Norfolk Skyline

Norfolk is a small city, with small pleasures. No majestic vistas, no stirring monuments, no baroque architecture. But once you scale your vision down to an appropriate level, you discover its charms: the view of the working harbor from Town Point Park; the reinvigorated downtown; the waterways that insinuate themselves into many of our neighborhoods. It’s a pleasant place to live, if you don’t mind the summers. Or the surprising scarcity of good ethnic food. Or the city’s eagerness to obliterate our older buildings. Or the tunnel traffic. Oops. Getting carried away there. It really is a nice place to live. If you don’t mind…