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Hartford, Connecticut. Givent the relative affluence of Connecitcut and it being a center for the prosperous FIRE sector i was expecting more in the city itself.
...and maybe Toledo and Akron (both suffer from the big-but-not big-enough-syndrom...somehow you'd expect more.Dayton has that,too).
Nashville: Was expecting somethng like Louisville..actually better than Louisville given the music biz concentration: a lot of cool in-town neighborhoods. But it seems somehow lacking in that respect.
Really ? What about historic Georgetown? Elegant, Embassy Row? Washington Cathedral, and the National Shrine? (both of them rank among the largest 10 church structures in the World). The Spanish Steps? Colonial, Old Town Alexandria? The Chinatown memorial arch? The National Portrait Gallery? The International Spy Museum? The Newseum? The Adams-Morgan district?
Yeah, I was going to respond to that previous post, but you gave a good summary.
I travel the world, but I still get a smile on my face when I come home to the Washington, D.C. area. Sure packs a great punch for its size.
It wasn't a full-on trip, but I visited there a little for 2 days while on the way to another city. Not a nice nor decent place at all. Poverty and crime is so bad too, I looked it up afterwards.
Montreal. I have been there many times and have also had two one month stay there. With Amsterdam THE rudest city on the planet. Everytime it is as though the whole city is suffering from some extreme form of collective depression and lack of manners. Nobody smiles, everyone is rude.
I speak both French and English fluently but apparently neither are good enough for the natives. I loathe, loathe, loathe Montreal. Also its urban "charms" are greatly exaggerated, a few pretty historical streets do not a beautiful city make.....
Montreal a rude city? Never experienced that. Montreal is very beautiful, charming and most people are very nice and friendly, and beautiful.
San Francisco. I visited the city in August 2011. The weather was just as bad as Oslo's. It was cold, windy and foggy. Downtown Oslo is rarely windy and foggy in the summer but the temperature is generally low. I did not like the numerous and quite agressive homeless people. One nearly scraped our car with his crutch. Another one begged for money inside McDonald's. We had to move upstairs to avoid him. The city is one of the better-looking in the United States. A far cry from the mess of Los Angeles.
Reading this makes me a bit frustrated. San Francisco is one of our most beautiful cities with a very interesting history, but the last 20 years or so the number of homeless, hobos and street crazies has mushroomed to the point it makes visiting there a bit disappointing in certain areas (generally anywhere tourists or a crowd gathers). It can make one uneasy and the filth they contribute to the streets and sidewalks (trash, urine and excrement) is disgusting. I've been traveling to SF three or four times a year since I was eighteen and the past decade its just gotten to the point I no longer want to go.
As far as the cool, foggy weather in the summer - that's the Central and Northern California coast in a nutshell! Geography at work - the rising air from the hot inland valleys pull in the cool air from the ocean causing the marine layer along the coast. Drive ten miles inland and its 20F warmer.
Sometimes I think expectations have a huge role in how we perceive a place. If you go to a city and expect it to be boring you might often find out that it will exceed your expectations, and if you go to a city and expect it to be this amazing place often you will be disappointed. From now on I will keep my expectations low to avoid being disappointed. I will admit that sometimes my expectations are a bit unreasonable.
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