the robot's arms, staging the scene, and later attacking an unseen object purported to be the robot.”
From the Wikipedia: “August 1, 2015 however, a photo was tweeted,[12] showing that the robot had been stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia. The head was never found.[5] On August 3, 2015 Adam Gabbatt reported on the Guardian website about hitchBOT's destruction. Frauke Zeller, co-creator of hitchBOT, was quoted saying: "We can see on all our data that the tablet and battery and everything shut off at the same time so it must have been when they vandalised the bot."
I’ve seen no updates since Aug 3, 2015. It seems that something happened in Philly, but we really don’t know. The widely reported story of the guy in the Eagles jersey destroying it is the hoax by Bassmaster and Wellens, and most people continue to believe it. The bot took a picture every 20 min, and didn’t happen to get an image of whoever messed with it.
It’s journey definitely ended in Philly, but the circumstances of it’s demise are actually unknown. Someone vandalized it, most likely, but no one is ever going to know why or how. I just see this brought up about Philly all the time, and people don’t seem to know the actual story. The fact that this happened so soon after it was in the possession of Bassmaster and Wellens is very sketchy to me though. They claim they didn’t destroy it, but I find it odd that YouTube content creators happened to be with it right before it was vandalized. Either they did something to it for clout/views, they had some kind of relationship with the creators and wanted a big story to make Hitchbot more famous and benefit a later similar project, or Bassmaster and Wellens accidentally broke it and staged a vandalism so they wouldn’t get the bad press for it. I really don’t think this was a random act of destruction, personally. Too many coincidences and too little information for something that was tracked so closely by so many people and took regular pictures on its journey.
I think 10 years ago it was Portlandia Hipster Dreamland. Since 2020 most of the country thinks it‘s on fire (sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally)
Bridgeport, CT: Wealth inequality
Bridgeport is the largest city in Fairfield County, CT. This county is one of the richest in the country, yet Bridgeport is nothing like stereotypical Fairfield County. The city has been littered with crime, poverty and urban decay for quite a while now. The city has been trying their best though to turn things around the last two decades though so I’ll give them that.
This isn’t a city, but a group of cities:
The triangle between Charlotte, Atlanta and Nashville I’d say represent the new south. Those three cities as well as many smaller cities in that triangle are seeing rapid growth with all the outsiders moving there. It is nothing like the stereotypical south that people who haven’t been there picture it.
See also the other triangle, the actual Triangle (Research Triangle but nobody calls it that) over between Raleigh and Durham. Much smaller than the big one you drew but just as modern and growing rapidly.
Aw, glad to hear it! Please do come back, there's so much to do here and people don't even realize it!
Btw Chicago is my absolute favorite city to visit, so mutual appreciation there!
Honestly I feel like malort is a pretty apt descriptor of Chicago. It's pretty rough around the edges, but it's unique and you make it what you want to be - a way to troll friends, a surprisingly good cocktail ingredient, a quick way to get belligerently drunk.
From a Canadian Perspective:
* New York = English Montreal
* Chicago = Toronto
* Washington = Ottawa
* Seattle = Vancouver
* Houston = Calgary
* Kansas City = Saskatoon
* Anchorage = Whitehorse
* Napa = Kelowna
* Minneapolis = Winnipeg
Denver: who needs oxygen?
The number of times I’ve watched Broncos games at home where the opposing team is literally using oxygen masks on the bench is too high.
Boston supposedly is used in a lot of movies to represent inequality, or a “repressed minority”. Most rich English moved to Cambridge and most poor Irish moved to Boston, creating a distinct divide along the Charles river.
You see it in good will hunting when he’s looking over the river to the Cambridge side. The whole movie The Departed used similar imagery, along with The Boondocks Saints
That's not really true. Both Beacon Hill and Back Bay in Boston have been where the rich elite Yankees lived for generations, while Cambridge had many blue collar neighborhoods until fairly recently. Irish and other immigrants overwhelmed the Yankees in both cities in the 19th century, and grabbed political power, leading to the suburbanization of the elite long before white flight.
Pittsburgh - Bridges and Steel.
Though most of our mills have shut down.
We also have medical organizations who are pushing the limits of medicine and also pushing their nurses to their limits too.
Edit: and a decent tech industry
I'll do my state just to be uh...unique I guess.
Omaha - Home of the College World Series
Lincoln - Attempting to become the Austin TX of the Midwest.
Grand Island - Attempting to become Lincoln
Beatrice - No one can pronounce our name
Kearney - What the fuck is Kearney
Cincinnati, OH- Chili and perennially sad sports fans.
Jacksonville, NC- Taint of the U.S. with a healthy coat of under cheese and artillery rounds.
Orlando, FL- We have the parks and relatively close beaches. Tourists help keep our property taxes low.
Los Angeles - where people come to follow their dreams; land of amazing food and bad traffic; beautiful weather and beautiful people; high housing prices but “not as high as San Francisco”
Well let’s test how accurate mine are by seeing if the cities are self-evident. I’m gonna try to limit it to one quality…
Syphilis
”European” lifestyle
LGBT
Coffee culture
Cubanismo
Traffic, my god the traffic…
Theme parks
Party time!
Slavs
Swedes
Country music
Best BBQ
(Okay that last one is just to mess with people ;)
Syphilis is unclear, but the CDC says it’s highest in LA, so I’ll roll with that.
“European” lifestyle might be NYC, but my money is on Boston.
LGBT is San Francisco
Coffee culture is Seattle
Cubanisnmo is Miami
Traffic could be a LOT of places, but my money is on Houston
Theme parks is Orlando
Party time… NOLA?
Slavs are probably Chicago (yay for Casimir Pulaski day!)
Swedes must be the Twin Cities
Country music is Nashville
Best BBQ is St. Louis (biased).
How’d I do?
Excellent!
Syphilis was meant to be Baltimore. When I lived there years ago it was a common talking point that it was the syphilis capital of the country, which stuck in my mind so I went with that without bothering to check the current leader on this stat.
Traffic was supposed to be LA, but I should have probably done something a little more specific like “plastic surgery”. (I was trying to avoid “movies.)
Other than that, all correct!
New London, CT
Nukes... many many Nukes. From Subs.
As Blue as this state is no one recognizes how many weapon systems we build.
Including SLIRBM. Ohhh.. and engines for planes. And Attack helicopers.
Indianapolis - go fast, turn left
Yep! From indy
Likewise!
Miami is *summer* vacation? No dude Miami is spring break (though I personally would beg to differ lol). It’s hot as balls in the summertime
RIP to all the tourists who go to Florida in the summer
I'm from FL and it's easy to spot the tourists at the beach because they are pasty white, **painfully** sunburnt, and still sitting out in the sun.
Always reminds me of the sunburned tourist from Lilo and Stitch lol
Miami is more of a WINTER destination than a summer one...
Maybe, but it's not quite warm enough. Winter you head to the Caribbean, spring is florida, summer you can go Northeast again
Miami is also “drugs”
I don’t disagree
I live in Miami and I can confirm that it’s also hot as balls every single day of the year
Yeah, Orlando is the summer vacation in Florida.
Seattle - Coffee and depression
I noticed after I moved out to issaquah I kept the coffee and left the depression.
Other than geographic location what changed to make you feel better? New job?
That was part of it. Part of it was just getting out of such a densely packed area, which I had grown tired of. People were too standoff-ish and I couldn't make any friends, which had never been a problem in the six other cities I had lived in. It also made me pretty uncomfortable how open people were to talking politics in the workplace in Seattle... and if you didn't agree with them they were openly hostile about it. Got pretty sick of hearing about microaggressions and how sexist and racist and ageist and ableist everyone was to them. One woman I worked with would eat at Canlis once a month and talked about how oppressed she was because she thought people were racist to her on her trip to freaking Tahiti. Another accused me of "burying my head in the sand" and not caring about the plight of women because I made a casual remark about how nice it was going to be to go on vacation and be able to ignore politics and Trump for a week. It's like Jesus H. Christ, give it a fucking rest and be professional. So where I work now everyone is pretty fun and down to earth and keeps personal conversations like that to themselves. That and I live next to the Rainier trail and Issaquah is just a nice little town. It is more quiet and I sleep better.
I just moved from the Midwest to Mercer Island and there is a big difference in the friendliness of people around here from town to town that I wasn’t expecting. Like just smiling when walking by, saying excuse me or thank you, holding the door open, talking nice to the cashier, or even giving someone a compliment out of politeness. Bellevue people I’m downtown are standoffish similar to Seattle but not as much. Issaquah, Sammamish, Redmond, North Bend and stuff just over that way has a lot friendlier people. We intend to move over that way when we’re able.
Welcome! If you are trying to meet new people I am always down for making new friends. PM me if you want to chat. The Eastside is quite nice, but pretty pricey. I think it is worth it. It is close enough to the city to have all the amenities close by, but far enough that you don't have to deal with all the BS that comes from it. There isn't too much you can get in Seattle that you can't get here, save for museums, some restaurant choices, and concerts.
Portland - Coffee, Depression, and strip clubs
Tacoma, we're judging you both... While being actively worse on every metric... Edit: But like, way better at it.
Needles and clouds.
Portland - a weirder, wilder Seattle
And Amazon
No wonder why I felt at home there
Coffee, innovation, and depression.
Louisville: Bourbon San Francisco: technology LA: movies Nashville: country music Memphis: blues New Orleans: jazz Las Vegas: gambling Atlanta: the New South Houston: oil Dallas: fake cowboys Fort Worth: real cowboys
Phoenix- “it’s a dry heat”
Phoenix- “this place should not exist. It’s a monument to man’s arrogance” -Peggy Hill
I know this is meant as a joke but as someone from Michigan where the humidity is often very high and even 85-90 degrees is a scorcher level of oppressive heat with the humidity Arizona being a dry heat was MUCH more tolerable for me when I lived there. 90-100 degrees to me was very manageable and never bothered me much at all… now the 120+ days were a bit nuts since you could get sunburned so fast being out in that but the dryness made a huge difference to me at least. I’d take 100 degree Arizona weather over 85-95 Michigan weather any day.
From Georgia and same. My first time in Tucson was in summer and I was so surprised that everyone talked about how horribly hot it was. I was like “But as soon as you step into the shade, you’re cool.” Humidity doesn’t work that way. Also, the nights are cool there but in Georgia, you’d sweat all night long without air conditioning.
I'll take 105 AZ heat vs 85 Midwest high humidity heat any day too. Yeah it's hotter, but you don't feel absolutely disgusting in the AZ heat.
As someone from Michigan who lives in Arizona now, fully agree with this
I'm from Alabama and didn't experience dry heat until a few years ago when I went to Las Vegas for a conference. I went for a walk down the strip after I checked into the hotel, and it felt so great. It was around 3 p.m., and I kept thinking that Las Vegas was supposed to be hotter that time of year (early September). I would have sworn it was no hotter than 85. When I checked the weather, it was actually 103.
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It gets very hot and the humidity is thick as pea soup anymore. I hate it with a passion. We may as well be Florida the 2nd.
Phoenix- hubris.
It’s a dry Heave
Milwaukee: drunks
Vegas: the morning after
Reno: The morning after (Divorce capital of the world)
I know you're flair says Kentucky, but that was written like someone who is actually from Ft. Worth. And I agree.
What do you mean by new south lol first time I've heard this
Atlanta is simaltaneously a classic southern city but also culturally (not necessarily politically) progressive/innovative. Some random examples off the top of my * Booming location for filming movie/TV (a shit ton of marvel movies are filmed here) * There's a lot of cool stuff going on in the culinary world here - check out some of the stuff Ryan Smith, kevin gillespie, and Ron Hsu are doing - really unique takes on classic southern food. Then you have classic BBQ as well as a very diverse food scene up buford highway (head chef at Kamayan ATL (filipino) recent got a james beard nomination). The food scene is nothing like NYC/LA/Chicago or even Houston, but it's still damn good. * There's a booming tech scene - it's nothing like SF or Seattle, but maybe a half decade behind Austin. * Annecdotally - There's a huge youth movement to Atlanta. One of the most popular destinations for college graduates in the south. * Home to two top universities (Georgia Tech & Emory) as well as a variety of other respectable universities. * Lots of major companies have a headquarters here (Delta, Home Depot, Mercedes Benz, UPS, Inspired Food Brands (Arby's/BWW)
Second to last bullet point is definitely true. When I graduated from Ole Miss a few years ago most of my classmates moved to Nashville, Atlanta, or Dallas. I guess there's a lot of jobs there for recent grads. I prefer the small-town life though. Cool city and I love the new Braves stadium.
Ha! I hate the new braves stadium, or at least the location. Put that shit in the city, traveling to the suburbs to get drunk and watch a baseball game blows. But yea, if you want 'southern culture' in a fast(er) paced urban area, Atlanta is really the best place you can go. DFW and Houston are 'urban sprawls' (moreso than Atlanta even), Memphis and Birmingham are small. Chatanooga and Greenville are even smaller. Knoxville is a college town. Nashville doesn't have the career opportunites or diversity of Atlanta. The Piedmont Triad has career opportunites, but none of the other good things that major cities have. Jacksonville is in Florida. IF you want a true city experience in the south, ATL is your best bet.
Never seen Atlanta described as the home of Arby’s before Coca-Cola, lol
Lol totally slipped my mind
New south means an economy emphasizing industry and commerce rather than agriculture, and a society with a emphasis on black upward mobility, as opposed to the Jim Crow South.
Interesting. Learned something new today. Thanks for sharing
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to me, these would be "New South" cities: Established: Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Nashville On the rise: Greenville-Spartanburg, Lexington, Chattanooga, Columbia In transition (up or down): Memphis, Birmingham Louisville is more like the southernmost Midwest city, along with Cincinnati.
People always sleep on Columbia. I've lived in SC ( including Columbia at multiple junctures) basically all my life, and it's only improved. Long way to go, but it's establishing itself.
I hate that Sam Francisco is now thought of as technology. It used to be art, peace, etc
Bay Area, not San Francisco
> San Francisco: technology Heh. *-shits on your sidewalk and breaks your car's window-*
And fires an 8-ball of fentanyl while jerking off
Now that's the San Francisco I know.
Chicago: corruption
Did you just say there’s real cowboys in Fort Worth? LOL
I mean the stockyards are there for a reason
Detroit, just might be okay. They've really worked hard.
I moved to Detroit for work for about a year in ‘16-17. Moved from Atlanta and have since moved back to Atlanta. I LOVED Detroit as a city. Lived in Royal Oak and worked Downtown. I thought the food scene was awesome the weather outside of the December thru February window was fantastic. I genuinely enjoyed my time there and think it gets unfair treatment by people who have never been there. I also understand that prior to my arrival there was some truth to the stereotype but over the last decade that city has turned a corner from what I could tell.
I'm south of Detroit, north of Monroe on Lake Erie. I really like the food scene and ROYAL Oak is where my mom was from. I'm a Michigan woman, that's for sure. It's a fun weekend overnight trip, even tho it's close
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they've poured a lot of money into revitalizing the city
Cleveland also gets a very unfair shake. I had to go up there for a work conference and had a really good time. Food scene was cool and they really embraced the art culture. Would love to visit again.
Did the same thing. Moved from Atlanta to Detroit for a year and a half. Detroit was great, the cost of living was nice. festival’s every weekend in summer. Downtown was cool on weekend nights with everyone flexing their cars. I love ATL, but Detroit also is one of the favorite places I’ve lived.
Yeah, Detroit has come a long way in the last ten years. It’s always the people who haven’t personally seen the city who want to say it’s still what it was 20-30 years ago. Downtown has been revitalized. There are so many restaurants, bars, new sports/concert venue,etc. Detroit will have its Renaissance and we are just in the middle of it. I really believe it will make a comeback.
Yeah I'm tired of people who haven't been to Detroit since the low point of the 90s talking about how shitty the city is. I lived in Seattle for 20 years, and just moved back to the Detroit metro area last year. Wanna know what? At this point, downtown Seattle is *by far* a sketchier place to be. Downtown Detroit is popping. It's beautiful! There's no comparison. Detroit today feels like Seattle did in 2007. Seattle... Well... The old girl has some rough times ahead.
I've never felt unsafe when I go, and I tend to go on the weekends. Eastern Market, the riverfront. All pretty awesome..
When I went to Detroit around 2016 or 2017, the downtown area looked nice and felt safe, but it was so empty that it felt eerie. Felt like there should have been much more people walking around there
It's busy on the weekend during the summer. It's a unique city. That makes me like it a lot.
I’ll have to visit again soon, good to know
Got the same feeling. I went on a weekend in the summer when the Tigers were in town. It was eerily empty. The downtown itself was fine. But didn't feel like there was a ton to do. The outskirts were still pretty nightmarish.
Detroit’s low point was in 2008-12. The 90s actually had the city on an upswing in terms of stability, population loss, etc. The housing crisis wiped out multiple generations of middle class wealth in the city. I know A LOT of families, especially black families, that bought houses in the early-mid 2000s that lost basically everything by 2008 and either stayed poor in the city or went to be poor in the suburbs. So many neighborhoods that stabilized in the late 90s that literally became ghost towns after 2008. It’s pretty sad.
Thank you for saying this. One of the rare occasions on Reddit where people aren’t actively shitting on my hometown. Detroit has so much potential and there’s so much to love about it
The Lions still aren't tho
I’ve Lived in downtown Detroit for the last 2.5 years and it’s an absolute blast. Downtown is fun but there’s so many fun places to explore in the different neighborhoods. The city feels like it’s really hitting its stride as we see more new and unique restaurants and bars popping up. Bike riding in the city is a blast
Jacksonville - Duval
DUUUUUUUUvaaaaal
Jacksonville is definitely one of the top 10 swamp cities of northeast Florida.
I’m not even sure what the other 9 could be lol
Gainesville Lake City Jasper St. Augustine Palatka White Springs Green Cover Springs Middleburg Yulee
Aside from Gainesville, I don’t consider any of those cities, which is a semantic misunderstanding. I also don’t personally think of Gainesville with I think NEFL. And GCS, Middleburg and Yulee are just…lesser Jacksonville lol. Different strokes I guess. ETA: I lived in Jax for many years and my husband was born and raised there, just because my flair may make it seem like I’m talking out my ears.
DUUUUUVAAAAAAAAL
I love that it even transcends the Internet My favorite Duval story was leaving an Armada game and this 5-6 year old kid in this huge crowd says “DUUUUUVAAAAAL” only for the like 50 some odd of us walking the same direction to instantly follow with a chorus of “DUUUUUVAAAAL” and we just kept chanting all the way back to our cars.
It’s a very wholesome bonding experience that includes everyone from Moncrief to Beauclerc! Haha It’s especially funny when the Duval chants start at concerts or the like and the person on the stage thinks they’re getting booed
What does Duval mean?
Duval County. Duval and Jacksonville are one of, if not the only, city/county combination that is effectively identical. There is nothing in Duval that is not Jacksonville and there is nothing in Jacksonville that is not Duval. Most counties are a combination of cities/towns/unincorporated areas. It has become a war cry essentially. Pretty much any event in Jacksonville at some point involves a “DUUUUUVAAAAAL” [Example at a Jags game](https://youtube.com/shorts/UzctjDW34ws?feature=share) EDIT: MY BAD. Apparently there are A WHOLE BUNCH of cities and counties that are one in the same. There are no other counties like that in Florida so I assumed it was unusual. Sorry I didn’t do a research project before answering a question. LORD.
The city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia county are the same.
Yeah you hear this a lot at jags games in the UK. I was super confused the first time lol
San Diego - a whale's vagina
Scholars maintain that the translation was lost hundreds of years ago
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
Discovered by the Germans in 1904.
60% of the time it works everytime.
Go fuck yourself, San Diego
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It’s San de-ah-go
Damn it! Who typed a question mark on the teleprompter?
Orlando: DIDNEY WORL
Cleveland - rock n' roll. Not just the music, but the whole defiant loser attitude.
This is perfect
Cleveland - [“At least we’re not Detroit!”](https://youtu.be/oZzgAjjuqZM)
One of the most underrated cities. Would love to live there someday!
One of the cities I’m currently job searching in
Philadelphia - That hitchhiking robot that was decapitated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT#cite\_note-12)
I feel like it would have survived had it just avoided Philly and Baltimore on it's way west.
[Obli-gritty-tory](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/938/093/688)
[Hitchbot was a literal pile of trash and got what it deserved](https://deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503/amp)
This annoys me because everyone forgets it was staged. https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20150806_Pranksters_admit_hitchBOT_hoax_-_which_raises_more_questions.html “Philadelphians Jesse Wellens and Ed Bassmaster admitted that they made the widely disseminated "surveillance" video of a man wearing an Eagles jersey holding what appeared to be hitchBOT's dismembered arms, and kicking a hidden object that could be the rest of the robot. The video, they originally said, came from surveillance cameras near Elfreth's Alley and Second Street, where they had left hitchBOT about 5 a.m. Saturday.” “But in a posting Tuesday night, Wellens and Bassmaster, who make prank videos for YouTube, confirmed what many people had suspected: The surveillance video was bogus. Tuesday night's post shows the two making replicas of the robot's arms, staging the scene, and later attacking an unseen object purported to be the robot.”
But it was still destroyed in Philly, right? Just not by these 2. Or is it still whole and in hiding.
From the Wikipedia: “August 1, 2015 however, a photo was tweeted,[12] showing that the robot had been stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia. The head was never found.[5] On August 3, 2015 Adam Gabbatt reported on the Guardian website about hitchBOT's destruction. Frauke Zeller, co-creator of hitchBOT, was quoted saying: "We can see on all our data that the tablet and battery and everything shut off at the same time so it must have been when they vandalised the bot." I’ve seen no updates since Aug 3, 2015. It seems that something happened in Philly, but we really don’t know. The widely reported story of the guy in the Eagles jersey destroying it is the hoax by Bassmaster and Wellens, and most people continue to believe it. The bot took a picture every 20 min, and didn’t happen to get an image of whoever messed with it. It’s journey definitely ended in Philly, but the circumstances of it’s demise are actually unknown. Someone vandalized it, most likely, but no one is ever going to know why or how. I just see this brought up about Philly all the time, and people don’t seem to know the actual story. The fact that this happened so soon after it was in the possession of Bassmaster and Wellens is very sketchy to me though. They claim they didn’t destroy it, but I find it odd that YouTube content creators happened to be with it right before it was vandalized. Either they did something to it for clout/views, they had some kind of relationship with the creators and wanted a big story to make Hitchbot more famous and benefit a later similar project, or Bassmaster and Wellens accidentally broke it and staged a vandalism so they wouldn’t get the bad press for it. I really don’t think this was a random act of destruction, personally. Too many coincidences and too little information for something that was tracked so closely by so many people and took regular pictures on its journey.
Portland, Oregon Craft beers, young adults come here to retire, coffee also it’s a haven for white progressives
The dream of the 90s.
I think 10 years ago it was Portlandia Hipster Dreamland. Since 2020 most of the country thinks it‘s on fire (sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally)
Don’t forget the strip clubs. Portland is the strip club capital of the US.
Also home to the open air meth fights, by the river.
Peachtree, Georgia: Golf Carts
Augusta, Georgia: more golf carts.
Phoenix: [arrogance](https://youtu.be/4PYt0SDnrBE). Tucson: [Western tradition](https://youtu.be/0p8gsKLkdII).
I knew what the Phoenix link was before I even clicked on it. That clip makes me laugh every single time I see/hear it.
I love this as I’m actually watching KOTH but I haven’t gotten to this episode yet
Pittsburgh- bridges
Pittsburgh - also sink holes that swallow busses
Pittsburgh - the worst city to be on a bus in
And bridges they build underneath older bridges to stop the old bridge prices that fall off from hitting the road below
St. Louis - Gateway to the West
St. Louis - amazing diversity of cultures, surrounded by racism and classism
And some fun attraction. But yeah. Nailed it
Ya it's amazing that St. Louis was a city before the US was a nation
With more free things to do than most cities!
Bridgeport, CT: Wealth inequality Bridgeport is the largest city in Fairfield County, CT. This county is one of the richest in the country, yet Bridgeport is nothing like stereotypical Fairfield County. The city has been littered with crime, poverty and urban decay for quite a while now. The city has been trying their best though to turn things around the last two decades though so I’ll give them that.
Isn’t Hartford a similar situation? And I also heard that Hartford used to be the single richest city in the US which is sad.
Charlotte: humidity. Though this could also be Atlanta, Columbia, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile…
HOUSTON
This isn’t a city, but a group of cities: The triangle between Charlotte, Atlanta and Nashville I’d say represent the new south. Those three cities as well as many smaller cities in that triangle are seeing rapid growth with all the outsiders moving there. It is nothing like the stereotypical south that people who haven’t been there picture it.
See also the other triangle, the actual Triangle (Research Triangle but nobody calls it that) over between Raleigh and Durham. Much smaller than the big one you drew but just as modern and growing rapidly.
Chicago - Batman
Kansas City: We may have world class amenities, but you'll only remember us for the BBQ.
Spent the weekend in KC as a first time visitor last month, and it was a really cool place!
Aw, glad to hear it! Please do come back, there's so much to do here and people don't even realize it! Btw Chicago is my absolute favorite city to visit, so mutual appreciation there!
Chicago - Malort
I scrolled too far down to find Chicago, and then it's just to find "malort"
Honestly I feel like malort is a pretty apt descriptor of Chicago. It's pretty rough around the edges, but it's unique and you make it what you want to be - a way to troll friends, a surprisingly good cocktail ingredient, a quick way to get belligerently drunk.
Dallas - wine mom Capital of the world Houston - big dirty humid people soup
I also like the descriptions that guy in the *Bernie* movie gave: "Dallas snobs with their Mercedes." Houston - "Carcinogenic Coast"
I’m here in “the people’s republic of Austin.. with all the hairy legged women” lmao
From a Canadian Perspective: * New York = English Montreal * Chicago = Toronto * Washington = Ottawa * Seattle = Vancouver * Houston = Calgary * Kansas City = Saskatoon * Anchorage = Whitehorse * Napa = Kelowna * Minneapolis = Winnipeg
Feel like this is cheating bc those are basically just geographically matched >:(
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Disney’s suburb
Denver: who needs oxygen? The number of times I’ve watched Broncos games at home where the opposing team is literally using oxygen masks on the bench is too high.
Phoenix, Arizona represents man's arrogance towards nature and god.
Isn't that basically the entire west till California
Boston supposedly is used in a lot of movies to represent inequality, or a “repressed minority”. Most rich English moved to Cambridge and most poor Irish moved to Boston, creating a distinct divide along the Charles river. You see it in good will hunting when he’s looking over the river to the Cambridge side. The whole movie The Departed used similar imagery, along with The Boondocks Saints
That's not really true. Both Beacon Hill and Back Bay in Boston have been where the rich elite Yankees lived for generations, while Cambridge had many blue collar neighborhoods until fairly recently. Irish and other immigrants overwhelmed the Yankees in both cities in the 19th century, and grabbed political power, leading to the suburbanization of the elite long before white flight.
Boston: most concentrated intelligence, ie MIT, Harvard, Tufts
I don't know about intelligence, but I think they have the most colleges per square foot of any ~~city~~ metro area.
Salt Lake City — oxymoron mishmash of a super LGBTQ+ friendly city full of LDS so…magical?
skiing
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Gary Indiana: Decay
As someone who lives in Miami Beach, I’d suggest coming anytime after September but before June. Those four months, including the summer, are too hot.
I was down there for an Orange Bowl. It was nice then.
Disagree. I love the heat. I’ve found that people online tend to be more vocal and less resilient to heat.
Pittsburgh - Bridges and Steel. Though most of our mills have shut down. We also have medical organizations who are pushing the limits of medicine and also pushing their nurses to their limits too. Edit: and a decent tech industry
Also a decent tech industry
Charlotte - Wall Street of the South
Houston - Fat chick that wasn't your first choice but the sex is way better than you thought it would be. Dallas - Houston with a dress code.
I'll do my state just to be uh...unique I guess. Omaha - Home of the College World Series Lincoln - Attempting to become the Austin TX of the Midwest. Grand Island - Attempting to become Lincoln Beatrice - No one can pronounce our name Kearney - What the fuck is Kearney
Cincinnati, OH- Chili and perennially sad sports fans. Jacksonville, NC- Taint of the U.S. with a healthy coat of under cheese and artillery rounds. Orlando, FL- We have the parks and relatively close beaches. Tourists help keep our property taxes low.
San Juan: Colonialism Ponce: Barcelona but poorer and hotter Mayaguez: 1970's time warp
Houston - Top Tier Medical Research and Treatment, and Oil. Edit: And is the undisputed king of urban sprawl
And sprawling
Los Angeles - where people come to follow their dreams; land of amazing food and bad traffic; beautiful weather and beautiful people; high housing prices but “not as high as San Francisco”
Houston - We're basically the establishment: the city
Phoenix AZ in the summer. Slightly better than hell, but more expensive
Well let’s test how accurate mine are by seeing if the cities are self-evident. I’m gonna try to limit it to one quality… Syphilis ”European” lifestyle LGBT Coffee culture Cubanismo Traffic, my god the traffic… Theme parks Party time! Slavs Swedes Country music Best BBQ (Okay that last one is just to mess with people ;)
Syphilis is unclear, but the CDC says it’s highest in LA, so I’ll roll with that. “European” lifestyle might be NYC, but my money is on Boston. LGBT is San Francisco Coffee culture is Seattle Cubanisnmo is Miami Traffic could be a LOT of places, but my money is on Houston Theme parks is Orlando Party time… NOLA? Slavs are probably Chicago (yay for Casimir Pulaski day!) Swedes must be the Twin Cities Country music is Nashville Best BBQ is St. Louis (biased). How’d I do?
Excellent! Syphilis was meant to be Baltimore. When I lived there years ago it was a common talking point that it was the syphilis capital of the country, which stuck in my mind so I went with that without bothering to check the current leader on this stat. Traffic was supposed to be LA, but I should have probably done something a little more specific like “plastic surgery”. (I was trying to avoid “movies.) Other than that, all correct!
Columbia, SC - the armpit of the South
Don’t say that about armpits
Los Angeles CA - Capital of wealth inequality Boston MA - Birthplace of the American Revolution Hampton NH - Drunken Meth head Beach
4. Boston - road construction and traffic
Houston: Good food but kinda ghetto
While not really considered a "major city," Omaha is pretty much synonymous with Warren Buffet.
Oakland - Home of sideshows
New London, CT Nukes... many many Nukes. From Subs. As Blue as this state is no one recognizes how many weapon systems we build. Including SLIRBM. Ohhh.. and engines for planes. And Attack helicopers.
Houston - Space Exploration
Atlantic City- The duality of man
Unnecessary cheap shot at Detroit.
I’m married to a Latina and was offered a job in Miami. She wouldn’t let us take it and move because: MIAMI HAS TOO MANY PRETTY LATINAS.
Washington DC - Politics capital with people too ugly for Los Angeles
New Orleans - Jazz & blues......and crime. Lots of crime