What is the best mid-sized US city?

Atlanta

saint louis

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>>53103852
>>53103852
>atlanta
>"mid sized"

what

Miami

>>53103852
>Atlanta
>Mid-sized

Also; Greenville, SC

>>53103852
I second this, North Druid Hills Fag here

pittsburgh or grand rapids

Portland
Seattle
Austin

Cleveland

>>53103852
Unless you live in Midtown/Buckhead
no, you're gonna get stabbed by hoodlums

Sacramento, CA
Austin, TX (inb4 >mid-sized)
Louisville, KY
Portland, OR

>>53103725
>mfw I looked at that skyline and instantly knew it was American

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>>53104694
i agree, flint too

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>>53104726
Thanks mane

>>53104606
>>53104617
Isn't Atlanta mid-sized?

Madison, WI

>>53104672
Pittsburgh's too big m7

>>53104672
Pittsburgh Pros and Cons

Pros:
Affordable, but nice housing
Low crime rate
Good Colleges like CMU
People are generally friendly
No real natural disasters

Cons:
Accent is terrible (only some have it though)
Steelers' (American football) fans are annoying
Rarely Sunny with hard to predict weather

t. Pittsburgher

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>>53104694
This 2bh

>>53104726
is there some secret to flint i dont know about? do they even have clean water

>>53104798
I don't think so.

The city proper has less than 500k population, but the urban area in/around the city has almost 5 million

A useful guideline is that if a city has at least 2 professional sports teams in major American leagues, it isn't midsized.

>>53104798
i think it's the biggest city behind NY/LA/Chicago

it's shit btw, i've lived in the area

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>>53103725
Knoxvilee, Tennessee Tbh

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>>53104798
Atlanta has such a problem with urban sprawl that the actual city is "mid-sized" with 450,000.

Over 5,000,000 actually live and work in the metropolitan area which is still counted as Atlanta

>>53104859
Pittsburgh mid sized mane

>>53104916
the whole eastern part of michigan was built around one thing, the auto industry. when that went away they turned into shit for obvious reasons.

i'm sure they have clean water though.

>>53104916
No, that guy was memeing. All the bad stereotypes about Detroit which may or may not be true there, are literally 100% true in Flint. Stay away.

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Raliegh

>>53104806
No. Too many people in Madison have their heads up their own or someone else's ass. The entire rest of the state hates them.

>>53103725
Pittsburgh always looks so cozy when I see it in Film/TV (which isn't often).

>>53104714

>Austin

/thread

>>53104938
you'd be thinking wrong

>>53104956
I don't live in Atlanta, but I'd much rather have that sprawl versus 1 million people all sandwiched on top of each other in rickety apartment "buildings," like they have in those other cities.

>>53104985
suburbs of detroit are pretty nice my family lives there

>>53104976
flint's tap water is fucked up and only disgusting brown shit comes out, at least last time i checked it.

>>53104956
Metropolitan areas don't count otherwise Chicago would have 9 million people and New York would have 20 million plus people

>>53103852
>>53104606
>mid sized
full of niggers
1/10 wouldn't even connect my flight there

>>53105100
is your family from grosse pointe? i know some people there and have visited.

never been to flint tho, i am not sure why you would go there unless you had to

>>53105064
Have you ever been west of the Mississippi?
Even poor ass South central negros have private front and backyards. The whole city is just a giant sprawling suburb.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

>>53105017
t. assmad conservacuck

I don't even give a fuck about politics m8, I just go there to have a good time. I've only been a couple times but the variety of restaurants and shops you can go to is top-notch, and you don't need to drive anywhere outside the downtown core.

I would hope the rest of the state hates them, Wisconsin without Madison is basically Iowa with a smelly nigger ghetto tacked on one end.

>>53105137
not sure actually i've never been myself i've just heard they're nice.

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Nashville, Tennessee

>>53105144
Okay? If I had to choose between too much sprawl and waaaaaaaay too much cramping, unless I'm in Tokyo or some shit, I'm always going to choose the former.

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One of the few Southern cities with any culture left

>>53105166

Madison is a glorified college town.

>>53105241
atlanta is the counter thesis to tokyo's cramping though. it's obscene, and if you have to commute in the area every day you'll grow to hate it.

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PORTLAND
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Ottumwa
Davenport
Waterloo

NY, NY here. The question is very vague, but I would instinctively say either Boston or Portland.

>>53105206
That is one fugly tower. Shit's Mecca tier tacky.

>>53105302
Ask yourself whether Madison would survive without the university. If the answer is no, you're clinically retarded. If the answer is yes, then you understand why it's incorrect to call it "a glorified college town."

>>53105376

Is Dubuque the city that has that funicular.

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>>53105206
Lolno>>53104952
It's like Knoxville but bigger, more crowded, shittier, more dangerous, uglier, and niggerier.

>>53105466

Your gonna rag on Nashville when Memphis is a thing.

t. not from Tennessee

>>53104686

>Portland
>Seattle
>Austin

Califag: the post

t. Portland

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>>53105206

I like Memphis more. It's fun to tell people that Elvis is entombed in the pyramid.

>>53105465
>funicular
I don't even remember what that is senpai
I grew up in Iowa and literally all I know about Dubuque is that it was named after some smelly French faggot.

>>53105306
>if you have to
you do
>you'll grow to hate it
you will

but there are other aspects of Atlanta that make me like living here, it's the center of the Southeast and each """District""" of the city has its own aspect. And unlike much of the south, people who grow up in the city and in most of the metropolitan area have a neutral accent unlike our hick neighbors.

Boston

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>>53105602
This is a funicular

Des Moines

>>53105435

t. butthurt

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Winston-Salem

>>53105685
For others who don't like commuting 60 min. to work everyday; Please Please Please find a house closer to work.

We have motherfuckers that buy houses 40 50 and 60 miles from the city just for the low prices and those people commute there everyday.

>>53105598
>It's fun to tell people that Elvis is entombed in the pyramid.
Why does Murricans have such a strange humour?

>>53105700
ur a funcruller desu

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Austin, probably

>>53105859
>Germany

>>53105296

>THIS or Savannah

Seattle.

It seems that euro mid/mini towns are better. But maybe google maps cheat me, because most of the pictures were made in 2011 or so, and now things got better.

>>53106022
why would you think you could get a good feel for anything from google maps?

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Denver

no competition

>>53105859

it's a question that gets asked by everyone who visits. "What's in the pyramid?" The real answer is boring; it's a sporting goods store. People know Elvis is from here and is buried here so it makes such an absurd idea seem plausible for a moment.

>>53106097
i'd rather not have trouble breathing

>>53105893

You really like posting that picture I noticed. If a footpath is the best part of Austin then that is rather pathetic

>>53106131

Just pop your ears

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Albuquerque is actually pretty nice and not filled with meth heads

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>>53106131
>implying the pollution is that bad

Unless you live in the fucking refinery you'll be breathing fine.

>>53106166
So, do rich people live on that mountain top or nah?

>>53104617
This

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>>53104586
This

>>53106271
I don't think any picture can sum up Buffalo better than that.

And why the fuck hasn't it actually snowed yet, none of this flurry shit.

>>53106226

there's some ski lodges and restaurants

Probably a suburb of New York

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>>53106073
I looked for accuracy and neatness basically. There are lots of damaged roads, trash on the streets in some areas, somewhere builndings look abandoned(parhaps it is) and so forth. Downtown areas are basically good though.

>>53103725
Louisville, KY

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I'm biased because I grew up there, but Omaha is a great place. It usually makes the top ten of most "Best cities to X" lists.

http://www.selectgreateromaha.com/Why-Us/Rankings-Accolades.aspx

The one downside is the weather. Summers are long and hot and winter are long and cold, with about two weeks of spring and fall in between. But that's typical for most cities in the north-Midwest.

Albany is pretty nice, I haven't been to Cleveland but it seems pretty comfy from what my Midwestern friends have said.

>>53105408
>Boston
>Midsized
Are you mentally deficent

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>>53106606

looks soulless

>>53105302
Madison is a great place to live. That a lot of the economy is bolstered by the university doesn't take away from that.

I lived in those Suburb Cities when I was in grade school and I can tell you that while the suburbs were great wooded natural sprawls I can assure you that any of those smaller muncipalities that are called cities are absolute hellhouses. I lived in the lower eastern half of Westchester and I can tell you only Pelham and Mameroneck were good places.

>>53106200
He's talking about the altitude

>>53106423
Meant to quote him in this>>53106877

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New London / Norwich NECTA

>>53106754
Boston has less than a million people

>>53106808

All college towns are nice. It is bigger than average due to the fact that it is a state capital

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>>53106754
No, I'm not. The island of Manhattan has more people than all of Boston proper alone.

Dumbass.

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>>53107359

A small city is 100,000 to 300,000 people. a midsize would be 300,001 to a million

That guy is just retarded

San Diego
/ thread

>>53107435
Nigger, San Diego is the 8th-largest city in the country. It's not "midsize" by any stretch of the imagination

>>53107225
>>53107359

derp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston

That'd be like calling San Francisco a small city because it's under a million when it has hundreds of thousands of commuters and millions in the outlying areas.

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>>53107497
I said "Boston proper" and you carry on this conversation as if I meant "Greater Boston".

This is so classic Boston.

>>53107497

>including suburbs

Pathetic

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>>53107395

small = under 200,000
medium = 200-500,000
large = over 500,000

There are only 10 cities in the US that have 1 million people living inside their limits, and most of them are absolutely shit-tier.

P I T T S B U R G H
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>>53107568

I'm not the guy you were conversing with, but calling Boston a small city is idiotic. The city's boundaries were drawn in colonial times, of fucking course the population has grown outside its legal limits by now. NYC just kept redrawing its borders to include the new boroughs inside of its legal jurisdiction.

>>53104993

Place is a shit and if you ever lived there you'd know it

You would also know how to spell it correctly captain autismo

t. born and raised and left

>>53107737
I never said Boston was a small city though.

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>>53106606
Poor man's Kansas City desu.

>>53107810

calling Boston a medium-sized city is also dumb.

>>53103725
Portland, Oregon

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>>53104694
>>53104909
>>53106754
Good lads.

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Charlotte is the correct answer

>>53108103
How can a city with such a nice skyline be so irrelevant?

>>53107899
It is definitely not in the same league as NY, Chicago and LA

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S H E B O Y G A N

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Tacoma is pretty cool.
Just avoid Hilltop or the southern part. Those places are toxic.
Stadium district and Dashpoint are max comfy.

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>>53108578
Posting more Tacoma I guess because it gets no love.

>>53108323
Highest percentage of middle class blacks, panthers are doing amazing, great suburbs. God I love my city.

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>>53108616

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>>53108323
As a northerner, I found Charlotte weird. There's lots of cool new skyscrapers downtown, but walk ten minutes and it feels like suburbia.

That being said, the neo-art deco architecture is GOAT.

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>>53108687

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>>53108736

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>>53108513
Kek, Wisconsin Navybro from Madison here. What were you doing in Sheboygan, moose?

I would thoroughly recommend Madison though if you're not a pussy about winter. Comfy, low unemployment, college qts everywhere. Really good restaurant scene.

>>53108323
Because it's a great city that hipsters don't feel the need to gentrify. Because of that no one talks about it.

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>>53108800
Seriously just go to Madison. Man, I miss it.

>Wanna play flip cup with us, Anon?

>>53108848
Look like basic slagheaps t͏͏b͏͏h f͏͏a͏͏m

>>53108848
No, Man, 3, 4

>>53108886
>slagheaps
>bad thing

Girls like this will work your dick until it's sore.

>>53108513

Nigga I'm from Milwaukee and I don't fuck with boygan. It's Lake Michigan's trash compacter, may as well be a frozen Florida

>>53108954
At the cost of fucking a gaping hole
They are literally empty

I'd rather have a non-sorority qt gf than some turboslut that will bruise my dick

>>53107899

Not really as it is mid sized

>>53108963
Lol. There is no place more bleak in Wisconsin than Beloit though.

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>>53109006

W-where can I find my cute, "adorkable" gamer girl who is also completely a virgin and never even kissed a guy before me. Why are girls all such sluts and bitches?? REEEEEE

>tips fedora
>unsheaths katana
>trips over cape

Literally you bro.

>>53109018

Spent a few years in Rock County. Never again.

>>53109132
If you say so bro
it sounds like you are just making big assumptions and filling in blank lines that weren't even there bro
I don't think it's unreasonable of me to not be interested in sorority sluts that receieve much more dick on average than other women bro
but more than all, I would rather prefer that girl who isn't sorority girl #53432134 bro

bro

>>53109132
Forgot the teleportation part breh

the one with the restaurant

>>53103725
Portland
Seattle
Denver
Honolulu

I don't know shit about Louisville, but it seems like it would be nice.

>>53109156
Non shitty Wisconsin is pretty much
>Madison
>White Milwaukee
>Eau Claire
>Door County
>way up nort'

>>53109189
*teleports amid a shower of cherry blossoms*

>>53108036
>>53104694
>>53104909
>>53106754

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

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>>53109426
I don't even have to click those links to know what they are.

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Rochester, New York


you totally maybe won't get shot

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>>53109913
In all honesty I've always really wanted to go to Cleveland. The airport looks hella comfy

>>53108411

the Boston metropolitan area is the tenth largest in the country, after NYC, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Philly, DC, Miami, and Atlanta.

Denver for sure

>>53110592
You still going on about Boston?

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>>53104694
this desu. did an internship here. would return.

>>53103852
I travel a lot for work. Atlanta is the shittiest, least thought-out city in north america.

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>Americans only consider the population of the city proper when talking about size

Full fucking retard

>>53103725

you already answered it in the OP

/thread

>>53113911
> spreads mushroom paste on toast, considers it a national cuisine

get the fuck out

>>53103725
Anaheim, CA tbqh

>>53113174

Thats why we all alive in the suburbs which are very nice. I only go downtown for sports games.

>>53113992
Um, excuse me, It not made of mushrooms, It's rotting yeast extract, and It tastes amazing.

>>53104938
wow wrong on both accounts

>>53105858
My dad has commuted 55 miles 5 days a week for 20 years.

>>53104661
>mfw people on 4chan live in my area

I briefly fell in love with Boston during my brief stay there

>>53103725
Portland Oregon undoubtedly, because it's walkable.

LITERALLY every other mid-size American city is a dismal wasteland filled with parking lots and ugly, soulless copy-and-paste suburbs that are at least a 20 minute drive from downtown. And don't expect to be able to walk anywhere unless oyu have 5 hours to make a grocery run. Most neighborhoods adjacent to the city center are blighted. American cities generally are atrocities and a disgrace to civilization

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>>53114407
pic related, absolutely disgusting and shameful

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The only real answer

>>53105466
Are you fucking serious? Nashville's the jewel of the south, it's a boom town right now. Knoxville is literally one of the shittiest cities in the country

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-18265/the-10-best-and-worst-u-s-communities-for-overall-well-being.html

>>53103725
Determine whether you are talking city proper or metropolitan area, then define mid-sized.

completely unbiased opinion:
pittsburgh
rochester
portland, maine

>>53114508

The south is so beautiful

I'd like to move to South Carolina but I don't know if I could tolerate living with 50% nigs all the time

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>>53114846
This
t. UofR grad from NYC

>>53105408
Boston is not a mid-sized city

NYC, LA, and Chicago are metropolises and are in their own category. (Chicago is barely there, though.)

The other major, big American cities are Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. That's pretty much it. All of these cities have >4 million people living in their metro area, and are historically, culturally, and economically very important on a national scale.

>>53114895
Move to North Carolina. South Carolina is such a awful backwards state. West Virginia and South Carolina are just pityful shitholes.

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Oklahoma City :DDD

>>53114895
>the south is so beautiful

in terms of nature, I couldn't agree more. In terms of literally anything else, kek

>>53115204

Nature, architecture of some places, the coasts

>>53115164

that's another possibility

>>53104617
shit nigger. i just realised there's a Greenville in SC too.

>>53105598
Just spent Christmas down there. Comfy as fuck desu.

>>53115192
>That one fucking Sauron tower dominating the skyline

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>>53117438
Cities need that one building that sticks out. Otherwise downtown looks like a flat wall.