Lancaster is the most underrated city on the east coast, in my opinion. It survived the urban renewal era unscathed, it reversed its urban blight/crime problem (which wasn’t as bad as neighboring cities to begin with), and it’s experiencing a cultural boom right now. It’s also a deceptively big city too. Way bigger than it appears on paper. But because of one interesting reason, people mistakenly see it as smaller. It never adopted the trend that other American cities did in the mid-20th century of annexing neighboring municipalities and incorporating them into the city proper. Because of this, every inch of Lancaster city is a highly dense, urban, and walkable place. The city proper is 4 square miles and is home to 60,000 people. But if you include the populations of its immediate bordering municipalities (to get an idea of how populous Lancaster “would have been” if they followed other American cities) the population quickly balloons to 200,000 in that area. And the metropolitan area is over 550,000. This shows that Lancaster is similar in size to cities like Charleston, South Carolina and Boise, Idaho. Both of which are considered “real cities” just because their suburbs are technically “part of” the city and inflated their population numbers. It’s all just a matter of perception.

Yes she is. Taylor Swift grew up in a Georgian Colonial home in Reading, Pennsylvania until her family moved to Nashville when the pop star was 14.