Check out the statistics garnered by these surveys. The reason I put it here in the D&D is because the favorable/unfavorable percentages are divvied up between Demos/Repubs, Men/Women, Black/White to show who voted for what. Apparently Oakland, Detroit, and Los Angeles are exceptionally disliked, while Seattle is our favorite city (I love Seattle myself, incidentally). http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_US_042012.pdf http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/04/american-cities-favorability-poll.html What do you guys think? Do you agree with the way your party/sex/race voted? A point of contention I think that will be noticed is that Salt Lake City and Houston have the same point differential between favorable and unfavorable votes. What's also interesting is that women generally have a more favorable opinion about these particular cities than men do.
tallanvor's most hated cities in order 1) D.C. - politicians 2) San Francisco - hippies 3) Boston - drunks with annoying accents. also bad traffic.
Have lived in all three, and none are for me, although all 3 are pretty good to visit. Living in them is a different story, very expensive.
It's not so unpopular. San Francisco is pretty well-liked, it just has its fair share of haters bringing it down too. And L.A. is always hated by everyone. I have no clue why that is. Everyone always has a laundry list of flaws they hate about L.A. that you could literally find in any other cosmopolitan city (except for lack of public transit, but I don't think people are basing their opinions on public transit).
That's interesting. I guess I'm not surprised since I've heard of people not being too keen on living in San Francisco because of all the gays and liberals, and others reluctant to come to Houston because they fear bible-thumpers and lynch mobs. I can see black people not be crazy about Salt Lake City because it's so white, and the opposite true of Detroit. I never thought to quantify it. I suppose it can shape up to be a bit of a vicious cycle, with partisan towns becoming more partisan, black towns becoming more black, and so on.
Population and perception don't move in tandem. Most likely, one lags behind the other. Out of college I had offers to move to California (Burbank, Glendale). There is a lot going for that state, but there is a LOT going against it. I decided to move to Phoenix for the short term. It's not so much that I mind Democrats as it is that the government is always an in-your-face issue there. Then there's the crime, traffic, expenses, and general demeanor of the people you'll meet there. Maybe I'm crazy but I think there's a difference between people in the Mountain/Pacific West and the people I grew up with in the South JUST based on attitude and friendliness.
I have lived in a few big cites. L.A. is way too big to be described as one city. If we are talking about L.A., the metro city limits, yes I would agree it's low on livability. However, there are 88 little cities surrounding LA and many of them are very very pleasant to live. In my and other Los Angelnos' sense, LA includes those cities, and the real estate, unlike other 3 disliked cities, are among highest priced in the nation.
I forgot- the Muppets promote pro environmental anti government communism according to some freedom lovin' folks 'round these parts. reality check- it's really not that different anywhere you go in America.
I lived in a couple of mid-west cities , Boston, and L.A. extensively and visited many more. L.A. is nice in terms of weather, diversity, food. OTOH, the traffic and air, water is bad, especially traffic. Boston is cool in terms of socializing and night lives, lots of interesting people there, but the rent, driving is absolutely horrible. Mid-west cities are nice in terms of air and water and good for growing family, but diversity and food are very very lacking.
