General Chat / Favorite City?

1. Chicago, IL - Some of the best early skyscraper architecture in the world, and just a great place.
2. New York City, NY - Especially around Times Square... there's just nothing else like it.
3. Raleigh, NC - IMO the best of the southern metropolitan areas... spread out with plenty of greenery.
4. Tucson, AZ - Sunshine. Do I really need to say anything else?

-ACE

right now, probably Paris or Tokyo.

Edited by tracidEdge, 20 January 2006 - 07:48 PM.

I'm going to have to say Orlando for obvious reasons.

1. New York
2. Tokyo (YaY!)
3. Orlando (Duh)
4. Boston (Where I live. )

Favorite cities:

London, by far.
Boston
Washington D.C.

Favorite parts of cities:

The mall in Washington D.C.
Down-town in St. Louis
The Hill in St. Louis (my favorite restaraunt is there, as well as a bunch of other good home grown Italian eateries)
Magnificent Mile and museum areas in Chicago
Areas around a park (don't remember what it was called) in Boston
The area in London that has the house of parliament, the London eye, Westminster Abbey.
Trafalgar Square in London.
Covent Garden in London.
Piccadilly Circus in London because it sounds cool.
and probably a handful of other areas in London that I can't remember off the top of my head.

Edited by penguinBOB, 20 January 2006 - 10:37 PM.

Are you thinking of Boston Common? That's the biggest and nicest park in Boston, and the area around it rules, though it's pretty expensive to live and shop there (Newbury Street, this means you). But Emerson College is literally next to the Common.

Here's my updated list of favorites. This only includes cities I've been to:

Vancouver
My home town. I love everything about Vancouver. The mountains and water are the obvious pluses, but I also love the archiecture, progressive urban planning, restaurants, communities and all that. Just about everything. The restaurants here are just amazing. There aren't many cities I've visited that have the same quality of food as Vancouver, and I know many people who agree. Urban Planning here is amazing. It's very cool to be able to be one of the world leaders in planning.

Whistler
Not much of a skier, but the community is wonderful. The architecture, atmosphere and the drive up there is great. Fairmont Chateau Whistler is the favorite hotel, with the amazing Wildflower restaurant. Visiting in the winter is tops, but the summer can be just as fun. In the summer one who doesn't ski can still ride the lifts up to the top of the mountain and experiance great views. They've also got world-class mountain biking, if you're interested in that.

Paris
I feel like a broken record, but maybe that is because this is what I look for in a city, but atmosphere and architecture reign in Paris. Their subway/transportation network is the best I have ever seen. Who needs a car living there?

London
When I visited I wan't too impressed, but it has grown on me. I've only been once, but I would love to go again and spend more time exploring. The food is awful and the prices are staggering, so it may be a while until I return.

Tokyo
Many people claim Tokyo to be the most expensive city in the world, but I found London way more expensive. Tokyo has the claim of $300-$400 t-shirts and $25 cups of coffee. Well, yes, they have those. But what cities don't? I know stores in Vancouver that sell swim-shorts for $200 and shirts in the same range. It's just more prevelent in Tokyo. But I purchased a few T-shirts for $8 each in Tokyo. I have enough trouble finding shirts that cheap in Vancouver. Food is quite good, although you have to choose restaurants that don't allow smoking. I'm surprised that the Japanese have such a long life span considering how much they smoke! Tokyo is lively, huge, gigantic and unimaginably large. It's like 23 cities in one.

New York
What isn't there to like about New York. Their urban planning is amazing, an easly walkable city, very dense, great archiecture, skyline and very lively. Ever since Giuliani cleaned up the city by increasing their police force to 36,000 officers, there has been no looking back.

Sydney
Sydney is beautiful. I think it's more a city to live in than visit. Tokyo, New York, London and Paris are great cities to visit, but Vancouver and Sydney are more resident inclined. The food in general isn't that great, Melbourne and Brisbane excelled in that category strangely. Sydney also sprawls unlike any city I have ever seen. Their landbased transportation is awful, but their water-based transportation is a world leader, a model for Vancouver to copy.

Places I haven't been but am very interested in visiting: Holland, Spain and China. My mom is very interested in going to Ecuador, which would be very cool. We have a lot of points saved up from our Australia trip, so it wouldn't be too expensive to fly there.

Are you thinking of Boston Common?  That's the biggest and nicest park in Boston, and the area around it rules, though it's pretty expensive to live and shop there (Newbury Street, this means you).  But Emerson College is literally next to the Common. 

yeah, that's it! also the block in and around fenway is fun too. =)

Las Vegas!

yeah, that's it!  also the block in and around fenway is fun too. =)

The Fenway area used to be sketch, but its been cleaned up. It helps that ownership is buying up every single thing that could be seen as "competition" to something Sox-related within a mile radius, too.
But if you go up towards Comm Ave and Boston University, that's a nice area too. The blocks south of Fenway can be a little sketchy at times, down towards where most of the Boston colleges are (Northeastern, MassArt, Wentworth, all those).


And this topic seems like a good topic to show some love for Burlington, Vermont. Great fucking city. Not that big (population in Burlington proper is smaller than my hometown's) but it gets by nicely. Plenty of nice artsy places and the music scene is excellent (but fuck Phish). Lake Champlain is nice in the summer, and in the winter, some of the best skiing in the country is within an hour. Lastly, everyone smokes weed, so they're pretty chill people.

Antibes/Cannes/Paris/Tokoyo/San Fransisco/Portland

I'd say: My own town: Oud-Beijerland in The Netherlands!
a, for dutch people, small ciy of 23.000 people...

also i like: Nimes (france), Amsterdam\Utrecht\Rotterdam (netherlands)

Covent Garden in London.

and probably a handful of other areas in London that I can't remember off the top of my head.

Camden lock Market + surroundings maybe?

1. Tokyo
Maybe it's #1 because I simply love Japan? Who knows^^

2. Frankfurt am Main / Germany
The airport is huge, most people are friendly, nice old buildings in some places....
and it's only 30km away from my living place^^

3. Berlin / Germany
Our Capitol City. There's nothing you can't get there!

4. Seoul / South-Corea
Veeeeeeeeeeeery friendly people, veeeeeeeeeeeeery nice traditional architecture of some districts. Beautyful!

5. NYC
A lot of "The American way of life" to find there^^

Camden lock Market + surroundings maybe? 

Camden = where you go to buy Slipknot hoodies if your 14.

Berlin.
Symply.
The Westpole of the World...
Everywhere you go is East.

i don't understand that, egg.

heh i think i understand^^

Camden = where you go to buy Slipknot hoodies if your 14.

Camden lock Market is the place where you get great souvenirs like "Mind The Gap" tshirts and all those strange tshirts with edited names, like the FBI-shrts (Female Body Inspector) And I like it over there. Even though the houses over there are very smal Anyhow, I don't like Slipknot, I don't like rock, I don't like rap, so for the Slipknot shirts and 50 Cent GaNgSTaAh shirts I don't need to go there. No, it's the cool laid back atmosphere 'round the restaurant/Starbucks which are directly next to the lock. I really liked it over there, waaay better than the standard things like Trafalgar Square, Oxford Street etcetera


Also, Croydon is very cool. It's the part of London where I lived for 2 months

WME, ever heard of the Berlin-wall or the cold war?
Germany was split up in 4 sectors after WWII.
The Sovjet-sector surrounded Berlin, the Capitol of Germany. So Berlin was also devided in 4 sectors itself.
The American-French-English-sector was so like a western Island in an eastern Sovjet-sector.
Later the Wall was build.
Now Germany is united again, but I think i can say that West-Berlin is some kind of a Westpole. Everywhere you go - there's east.