What major cities would you absolutely never live in?

LA and (especially) Miami for me

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Any red states’ major cities with their bitchass regressive policies

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The above + especially anywhere in Texas for sure.

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Hilarious because my top two places I wanna live are Miami and LA

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As some who grew up and lived most of my life in LA, I’d live there again. LA is HUGE. Would I live in DTLA? Nope. Would I live in the valley again? Nope. Would I live in the South Bay again? Yep, in a heartbeat.

I live in SD now, but I sure miss my place 1 short block from the beach in the South Bay. Photo is a view from old private roof deck in SB.

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Miami, any city in Alabama, Kentucky, Dakotas, Mississippi….

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Trust me, we don’t want anyone else in Miami either 🙂

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We do. Hurricane parties are a thing

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Below is major cities by population. For me: NY and Philadelphia are no goes. I would absolutely love Miami!!

New York City, NY (Population: 8,622,357)
Los Angeles, CA (Population: 4,085,014)
Chicago, IL (Population: 2,670,406)
Houston, TX (Population: 2,378,146)
Phoenix, AZ (Population: 1,743,469)
Philadelphia, PA (Population: 1,590,402)
San Antonio, TX (Population: 1,579,504)
San Diego, CA (Population: 1,469,490)
Dallas, TX (Population: 1,400,337)
San Jose, CA (Population: 1,036,242)

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Rent would not be my primary concern if I moved to NY.

NY, LA, SF, Austin are all a hard pass. As are anywhere in Connecticut and Vermont.

I could probably be talked into most other places; but Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Greenville, Denver, and Seattle all come to mind as potentials.

Live in Chicago now and see no reason to move. Love it here.

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Burlington is one of the worst places I’ve ever been. Truly wretched.

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Texas. I want my child to actually come back from school.

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Dallas

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I see both those cities as full of caked up girls and pumped up make believe muscle little guys... so no for me for both

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any of those hood cities like chiraqistan/atlanta/ny

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Any of them. I don’t mind working in and visiting the city but I like having my quiet country house to return to and get away from people.

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I don’t think I’d enjoy living in Mazar-i-Sharif much

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NYC
LA
SF
Houston
São Paolo
Buenos Aires
Paris
Berlin
Brussels
Lagos
Nairobi
Jo’burg
any middleeastern city
anywhere in greater China
Sydney

Sydney is great! As are most cities on my list. I just wouldn’t want to live in them.

Singapore!

Basically all of them lol

Tokyo, I live in NYC, and Tokyo was too crowded for me. 🙃

NYC
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Red states

NYC and Philly for me

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