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Originally Posted by alki
IMO you're too harsh a critic.
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Not compared with the ppl who caused these results....
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American cities favorability poll
The Pacific Northwest has a good reputation nationwide--the two most popular of the 21 prominent cities we asked about in our national poll last weekend are Seattle and Portland, OR. 57% of American voters see Seattle favorably and only 14% unfavorably, edging out Portland (52-12) by three points on the margin.
The most unpopular is Detroit, which only 22% see positively and 49% negatively. Americans have net-negative impressions of only two other of these cities, and both are in California: Oakland (21-39) and Los Angeles (33-40). In February, PPP found California to be the least popular state in the union. It does have the 11th most popular city, though: San Francisco (48-29).
Between the pack are Boston (52-17), Atlanta (51-19), Phoenix (49-18), Dallas (48-21), New York (49-23), New Orleans (47-24), Houston (45-22), Salt Lake City (43-20), Philadelphia (42-22), Baltimore (37-24), Las Vegas (43-33), Chicago (42-33), Cleveland (32-25), Washington, D.C. (44-39), and Miami (36-33).
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^ some of that can be taken with a big grain of salt, cuz there are some
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cities on the list that score better than LA. Still, to be stuck on the bottom with a long running disaster like detroit & a longtime joke like oakland means we got a big problem.
I think too many ppl in LA for too long have not realized just about how overly gritty & fugly the city feels & looks to too many ppl. I don't think it's nearly as bad as some of those ppl think it is, but I must be in a minority.