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re: What are the most overrated and underrated cities in the US?

Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:12 am to
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
27933 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:12 am to
There are 4 cities in America:

NY
Chicago
New Orleans
San Francisco.

Thats it.
Posted by thetruthisnotkind
Houston
Member since Nov 2022
319 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:12 am to
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Overated: Atlanta or Houston.


Houston is a great city to make a living. Beyond that, I don't hear many people talking it up as a great place to live.
Posted by schwartzy
New Orleans
Member since May 2014
9832 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:13 am to
Overrated: Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York City (esp if socialist gets elected)
Underrated: Phoenix, Birmingham, Huntsville, Chattanooga, Oklahoma City

Appropriately trash: Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Monroe, Jackson MS
Posted by ELLSSUU
Member since Jan 2005
7950 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:15 am to
Overrated: Los Angeles, Boston, Denver

Underrated: Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs,


quote:

Pittsburgh- Great food scene,


been there Half-dozens times. Food I've tried has been extremely mid.
This post was edited on 7/5/25 at 10:17 am
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
26508 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:16 am to
Plenty that are appropriately disliked, or liked, these are outliers.

Overrated:
Denver
Las Vegas
Orlando

Underrated:
Boston - so much to do and the people are colorful
New Orleans - dirty, but the best dinning city in the entire world
Chicago - bad politics but great town
Charleston, SC - I don’t think locals want people to know how great it is
Boise - perfect size, clean, safe
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
72555 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:20 am to
Overrated

Bourg, LA
It’s not Montegut

Underrated

Montegut, LA
It’s not Bourg

Posted by nugget
Abrego Garcia Fan
Member since Dec 2009
15652 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:22 am to
quote:

New Orleans - dirty, but the best dinning city in the entire world


It’s well behind NYC

quote:

Charleston, SC - I don’t think locals want people to know how great it is


Charleston is great, but it’s the next Nashville. The cat is out of the bag. It’s also geographically fricked for handling the expansion it’s seen.
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
43953 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:23 am to
quote:

There are 4 cities in America:

NY
Chicago
New Orleans
San Francisco.



The actually quote is-

"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
Posted by chity
Chicago, Il
Member since Dec 2008
6670 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:23 am to
Underrated: Spokane, Milwaukee, Flagstaff
Posted by Donkus
Shreveport
Member since Feb 2013
1434 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:24 am to
Overrated: Phoenix. Hot, flat, and no personality. I do like visiting there, just kinda meh.

Underrated: Seattle. Comfortable, mountains surrounding the city, clean beautiful water, and some of the nicest strangers you'll meet.
Posted by travelgamer
Member since Aug 2024
2450 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:26 am to
quote:

Flagstaff


The SW is majestic, the mountains are amazing.
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
26508 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:28 am to
quote:

It’s well behind NYC

I’ve been to NYC probably 100 times when living in NE. My friend is a NY restaurateur. I completely disagree with food being better than New Orleans; unless we are talking about bagels, pizza, or $300/person pretentious restaurants.
Posted by Defenseiskey
Houston, TX
Member since Nov 2010
1635 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:31 am to
quote:

Yeah, just reading this board, you'd never guess SF, NYC, LA and New Orleans are 4 of the more enjoyed tourist cities in the world.


Most of the guys on this board haven't left Prairieville, Geismer, Denham Springs, Walker, Broussard, or Youngsville for anything other than work. I'd take their opinion with a grain of salt, they probably just formed their opinion by watching a Fox News segment on Facebook.
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
27933 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:32 am to
Yeah I added Chicago (because I love it)
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
22717 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:37 am to

Louisville, KY is underrated.

The whole downtown is walkable and runs along the river.

Nice minor league ball park on one end.

4th Street is like a mini Beale St.

Fraser Arms Museum. Louisville Slugger factory and museum.
Posted by nugget
Abrego Garcia Fan
Member since Dec 2009
15652 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:38 am to
NYC is the most global city is possibly the world, but certainly the US. New Orleans doesn’t have near the diversity in spices, proteins, or people. There’s literally nothing you can’t find in NY. New York has about 8-10 times the restaurants of New Orleans which means the competitiveness is much higher. The street food scene is also much larger in New York. New Orleans has original food, but NYC has original food from every corner of the world.

Also, when you look at what New Orleans does well, other than creole, NYC does it better. Much better Italian, bakeries, steakhouses, seafood, sandwiches in NYC.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
293053 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:38 am to
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Most of the guys on this board haven't left Prairieville, Geismer, Denham Springs, Walker, Broussard,


Or people travel to these big cities and never reailze the dysfunction crawling underneath.

LA is a shithole, unless you live in the burbs or hills.
Posted by 4Bagger
Member since Jan 2025
588 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:43 am to
Nashville has to be at the top of most overrated city. Nothing but bars, over-priced, mediocre food and homeless camps and liberals.

Tennessee, however, is near the top of the most underrated state list.
Posted by nugget
Abrego Garcia Fan
Member since Dec 2009
15652 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:52 am to
quote:

Most of the guys on this board haven't left Prairieville, Geismer, Denham Springs, Walker, Broussard, or Youngsville for anything other than work. I'd take their opinion with a grain of salt, they probably just formed their opinion by watching a Fox News segment on Facebook.


And this overgeneralization is why people that look up to Rachel Maddow and Rashida Tlaib have mental disorders far exceeding the retarded rednecks they so despise.
Posted by Bourre
Da Parish
Member since Nov 2012
22845 posts
Posted on 7/5/25 at 10:57 am to
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Oklahoma City


I don’t know how you can put OKC as underrated. I spent a week there and it was miserable. Nothing to do and the food was very underwhelming. Downtown area was dead, and this was during the finals (while OKC was playing in Indiana)

Underrated- Savanah, GA
Overrated- Asheville, NC
This post was edited on 7/5/25 at 11:04 am
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