What are the best US cities?
>>34357371best in what sense?you're just gonna get replies of people advertising/selling cities to you, basically, which is fine but may not be what you're looking for
>>34357384For the types of people who browse 4chan.
>>34357371Vallejo
Phoenix for FUCKINGsure
>>34357371Grand Rapids MI, Madison WIcome to midwest anon
>>34357395>For the types of people who browse 4chanThey don't belong in cities
>>34357371There is only one city in the US (and maybe 5 or 6 in the whole world). New York. All the rest are big small towns.
>>34357395>For the types of people who browse 4chan.None, dumbass.>>34357829Shut up you fucking faggot, I live in one of the biggest cities of the midwest.
>>34357882Living in the country would just maximize the isolated loser aspect. A balance is ideal.
>>34358932Not if you have already acquired a woman that wants to live that life with you. Plenty of them hate the city life.
>>34358964Hmmm.... Alright.So what are the best US cities?
>>34358975Don't ask me. I am not even in the US.
>>34357371From my experience, it’s always shifting. For example, I lived in Portland OR twenty years ago and it was paradise until the Great Recession. Now it seems like San Francisco Lite and its charm is gone.Personally, I moved to a few LCOL areas in the Midwest, and that enabled me to upskill to finally get six-figs. I mean, I was living in a house for $800. The trade off is that many of my neighbors were meth addicts in various stages of addiction; even moving to other areas made no difference in the quality of people.Now, I’m focused on New England and will be relocating there. However, formerly cool cities like Northampton are no-go due to ideological spiraling. Keene, NH might still be good, but I noticed they took out the gazebo and benches to deter the homeless, so there’s that. Similarly, places like Portsmouth NH and Portland ME are blowing up. They all used to be sparsely visited and comfy. Now, who knows.
>>34362598I’ll add to this that this is why boomers are SEETHING now. Most of them spent a better part of their lives paying off a mortgage for a comfy retirement, only to have the city’s downtown flooded with drug zombies, predatory criminals, and ethnic morass.This means that formerly thriving areas, even in the last 5 years since the roni, are now wildcards. With economic contractions and whole cities transformed into Cookie Monster sweatpants lumpenprole-a-palooza, all bets are off.My advice is move to an area where you can be near a town’s amenities in a ten minute drive, but far enough from social services (even the VA). College towns are good for this, but you’ll want to live in Watkinsville, not Athens GA. Chesterfield, not Richmond VA.
>>34362598>Northampton>Keene>Portsmouth>PortlandOnly one of these is a city
>>34357371Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook. They all have access to monorails.
>>34362876Good, they’re terrible and you would be profoundly miserable. Live in Dallas, your type would fit in there>t. fucks all the college bitches and townies
Everything has its trade-offs. Once the city gets to be a certain size then there's a lot of issues with crime and homelessness. I really like Seattle a lot, unfortunately there's a large homeless population because of the pill farm out there for opiates
>>34362990???I have zero interest in living in a city I just think it's silly to compare San Fransisco and Portland Oregon with a town with a population of maybe 30k that only has anything in it because of the colleges.
>>34363084I’ve been all around the USA, and I can say than small New England cities have more going on than OKC, Kansas City (both of em), Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, Cleveland, etc.Better quality cities are usually a secret. I can guarantee that most people would love San Luis Obispo CA, but would scoff at living in Los Osos or Pismo Beach. This doesn’t always track, as sometime you get Olympia WA which is like a dumping ground for Seattle. Or cities sandwiched in between the Eastern Seaboard (like the Lehigh Valley, which is equidistant from NYC and Philly)For example, avoid Manchester NH, but Derry is nice. Hampton Beach is crap, but Seabrook, Newburyport, Amesbury MA and Salisbury are nice. Portland ME might be too rough for you, but Brunswick is good.The pro tip is to use a Costco, Wegmans, Trader Joe’s.
>>34363192>The pro tip is to use a Costco, Wegmans, Trader Joe’s……as economic indicators. They will inform you of what city will at least have a future. Columbus OH is a dump, but good luck finding parking at the two Costco’s AND Trader Joe’s there. Erie PA may be a dump, but damnit they have a Wegmans. These companies do research into the viability of areas, which means their due diligence is your ticket to a better quality of life.Similarly, I use the hot women at Walmart rule: if hot women working there, the city is dead.
>>34363192>SalisburyAnon I go to the beach there there's nothing there Your advice is insane for someone who is asking about CITIES. And I'm still not OP and not interested in living in cities I'm only interested in pointing out that you're wrong lol.
>>34363215>nothing thereThat’s the point. Seabrook is just up the road and has all the stores you could want. Portsmouth is 1/2 hour drive, Newburyport is just south and has every amenity you could want for upscale. Amesbury is quaint, and the best part is you can bike between them (a big quality of life bonus for me). And oh yeah, virtually no browns. NH is like 95% white.What do you define a city as? Concrete? Things to do? The beach is right there, skiing isn’t that far away, and hiking is the best (the AT runs through the northern part of the state). That’s a city as far as I am concerned.>go get stabbed in Rockford IL
>>34363340>What do you define a city as? A population of more than 50k with well developed public transit, and restaurants open past 10 pm.It feels like you think suburbs count and I really don't think that's what OP meant. A half hour drive might as well be 5 hours to someone who wants to live in a city because they don't want to own/drive a car.
>>34363365Newburyport has 17kAmesbury has 17kSalisbury has 9kThey basically function as the same city, and that’s easily 50k with all the little hamlets.>muh drivingUber/Lyft or bike. There’s plenty of buses and even an MBTA commuter line from Newburyport to Boston, as well as commuter buses from Seabrook/Hampton>skill issue
>>34363384Do you understand how much more expensive Uber and lyft are than a public transit system?>basically function as the cityAgain you're not understanding the difference between suburban and urban areas. In a city you should be able to walk to a drugstore, a grocery store, and a laundromat from your apartment.
>>34363397Is 500ft too far for you? There are apartments and rentals all around this area
>>34357371Chicago because don't come here.
>>34363407>This one area of Seabrook meets your requirementsThis isn't helping your case
>>34363518> This isn't helping your casepretending you’re right when you are wrong might be a sign of a stroke. Can you smell almonds?
