Most overrated cities list

Boulder- don't run outside of towns- grizzly bears and mountain lions

Austin- music scene is one sided-lots of oddball musicians that only are passingly good when drunk. And hardly any country music.

NYC- expensive and a pain to get around- unless you like smelly subways.

Atlanta- traffic sucks

San Fran- flat out depressing in many areas weigh down the cool things

Berkley- now you have to use pronouns they and them instead of he and she.

Portland- expensive pretentious and too close to volcanoes if mt. Hood or st. Helens euros

L.A- unless you want to go on a tour of all the gang infested areas. Traffic absolutely awful. People not as important as they think they are.

Chicago- too many panhandlers. Too many shootings. Too much wind.

Miami- hurricanes. HUmidity. Pythons in your backyards and pools. No thanks.

Seattle- take a day log shower you'll see as much sunshine as being outside.

San Fran, NYNY, DC, Chicago

I need hills wrote:

Gary, Indiana. It is always mentioned on letsrun as a great place to live and train, but I just don't see it.

Have not been there, so can’t comment.

People in Texas LOVE all their big cities. Austin seems to be the favorite though and even people from out of state like it. Definitely overrated!

People from Houston love Houston and people from Dallas love Dallas. Both are definitely overrated.

Waco can’t be overrated because nobody talks about it.

Having also lived in Cali - LA is overrated but I love Orange County.

Having lived in Seattle and Portland (yes people do highly rate both) - I’d say Portland is a Seattle wanna be and Seattle has a lot of cool stuff.

Now living in Colorado, I’d say nobody really talks about how awesome Denver is. It’s just the big city with the jobs. Boulder is still cool, but getting too crowded and pricey to live. Colorado Springs doesn’t have the jobs like Denver, but lots of outdoor opportunities (though not talked about much). Pueblo is crap.

Having traveled extensively in the US and abroad... NYC is not my favorite, but I can see why people would like it... San Francisco is overrated (good for a weekend but not much longer)... Chicago has good restaurants but cold and not much else... Boston is historic and a good blend of things to do day and night... people mention Philadelphia- it’s ok.... Atlanta is super overrated! London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Berlin - all overrated European large cities. Not overrated large European cities: Paris, Prague, Rome, Venice, Vienna to name a few.

Just my 2 cents!

Many people seem unable to read the title of the thread. it says not "good or "bad" but Overrated. This means the city must be rated highly in the first place. If you strip out boosters like those who like a place because they grew up there or their job there is good, or overly -partisan areas like Texas (Few non-Texans like any of those soulless concrete -n-sprinkler southern car cities - see also Birmingham/ Atlanta/Charlotte etc) there are not many cities left that are regularly rated in the media opinions as generally great, but are not.

Head and shoulders above the rest for me is SanFran, which has always been endlessly praised. Even if you discount the successive waves of Hippies, Weirdos and Techies that have basically nailed the coffin, the city has never been more than fairly interesting. Limited (not admirable)history. Some nice architecture , but hardly wondrous. The geographical setting is unremarkable , as is the mild and foggy weather. Throw in home prices and earthquakes, and I rest my case.

Cities such as NY, London, Paris, Beijing etc. cannot be overrated because they make the world go round, so if you think they stink, you don't get it.

NY#$for sure

Dorando wrote:

Head and shoulders above the rest for me is SanFran, which has always been endlessly praised. Even if you discount the successive waves of Hippies, Weirdos and Techies that have basically nailed the coffin, the city has never been more than fairly interesting. Limited (not admirable)history. Some nice architecture , but hardly wondrous. The geographical setting is unremarkable , as is the mild and foggy weather. Throw in home prices and earthquakes, and I rest my case.

Cities such as NY, London, Paris, Beijing etc. cannot be overrated because they make the world go round, so if you think they stink, you don't get it.

Number 1: Don’t call it San Fran. It says “I don’t really know this place”

Number 2: The geographical setting g is unremarkable? Name a larger bay in the US. This place is endlessly picturesque. If you took the landscape and flattened it you might have a point but part of the beauty is that someone laid a Cartesian grid over a landscape that ordinarily gets terraced streets.

Number 3: The world’s tech economy runs out of SF/SV. If NY, London, Paris, and Beijing are continually relevant as world cities so is San Francisco for the reason that it can’t be replaced.

Coronado wrote:

The geographical setting g is unremarkable? Name a larger bay in the US.

Uh.. Chesapeake Bay?

All cities are overrated, and the biggest cities are the most overrated. Their inhabitants are like domesticated animals, a pallid and spiritless shadow of their wild counterparts.

Key West, Fla.

A town clogged with Drunk tourists off of cruise ships that block the famed sunset pier, overpriced drinks and food, crappy souvenir shops, flaming LGBTQ's putting on a show, Jimmy Buffet imposters, high heat and humidity, nowhere to park ...and on and on....

Paris...it's full of obnoxious French people and Middle Eastern scum..'nuff said.

SomeoneWhoKnows wrote:

How has someone not mentioned Boston?

Awful traffic in a horrible city with wicked lunatics everywhere you turn.

Might be ok to be on a couple of the college campuses, but even most of those such too.

And that stupid marathon clogs traffic all day on a holiday no less.

Malmo, Sweden.

My Scania 164 was made there.

Coronado wrote:

Number 3: The world’s tech economy runs out of SF/SV.

Austin and Tel Aviv are the up-and-comers and poised very well to knock SF/SV off its pedestal. SF/SV is full of feces and homeless. The successful ones live in RVs parked on the side of the street. I'd give it another 5 years.

What have we learned today on the letsrun message boards, boys and girls?

Every city is overrated.

I stopped reading your post at Boulder- there are no grizzly bears in Colorado. You clearly don't know as much as you thought.

Where do you fit the homeless problem and human feces on the street? Do you factor in dreary days and grumpy liberals?

LazyBoy wrote:

Key West, Fla.

A town clogged with Drunk tourists off of cruise ships that block the famed sunset pier, overpriced drinks and food, crappy souvenir shops, flaming LGBTQ's putting on a show, Jimmy Buffet imposters, high heat and humidity, nowhere to park ...and on and on....

Nailed it. Just go down the road to Marathon. Sleepy beach town with the same sunset, cheaper prices, better food, and nicer folks.

Definitely Seattle. Weather is terrible 80% of the year. On the few days when it is actually sunny and warm in the summer, the lakes fill with toxic algae blooms and lots of fecal matter, the forests catch on fire and the sound is full of haze so you cannot even make out Mt. Ranier when looking off the side of a ferry boat. People are very gloomy and dumb. Lots of anti-vaxxers.