To which US metropolitan areas would you absolutely not relocate?

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Anonymous wrote:The only cities I would move to are LA, San Francisco, Paris, London, maybe NYC, maybe my hometown of Baltimore (NO traffic and cheap housing!).

Which one of these is not like the other?

Seriously, there are lots of smaller cities with no traffic and cheap housing. Coindicently, many of them are shitholes, too, just like Baltimore, hometown or not.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty much anyplace between the Rockies and the Blue Ridge. And most of the South. Wait..most? Yeah, no. All of the South.

I'd make an exception for Denver.

Same here. My husband keeps wanting to put Austin on the acceptable list, but I don't think I could live there. I can't get over the fact that it's surrounded by Texas.

Don't write it off so easily! We lived in Austin and LOVED it. It's unlike the rest of Texas- very modern, young, lots to do, beautiful city. West Texas is trash, but Austin is lovely.

No, stay away from Texas. It is an amazing state (the I-35 cities). So if you are the kind of person who has disdain for it, stay away and don't mess up the great state of Texas for all of us who love it.

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Anonymous wrote:Atlanta traffic sucks, but great weather, great people, great cost of living. and Austin is a wonderful city. Amazing ignorance here.

Beg to differ. I hate humidity (so hate DC weather, too).

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Atlanta - Peach this!

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I'd prefer to stick to left or right coasts.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I am entertaining a great offer in a Detroit suburb but don't know about going there........

Don't do it.

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I need to live in a metro area that is really diverse and yet has no racial tensions...So yeah, my options are limited.

No to:
Boston (racist town)
LA (too fakey/plastic)
New York (diverse, but too crowded and dirty)
Detroit/Baltimore (too crime-ridden)
San Francisco (I'm a liberal, but this town is too hippy/crunchy for me)
Chicago-winters are too harsh
Atlanta-too materialistic, it's essentially "Southern LA"
Miami-too plastic and materialistic.Don't know Spanish, so I probably wouldn't do well.
Philadelphia-....hmmmm...probably not. I detect racist vibes from too many PA cities.

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No, stay away from Texas. It is an amazing state (the I-35 cities). So if you are the kind of person who has disdain for it, stay away and don't mess up the great state of Texas for all of us who love it.

what is so great about the I-35 cities?

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Anonymous wrote:Atlanta traffic sucks, but great weather, great people, great cost of living. and Austin is a wonderful city. Amazing ignorance here.

Beg to differ. I hate humidity (so hate DC weather, too).

HAHAHAHA great weather in HOTlanta? Un-huh, not by any stretch of the imagination.

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Anonymous wrote:I need to live in a metro area that is really diverse and yet has no racial tensions...So yeah, my options are limited.

No to:
Boston (racist town)
LA (too fakey/plastic)
New York (diverse, but too crowded and dirty)
Detroit/Baltimore (too crime-ridden)
San Francisco (I'm a liberal, but this town is too hippy/crunchy for me)
Chicago-winters are too harsh
Atlanta-too materialistic, it's essentially "Southern LA"
Miami-too plastic and materialistic.Don't know Spanish, so I probably wouldn't do well.
Philadelphia-....hmmmm...probably not. I detect racist vibes from too many PA cities.

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Could NOT do:

New Orleans -- It is a wonderful place to visit but has just about every problem a major metro area could have (crime, racial tension, declining infrastructure, a shrinking job base, corrupt government, terrible public schools) plus a few all its own (it's below sea level -- it will flood again at some point). Even my friends who grew up there and would love

Dallas -- A good city for business, with inexpensive real estate and no more than a 3 hour flight from anywhere in the continental U.S. But it's just so ugly. A good fit if you are conservative and Christian and like to broadcast those attributes to anyone who will listen. Not for me.


Los Angeles - You will live in your car. The city worships the superficial.

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Anonymous wrote:The only cities I would move to are LA, San Francisco, Paris, London, maybe NYC, maybe my hometown of Baltimore (NO traffic and cheap housing!).

Which one of these is not like the other?

Seriously, there are lots of smaller cities with no traffic and cheap housing. Coindicently, many of them are shitholes, too, just like Baltimore, hometown or not.

Different strokes. I like Baltimore. Cool rowhouses, you can walk to one of several historic markets, the train station's right there, and the best English bitter this side of the Atlantic (Pratt Street Ale House). Certainly much much better than most midwestern cities.

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Any place that doesn't get snow on a regular basis.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much anyplace between the Rockies and the Blue Ridge. And most of the South. Wait..most? Yeah, no. All of the South.

I'd make an exception for Denver.

Same here. My husband keeps wanting to put Austin on the acceptable list, but I don't think I could live there. I can't get over the fact that it's surrounded by Texas.

Don't write it off so easily! We lived in Austin and LOVED it. It's unlike the rest of Texas- very modern, young, lots to do, beautiful city. West Texas is trash, but Austin is lovely.

No, stay away from Texas. It is an amazing state (the I-35 cities). So if you are the kind of person who has disdain for it, stay away and don't mess up the great state of Texas for all of us who love it.

It never ceases to amaze me that folks can come out of a shit-hole, foist ruinously bad local politicians on the rest of us, and maintain such a superior attitude.

DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!

Fucking take Perry and secede already.

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Anonymous wrote:
No, stay away from Texas. It is an amazing state (the I-35 cities). So if you are the kind of person who has disdain for it, stay away and don't mess up the great state of Texas for all of us who love it.

what is so great about the I-35 cities?

Dallas, Austin, San Antonio. All great places to live and visit.