What are some small to medium sized north american cities with a vibrant arts and culture scene and great SighSee that is not over run by consumeristic and culturally behind foreigners (or locals) and who add absolutely nothing to the city. Never been to picrel but seems like it could be an interesting place with the mountains deterring the more "urban" crowds
 |
 Nothing Ever Happens Shirt $21.68 |
|
Olympia, Washington
happy camp is calling your name
What your describing is what Boulder is going for
Also Denver isn’t really that close to mountains
You can't see the sprawl stretching out for miles up to the foothills beyond Denver? This photo was taken with a telephoto lens on a pollution-free day, where distances as far as 80 miles can be perceived with full clarity. Drive CO-93 to Boulder at night, you can see the plain lit up to the horizon with lights. It's true, the peak sits rather low on the horizon when viewed from the Platte River, but they are still visible from many points in the city on clear days.
Concentrated consumption is the primary purpose of American cities. Your desire of high culture existing without a vast base of mundane economic activity is illusory. Conversely, your desire to find sophistican without all the homosexualry and bullshit is illusory.
>American cities.
Do you say something different about European cities?
There aren’t any.
Any that you know of?
Duluth Minnesota
The Dakotas. You want real red blooded American art and heritage that still breathes and expresses itself without shame, there you go. Spend some time out there and see everything, including everything working men left behind.
What city in the Dakotas do you think best represents that?
you can go to Black personmurderville
in California there is also spicmurderville
around michigan you can find arabmurderville, and they also cut off clits of newborn girls
have fun op
Low-quality shitpost there, Duke.
op asked about midsized cities with vibrant culture. this is roughly the state you will find them in.
It's pretty white and clean compared to LA but Denver still feels big and sprawley like Phoenix in the mountains. It doesn't have as many rich foreigners I'll give you that. I like Reno a lot. I think it's kinda like what you're looking for. Doesn't feel like Vegas, it feels like a Colorado Springs that has a few casinos. Also Colorado Springs.
Forgot to mention SLC which I don't really like, Utah is very trad, and very SighSee I find it a little unsettling tbh, SLC is less so but it's become overpriced for what a boring shithole it is, as all the Mormons from blue states are moving back there.
I love Reno but it’s a dump with tons of hobos and schizos
The United States has tried on every cloth but doesn't have arts of its own since it's too sim and vapid to connect with the concept.
Denver is a soulless sprawl city. Its not even that close to the mountains, at least an hour drive, and most days you cant even see them through the smog. Boulder is just filled with rich, privileged liberals. Fort Collins or Colorado Springs are probably the best places to move in the front range, but again are mostly just cookie cutter urban sprawl neighborhoods and shopping centers catered to boomers.
Colorado Springs used to be a great place, but decay is spreading through the city (especially the south end) as homeless tweakers multiply and steal everything that is not locked down (and even stuff that is locked down). Downtown is rather lifeless, most of the time. Recreational weed is not sold anywhere in the city. Biggest pluses to living in the Springs is the proximity to the mountains, plenty of sunshine, and mild summer weather at 6000 feet elevation.
>Boulder is filled with rich, privileged liberals
So what? Long as you aren't allergic to Black person/homosexual worship, Boulder is a fine place to live.
>vibrant arts culture
fricking lmao top notch bait OP
By that I really just mean a bunch of outdoorsy young people with creative interests, playing live music, throwing small events, house parties and what not. Not big city vibrance for those looking to "make it", not a dying small town full of boomers, but a mid sized up and coming place where young people can afford a good life and get involved in some way.
Oh ok, you're looking for a friend group that resembles what you've seen in media. Nothing exists quite like that, and the kind of friends you in particular will make have already been made, no matter where you live. Welcome to life, get used to it
You're right and wrong. If you're in your 30's and don't have real friends, moving isn't going to magically form that connection. But anon seems like he's from a place that's full of boomers and not much going on. I moved to get away from that and it was a great decision. I go out and do shit, and would never meet anyone new. Dating was non-existent just from no one being around. I moved and I still got my legit friends. But I can actually do things besides see boomers lurking at the store.
How many house parties did you go to this year?
> where young people can afford a good life
capitalists have taken that away from us with neoliberalism and mass immigration from the third world
eugene or
actually, no
Or what
Athens, Georgia
Nelson - British Colombia
Bear river - Nova Scotia
Pensacola, FL
Interesting answer. What was your experience there?
Not that anon but I liked my visit there. Was a cool city with a lot of restaurants, a historic vibe and didn't feel like it has as much soulless sprawl as the rest of Florida. A bit more hilly too. I though it was like Savannah.
Thanks for the reply. It's been forever since I've been to FL but it does seem like the "panhandle" gets mentioned a lot less than the famous cities of Miami, Tampa, etc.
Would love to visit there and see for myself!
Keep St. Augustine in mind as well. Oldest town in the US, absolutely maximum comfy around Christmas time.
Very coincidental you mention that because I actually have some relatives who own an AirBnB in St. Augustine.
You're really encouraging me here to visit someplace in FL because I'm thinking ultimately I'd like to possibly move there.
In the mountain west its Boulder, Bend, Bozeman, Bellingham and Missoula. Smaller cities like Jackson, Whitefish, Steamboat etc also apply but are signficantly richer, like in a "if you have to ask..." sort of way.
In the midwest its Madison and Duluth.
East is harder to pin down becuase it changes fast and gtes pozzed even faster. For instance Portland ME has a Somali mayor, from 90%+ white ten years ago to minority white and globohomosexual in a blink of an eye.
Seconding Madison, hate living there personally but that's just hatred of the Midwest. It's actually incredibly nice
Philadelphia
Burlington, Vermont
>what are some authentic flourishing local spots I can visit and ruin by being a homosexual tourist out of towner?
What is my incentive to tell you? I want to hear it.
I'm looking to move to a place like this and add something to the local culture. These cities are usually too boring and irrelevant for short term travel
St. Pete, FL
All of North America is a soul crushing prison not worth living in.
So where do you recommend?
Grand Rapids, MI.
Near lake Michigan, forests, dunes, lakes, rivers, etc...
City is still not taken completely over by leftists.
College and resort towns. Nobody gives a shit about beautiful things in small town America except the yuppies who moved out LARP as cowboys and farmers.
You must be thinking of the Southeast, where the beautiful greenery and forests are destroyed and degraded for human purposes. In the Mountain West and New England, as well as the Pacific Northwest, forests have also been preserved or regrown naturally.