What do you guys think of Richmond and Baltimore? (home, restaurants)

[AJNEOA]

Originally Posted by rcp11889

I'm confused why you don't just see the food, art, dialect, lifestyles as simply a distinctly urban form of Southern culture in Richmond. I don't understand why people think cities completely lose their southern-ness the minute some Yankee discovers it.

So, places don't change when people move en mass from other places? Do you think the Museum District is wholly southern? How about Short Pump? Is current day Manhattan the same as it was in the 1960s (not that they're comparable, but you get the idea)? When something grows, it changes.

I'm not saying there's no southern culture in Richmond; there surely is in pockets, and yes, Richmond urban is not Boston urban (or exactly the same urban as anywhere else). I'm saying it's a bit of an exaggeration to state that it's the most southern city in the south...after having traveled all throughout the south.

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by pantin23

Actually, I LOVE Baltimore, and prefer northern culture over southern

Baltimore and Richmond are both Cities in the South and neither city defines authentic Northern Culture.........

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by AJNEOA

I have to disagree with you here. Some of Northern VA is a sprawling, traffic-infested, ugly and cheaply built disaster IMO (not including the places like Arlington or Alexandria). Besides, we already have yuppie-ville sprawling into Goochland and building track housing on farmland... I'd rather see investment into areas that are already built to infill and improve what we've already taken from nature (and to make them more walkable). Richmond is a somewhat small metro, and I think it's great that some pure nature is still close to the city on the southside.

Ok, maybe not like Northern Virginia but least something like the I-95/US Highway 40 corridor in Northern Delaware which is mostly commercial. I don't know about you but I really hate how I-85 and I-95 gets soo deserted and wooded south of Petersburg. It makes the drive sooo freakin' dreadful going/coming from North Carolina......

[gwillyfromphilly]

Originally Posted by $mk8795

Baltimore and Richmond are both Cities in the South and neither city defines authentic Northern Culture.........

Of the two cities, I would think Baltimore would qualify much better than Richmond would.

[tcave360]

Originally Posted by $mk8795

Baltimore and Richmond are both Cities in the South and neither city defines authentic Northern Culture.........

Richmond, not much...But Baltimore, it actually does define authentic Northern culture to an extent much better than Richmond..............

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly

Of the two cities, I would think Baltimore would qualify much better than Richmond would.

Not really.....

[CookieSkoon]

Originally Posted by $mk8795

Not really.....

Oh look, it's the Pennsylvania hater. Nothing you say is valid, Pennsylvania hater........

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by tcave360

Richmond, not much...But Baltimore, it actually does define authentic Northern culture to an extent much better than Richmond..............

Neither City does when compared to DC and thats because DC has a better authentic density of city blocks and row homes.......

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by CookieSkoon

Oh look, it's the Pennsylvania hater. Nothing you say is valid, Pennsylvania hater........

Bless your heart chile'.......

[CookieSkoon]

Originally Posted by $mk8795

Neither City does when compared to DC and thats because DC has a better authentic density of city blocks and row homes.......

I think you just hate the District. DC hater......