FWIW, I think being in love with a city is a valid reason to stay, I just take exception when people use their love of a city to declare it objectively great, which is why I couldn’t let it go with DGAF up above. Where to live is a personal calculus.

I’m impressed with the amount of sanctimony you managed to get into such few lines, and a splash of class warfare on top of that.

You can tell it’s Friday in my brain - I just spent 5 minutes trying to figure out what kind of weird joke you were making about inhaling burnt pasta.

Yes, it’s named after the Eddie Money song.

I feel you - all my family is in Atlanta, ergo I am not.

You can’t do any of those things because you spent all of your money on $3000/mo in rent for a 200 sq ft closet, and you had to spend 90 minutes on the train to get back to it so its too late anyway.

God Damn.

This is some serious Kinja right here. +1.

I actually hear this a lot it seems - like the idea of living in a place like SF or NYC is a lot better than the empirical reality.

Counterpoint - any place only a millionaire can afford own a home, not a real city.

I’ll be honest - I despise them both equally, but admittedly have only been to OKC on business.

I could not believe that Memphis was in the top 25, been there a number of times and after you eat ribs and go to Beale street, the rest of the city is a tragedy.

Yeah, I really thought Charlotte would have been higher.

If you do not die from heatstroke over the summer, you will find plenty of cool stuff in Atlanta. Lots of shitty traffic and suburban sprawl too, but there is also lots to like.

This is an excellent point. It reflects well on your UT education.

It seems better than it is because it stands out from the shitscape around it. Like a bleach stain on a hotel blanket.

This happens whenever there is cheap land and suburban sprawl.

They desperately need you to believe it is the greatest city, so they don’t feel like fools for paying the insane costs of living to be there.

I agree with this - all my trips to Philly have been a lot of fun. as for the blighted areas, tons of these cities have at least as much of that - Detroit Baltimore Memphis all come to mind as having some real rough parts of town.

economic cheat code - will be stealing that, so at least I can give you a star as token payment.