So, you’re beginning a brand new life in the DC Universe. Let us be the first to say welcome to Earth-0! Don’t fear, you’re not alone in your multiversal displacement. We get “out-of-towners” transferring in all the time. Just ask Power Girl or Naomi McDuffie. The very first thing you’re going to need to do after you get your bearings is determine a spot to stay. Don’t fear, we’ve nonetheless obtained a New York, a Chicago and a Los Angeles, together with most of the cities you’re used to. But you could be questioning what life may be like when you relocated to Metropolis or Gotham City. So, we’ve put collectively this helpful information for you on the greatest cities to take into account settling down in till the subsequent reboot (and which to take into account avoiding). Let’s take a tour!
Amnesty Bay
Small-town allure with coastal facilities and a historic, walkable downtown which has seen underinvestment however has nice potential. Stay out of the splash zone or you’re going to get moist.
Walk Score: 80
Transit Score: 50
Villain-Free Score: 40
Blüdhaven
Once a metropolis which suffered underneath the repute of “the poor man’s Gotham,” this historic whaling city has seen a quantity of renovative overhauls since that nasty Chemo enterprise. An up-and-comer with good bones and a growth in tourism, thanks largely just lately to an angel investor from the prestigious Wayne household.
Walk Score: 60
Transit Score: 65
Villain-Free Score: 35
Central City
The capital of the Midwest has its share of super-villains, however you’ll discover that any points have a tendency to resolve themselves in a Flash. But when it comes to getting round…except you’re the Scarlet Speedster, you’re going to want a automobile.
Walk Score: 20
Transit Score: 30
Villain-Free Score: 30
Coast City
Surprisingly dense and walkable for a west coast metropolis. Almost like the designers had been extra acquainted with Northeast-style huge cities and assumed the west coast can be the identical or one thing. Most villains have left it alone since the entire Mongul and Cyborg Superman occasion, however phrase is that Hal Jordan could also be headed residence quickly and hassle follows that man throughout the universe.
Walk Score: 70
Transit Score: 50
Villain-Free Score: 60
Gotham City
NYC-style public transit and companies, with decrease rents…largely as a result of of all the super-villain assaults. Oh yeah, and the rampant authorities corruption. Great transit scores, although! Walkability can be larger when you might reliably get from one place to one other with out getting held up at gunpoint or doused with Joker fuel.
Walk Score: 40
Transit Score: 80
Villain-Free Score: 5
Hub City
If you need a good sense of how tough life in Hub City is, the imply elements of Gotham are the place Hub City residents go for trip. Mayor Fermin’s crowning achievement is getting the sanitation companies to run each week. No actual super-villainy to communicate of, simply your run-of-the-mill city decay. Avoid.
Walk Score: 10
Transit Score: 5
Villain-Free Score: 90
Ivy Town
As a school city, it is walkable with a spread of nice meals choices. During the summer season, nevertheless, substantial parts of the city empty out, which makes it an ungainly residence for these not learning or working at the college. There’s additionally the madness-inducing elder god which lies beneath it, however a superhero will sometimes step in to take care of any vital harm to the residents’ collective unconscious.
Walk Score: 90
Transit Score: 30
Villain-Free Score: 70
Metropolis
Generally much less street-level crime than Gotham, however extra susceptible to alien and high-powered super-villain assaults. Superman does an excellent job at supplementing emergency companies. Traffic is horrible, however the metropolis has good public transit and walkability. However, you pay for Metropolis being “cleaner” than Gotham in larger rents.
Walk Score: 90
Transit Score: 50
Villain-Free Score: 15
Opal City
Honestly, we don’t perceive why extra folks don’t transfer right here. Opal City has all the glamor of Metropolis or Gotham with far fewer super-villain assaults—virtually none, in actual fact, for the previous thirty years. Even the metropolis’s resident superhero was ready to retire. True to its title, Opal City is an actual gem, each in that it is a splendidly livable place and in that it is probably very costly.
Walk Score: 100
Transit Score: 90
Villain-Free Score: 95
Smallville
Ironically, really actually huge for a Kansas small city, as if the statisticians who delivered the inhabitants figures had been utilizing a Northeastern normal for what a small city’s inhabitants is. (Strange, that.) Nice place to stay, although, when you’d like to get away from all of it, however Smallville doesn’t supply a lot in the method of facilities. Of notice, Superman spends a bizarre quantity of time right here, a reality which residents have collectively determined is none of their enterprise.
Walk Score: 50
Transit Score: 5
Villain-Free Score: 90
Star City
A lot of folks will let you know that Star City is lots like Seattle, besides one has Green Arrow. Highly walkable, nice transit and excessive rents, albeit decrease than most Northwest cities thanks to the Emerald Archer’s rogues gallery. That’s the tradeoff throughout the board: the decrease the hire, the higher probability you have got of getting blasted by some form of umbrella or boomerang or laser gun that turns you into cheese. Welcome to the DC Universe. A superhero will probably be right here to help you shortly.
Walk Score: 80
Transit Score: 80
Villain-Free Score: 20
Alex Jaffe is the writer of our month-to-month “Ask the Question” column and writes about TV, films, comics and superhero historical past for DCComics.com. Follow him on Twitter at @AlexJaffe and discover him in the DC Community as HubCityQuestion.
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