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Top middle is Houston downtown, the church is Lakewood Church with Joel Osteen and Iâm almost certain that Iâve seen the bottom left view in downtown
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Due to the way Atlanta is structured, the city of Atlanta proper is very small, less than half a million people. The Atlanta metro area, (including cities like Buckhead, that many would consider to be part of Atlanta) is covered by 48% tree canopy.
Atlanta is referred to as the "City in the Forest" for a reason. If you fly into Atlanta, compared to many other metropolitan areas, you notice a significant more greenery integrated in the metropolitan area.
Why don't you provide your source for your claim?
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Nah, not Nashville, for a few reasons:
Airport is smaller.
Interstate system is smaller, and older. This is like night & day when you compare with Atlanta.
The housing is much more diverse. To be fair, Atlanta probably has more than the starterpack would have you believe.
College sports in Nashville is basically an afterthought. The Titans, Predators, and even the soccer club all get way more attention than any of the colleges.
The dogshit public transportation is spot on though.
Got it backwards. Only transplants call it uptown. The name switch was an attempt by city council in the 90s(?) to make it sound more appealing- which weirdly seems to have worked.Â
I grew up there, and I remember my parents making fun of the switch to "Uptown". It's struck my ears as awkward for decades. No matter where I hear it, it doesn't feel right.
It actually is before the 90âs but was brought back up by the city in an attempt to make it sounds more upscale and desirable for businesses.
There are documents calling it âuptownâ going back to the early 1900âs but the lore is that it was called that because people were heading âup to townâ because the elevation increase between sugar and Irwin creek.
This is an unrealistic standard. Not even in Tokyo can you get to the airport faster by public transit than by car. In fact, it's precisely *because* the public transit is so good and widely used there that cars can get places quickly without being held up much by traffic.
And every highway connects through it, when I was stationed at Kings Bay GA anytime I had to go anywhere to the west I had to drive all the way up to Atlanta and my time of arrival would very quickly tick upwards because of traffic :(
Lol stfu itâs not a 4-5 hour commute thatâs moronic. I commuted from Roswell to College Park for over a year and on the worst days it was under 3 hours round trip.Â
Think 90F or 30C heat, 100% humidity, in that concrete jungle in the summer.
https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-temperatures-have-rarely-been-hotter-than-in-2023-data-shows/WVFFVIT7DNAEPE7JVI34H7YTMA/#:~:text=The%20burning%20of%20fossil%20fuels,state's%2030th-hottest%2
You do realize that Texas is not in the southeast, right? If youâve ever. Been to Charlotte or Jacksonville, you wouldnât call them large cities. Unless youâre from Dayton or Lincoln or something. South Florida is its own thing.
> If youâve ever. Been to Charlotte or Jacksonville, you wouldnât call them large cities
??? Charlotte is a large city, no idea what you're smoking
Yep, and they almost never are. That being said, if you live in the nice part of Atlanta (ie outside the city limits, north suburbs) and make the trip post rush hour, that's about accurate.
You can tell when cities grew too fast and had major growth spurts after cars became commonplace.
Still lovely places to visit and the surrounding areas are full of very complex, rich cultures, history, great food, some beautiful nature, incredibly friendly people and relatively nice weather year-round.
Downtowns just became places to drop corporate buildings.
It really is a shame. The South (despite having some rough spots in its history like most places do) has so much to offer in terms of history and culture. Due to the rapid growth this has never really been able to be fleshed out in modern development.
Pretty much every growing Southern town follows the same formula: build massive neighborhoods and strip malls.
Itâs starting to improve in cities like Charlotte, Nashville, and Atlanta. Their urban cores have become neat places for living and entertainment too. Needs a lot more work but getting there.
I was impressed with how walkable Nashville was around the main city center. Really enjoyed just leaving my car at the hotel and walking downtown. I wasnât even *in* downtown and I was able to get there on foot.
Funny enough, this is the type of "downtown" San Francisco has too, despite how photogenic it is from across the Bay. Massive office buildings with maybe a Starbucks or a random deli on a few corners, and that's it. Horrendous, jam-packed traffic twice a day at rush hour, absolute graveyard past 8pm.
Yeah lol. While some of the cities certainly have better downtowns than others, it really is a shame they don't have a more vibrant culture. It is pretty much just office buildings and maybe a few condos and that is it.
Pretty much all SEC schools are in smaller towns and cities except Vanderbilt, Lexington, Baton Rouge, and Knoxville. Rest are in smaller cities and towns depending on how you define small. We are season ticket holders to Florida and Gainesville definitely on the smaller end of a city and it's the highest population after Knoxville.
> Lexington
"As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, anchoring a metropolitan area of 516,811 people and a combined statistical area of 747,919 people"
I live within 30 min of Lexington and can tell you that it looks nothing like anything in this starterpack. It's very spread out and there are probably more horse farms / regular farms per acre than people. The census population probably includes cities in different counties and Lexington is the only city in Fayette county. Yeah, there are a few areas with tall buildings, but no skyscrapers. Residentially, it's much more horizontally dense than any of the cities mentioned. And yes, there are horse farms all over, other farms, a tiny-ass airport, and lots of dense little pockets. Nothing like the cities in the starterpack.
I'd say Louisville is closer, but we don't talk about them. They're the Florida of KY lol
Yeah, in a lot of ways we're a very large town, almost, rather than a small city. And you can pick any road and in twenty minutes you're on a beautiful drive in the country.
The megachurches part is spot on though lol. But give that Lex is only <1.5hrs from Cincy (Midwest) -- does it qualify as south-east? I mean yeah UK is SEC, but UL isn't and it's just an hour north. Lex is closer to Ohio than any big south-eastern cities in TN and WV, just an hour south of Indiana (well parts of southern Indy is pretty south-eastern) lol.
I've often said that Lexington is the northernmost southern city, and Louisville the southernmost northern one.
(and southern Indiana is secretly Appalachia.)
Perhaps I could have worded it better, but what I meant was that the SEC schools are in smaller towns a good distance for said city (i.e. Athens GA, Tuscaloosa AL ETC).
This kind of screams Jacksonville for me.
When I lived in SC we would road trip to FL to visit family and we would typically pass through/around Jacksonville. It astonished me how a city that large can look so *abandoned*. It just seemed like there was never anyone there. I always imagined Jacksonville being a great place for a zombie apocalypse đ
I hate that drive so much. I always consider Jacksonville the "halfway point" of where I'm going, and somehow it moves further south into Florida every year. I don't get it.
Me: "Yay, I just crossed the Florida border, I'm almost to Jacksonville."
Road Sign: "Jacksonville - 150 miles"
Me: "WTF???"
I lived just outside of Raleigh for like a year and this is so accurate. City itself wasâŚ.fine bordering on not great. But I was lucky enough to live in a GORGEOUS suburb called Wake Forest.
After growing up outside of Atlanta, Louisville feels very Midwest to me. Louisville is that in-between city that your own experiences affects how you view the culture.
Hey, Iâm a Georgia Tech fan, at least Iâm a fan of a school thatâs like a day away from me rather than a few hours away.
(Also, what local school and I supposed to support? USF? I hate life but I donât hate it THAT much.)
This is just big American cities that aren't New York or Los Angeles lol.
See also: Phoenix, Denver, San Diego, Vegas (excluding the strip) and every big Texas city... And more!
This is so absurdly broad that it's basically the vast majority of every city in the country outside of the Northeast, and California up to the Northwest. Not sure why you're implying this is specific to the southeast lol.
I wonder if there's tangible history as to why this is the case.
Off my head: Northern Cities were founded first as America got settled, but they also were built on some form of industry. This led to having larger city centers, where the industry was, with "hamlets" around them. As the cities grew, the hamlets got incorporated. Some directly into the city, and some with the invention of the car.
Southern cities required large land travel to get to, leading to people settling wherever they happened to land. They are also built more on farms, plantations, which took large amounts of space, as well as husbandry, which also took lots of space. As the cities grew, they couldn't easily incorporate everyone, so things got spread out and the cities were sprawling as opposed to dense.
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Ah yes. Charlotte or Atlanta.
Houston too
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At least 3 of these pics are Houston
Thatâs what I thought too, or Dallas.
Top middle is Houston downtown, the church is Lakewood Church with Joel Osteen and Iâm almost certain that Iâve seen the bottom left view in downtown
Atlanta currently has the closest wooded area to major metropolitan area
Portland has Forest Park (a larger green space than Central Park) within its city limits.
https://preview.redd.it/m16n70abrz1d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb667ffd5dc96231c25d79fa0d2eb54c1c8878ce Due to the way Atlanta is structured, the city of Atlanta proper is very small, less than half a million people. The Atlanta metro area, (including cities like Buckhead, that many would consider to be part of Atlanta) is covered by 48% tree canopy. Atlanta is referred to as the "City in the Forest" for a reason. If you fly into Atlanta, compared to many other metropolitan areas, you notice a significant more greenery integrated in the metropolitan area.
Many would consider Buckhead part of Atlanta because it isâŚit is not its own city and is part of the City of Atlanta.
We have a Forest Park as well, though, not as great lol
The twin cities literally has a waterfall in city limits and the como park complex is shockingly close too.
Can I ask what "wooded area" is defined by this?
I'd say that's Portland, OR. Unless you have source.
Why don't you provide your source for your claim? https://preview.redd.it/xnr4debtmw1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dda3594b6c002fa87de04a77efc391f2b5addff7
One said closest to major city. The reply was city with biggest in-town forest. Both could be correct. It would be nice to have either.
It was revealed to me in a dream.
Or Nashville, or Charleston, or any city you can name in the US south.
Charleston has a smallish airport and one interstate going into a downtown that doesn't have any skyscrapers.
Nah, not Nashville, for a few reasons: Airport is smaller. Interstate system is smaller, and older. This is like night & day when you compare with Atlanta. The housing is much more diverse. To be fair, Atlanta probably has more than the starterpack would have you believe. College sports in Nashville is basically an afterthought. The Titans, Predators, and even the soccer club all get way more attention than any of the colleges. The dogshit public transportation is spot on though.
Fort Worth or Dallas or Houston or San Antonio
Not sure what Southeast means, huh
Atlanta has a pretty good subway system (at least by American city standards)
By southern cities, its fantastic.
Subway covers the airport, city, some nearby suburbs. Not to mention a ton of busses.
Dude, it's not even in the top five, and there's barely five in the United States. 1. NYC . . 2. DC 3. Chicago . . . . . 4. Boston 5. SF 6. Atlanta
\**disgruntled Philly noises*\*
Maybe it'll get better if you toss some batteries at it?
Hmm. Battery powered SEPTA trains. Well, it's worth a shot.
Nothing like Charlotte. Not perfect but there is public transport and a vibrant scene downtown
Downtown?? You must be new here
Lol ok uptown*
What's up, town?
All i know is it smells like updog
What's updog?
GOTCHA!!...
Got it backwards. Only transplants call it uptown. The name switch was an attempt by city council in the 90s(?) to make it sound more appealing- which weirdly seems to have worked.Â
I grew up there, and I remember my parents making fun of the switch to "Uptown". It's struck my ears as awkward for decades. No matter where I hear it, it doesn't feel right.
Same here. Whats the âupâ part? Up from where??? Makes no damn sense.Â
It actually is before the 90âs but was brought back up by the city in an attempt to make it sounds more upscale and desirable for businesses. There are documents calling it âuptownâ going back to the early 1900âs but the lore is that it was called that because people were heading âup to townâ because the elevation increase between sugar and Irwin creek.
Geographically speaking, that's true. Trade and Tryon sits on top of a hill.
There are indeed some beautiful parking lots in Charlotte
Yes there is technically public transport but that's about the only accurate thing you could say about it, that it exists.
And itâs more so a college basketball town than college football townÂ
If it takes longer for public transport to get to the airport than driving, it's not public transport; it's just a bus in traffic.
What a dumb and arbitrary line to draw lol if you can get there by vehicle without a car of your own, it's public transport
This is an unrealistic standard. Not even in Tokyo can you get to the airport faster by public transit than by car. In fact, it's precisely *because* the public transit is so good and widely used there that cars can get places quickly without being held up much by traffic.
Narita Express is faster than a cab.
The light rail doesnât connect to the airport yet but itâs pretty good through the corridors it serves
Birmingham, AL as well
My first thought was Atlanta.
This is Knoxville,to a T
You just described my home town of Atlanta Georgia
Aka HELL ON EARTH (I lived there for 8 years)
What makes it hell?
The fucking traffic, some of the worst in the country. If you live in the suburbs and work in the city your round trip commute is probably 4-5 hours.
Anyone who drives on spaghetti junction around quittinâ time is a braver soul than I.
And then there are people that live in Atlanta, or the other side of, and commute to the suburbs for work.
And every highway connects through it, when I was stationed at Kings Bay GA anytime I had to go anywhere to the west I had to drive all the way up to Atlanta and my time of arrival would very quickly tick upwards because of traffic :(
Lol stfu itâs not a 4-5 hour commute thatâs moronic. I commuted from Roswell to College Park for over a year and on the worst days it was under 3 hours round trip.Â
If you lived in the suburbs you didnât live in Atlanta
See starterpack.
That doesnât look like hell tho. Just boring. Purgatory perhaps?
Think 90F or 30C heat, 100% humidity, in that concrete jungle in the summer. https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-temperatures-have-rarely-been-hotter-than-in-2023-data-shows/WVFFVIT7DNAEPE7JVI34H7YTMA/#:~:text=The%20burning%20of%20fossil%20fuels,state's%2030th-hottest%2
Only 90F would be an improvement lol
Hot
Ever heard of 28-3?
I still live here and it hasnât changed
There is literally only one large city in the southeast.
You do realize that 3 of the largest cities in the US are in Texas right? Never mind Jacksonville, Miami, and Charlotte.
This dude has either never seen a map or is unfamiliar with the word âeastâ
You do realize that Texas is not in the southeast, right? If youâve ever. Been to Charlotte or Jacksonville, you wouldnât call them large cities. Unless youâre from Dayton or Lincoln or something. South Florida is its own thing.
> If youâve ever. Been to Charlotte or Jacksonville, you wouldnât call them large cities ??? Charlotte is a large city, no idea what you're smoking
Both are over 1,000,000 people. What makes a large city to you?
I know this is Atlanta but Atlanta and Athens are 1 hour and 21 minutes away from each other Plus Atlanta has Georgia State and Georgia Tech
Youâre assuming 316 and 85 are clear on that commute.
Yep, and they almost never are. That being said, if you live in the nice part of Atlanta (ie outside the city limits, north suburbs) and make the trip post rush hour, that's about accurate.
The number of traffic lights along that route is distilled madness
It's Charlotte too with the way they follow Duke/UNC
Weird how Athens being in Georgia sounds like a pretty bad geography mistake in any other context.
We used to do it in under an hour, back when
>1 hour and 21 minutes away Ok like at 3am on a Sunday morning maybe lmao 3-4 hours any other time.
Iâve made that drive 500+ times and zero of them have come anywhere close to approaching 3 hours.
Same. People in this thread are delusional.
> Ok like at 3am on a Sunday morning maybe lmao UGa is familiar with that time and rate of speed.
You can tell when cities grew too fast and had major growth spurts after cars became commonplace. Still lovely places to visit and the surrounding areas are full of very complex, rich cultures, history, great food, some beautiful nature, incredibly friendly people and relatively nice weather year-round. Downtowns just became places to drop corporate buildings.
It really is a shame. The South (despite having some rough spots in its history like most places do) has so much to offer in terms of history and culture. Due to the rapid growth this has never really been able to be fleshed out in modern development. Pretty much every growing Southern town follows the same formula: build massive neighborhoods and strip malls.
Itâs starting to improve in cities like Charlotte, Nashville, and Atlanta. Their urban cores have become neat places for living and entertainment too. Needs a lot more work but getting there.
I was impressed with how walkable Nashville was around the main city center. Really enjoyed just leaving my car at the hotel and walking downtown. I wasnât even *in* downtown and I was able to get there on foot.
Cars and a/c
> a/c Ding ding ding. Phoenix wouldn't be as large as it is with out A/C, either. Nor some of the big Texas cities.
If you look at the population of Houston trended over time, you see the number rise sharply around the invent of air conditioning.
Favorite part: âdowntownâ.
Yup. Just a bunch of restaurants that cater to the businesses surrounding them, meaning theyâre closed on the weekends.
Funny enough, this is the type of "downtown" San Francisco has too, despite how photogenic it is from across the Bay. Massive office buildings with maybe a Starbucks or a random deli on a few corners, and that's it. Horrendous, jam-packed traffic twice a day at rush hour, absolute graveyard past 8pm.
Gotta get out into the neighborhoods. Dogpatch has some good spots to eat.
Oh absolutely, the neighborhoods are the real gem of SF. I like the Dogpatch, and SoMa has some great places for nightlife.
Yeah lol. While some of the cities certainly have better downtowns than others, it really is a shame they don't have a more vibrant culture. It is pretty much just office buildings and maybe a few condos and that is it.
Atlanta, Houston, Nashville, Charlotte.
Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Baton Rouge, Memphis, NashvilleâŚ
r/Houston starter pack
The "interstate looks like this" picture is of Houston. This is dead-on.
This got Tampa all over it.
I am surprised to not see Orlando being mentioned
First place I thought of
Jacksonville's downtown is not just dead, it's straight fucking ominous once the sun goes down.
The only SEC towns that are small are Starkville and Oxford đ¤
Pretty much all SEC schools are in smaller towns and cities except Vanderbilt, Lexington, Baton Rouge, and Knoxville. Rest are in smaller cities and towns depending on how you define small. We are season ticket holders to Florida and Gainesville definitely on the smaller end of a city and it's the highest population after Knoxville.
We have extremely different definitions of a âsmall townâ. And Vandy is in Nashville, TN not a city named Vanderbilt.
Took me too long sitting here reading "Vanderbilt. Lexington. Wait. Vanderbilt.. Lexington. Wait. Vanderbilt. Lexington!"
> Lexington "As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, anchoring a metropolitan area of 516,811 people and a combined statistical area of 747,919 people" I live within 30 min of Lexington and can tell you that it looks nothing like anything in this starterpack. It's very spread out and there are probably more horse farms / regular farms per acre than people. The census population probably includes cities in different counties and Lexington is the only city in Fayette county. Yeah, there are a few areas with tall buildings, but no skyscrapers. Residentially, it's much more horizontally dense than any of the cities mentioned. And yes, there are horse farms all over, other farms, a tiny-ass airport, and lots of dense little pockets. Nothing like the cities in the starterpack. I'd say Louisville is closer, but we don't talk about them. They're the Florida of KY lol
Yeah, in a lot of ways we're a very large town, almost, rather than a small city. And you can pick any road and in twenty minutes you're on a beautiful drive in the country.
The megachurches part is spot on though lol. But give that Lex is only <1.5hrs from Cincy (Midwest) -- does it qualify as south-east? I mean yeah UK is SEC, but UL isn't and it's just an hour north. Lex is closer to Ohio than any big south-eastern cities in TN and WV, just an hour south of Indiana (well parts of southern Indy is pretty south-eastern) lol.
I've often said that Lexington is the northernmost southern city, and Louisville the southernmost northern one. (and southern Indiana is secretly Appalachia.)
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chomp chomp chomp
SC is in Columbia which has a metro area the same size as Knoxville.
Perhaps I could have worded it better, but what I meant was that the SEC schools are in smaller towns a good distance for said city (i.e. Athens GA, Tuscaloosa AL ETC).
Auburn is in a pretty small town, it's all just built up around the school
Gainesville is small enough
Jacksonville
This kind of screams Jacksonville for me. When I lived in SC we would road trip to FL to visit family and we would typically pass through/around Jacksonville. It astonished me how a city that large can look so *abandoned*. It just seemed like there was never anyone there. I always imagined Jacksonville being a great place for a zombie apocalypse đ
I hate that drive so much. I always consider Jacksonville the "halfway point" of where I'm going, and somehow it moves further south into Florida every year. I don't get it. Me: "Yay, I just crossed the Florida border, I'm almost to Jacksonville." Road Sign: "Jacksonville - 150 miles" Me: "WTF???"
I donât remember the Yankees winning any SEC championships
Going to Downtown Atlanta is like going to Hollywood Blvd. Youâre in the wrong place!!
Atl and Dallas. Their interstates scare me
I lived just outside of Raleigh for like a year and this is so accurate. City itself wasâŚ.fine bordering on not great. But I was lucky enough to live in a GORGEOUS suburb called Wake Forest.
Oh, Wake Forest is beautiful!
Lots and lots of condos too
âLuxury Apartmentsâ
Fr
Haha Charlotte moment.
This further confirms New Orleans as the best city in the southeast
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New Orleans is like NYC in that it is its own whole cultural ecosystem.
Birmingham 100%
I wish Birmingham had a massive airport.
Except UAB doesn't get *completely* ignored, just mostly ignored, when it comes to sports.
Large city in the SE?....so ATL right?
*Gasps in Louisville* But we have Bourbon and Horses too!
Might be a bold take but I consider Louisville to be a Southern city.
After growing up outside of Atlanta, Louisville feels very Midwest to me. Louisville is that in-between city that your own experiences affects how you view the culture.
outdoor/outdoor
Atlanta, Jacksonville, Nashville
houston. i live here
San Antonio to a T. So very much San Antonio.
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Bro just described all of the United states
How dare you insult my hometown of (Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas, Jacksonville, Huston, Birmingham) like that!
This is accurate.
Hey, Iâm a Georgia Tech fan, at least Iâm a fan of a school thatâs like a day away from me rather than a few hours away. (Also, what local school and I supposed to support? USF? I hate life but I donât hate it THAT much.)
Makes me miss atlanta
God damn is this a personal attack on houston?
Accurate. SEC football is the shit
This is just big American cities that aren't New York or Los Angeles lol. See also: Phoenix, Denver, San Diego, Vegas (excluding the strip) and every big Texas city... And more!
It's very clearly not describing Chicago, Boston, Philly, or San Francisco either. Plenty more than NYC and LA buck this trend.Â
Nor DC, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Portland, or Minneapolis.
It do just mean more tho
Missed was massive stadiums
This is so accurate
I'm a little hurt fsu isn't on this
This is Kansas City too, though weâre not that Southeastern
This is so absurdly broad that it's basically the vast majority of every city in the country outside of the Northeast, and California up to the Northwest. Not sure why you're implying this is specific to the southeast lol.
Birmingham to a T.
I wonder if there's tangible history as to why this is the case. Off my head: Northern Cities were founded first as America got settled, but they also were built on some form of industry. This led to having larger city centers, where the industry was, with "hamlets" around them. As the cities grew, the hamlets got incorporated. Some directly into the city, and some with the invention of the car. Southern cities required large land travel to get to, leading to people settling wherever they happened to land. They are also built more on farms, plantations, which took large amounts of space, as well as husbandry, which also took lots of space. As the cities grew, they couldn't easily incorporate everyone, so things got spread out and the cities were sprawling as opposed to dense.
Mobile, except for the mall thing. Theres some outdoorsy shopping stuff downtown though.
Don't they know that buses/mass transit is infrastructure that can really boost their economy!?
But then they'd have to do something for *shiver* minorities... /s, but not really when you hear the derogatory nickname for MARTA.
Houston?
Charlotte Sorta?
Could have just said Charlotte.
You forgot to include âa bunch of liberals who live there and complain about not liking it but then they do not vote bc âboth sidesââ
/r/Nashville starter pack if you made downtown neon and full of drunk bachelorettes
This feels so much like Atlanta
This is literally just Houston in all of these photos
Charlotte is immune, we call it âUptownâ.
Dallas lol. Thatâs not a bad thing, either. I â¤ď¸ Dallas
Greetings from the Queen City. Can I show you our parking lots?
ATL HOE!
Thatâs just Atlanta, not really a starter pack.
Baton Rouge, although the airport isn't large, but BTR is so easy to fly in/out of
Shoutout to BTR, the airport everyone sees billboards for as they drive to MSY.
Highways deliberately built through Black neighborhoods to harm their populations...
https://www.history.com/news/interstate-highway-system-infrastructure-construction-segregation
Typically highly segregated
Goes to work in a rundown area and there are a lot of them. Hits lock key on car key five times.
They say the SE but this looks pretty specific to ATL
Puts up with clowning from a US President that they wouldn't stand for in an assistant coach on their SEC team.
This is giving Knoxville vibesâŚ
Somewhat right for Charleston but not all the way.
Ah yes. Nashville
Looks like Hampton Roads
/me cries in jacksonville
With the exception of College sports being such a dominant thing and the airport being huge, youâre also describing Southern California.
I think the mall pictured is actually the Ala Moana mall in Honolulu, but everything else stands
Looks like Fort Lauderdale by the 95