What Is The Best City In The World?

[jbob]

gah, it's not public

 

[D]

WTF! Where the hell is Vegas on the list man?

Appropriately, it's with Detroit: in other words, it ain't there!

okay, okay, I've never actually been to Vegas

 

[zoltan]

Appropriately, it's with Detroit: in other words, it ain't there!

okay, okay, I've never actually been to Vegas

Detriot ? fuck me.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

For Spanish cities, I'd join you on the Granada call. I haven't spent nearly enough time there, though, and your posts about it make me sick in the nicest possible way, y'understand

....

Hot on the heals of the very excellent film festival, I'm currently enjoying all sorts of quality free entertainment courtesy of the music and dance festival
They've really got their act together here culturally. When there's no official stuff going on there's always great free parties and music everywhere.

Then there's all the excellent clubs. Planta Baja with a good three or, four different bands playing through the night for example

It is definitely my favourite city.

Sorry

 

[perplexis]

A big toss-up between London, Barcelona, Montreal, New York and San Francisco. And maybe Paris (but I'm biased about that).
Berlin??? What about Rome?
They all have different appeals.
I'd like to live in Barcelona, or Montreal. I think they win for me for now.

 

[D]

Detriot ? fuck me.[/QUOT

Right. That's my point.

 

[gabi]

Did NY seriously win this last time?

I travel there a lot for work, however live here in london - i can categorically confirm that (in my humble opinion of course ) that london is vastly superior in every way..

I despise the faux-niceness over there... i like a good, proper cunt, so to speak.. i dont want to chat to strangers thanks. unless its online of course.

Hmm.. im tryin to work out whats better about NY as i type. Nada.

 

[perplexis]

Better about NY:
All night subway
Better clothes
Better shops
Better bars
Friendlier people
Affordable taxis
Amazing variety of affordable and tasty food
Less threatening
...

 

[Gromit]

Cardiff is the best city in the world.

Favourite city I've visited is Toronto. I haven't been to Montreal.

I like Amsterdam but its too damn expensive these days.

I can't comment on the rest as I haven't been to them (well aside from London, which is alright but its no Cardiff).

I've decided to save and visit Tokyo so I'll let you know about that one in a year or two.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

London, which is alright but its no Cardiff).

This may be the first time these words have ever been strung together in this order.

 

[gnoriac]

Bangkok or Copenhagen for me.

 

[Gromit]

Amsterdam - full of irritating backpackers looking for a smoke and a shag, and ending up getting mugged. Like I did.

The Dam is massive and you can easily avoid all that by staying out of the Red light district and going places like Barny's which is out of the centre.

 

[jbob]

Amsterdam is geographically and by populace by far the smallest city on the list. It's a tiny international city, which is part of its charm.

Barney's is full of tourists and is still in the city centre. The RLD is a minute part of a small city and is wholly unrepresentative of Amsterdam.

 

[twistedAM]

Did NY seriously win this last time?

I travel there a lot for work, however live here in london - i can categorically confirm that (in my humble opinion of course ) that london is vastly superior in every way..

I despise the faux-niceness over there... i like a good, proper cunt, so to speak.. i dont want to chat to strangers thanks. unless its online of course.

Hmm.. im tryin to work out whats better about NY as i type. Nada.

I always swerved New York at any given opportunity when I worked a lot in the US. I think it's Manhatten that I hate; could actually imagine living in Brooklyn and never crossing the river.
Prefer Chicago as it ain't up it's own hole so much. Smaller US cities I liked are: Portland, Austin and Pittsburgh.

 

[chilango]

Smaller US cities and towns..now we're talking.

Flagstaff!

Moab!

Anchorage!

Fairbanks!

...but the VERY best towns I've been to in the US:

*drumroll*

Escalante, Utah

and

Talkeetna, Alaska

 

[Gromit]

Amsterdam is geographically and by populace by far the smallest city on the list. It's a tiny international city, which is part of its charm.

Barney's is full of tourists and is still in the city centre. The RLD is a minute part of a small city and is wholly unrepresentative of Amsterdam.

Damn when did that happen. No one knew the place when i went to Barneys (mind you that was 10 years ago). I thought it was quite out of the way. In fact I couldn't find it last time I went looking. Its wasn't in the RLD when I went, much much further away I thought, unless they moved?

 

[jbob]

I meant it's in the city centre, but not in the RLD. Nowhere's very far in A'dam

 

[Gromit]

I meant it's in the city centre, but not in the RLD. Nowhere's very far in A'dam

It is if you walk everywhere because you couldn't be bothered working out the Trams. Its that hub of a wheel layout to the city which makes getting around on foot a bit of a hike.

 

[girasol]

Only someone who's been to all of those cities, and all the cities in the world, could decide...

So, bin/ban, pointless poll

and where is Rio???

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yeah and why is Paris even on the list? It's a parochial backwater which thinks of itself as the height of fashion. An unfriendly, claustrophobic, parkless, mazelike, stony, unenchanting, desert of stone.

 

[girasol]

Yeah, I have to say, I didn't think much of Paris either... (Although I do like the rest of France a lot)

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Me too - South of France is bloody gorgeous. Just Paris. Why oh why did I have to spend a year there? If I could have spent a year in provence or something I'd have been on cloud 9. And probably be less anti-france now than I am.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

and where is Rio???

Rio is about 150 miles south of Maçae, where I am right now....I'll be catching a bus back there in the morning...Rio is without doubt the most beautiful city in the world and should be on the poll.

 

[phildwyer]

Rio is about 150 miles south of Maçae, where I am right now....I'll be catching a bus back there in the morning...Rio is without doubt the most beautiful city in the world and should be on the poll.

Yes, but its just the beaches and the mountains that make it beautiful. The buildings aren't very impressive, and there's a *lot* of highly visible poverty and crime. So it was a toss-up between Rio and BA for the South American representative, but BA just seems to have more of an urban appeal. Its cheaper at the moment too.

 

[phildwyer]

Did NY seriously win this last time?

Yes, but London wasn't on the list. I shouldn't have put it on this time really, because lots of people just vote for it cos they live there. It's a great city, but NY blows it away in my opinion.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Better about NY:
All night subway
Better clothes
Better shops
Better bars
Friendlier people
Affordable taxis
Amazing variety of affordable and tasty food
Less threatening
...

Really?

I don't think the shops are better
I don't like the bars all that much (english pub please)
Are the taxis cheaper? not in my opinion.
Food in America is mostly shit.
I don't find London any more threatening, plus the wierdos are less likely to have a gun.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's a great city, but NY blows it away in my opinion.

New York and Dwyer sittin' in a tree.




New York is lameo.

Sorry that's a bit of a troll really. New York is ok, but it's not all that.

 

[g force]

NYC is much like London, if you know people who live there, they can show you the real side to the city, the nice cafes off the beaten track, the family owned restaurants, the small art galleries.

NYC also has the best veggies restaurants i've been to.

But it's certainly not as great as most people make out. San Fran, Chicago and Boston are much nicer.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

NYC is much like London, if you know people who live there, they can show you the real side to the city, the nice cafes off the beaten track, the family owned restaurants, the small art galleries.

.

I do know quite a few people in NY but I still don't think it's all that.

 

[phildwyer]

New York is lameo.

It was a million times better before Giuliani, true. In those days it was incredibly exciting just to walk around the block. Now it's much less unique, more like any other big, Western city. But I still love it best, probably because I spent my 20's there.