Americas coolest cities. - Page 5

MolsonExport · #81 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 11:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hill Country

Somebody doesn't like the Sun Belt.

I think there should be an option for "My City 'cause I live here!"

The Sun Belt is only cool with Air conditioning.

mousquet · #82 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 11:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

what is cool?

Something I wanna see vibrant and thriving.

brickell · #83 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 1:22 PM**

"The act of discovering what's cool is what causes cool to move on"
It quantum like in it's inability to be defined.

Hill Country · #84 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 1:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The Sun Belt is only cool with Air conditioning.

I couldn't agree more. There's a very good reason why the southwestern U.S. was relatively unpopulated until AC was invented. But it's cool now.

Buckeye Native 001 · #85 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 3:05 PM**

Wherever I'm not living is cool. I have a tendency to increase the suck factor wherever I live (how else would you explain Cincinnati's decline in the early to mid 1990s).

Private Dick · #86 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 3:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by mousquet

Something I wanna see vibrant and thriving.

Vibrant and thriving areas can certainly be very cool, but Bushwick in the 1980s is cool as fuck too... and it's far from vibrant and thriving... more like desolate and haunting. "Cool" has no real parameters.

JDRCRASH · #87 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 5:56 PM**

Miami does seem awfully low. Never been there, but i've been told it is a popular hotspot for people in their 20's and 30's.

Centropolis · #88 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 6:16 PM**

South Florida is totally weird and schizophrenic - at least my experiences. Not conventionally hip. There's some little corners with interesting people sifted out of I don't know what, what maybe the rest of south Florida really ( and NY) is that I don't know about (I've always landed in a plane and been quickly shuttled to the most walkable urbanish (1930s) areas, including some with a little grit).

Private Dick · #89 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 6:22 PM**

Miami is a cool place, but not really a cool city... yet.

Centropolis · #90 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 6:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Private Dick

Miami is a cool place, but not really a cool city... yet.

Yeah I know less about South Florida as a functioning urban area than I do as a place to sit in a weird dive bar in march throwing pieces of hamburg into the intercoastal waterway for the big fish ideally with divorcees on destructive wine benders.

There's always an annoyingly wine'd up Midwestern woman on the plane to South Florida, too.

Private Dick · #91 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 7:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

... sit in a weird dive bar in march throwing pieces of hamburg into the intercoastal waterway for the big fish ideally with divorcees on destructive wine benders.

See, now that is cool.

Ch.G, Ch.G · #92 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 7:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by centropolis

yeah i know less about south florida as a functioning urban area than i do as a place to sit in a weird dive bar in march throwing pieces of hamburg into the intercoastal waterway for the big fish ideally with divorcees on destructive wine benders.

There's always an annoyingly wine'd up midwestern woman on the plane to south florida, too.

Kill the moonlight!!!

TarHeelJ · #93 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

Miami does seem awfully low. Never been there, but i've been told it is a popular hotspot for people in their 20's and 30's.

It's also a popular hotspot for retirees...and old just isn't cool.

Lipani · #94 Posted: **Aug 7, 2012, 11:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Wherever I'm not living is cool. I have a tendency to increase the suck factor wherever I live (how else would you explain Cincinnati's decline in the early to mid 1990s).

At least the Reds won a World Series during that time.

Buckeye Native 001 · #95 Posted: **Aug 8, 2012, 2:22 AM**

Who gives a shit about the 1990 baseball season besides a couple of Reds fans with nothing left to hold onto?

599GTO · #96 Posted: **Aug 8, 2012, 3:03 AM**

The coolest is winning.

THE BIG APPLE · #97 Posted: **Aug 8, 2012, 3:50 AM**

Surprised more people didn't vote Vegas. New Orleans not a surprise though.

Tom Servo · #98 Posted: **Aug 8, 2012, 4:07 AM**

Does LV have an art scene of any kind? Or music scene? Never think of LV past lights and pretense.

And NOLA doesn't surprise me either. Houstonians and others on the Gulf Coast live vicariously through the novelty of the city.

I'm surprised Nashville isn't getting more love.

And I'm really annoyed Milwaukee was left out, still.

Centropolis · #99 Posted: **Aug 8, 2012, 4:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tom Servo

And NOLA doesn't surprise me either. Houstonians and others on the Gulf Coast live vicariously through the novelty of .

In the hipstery parts of town I saw a preponderance of two outstate plates parked on side streets. Texas and New York. Where else you going to see THAT?

mhays · #**100** Posted: **Aug 8, 2012, 4:28 AM**

Nashville's image is country music, the antithesis of cool. I know there's more than that but as a West Coaster I'm barely aware of it, even paying attention on ssp.

Sometimes a city with a small image can't overcome the one factor that people have heard about.