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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Noticebly missing cities:
Nashville, Tucson, Albuquerque, and Charleston
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Having lived near Charleston, South Carolina for around 3 years, I can attest to some similarities between it and San Antonio, most notably, historical presence. If I'm not mistaken, Charleston is actually one of the oldest cities in the United States. While it certainly isn't world class in terms of skyline (tallest building is less than 300 feet, I think), or clean, manicured aesthetics, it has an older, more organic feel that is (subjectively) somewhat similar to SA. If this list can't include a substantially sized city as historical and interesting as Charleston, I think it's undervaluing intangible properties such as character in favor of more concrete statistics. I'm sure it's is serving the purpose it's creators intended, but not everything about a city can be summed up in raw numbers. I'm not making the argument that SA is indeed, objectively "world class", just that aspects of it (and other historical cities) can be easily undervalued.