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View Poll Results: Which city downtown would you choose to live? | |||
Manhattan | 23 | 22.55% | |
San Francisco | 16 | 15.69% | |
San Jose | 2 | 1.96% | |
Portland | 4 | 3.92% | |
Chicago | 13 | 12.75% | |
Miami | 9 | 8.82% | |
Different city downtown | 31 | 30.39% | |
Where ever Gaz lives. | 4 | 3.92% | |
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06-11-2018, 01:24 PM | #136 |
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Or Austin. San Francisco has went straight to hell under Jerry Brown. It used to be amazing here.
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06-11-2018, 01:33 PM | #137 |
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I lived in Chicago for about a year. It was awesome. Of course, I was just married, we had no kids, and so we spent alot of time eating out, shopping, people watching, and hitting the young crowd bar/beer scene. Now, I live in the country, and no amount of money would get me back into living in a city. Having said that, we do go down to the city (KC) once in a while for dinner and to walk around and hit a beer joint, and it'd enjoyable, but not to live there, that time passed me by a long time ago.
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06-11-2018, 01:41 PM | #138 | |
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Sadly it's gotten way too expensive, too crowded, too much traffic and SF has tilted too far left.
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06-11-2018, 01:41 PM | #139 |
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SF - big city appeal with alot of outdoor activities very close by. Best of both worlds really
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06-11-2018, 01:42 PM | #140 | |
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06-11-2018, 01:49 PM | #141 | |
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06-11-2018, 01:57 PM | #142 |
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I look forward to the "which wilderness would you want to live in if money were no object" thread so I can pop in and pepper it with useless "nowhere! I'd live in a city!" posts like everybody is doing in this thread.
My answer: Brooklyn Heights, NY or San Francisco or Portland. I'd never live in downtown LA even though it is being revitalized. Living in Manhattan sounds great but one visit to Brooklyn Heights and I was like this is the one. |
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06-11-2018, 02:13 PM | #143 |
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I spent two summers living in SF off mission st., not too far from the GG bridge if I remember correctly. I was in college. I was dating a girl that lived in Santa Rosa. I remember that area being very nice, and she had friends in Walnut Creek. That entire area is awesome. Again, that is from memory of 30 years ago. I don't think I could handle the traffic now though
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06-11-2018, 02:25 PM | #144 | |
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Wowza. I got off that bus in Queens and it felt like I was in a different country. I don't know how to describe it properly, but I was on this street that was in perpetual shade because the subway was elevated over it, and it was full of tiny little storefronts that looked like something you'd see in a developing country, and I was not hearing much English in the conversations around me. It really had a bizarre feel to it. One of the learning experiences of traveling around is that I realize how much of a Eurocentric bubble I live in in Denver. I realize that I'm supposed to like other cultures, but my shameful truth is that I like living in a place that is familiar to me in terms of experience and appearance. I like traveling to developing countries, but I don't want to live in one.
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06-11-2018, 02:27 PM | #145 | |
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Well, yeah, but you didn't address my earlier post about encountering the guy with his head half-wrapped in packing tape. I also saw a guy in a street fight with a can of soda. I'm talking a real fight. Throwing punches at it and kicking it.
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06-11-2018, 02:35 PM | #146 | |
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06-11-2018, 02:49 PM | #147 | |
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That said, most of the crazies are confined to certain areas and if you avoid those areas you'll almost never encounter them. The Tenderloin, for example, is a transitional neighborhood that you mostly want to avoid. There are few speakeasy joints there that are fun, but your likelihood of running up against an unsavory character are exponentially higher there than in most neighborhoods in the City. Overall, it's violent crime rates are fairly low for a major city. The two major problems I see there are: (1) homeless people sleeping everywhere; and (2) property theft (the number of car breakins is ridiculous. |
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06-11-2018, 02:55 PM | #149 | |
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06-11-2018, 03:00 PM | #150 |
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I think a really underrated downtown area is Cincinatti....
I was there for a conference a couple of years ago, and I really enjoyed the downtown area. It was really quaint and friendly. Not sure I would want to live there, but as a visit, it was a pleasant surprise. |
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