Skate Mecca USA?

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why on earth would you go somewhere where you can’t skate for 4-5 months every year

screw the East Coast

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I don't take shit from people who get cold in 50-60 degree weather.

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It’s cold and I’ll complain about it but I went skating three times last week after work in 50 degree weather and had a good time.

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50 degrees on the east coast is the perfect temp to skate in.

To answer the question: probably NYC or SF

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The perfect temp? I don’t understand.

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It's the perfect temp because I can skate pretty hard and I'll barely break a sweat. 50 degrees F is plenty warm enough to skate, but not too hot to be doing something as active as skating. I can comfortably wear pants and longsleeves without sweating buckets. I can wear a dope beanie too. 40 degrees on a sunny day with no wind is pretty nice as well.

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I do this and I end up sweating all the way through my hoodie, but then I can’t take off my hoodie because then I’ll be cold. Is it really humid there? I skate when it’s 75 or 80 out and I barely sweat but the air is pretty dry here.

It’s the east coast so yeah, pretty damn humid, even in winter. In a drier climate, evaporative cooling is more effective and thus you’ll get colder if you’ve been sweating in 50 degree temps with no humidity. Climate plays a big role but layering is also key.

[SatanicPanic]

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why on earth would you go somewhere where you can’t skate for 4-5 months every year

screw the East Coast

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I don't take shit from people who get cold in 50-60 degree weather.

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It’s cold and I’ll complain about it but I went skating three times last week after work in 50 degree weather and had a good time.

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50 degrees on the east coast is the perfect temp to skate in.

To answer the question: probably NYC or SF

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The perfect temp? I don’t understand.

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It's the perfect temp because I can skate pretty hard and I'll barely break a sweat. 50 degrees F is plenty warm enough to skate, but not too hot to be doing something as active as skating. I can comfortably wear pants and longsleeves without sweating buckets. I can wear a dope beanie too. 40 degrees on a sunny day with no wind is pretty nice as well.

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I do this and I end up sweating all the way through my hoodie, but then I can’t take off my hoodie because then I’ll be cold. Is it really humid there? I skate when it’s 75 or 80 out and I barely sweat but the air is pretty dry here.

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It’s the east coast so yeah, pretty damn humid, even in winter. In a drier climate, evaporative cooling is more effective and thus you’ll get colder if you’ve been sweating in 50 degree temps with no humidity. Climate plays a big role but layering is also key.

Ah ok that makes sense

[Sizzle]

why on earth would you go somewhere where you can’t skate for 4-5 months every year

screw the East Coast

Sometimes I wonder why we pay so much to live somewhere with shit weather but the sense of unwarranted superiority I feel reading this makes it worth every penny

[Heywood Jeblowme]

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Badalona is just north of Barcy and where the best spots are. You can metro to this mountain inland of the city center, check the view, and then bomb all the way back down. Just a theoretical international Mecca because it sure isn’t in El Raval in BCN. Berlin has sick spots and great ground, but totally flat. Amsterdam and Greece were pleasantly surprising for spots, Crete for hills.

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What's the good spots in Badalona bar the beach benches?

The all-cement MJ banks from Fully Flared, that brick bank that Silas Baxter over crooked in a line, and then a shit ton of random spots that aren’t “famous”. My buddy and I just rode bikes with our boards on the handle bars for two days over there. Found weird spots from Dying to Live and other videos like Sorry that sort of showcased BCN and the surrounding areas. It was fun and a nice change from Parallel, MACBA etc etc that’s a zoo with Pakis selling 1 euro Estrella cans they stash in the sewers

[RichardBarkley]

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Badalona is just north of Barcy and where the best spots are. You can metro to this mountain inland of the city center, check the view, and then bomb all the way back down. Just a theoretical international Mecca because it sure isn’t in El Raval in BCN. Berlin has sick spots and great ground, but totally flat. Amsterdam and Greece were pleasantly surprising for spots, Crete for hills.

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What's the good spots in Badalona bar the beach benches?

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The all-cement MJ banks from Fully Flared, that brick bank that Silas Baxter over crooked in a line, and then a shit ton of random spots that aren’t “famous”. My buddy and I just rode bikes with our boards on the handle bars for two days over there. Found weird spots from Dying to Live and other videos like Sorry that sort of showcased BCN and the surrounding areas. It was fun and a nice change from Parallel, MACBA etc etc that’s a zoo with Pakis selling 1 euro Estrella cans they stash in the sewers

The fact that Macba is so mental is partly what makes it so much fun. I fucking love it.

Also dude c'mon... "Pakis"

But right on! I might cycle up to Badalona on the weekend and have a look. Ive only skated the benches or Agora there.

[livin on a speyer]

Skatopia

[Yakusoku2]

Philly or NYC if you are average/somewhat normal
SF if you rip (the hills are not for mere mortals)
International is Paris.  I would assume Tokyo but I haven't been.
Sleeper cities-Buenos Aires, Mexico City

You said "no car" so that rules out so Cal.

Sadly, Tokyo is not good for spot hunting. The best places are always the surroundings of office buildings where you can have smooth floor, ledges, stairs and sometimes handrails, but usually they have security and recently No Skateboarding signs are everywhere here. Ten years ago, I usually skated along the Nakagawa river without any problems. Good floor and some banks here and there against a high wall. Now? No Skateboardings sings everywhere. You have to be creative when looking for spots

[Warmup]

Which direction should I pray

[frontshuv]

Philly. great spots, great scene, it's super cheap, and the bust is a lot lower than NYC

[rawbertson.]

the real answer is the place with the cheapest real estate.
do something you can work from home / online. make enough money you can afford like $300,000 mortgage and buy a property with an old barn. build cool shit. fix your house up. grow a garden, build a greenhouse, become as self sustainable as you possibly can.

[petersmolik]

If you ignore the weather, it's New York City 100%. Philadelphia's total area is small in comparison to the NYC metro area (only the size of Manhattan). NYC is much more than just Manhattan and has spot density/walk-ability throughout. Philly has skate/walk-ability but NYC is way bigger. Article below shows NYC's area compared to

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/these-maps-show-just-how-big-nyc-is-compared-to-other-cities-020216

Southern California would get my vote (from here), but it's not skate/walk-able at all and you need a car if you want to explore the cities entirely (too hilly and sprawled out to go by skating/on-foot). The city of SF is small and if you want to venture out to surrounding cities a car makes things more convenient. OP is asking for USA, but outside of USA it's Barcelona for sure.

[rawbertson.]

id rather live in Texas, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, over cali
probably nevada too
cali is a great place but too many people for me, too late for me to enter that rat race, and i dont think i could afford to live in a nice place there. would be ideal though for sure.

[Pushing 4D]

If you ignore the weather, it's New York City 100%. Philadelphia's total area is small in comparison to the NYC metro area (only the size of Manhattan). NYC is much more than just Manhattan and has spot density/walk-ability throughout. Philly has skate/walk-ability but NYC is way bigger. Article below shows NYC's area compared to

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/these-maps-show-just-how-big-nyc-is-compared-to-other-cities-020216

Southern California would get my vote (from here), but it's not skate/walk-able at all and you need a car if you want to explore the cities entirely (too hilly and sprawled out to go by skating/on-foot). The city of SF is small and if you want to venture out to surrounding cities a car makes things more convenient. OP is asking for USA, but outside of USA it's Barcelona for sure.

That Time Out map is actually comparing population and is pretty confusing.  So the number of people who live in Philadelphia compared to the number of people who live in Manhattan.  Manhattan is 22 square miles and Philadelphia is 141 square miles.  Houston square mileage is like double NYC.