If you HAD to live in the US, which city would you choose?
04-25-2017, 11:01 PM
Cities I've lived in: Houston, Los Angeles, NYC. The rest I'm going to mention I've visited at least once and many several times.
Houston: My hometown. The weather is phenomenally bad, and that's after me having taken a much lighter view of it. The winter can get below freezing, and the summer is not only hot as fuck, but humid beyond anything I've ever experienced. If you're a guy that sweats more than average but still not a crazy amount, by the time you park your car and walk into any venue whether night or day you will be covered in a layer of sweat. There are very few days of good weather (true springlike), maybe 30 in a good year. The nightlife is really stale, tame, and boring IMO, and it's generally a Friday/Saturday night thing. It is starting to get expensive to live here, no longer the great deal it once was. A car is a must if you truly want to live here long term as it is very spread out. The positives are that there are LOTS of good looking women relative to the size of the population, particularly if you like minorities. If you like big round asses, I've never seen a better place aside from maybe Miami. Also if you can afford it the best nightlife is in a relatively centralized area inside interstate 610 (I'm not talking several streets of bars, but rather different areas within 10-15 minutes driving of one another).
NYC: I lived in the ghetto areas of BK and above 96th in Manhattan. This has to be THE best, if not top 2 or 3 cities for game in America if you live in Manhattan. You can literally stand on a street corner and have girls walk by you that you can approach. Lots of girls from all over the world visit and want to get wild if you want those flags, as I do. The nightlife is huge, and you can walk down streets lined with bars/clubs that are so packed with people that you can barely make your way through them (good ratios as well). There is also a lot to do for fun besides gaming if you find your way into a niche. The cons are mainly the weather, the expense, and the transportation system. Yeah I know you're going to say the transportation is awesome/the best in the US. Try walking in the rain or snow 5-10 minutes to a subway stop, going up and down stairs, riding from BK into Manhattan for 45 minutes and then switching trains and having to wait. Also you often have to stand up the whole time during rush hour, even if your commute is over an hour. The winters are horribly cold, and the summers humid and hot (similar to Houston but less hot and slightly less humid). The expense is obvious. Even 100k after taxes doesn't leave you entirely comfortable in Manhattan.
Los Angeles: Great weather and you'll find people from all over the world living here. Beaches aren't terrible or great, but they're there. Having a car means you don't have to tire yourself out walking everywhere like in some places, but you also have to sit in traffic forever (one of the worst cities in the US for traffic). This forum seems to trash LA girls a lot for being superficial and having incredible standards, but in my experience having a high level body is enough to make your dating life function. The thing is, you have to have something going for you here, whether your body, your face, your money, your job, your connections... something! You can't just be an average looking average paid guy that lives in the San Fernando Valley and expect to kill it here or even do decent. But once you have something going for yourself it isn't terrible. Oh, and in terms of looks, there are plenty of hot girls in LA, but the reputation is way over hyped.
Austin, TX: A young atmosphere where everyone is trying to have fun. It isn't a big city, but it punches above its weight in terms of nightlife and hot young things walking around in general. Slightly expensive as far as TX goes, but not unbearably so. The weather sucks here as well much like Houston, but it is much much less humid. Honestly if young (mainly white) girls are your thing, this is a decent place for you. I was just there this weekend, and it seemed like every place we tried to go eat was closed by 3pm, but the bars were pretty full even in the afternoon on a Sunday. SXSW is also supposedly layup after layup, although I haven't been.
San Antonio, TX: Just no. It gets some tourism because of the Alamo and the River Walk, but it is pretty much your standard mid sized city that doesn't really stand out otherwise. Huge Latin population, particularly Mexican and Central American. I don't recommend living here.
Dallas, TX: I hate this place with everything in me. There is supposedly a rivalry between Houston and Dallas, but that isn't why I hate it. It has just always felt like a more tame, boring, and small version of Houston to me, and I already think Houston is each of those things.
Miami: I've only visited for a short time, and I don't know what the reality of living there is like, but this is one of the few cities in America that I would love to live in at the very least for a couple of years. Weather isn't bad at all, beautiful women all over, a great place to party, and I am just in love with Miami Beach in general. Again, it might be different actually living there, but it seems awesome.
Boston: Was here for school for a short time. I didn't get a good feeling about the townies here, they seemed sadistic to put it bluntly. Cambridge is cool and teaming with young girls, but beware they tend to be at least a bit more stuck up about their intellectual abilities than say Austin. For some reason I saw a ton of hot Brazilian women in Medford. Lots of hot Irish and Italian descendants around the city as well.
Those are the cities I have enough experience with in the US to have an opinion on.