Don't stay at Opryland. It's a trap. It's like staying in Lowell to visit Boston. I used to have to go to Opryland on occasion back when I was in the convention business. It was a PITA and $$$ to get to downtown Nashville if you didn't have a rental car.
I was waiting for the most over-rated city thread to drop Nashville in.
There is an understandable appeal for the point of view you advance, but that moves things beyond the nature of the thread. I sought only to offer that consolidated Stamford runs 40-50 square miles and incorporates multi-acreage, higher income back-country residents, whereas Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven are all smaller than 20 square miles, and, in effect, 'prove out' this later argument of yours by 'allowing,' for example, West Hartford, Fairfield to have vibrant downtowns as separate municipalities that were formed in the 19th and 17th Centuries respectively, and simply have to maintain a 'no encroachment' posture to, 'functionally' strand Hartford and Bridgeport with the common urban ills that beset most post-industrial American cities that thrived before automobiles, highways, single-family home ownership, computers, an information-service economy, and such...not to mention the collosal irony that air conditioning that originated from Syracuse's Carrier Corporation further transformed the South's livability and growth.
What a drag. I hadn't known of this change. That would be major.
Watched it from the 53rd floor of PNC 1. I gave it a B+.
So did you sell the "cream" or the "clear"?
Whichever one had the highest gross margin!So did you sell the "cream" or the "clear"?
We’re definitely getting out of the “underrated” range but Quebec City>>>Montreal
Rapid City is just nice climate. It's right outside where the jet stream carries artic temperatures south. Thus it's considerably warmer than anything a couple hours east.
And then you learn how many of the truly successful ones rely on a buyout by InBev...
I used to love going to Toronto at first, but I've been there more than a dozen times now, got to know some of the neighborhoods, and I realized there's nothing about Toronto that screams, "warm and welcoming" anywhere in the city. While there's plenty to do, I never got the sense that there was a particular "character" about the city, its neighborhoods, or its residents, like say Chicago, NYC, Boston or even Montreal. Plus, it's become this giant megaopolis that seems to stretch from Hamilton to Oshawa. Mississagua might be the world's largest city where "there's no 'there' there".
Should’ve waited until October 9 and watched the Huskies beat a SEC team!
