🗺 Best & Worst Cities

[Hoos9412]

Clifton if you are a suburbs person. Annapolis if you’re cool with living with Maryland

[AnonymooseHoo]

One of my bosses when I worked in DC lived in Lancaster PA which seemed like a very cool place. And PA has a beneficial tax scheme for when you retire if I remember right.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/501-W-Chestnut-St-Lancaster-PA-17603/9733082_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

I also think they announced more trains from Cville to DC with the new Amtrak funding yesterday.

[WFS_HOO]

@Hoos9412

My question for people who enjoy places like Manhattan, Houston, and other cities that are all concrete and high rises: how do you satisfy the basic human desire to be in nature? Do you visit Central Park everyday? Go out into a different borough every day? Does that part of you slowly die until you no longer notice it?

Not really taking a cultural shot at NYC. I get some people enjoy the fast pace that I dislike. I just am curious how you satisfy that basic craving to be outside in nature. Touch grass for a lack of a better term

NYC is a very big place. You’d need to spend more than a day or a week there to appreciate it (not that it is unique from any other place in that respect). It’s not all high rises and concrete at all. I’m from a pretty country town in VA, grew up hunting and fishing etc., and I moved to nyc after school, thinking I wouldn’t like it and would only stay a few years. My career and my wife said otherwise. But I also absolutely loved it. I will say this: once I got into my 30s and got married and more family oriented, I had to leave Manhattan because I needed more space. But there is no better place to spend your 20s, IMO (obviously I only spent mine in one place).

Now I live 20 miles north of the city (35 minutes by train to grand central) and have what I need from a “touch the grass” perspective (at least in the context of a discussion about “cities”). But I hear you, if you don’t like the “fast pace” then Manhattan isn’t going to be your town. It is an intense place. I actually hate going into the city these days, but I still think it is the best city in America, and it’s there if I need it.

[Kamikaze_Hoo]

@AnonymooseHoo

I also think they announced more trains from Cville to DC

I wondered how many people might vote for Charlottesville.

[AnonymooseHoo]

Charlottesville would be a hell of an option. The main issue is the lack of housing development around the train station. If you could buy a townhome near the train, it would be great. But having a country home, driving to the cville station then probably taking the red line from DC union station to Dupont/Farragut for your K st job is kind of annoying

The really interesting option would be Philadelphia - big city, cheap housing, super easy train to Union station

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2010-Spruce-St-APT-1-Philadelphia-PA-19103/87764991_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/102-Brinley-Ct-Philadelphia-PA-19146/247862648_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

[Kamikaze_Hoo]

Agree. It seems that one might as well live north of Charlottesville and then drive to Culpeper station instead.

This is not a decision that I’ll have to consider soon, but I’d be disembarking at Alexandria, sparing the annoyance of looping through Union Station.

[htraylor]

None taken! Like any city, there ate pro and cons. But still, CLT sux.

[WFS_HOO]

@htraylor

Jacksonville FL is a “trash city”? It’s currently 79 degrees and sunny here. Boats are on the river and people are at the beach.

Love Jacksonville (ok, really just the beaches)

[StLouHoo]

Way too few qualifiers on this discussion.

• Big cities only or are small cities (e.g. Charlottesville) in the discussion? I think they’re separate categories for the purposes of comparison.

• We talking best for visiting or best to live in? Very different sets of criteria. St. Louis, for example, fine city to live in, terribly boring to visit.

• what kind of budget are we working with?

[BDragon]

Alexandria

[jazznutUVA]

@Kamikaze_Hoo

if you had to commute to Washington DC for approximately 55 in-office days per year, where would you choose to live?

Honestly… I’d say Richmond… as long as your commute can be on off hours.

[BDragon]

When i moved to atl i went back to dc for work about40 or 60 days a yr easy flight and cheap on the company tab

[haney]

My first few years out of uva I lived in a garden apartment on commonwealth ave, walking distance to a half court with players just as terrible as me, and the King St metro, and karaoke night at rock-it grill. Life was good. Another vote for Alexandria. Liked that specific hood, but i suppose I could be convinced to take a townhouse in old town if someone else is paying

[zh00s]

You were asking about a human desire for time in nature. I’d point to a human desire for connection and community. NYC is amazing for this. Houston, not so much.

[zh00s]

Richmond or Frederick MD (in town). I like walkable and historic and some bars around.

[AnonymooseHoo]

The distillery in Frederick is awesome.

The museum of civil war medicine not so much

[AnonymooseHoo]

More evidence that Durham is the worst city -

The bar I’m at refuses to put the crosstown shootout on tv @BDragon

[DFresh11]

This is great. When I lived in NYC in my 20s I did all of that. Central Park etc all the time. Enjoyed everything. But I moved to Brasil and then back to Battery Park so location is very different and changes things

[BDragon]

Bookk

[ddaley1985]

Hey! You guys are randomly talking about where I moved to a couple years back. Like the Frederick downtown area, good restaurants.

Although we tried desperately to stay in state it VA although I work up in Frederick, prices were going up in houses too quick and couldn’t find anything in Lovettsville VA and had to cross over into MD