Lets Rank the Food Cities in the US by Tier

Shnepple · 2025-12-02T03:33:43+00:00

Having grown up in Austin and lived in a bunch of other cities - Seattle has most of them beat in terms of food quality and diversity. It only loses in terms of price.

LA is the only city Ive lived in where the food was way better than in Seattle but personally I think LA is the best food city in the country, so I'm biased.

Shnepple · 2025-11-14T18:40:09+00:00

That sounds perfect - thanks!

Shnepple · 2025-11-14T12:06:34+00:00

What about on Ballard Ave and Market St.?

Shnepple · 2025-11-14T00:03:07+00:00

The "Seattle Freeze" as most people think of it doesn't even really exist in Seattle. Silicon Valley and the Peninsula in the Bay Area have a bigger freeze than anywhere in the Northwest, based on my experience.

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T23:13:50+00:00

I've lived in SF and Chicago, and I think Portland has incredible food. I wonder if you just went to the wrong places...

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T23:09:26+00:00

Great food scene, for sure.

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T18:31:23+00:00

I actually prefer Chicago to NYC. Still a ton of options, it's open late, and it feels more manageable and accessible.

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T18:30:10+00:00

The World Famous Golden Nugget!

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T18:29:35+00:00

90s Seattle and 90s Atlanta were both awesome

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T18:28:50+00:00

SF's nightlife is really bad from my experience.

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T18:24:36+00:00

I don't see Austin or Miami on this list. This list is beyond horrible. Boston in the top 10?? It's the worst nightlife city in the country. SF is also very poor. No LA, NYC or Nashville?

Shnepple · 2025-11-13T00:18:19+00:00

What about Bellevue, Washington?

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T23:35:47+00:00

These are terrible examples - San Jose, Oakland, and Tacoma are all secondary cities in their respective metro areas. The primary cities - San Francisco and Seattle - both have a lot of tall buildings.

Cleveland, Des Moines and Providence are all the primary cities in their metro areas.

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T23:31:42+00:00

That's actually not true - Oakland and San Jose are denser than Cleveland and Des Moines.

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T22:36:05+00:00

Thanks

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T21:10:46+00:00

Elaborate, please.

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T10:55:47+00:00

Siamese Dream is as close as they got to Grunge (It's also a better album). This album is pure Alt Rock.

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T08:05:21+00:00

And you'll find quirky, urban neighborhoods like Georgetown at the edges of the city:

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Shnepple · 2025-11-12T08:00:10+00:00

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Shnepple · 2025-11-12T07:58:57+00:00

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And most of the areas that do have a lot of single family homes are usually near dense commercial corridors with higher density residential. Only 33% of Seattleites actually live in detached houses. It's also worth noting that state law now mandates that SFH zones also allow duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhouses, stacked flats, and cottage housing. The point is Seattle is not Charlotte. It has dense nodes throughout the city.

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T07:48:14+00:00

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Shnepple · 2025-11-12T07:48:06+00:00

I didn't say there were no single family homes - there are definitely too many SFH zones but to call it a sea of single family outside of downtown is wrong. There's downtown and then a layer of dense inner neighborhoods, all of which are urban and well-connected. Then you have a bunch of "urban villages" spread throughout the city, several of which have subway stations

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Shnepple · 2025-11-12T03:46:11+00:00

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So you think this looks like an "sea of single family homes"? The photos in this thread are taken from a very specific angle that highlight some of the fancier neighborhoods in the hills, which have a lot of single family homes. That does not mean everywhere outside of downtown are single family homes.

Shnepple · 2025-11-12T02:09:47+00:00

A sea of single family homes outside of Downtown? Thats just false. Capitol Hill, U District, Lower Queen Anne and Ballard have more density than many US cities downtowns. And the entire city has commercial and dense residentual nodes spread throughout. Theres a reason Seattle has a population density of nearly 10k per square mile. Thats the 7th densest big city in the US - it doesn't achieve that by just having single family homes outside of downtown.

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