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Originally Posted by Yuri
All my favourite US cities are there. I'd only drop Minneapolis for Detroit.
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if i'm reading between the lines of this dude's video, he seems to have a special affinity for mostly intact pre-war
neighborhood urbansim, which is likely why detroit didn't make his cut.
he also seems to have a special disdain for freeways, citing stats on freeway lane miles per capita several times, and i think detroit scores really poorly on that particular metric, so it was probably a big ding against the city in his calculation.
but detroit is certainly more affordable than your typical big US city and with a vastly improving urban core, arguments could definitely be made for its inclusion here.
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Originally Posted by homebucket
Yep according to the video he’s saying NYC metro is affordable in comparison to places like the Yay Area and Austin.
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he was also making the point that, because NYC and its burbs have so much collective pre-war urbansim, some of it actually is
relatively affordable for what you get and thus a bit "underrated" in his eyes. he sure as shit wasn't talking about the east village or williamsburg being underrated, but more so outer hoods and burbs where one can still live a pretty urban-ish life without being a millionaire because the entire NYC area, overall, is by far the most urban place in the nation.
but he did point out that he was well aware that NYC seems like an odd choice to include on the surface of it.