CityNerd | Overrated Cities: 10 U.S. Metro Areas That Give You the Least City for Your Dollar @CityNerd | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Today's video is a companion piece to my previous video, "Affordable Cities: 10 US Metro Areas With Underrated Livability, Walkability and Transit." Like that video, this one approaches the question, "Which city should I move to?" but does it from the opposite direction! I've talked about affordable cities that have great walkability, useful transit, and high-level urban amenities, but what about expensive cities that have the opposite of all those things?
I discuss how to think about whether a city is expensive or not, and some of the things that might offset expensive rent or a big mortgage: transit and walkability that mean you spend significantly less on a car, cultural amenities that mean you need to spend less on travel to more cosmopolitan cities, weather that means you spend less on travel to tropical winter destinations.
This is CityNerd's guide to the ten most overrated cities to live in the U.S. Your results may vary, so let me know what you think I overrated or underrated down in the comments!
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Other CityNerd Videos referenced:
- Why I don't Own A Car: Live Car-Free In the Sun Belt Challenge youtu.be/rZhmclhGMj8
- The 10 Most Car-Centric Cities In the US: youtu.be/U7VBfkNU41c
- Urban Crime and Undervalued Cities: youtu.be/m4jG1i7jHSM
- 10 Absurdly Undervalued US Cities: youtu.be/1qzePci2N6E
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Resources:
- More about Ranked Choice and STAR voting: electionscience.org/voting-methods/an-assessment-of-six-single-winner-voting-methods
https://www.equal.vote/star_vs_rcv
- zillow.com/research/zhvi-user-guide
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
- zillow.com/research/data
- zillow.com/research/methodology-zori-repeat-rent-27092
- cnt.org/projects/location-efficiency-hub#:~:text=Much%20like%20energy%20efficiency%2C%20the,concentrations%20of%20retail%20and%20services.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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Image Credits:
- Tampa FL By Clément Bardot - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45465505
- Orlando FL By Miosotis Jade - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49615902
- Thumbnail: Apple HQ By Arne Müseler / www.arne-mueseler.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78985341
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Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)
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Contact: nerd4cities@gmail.com
Today's video is a companion piece to my previous video, "Affordable Cities: 10 US Metro Areas With Underrated Livability, Walkability and Transit." Like that video, this one approaches the question, "Which city should I move to?" but does it from the opposite direction! I've talked about affordable cities that have great walkability, useful transit, and high-level urban amenities, but what about expensive cities that have the opposite of all those things?
I discuss how to think about whether a city is expensive or not, and some of the things that might offset expensive rent or a big mortgage: transit and walkability that mean you spend significantly less on a car, cultural amenities that mean you need to spend less on travel to more cosmopolitan cities, weather that means you spend less on travel to tropical winter destinations.
This is CityNerd's guide to the ten most overrated cities to live in the U.S. Your results may vary, so let me know what you think I overrated or underrated down in the comments!
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Patreon - a new way to support continuing CityNerd output! Thanks to all who have signed up so far!
patreon.com/CityNerd
----------
Twitter: @nerd4cities
Instagram: @nerd4cities
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Other CityNerd Videos referenced:
- Why I don't Own A Car: Live Car-Free In the Sun Belt Challenge youtu.be/rZhmclhGMj8
- The 10 Most Car-Centric Cities In the US: youtu.be/U7VBfkNU41c
- Urban Crime and Undervalued Cities: youtu.be/m4jG1i7jHSM
- 10 Absurdly Undervalued US Cities: youtu.be/1qzePci2N6E
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Resources:
- More about Ranked Choice and STAR voting: electionscience.org/voting-methods/an-assessment-of-six-single-winner-voting-methods
https://www.equal.vote/star_vs_rcv
- zillow.com/research/zhvi-user-guide
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
- zillow.com/research/data
- zillow.com/research/methodology-zori-repeat-rent-27092
- cnt.org/projects/location-efficiency-hub#:~:text=Much%20like%20energy%20efficiency%2C%20the,concentrations%20of%20retail%20and%20services.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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Image Credits:
- Tampa FL By Clément Bardot - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45465505
- Orlando FL By Miosotis Jade - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49615902
- Thumbnail: Apple HQ By Arne Müseler / www.arne-mueseler.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78985341
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Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)
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Contact: nerd4cities@gmail.com
