>>San Francisco is our most beautiful city. Along with the second most beautiful, though, New Orleans, it is not what it used to be. Crime and hopelessness have overtaken it. I was in New Orleans two months ago and it was hugely disappointing. Swaths of it are crime infested, feral. Huge parts have not been rebuilt from Katrina. In the bad parts of New Orleans there are still unending stretches of boarded over houses. Depressing in the extreme. I was there with John Ryan and he said this is like a third world nation.
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>I would disagree. Portland, OR and Madison, WI are the most beautiful and San Francisco is a close third. :) There are places in Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA that are beautiful, but both have some extremely ugly areas too - as do most cities.

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