# Which of these major U.S. cities would you live in if you had to?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 26, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-major-u-s-cities-would-you-live-in-if-you-had-to/583278 "2011-05-26T13:15:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-major-u-s-cities-would-you-live-in-if-you-had-to/583278/101 "2011-05-30T01:43:34Z")

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Where’s Honolulu?

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**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-major-u-s-cities-would-you-live-in-if-you-had-to/583278/102 "2011-05-30T01:52:29Z")

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I picked Philadelphia. It’s only 1/2 mile from where I live now.

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-major-u-s-cities-would-you-live-in-if-you-had-to/583278/103 "2011-05-30T02:04:36Z")

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I do live in the greater Boston area mostly against my will. I say it is a city of huge positives just slightly more than offset by the gigantic negative ones. I am stuck here for the next 13 years until my youngest is out of high school and then I am gone for good. I wouldn’t pick just because of the weather and cost of living alone but there are more downsides than that. I do like the immediate suburban area where I live however. If global warning would hurry up and do something constructive for once, I might change my mind.

I picked Washington D.C. although I wouldn’t live in the city proper. I like the atmosphere and I could make it work if I could live in an outer suburb in Virginia that is a little bit Southern and country. San Diego would be my second choice. I have never been there but I hear good things about it and the weather is perfect. New York City is right out. It is about the opposite of everything I like so it that would be a personal hell. I could go for Denver as an alternate I think. I hate the idea of Seattle with passion even though I have never been there. Nothing good ever came from coffee mixed with perpetual mist.

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