# Best Place in America Tournament **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 9, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311 "2007-04-09T14:29:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311/41 "2007-04-11T05:39:43Z")
MA…Newburyport IL…Red Bud CO…Loveland AK…anywhere but Whittier …LOL thats all for now… tsfr ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311/42 "2007-04-11T06:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Consider me schooled. Although I kind of liked Manchester the one time I was there, I just don’t know the state very well. [/QUOTE] It’s actually a nice little city. But I always liked Concord better. And ultimatly I like New York best of all but I can’t afford to live there. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311/43 "2007-04-11T13:31:40Z")
NY: Saratoga MD: Annapolis ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311/44 "2007-04-11T14:54:03Z")
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon] It probably won’t win, because most of you have never been there, but I put up **Asheville, NC** as the best place in not only North Carolina, but in all the US of A. [/QUOTE] I’ll second that. The only thing I didn’t like was that the countryside was church, tobacco field, church, tobacco field, church, tobacco field, church, tobacco field, church, tobacco field, church, tobacco field, as far as the eye could see. And the weather sucked. 60 and raining. In the middle of July. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311/45 "2007-04-11T15:17:57Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] Why not Waterloo? I always liked Waterloo better than Cedar Falls. I’m just curious. [/QUOTE] I lived in both while at UNI and found Cedar Falls to be generally more pleasant. YMMV of course. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311/46 "2007-04-11T15:38:48Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] Night Hawk, Quack’s, G&M Steakhouse, and of course the Armadillo, they’re all gone. But we still have Mt. Bonnell, Hippie Hollow, the Broken Spoke, Sixth Street, bats, Zilker Park, SoCo… [/QUOTE] There’s still the Frisco for your Night Hawk fix and Quack’s apparently exists as a bakery over on 43rd and Duval. But the sheen that is the business-fronts on Guadalupe really makes me sad. The crappy egg rolls! The hair salons! Quack’s! Good Gaud! Banzai! (it moved but it went up in price and down in quality ☹ ) Mojo’s! At least Spider House is open, but I don’t know if Metro is. Certainly it isn’t 24/7 like it used to be. > [@Gentle Robot](#): > > Yeah there’s nothing like hippies, homeless people, and a ghetto area every other 10 miles. I-35! Bumper to bumper for no good reason! Who knows how to drive? Not Austinites! Broken car windows are totally awesome too. Who took your stereo this week? Maybe it was the guy who ran me off the road and broke my face after cutting me off, cuz the cops sure didn’t try to catch him! > > The music scene is totally kicking - if you like bands from out of town! I don’t think we have more than a city’s usual complement of homeless people and poor districts. If those darn poor people are getting in your way, move out of east-central Austin and make your way northwest. I have a nice stereo in a crappy car and I only ever had trouble when I lived east of 35 just south of Oltorf. Do you sincerely believe Austin’s drivers are that much worse than everywhere else? You think Austin’s lower-class neighborhoods are bad? I encourage you to take a walk in some parts of Houston. 35 is bumper to bumper for no reason? Fancy, I thought it was just because it’s an interstate highway popularly used by anyone trying to get from south to north in a hurry, most especially 18-wheelers, not to mention a useful artery for getting to downtown and many important Austin areas and is only three-four lanes wide either direction at its best. No, Austin traffic is bad. Austin allergies are worse. The summer is lifesucking. But there’s still something about this place that makes me never want to leave. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-in-america-tournament/399311.md?page=2)