we're currently building a n African grasslands exhibit larger than the one at Disney World. which is fucking LARGE. It's like 28 acres and opens next summer. I'm stoked

Henry Doorly has consistently beaten out or basically tied San Diego for the better part of a decade.

but I wouldn't even use the zoo as a major selling point (again, a zoo large enough with enough things to see that you can spend an entire day from dawn to dusk there) because I'm not a huge fan of zoos. there is a lot of legitimately interesting architecture downtown thanks to heritage laws, some truly beautiful parks (one of them is technically Council Bluffs' but I don't let them have anything nice) and a unique position in the U.S. where you get a city populated by over a million people that still feels like a small town.

Granted, I'm a native and I think ndibs is going a little overboard if she's comparing it to my favorite city in the country, Seattle, for example, but it truly is a beautiful place. It has its slums but there are some major developments wrapping up in the next three to five years that are going to make Omaha competitive with all but the Seattles, Salt Lakes and San Franciscos of the world.

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