Best Cool Little Cities

**jimmy** · 11-25-2011, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by ml242

HC, I respectfully disagree. Both the city propers are pretty small, and no one goes to either to hang out in the suburbs. Downtown Pittsburgh is like ancient Rome or something. Very walkable, cool views of the three rivers, tons of ruins, and everyone knows everyone in the restaurants and bars. Plus they still do buy backs.

New Orleans is similar. First of all, it's shrunk a lot since Katrina and kind of gotten a lot better, too. It feels bigger with the festival events and dirty transients, but to me any US city that can't support an MLB team is small. Maybe it just feels small because the neighborhoods have such a distinct personality. Going from Magazine st. to St Claude is like a vacation from your vacation.

Plus I looked up the stats just now on Wikipedia

Do you know why there is no Major League baseball team in New Orleans?

If Pittsburgh found out they'd want one too.

**iceman** · 11-25-2011, 10:41 AM

Rimshot!

**Chugachjed** · 11-25-2011, 11:07 AM

Is it because baseball is stupid and boring?

**Schemeboat** · 11-25-2011, 11:18 AM

Saint Johns Newfoundland - for the party
Corner Brook Newfoundland - for the party and the skiing

**Flexon Phil** · 11-25-2011, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by Chugachjed

Is it because baseball is stupid and boring?

You don't like 20 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours?

Oh, if a city has a major sports team..it is NOT a little city. But a minor league team can add to your coolness factor.

**Nobody Famous** · 11-25-2011, 12:25 PM

Saratoga Springs, NY
State College, PA
Missoula, MT

**jimmy** · 11-28-2011, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Chugachjed

Is it because baseball is stupid and boring?

I guess pierogi races and seven dollar beers don't doit for you Jed?

How about some

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**userA** · 11-28-2011, 04:28 PM

snohomish wa.

**grrrr** · 11-28-2011, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by Flexon Phil

You don't like 20 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours?

Oh, if a city has a major sports team..it is NOT a little city. But a minor league team can add to your coolness factor.

Baseball and football have almost exactly the same amount of "play time"...about 13 minutes.

**srsosbso** · 11-28-2011, 05:20 PM

Is that so? Huh. Interesting.

**Chugachjed** · 11-28-2011, 05:49 PM

I'm with Grrr on this one. Golf, baseball, and football are all less interesting than watching paint dry, but let's not forget curling that sucks too.

**iceman** · 11-28-2011, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Schemeboat

Saint Johns Newfoundland - for the party
Corner Brook Newfoundland - for the party and the skiing

I've been wanting to go to Newfoundland for years. Maybe next summer.

**skiballs** · 11-28-2011, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

I've been wanting to go Newfoundland for years.

Is this why SFB keeps calling you .

**Art Shirk** · 11-28-2011, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Chugachjed

but let's not forget curling that sucks too.

You can fuck right off. It's my last chance at an olympic bid.

**Tunco** · 11-28-2011, 06:59 PM

In the last couple of years we've spent about a month in Tapachula. Food was a great mix of Central American and Mexican. Fried plantains with hot sauce!! Killer coffee. Uncrowded surf less then an hour away. Saw a naked gringo tweaking out, running down the street yelling "FUCK THAT BITCH!!" Plus there is a walmart.

**MarcusBrody** · 11-28-2011, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by 54-46

Here's a place I could live: Verona, Italy - great food, near Lake Garda and Dolomites, beautiful women, about 250k people. Ideal "city."

I've wondered about the relative merits of towns like: Rossland, Nelson, and Squamish.

I really like Verona. I've visited family there and also felt like it's a place I wouldn't mind living (though having the built in social network of the family definitely helped).

**goldenboy** · 11-29-2011, 09:15 AM

Haven't seen it mentioned, but Grand Junction, CO is the most underrated small city I know. The place has really changed for the better in the last 15 years.

**dumpy** · 11-29-2011, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by tief schnee

Saw a naked gringo tweaking out, running down the street yelling "FUCK THAT BITCH!!" Plus there is a walmart.

You could'vs stayed in CNY and seen that, it's called Cortland County.

**Benny Profane** · 11-29-2011, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by goldenboy

Haven't seen it mentioned, but Grand Junction, CO is the most underrated small city I know. The place has really changed for the better in the last 15 years.

Grand Junction: Where ranchers and truckers breed.