[ SECRET POST #3489 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3489 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Random Q

[soldatsasha]

I haven't lived long-term in any of those, but I've been to most of them for business and spent a few months in Denver, NO, and Portland (and right outside St Louis)...

Denver is okay, but bad in the wintertime. Any colder city like this (Buffalo, Minneanapolis, etc.) means if you rely solely on public transport you WILL be hiking to the bustop in hip-deep snow at least some of the winter. New Orleans has the opposite problem, where 10 months out of the year it can be hot and muggy and transit stops are few and far between. A ten minute walk to your trolley stop means you'd better bring a change of clothes for when you arrive at your destination, because you will be drenched.

Portland is very expensive. Idk how you got it on your list as cheap. It's much higher than most other northwest cities outside of like... San Francisco or something. You'd get better bang for your buck looking at a slightly smaller city like Reno, which still has okay transit and stuff to do without being Rich Hipster Central. I remember Tacoma being really pretty and easy to get around, too, though it's been about 15 years since I was there.

Also, keep in mind that many of these are only "cheap" if you live in the worst parts of town. Like New Orleans. Or cheaper housing is only found well outside the city center in suburbs and exurbs, and possibly too far from transit stops.

Re: Random Q

[(Anonymous)]

I have a huge soft spot for Reno but it just didn't score high enough in terms of walking/biking/running.

I think, with Portland, it's less that it's cheap, and more that it's not insanely expensive in the way that comparable cities are. But it does seem like it might have been unrealistic to include it. I don't know. It mostly did well in a few metrics that were taking real estate prices and adjusting for wages in the region (I didn't do this work myself at all, I found a dataset somewhere). So maybe that's a bad approach.

If that is a bad approach, one city that probably shows up on the list is Sacramento, which is nice because it's another city that I have a huge soft spot for. It's a lovely city and very bikable. So that's good.

Re: Random Q

[(Anonymous)]

Also, I think the dynamics re: different parts of town and suburbs and exurbs and class divisions are going to be basically true in all American cities, so I'm not trying to worry about those.