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Originally Posted by craigs
Sacramento is Disneyland for stable, middle-class government jobs. It's mostly boring and bland, especially to a conspicuously elitist Manhattan douche-bro. But unlike Phoenix or Las Vegas, Sacramento has a traditionally urban, historic core and riverfront district, and gridded Victorian, Edwardian, and Craftsman "streetcar suburban" residential districts with commercial strips. The former locomotive works and railyards downtown are being redeveloped into shops, homes and offices. There are two tree-lined rivers, many large green parks, wooded riverside bike trails, and a significant tree canopy over most of the central city that renders walking and biking to work, school, corner stores, bars and restaurants more pleasant and easy than it would be in the tree-less desert cities, were they ever to build such areas.
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Sounds like paradise for a married accountant, lawyer, college professor or librarian who wears cardigans, Oxford shirts and penny loafers daily, has 3-4 kids, several pets and drives a Subaru Outback or Prius.
I am none of the above, and actually prefer a non-boring/bland/homogenous city that offers cultural appeal, a unique aesthetic and / or social flair.
So again, Sacramento is far from my cup of tea.