Your favorite city in the world?

So, what's your favorite? Maybe a "top five in no particular order"? And, most importantly, why are they in your list?

This was brought up early Saturday morning as my Canuck and I were driving into Vancouver. He said, and I quote this verbatim, "there's no city in the world more beautiful".

Yes, it's in my top 10, but not at the top of my list. My "number one", without a doubt, is New York City. By far, the best and worst place I've ever been in. But, as time goes by since I've lived there, the "good stuff" wins out. (And, yes, I'm just dying for a New York bagel right now. *lol*)

Especially at this time of year, New York is, IMO, the best place on earth. Museums, parks, the decorations, and the odd hot dog. I've never been in any place like it.

So, what's your favorite?

Hmm...Vancouver, London, Montreal, San Francisco, NYC. I also really like Rome and Paris.

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Munich, London

Hmm...Vancouver, London, Montreal, San Francisco, NYC. I also really like Rome and Paris.

I've never been to London, sadly. :( I spent a year living in Madrid, and never made it that far north.

Speaking of, Madrid is one of my favorites as well. I've never spent an extended period of time in a city with a more friendly population.

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Munich, London

LA?? Care to elaborate on that one? (I mean, aside from pointing to your username? LOL)

Gosh....I have a few...as always, depends on my mood lol.
NYC, that's home to me....um, love Seattle, LOVE New Orleans, just not during Mardi Gras.
Montreal, Cairo, Zurich.....man....too many to think of right now.
Blessings, TD

LOVE New Orleans, just not during Mardi Gras.


Oh, I miss NO, even during Mardi Gras. Though, trying to sleep while living in an apartment on the parade route come Mardi Gras day is something that I wouldn't want to try again anytime soon. ;)

OH, I forgot Seattle -- I LOVE Seattle.

Seattle is my home!

I love Seattle!

Seattle is my home!

I love Seattle!

I just moved here in August. It's growing on me. ;)

Mishigas,.....I usually go in the summer when it is as hot as hell but just enough people to keep it interesting but I still have the St Pierre Hotel on Burgundy st. all to myself!!!

Mishigas,.....I usually go in the summer when it is as hot as hell but just enough people to keep it interesting but I still have the St Pierre Hotel on Burgundy st. all to myself!!!

LOL, TD...that reminds me of when I first moved there, back in the summer of 1998. I flew down in July, took possession of the apartment, and had a grand old time exploring the city. At the beginning of August, I flew back up to NY to drive my car down and I couldn't believe how the city had changed! Where it was hot when I had been there initially...it was just downright intolerable when I got back down there.

I drove down with a friend of mine, and we went to the Quarter one night. We had a few drinks on the balcony of one of the bars there, and, in the hour or two we were there, I maybe counted 20 people that walked by on Bourbon Street.

I moved from there in 2001. My main reason for it was the intolerable summers. Good for getting excellent rates in hotels, horrible for actually walking around. :D

Seattle

London

Melbourne

Salt Lake City

Santa Fe

Venice, Italia - the one place where you can take a photo anywhere and it will look like a postcard.

Paris, France - Amazing....straight out of a movie...awesome cheese

San Francisco, CA - Always a good time.....lots of culture....adventure!

Big Sur, CA - Relaxing, nature everywhere you look

Seattle, WA - well I've never been...but I KNOW when I do I will fall in love!!

Oh geeze....how could I forget Venice...........amazing place!!!!
Lol Mishagas....I grew up between Phx AZ and NYC.....I can handle it.
I just have to run back to the hotel and jump into my little courtyard pool and head back out again.
I love to wander and when my mind is engaged, I don't feel the heat.....hotflashes not included:eek:

New York...why cause it's my home and the ONLY place I've ever lived and one of the most amazing and greatest places in the world!!!

I'm not the biggest fan of cities, but I like a few:

Kapaa (Kauai) is a lovely town with terribly friendly people in a beautiful place.

Key West is a very free, nonjudgmental place and has a really high fun-stuff-to-area ratio.

New York City also has a lot of good stuff packed in a relatively small area.

Albuquerque is beautiful and has incredible food - one of the few places I've visited that I'd really want to live in.

New Orleans, or at least the French Quarter, is like Key West with better food but no snorkeling.

Damn, missed Key West too.....I love it there!
Oh and speaking of "second cities".....Sedona, AZ, San Antonio TX, a few towns in NM, Boulder CO.
Gosh, wish sometimes I was back on the road!
But, there's no place like home :no:

I don't really love cities... but to visit, there's none better than Seattle! To live here, well, that can be a different story!

Munich... I never had as much fun as my wild week in Munich. That's a great city.

I love Paris. I know most people don't, but I do!

But the best "city" in the world. It's gotta be Truckee, cuz that's home for me. (No smarty comments from the Mishigas gallery ;))!

Truckee????
Where the hell is that.....must have missed it in my travels LOL

Why, it's my home TD... best place on the planet as far as I'm concerned!

http://www.truckee.com/

But the best "city" in the world. It's gotta be Truckee, cuz that's home for me. (No smarty comments from the Mishigas gallery ;))!

Oh, I say nothing. :D

Hey TD...

My parents live there as well.

Beats the heck out of suburban Long Island as far as they're concerned. A bit too rural for me....fifteen miles to the grocery store is too hard core for this city chick...

LOL, though, you just have to love the ability to say that you live near "Donner Pass". No matter how well people know you, the "cannibal connotation" is priceless. :D

Aww, Mish... I was braced and ready!

Aww, Mish... I was braced and ready!

I was just there over Thanksgiving. And, aside from the previously-mentioned trek to Safeway....I won't argue with anyone who loves it.

Though....maybe....for some people....the quietness is a bit deafening. LOL

Beats the heck out of suburban Long Island

HEY NOW!!!!! :eek:

HEY NOW!!!!! :eek:

After having spent, erm....21 or so years of my life there....

Not for me. Let's just put it that way. ;)

After having spent, erm....21 or so years of my life there....

Not for me. Let's just put it that way. ;)

I don't blame you one bit!!!

I don't blame you one bit!!!

I embrace my "Lawng Island" heritage. Wouldn't want to live there now...but, yeah, I do embrace it. :D

I embrace my "Lawng Island" heritage. Wouldn't want to live there now...but, yeah, I do embrace it. :D

We're ALL good...I don't want to live here either but I'm stuck (for now)

I onced danced at a Million dollar Barmitzva (sp) in Huntington LI....or at least that was where we got off the train and picked up by our Limo.
The food was awesome LOL!

Okay I am biased...and okay our winters suck.....but our summers make up for it...and our museums, food, lakefront, skyline, blues, festivals and friendly people......cannot be beat. Seattle would have to be my number two choice. Such a cool progressive city.

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I onced danced at a Million dollar Barmitzva (sp) in Huntington LI....or at least that was where we got off the train and picked up by our Limo.
The food was awesome LOL!

And, I'm sure there was nothing like it. :)

Okay I am biased...and okay our winters suck.....but our summers make up for it...and our museums, food, lakefront, skyline, blues, festivals and friendly people......cannot be beat. Seattle would have to be my number two choice. Such a cool progressive city.

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Wow, I've always wanted to visit Chicago. I've been all over the country, and everywhere in the midwest, except St Louis, has been off my radar.

And, what's up with everyone digging Seattle? I'm thinking that I should appreciate my new hometown a little more....lol

True story that LOLOL!
Crazy I'm tellin' ya!
The pay was great too.....anytime we get fed and paid well.....we're there!
Chicago is a pretty cool city....for the midwest:p

anytime we get fed and paid well.....we're there!


Now, I like that attitude!

Wow, I've always wanted to visit Chicago.


Just make sure you come in the summer! There's a festival on the lake front every weekend. Let me know if you need a tour guide!

Just make sure you come in the summer! There's a festival on the lake front every weekend. Let me know if you need a tour guide!

Oh, absolutely! I would love to visit, and see what so many love.

Though, I DO know better than to visit sometime other than the winter. (There is a reason why I lived in So Cal for so long....LOL)

AL Conference

Chicago

Summer 2008!!!

OK....I guess I will go :D

I'll have to drag my Canuck there. :D It may be a "baby step" toward actually going to NY. LOL

OK....I guess I will go :D

Would love to have you TD. I love to show off Chicago. I was in NYC this spring...Chicago is a big city but is much more centralized and easier to get around and I think cleaner and the people are super friendly. Just my opinion! I thought NYC was awesome too! So yeah Chicago is a great introduction to the big city.

I'm not an experience traveler, but I love my Amsterdam, Holland. I love getting out of the Central Train Station in Amsterdam and catching wiffs of hashish in the air. I love the freedom, the tolerance and the openness of Holland. My first night there I was blown-away by how people don't blind their windows - I felt like I was on another planet. I want to learn Dutch and live there. Beware of standing under tram power lines or lampposts as the one of the millions of pigeons there will drop a plopper upon your head as I found out the hard way. And, oh by the way; canals, canals, and more canals - love it.

My first night there I was blown-away by how people don't blind their windows - I felt like I was on another planet.

That reminds me of a great lesson my mom taught me. Blinds are open, and you're in a compromising position? Just smile. When my Canuck goes to close the blinds in the bedroom, I like to mention that. :D

It's great to hear someone so passionate about a city though.

Thanks for the input. :)

Good Lord...how could this old hippy leave out Amsterdam :eek:
Right up my alley ;)
And then...Wellington NZ is the place I'd live if I could!
Geeze, I really do love so many places!
Dislike many too....like DC.......what a pit, imo!

Lynn, last time I was in Chicago was two years ago when my ex husband and I were guests on the Oprah show :eek:

And then...Wellington NZ is the place I'd live if I could!


I REALLY need to "travel west". I've never been past the west coast of North America.

Australia/NZ is my dream trip.

Lynn, last time I was in Chicago was two years ago when my ex husband and I were guests on the Oprah show

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I'd ask for details, but then people would accuse me of being the nosy "Lawng Islander".

Seriously though.....any details?? ;)

LA?? Care to elaborate on that one? (I mean, aside from pointing to your username? LOL)

I'm surprised that I'm still the only one who's mentioned Los Angeles. I do have to admit that a big part of the reason why Los Angeles is my favorite city is that it has been my home for sixteen years, and very likely always will be. When I moved here right after college, I was in some ways young for my age--inexperienced and shy. The streets and sights of Los Angeles were my milieu as I became truly adult. Most of my friends are here. My favorite places are here. My life is here.

I love to travel and look forward to doing much more in the future. But the homecoming is always good. I always have a good feeling when I step off a plane into the LAX terminal.

Now, here's some of the stuff that makes Los Angeles neat.

Museums: Getty, L.A. County Museum of Art, Huntington, Norton Simon and many more. There's even one called the Museum of Jurassic Technology, dreamed up and founded by an eccentric genius.

The climate--'nuff said.

The ocean, the way the hills and mountains drop steeply into the water along much of our coast, and the way the light and mist combine into a luminous atmosphere. My gf (33 years my senior--I'm usually on the other side of the boards) lives in Santa Barbara, 90-some miles away. One of my all-time favorite drives is the run along the coast route between Santa Monica and Santa Barbara.

The sheer diversity of people, and things, and activities. I'm never bored in my town--there's always something happening! I meet all kinds of interesting people when I'm out having coffee, running errands, etc.

Food: I really enjoy dining out, and there's EVERYTHING here. Within two blocks of my apartment building are restaurants offering the following cuisines: Thai, Persian, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese and Oaxacan (far southern Mexican) cuisine. Oh, and there's a good old American diner, too. Then, of course, the city has a big selection of fine-dining restaurants for more special occasions.

Now, I'll admit that Los Angeles, though its full Spanish name translates as "The City of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels," is not heaven. Traffic BLOWS! A catastrophic earthquake at some point is a real possibility. A lot of the city's streets are butt-ugly stretches of gas stations, strip malls and altogether too many billboards.

But, back to all the good stuff I described and that fact that this humungous, sprawling, smoggy city is HOME. That's why I LOVE L.A.!

Adin California, population 600, 257 residences.

Located in Modoc County, where the population density is 2.4 people per square mile.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h51/gp_fillmore/Adin.jpg

1 general store; 1 diner where you can get a burger, fries & coke; 1 bar; everybody knows you by name.

Not necessarily my favorite town. But a good counterpoint to everybody else's choices. :bgrin2: Small town Americana. A throwback to what America used to be.

Ah... Geo, look up Berkeley Springs WV....it is the east cost equivalent lol!
Mishigas, when the movie "Prime" came out, my ex husband and I were asked to do the show....it was a trip but....got to meet Oprah and Uma Thurman!

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff231/tinydancerwv/oprah.jpg

Damn, I wish I could size these pics!
It is an awful picture of me.....in my defense, I was exhausted and, my father was in a LV hospital....I had to rush off there practically right after the show.....he died a few days later:(
The show aired the same day he passed.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww you look as lovely as always tinydancer :):) muaaaaah

My 2 favourite places (villages not cities) are Byblos and Deir al Qamar. Both of them in Lebanon. I miss home sooooooooooooooo much :(:(:(


http://www.alovelyworld.com/webliban/gimage/liban072.jpg

http://www.jordanbeauty.com/images/images/deiralkamar.jpg

Oh how beautiful Aline....sadly, Lebanon, and many other countries, I never got to see when I was on tour.....damn goverment turmoil!!!!
One day, I hope.

OMG TD!!! You are so, so, so, so, soooooooooooooooooo BEAUTIFUL!!!

Ok, my cities:

Mecca - wow, just wow.

Philadelphia - because it's my home.

Cairo - because it's absolutely magical.

Paris - the most aesthetically beautiful city I've ever seen.

Riyadh - living here has taught me so much.

Awww thanks MAMA Amina!
I would love to see Mecca one day!!!
And Cairo is magical to me.....even the not so nice sections.
I have yet to really see Tibet, Bhutan to be exact, but I pray i will one day.
Paris is very pretty too....So much beauty both man made and natural.....I wish I could see it all and that others would leave that beauty alone!

Austin, TX!

Boston

Montego Bay, Jamaica

Chicago

NYC!

Nadine.

Nadine is a city? :p

Nadine is a city? :p

Not quite...

But it's more than a name...it's an attitude! :D

Nadine.

LOL....very good!:D

AGH! I feel so poorly travelled when I read your answers!

OK:

Shorewood, WI (I love my home town)
Paris, France
Chicago, IL (love/hate relationship)
Nassau, Bahamas
San Francisco, CA

Places I THINK I will love & hope to visit:
Dublin, Ireland
London, England
Anna Paulowna, The Netherlands
Rome, Italy

Places I didn't much like:
Anaheim, CA
Orlando, FL
Muncie, IN

Kristin....one of my favorite little cities is Au Clair WI ....so pretty there!

Paris - the most aesthetically beautiful city I've ever seen.



I'd pretty much have to agree, so I named it my number 3 city. Although, I'd say it ties with my number 2, San Francisco. S.F. is a drop-dead gorgeous city! If you haven't visited San Francisco, definitely go sometime.

Places I didn't much like:
Anaheim, CA
Orlando, FL


Too funny! Not a Disney fan, I gather? ;)

I like Disney - but the towns around the parks are pretty cheesy and beat-down. At least they were when I was there. I had family living right there in the same area - you could practically walk to the park. I disliked the smog, as well. I was in CA back in the mid 80's. LA didn't do much for me, but I didn't see much of it.

Paris and San Fancisco are two of my favorite cities, too!

In my four years living in LA, there were a couple of bright spots. One of them was Disney (though getting to Anaheim on the 5 was a hassle a lot of the time).

For me, driving through a lot of OC was like driving through a lot of LA. Strip malls, smog, California drivers, generally "blah". Nope, there's no love lost between Mishigas and the LA/OC area.

I do love being where I am now. I'm in a way more "suburban area" than I've lived in in years. Though not *quite* as quiet as where my parents currently live, it IS nice not to have so much ambient noise at night. And, also, knowing that you're close to Seattle and slightly less close (but still a reasonable drive) from Vancouver, is great for me.

Mish-
I'm heading home to Truckee tomorrow. Am I to assume that you don't want a ride??? :tongue2: But for real, if you are ever in Seattle and want to hang out for coffee or a drink, lemme know!

I'm in Seattle quite often, and I would LOVE to meet a Truckee-ite outside of her native habitat. :D

Hey Mishigas,
I posted about the Oprah show on one of these pages for you.....just didn't want you to think I ignored you....and, it's ok....I'm nosey too ;)

Hey Mishigas,
I posted about the Oprah show on one of these pages for you.....just didn't want you to think I ignored you....and, it's ok....I'm nosey too ;)

Wow, that's really cool!!!

(Sorry, I was just preoccupied with meeting someone who's actually FROM Truckee, CA. ;) )

And, I'm serious about it being very cool. How did you wing that?

Truckee -- is that near Quincy or Humboldt County?

Truckee -- is that near Quincy or Humboldt County?

It's in Nevada County (go figure). Placer County is right there too. I'm not sure about the others, but then again, I've only really been between Tahoe and Reno all these years.

My life seems to be made up of odd circumstances lol.
For every "oprah" moment....there seems to be a really crappy one right behind it :confused:
IE....Oprah....my Daddy.
Been like that my whole life.....free cab rides = not finding a cab at all in an icestorm etc...

Truckee -- is that near Quincy or Humboldt County?

What Mish said. If you go back a couple of pages, I provide a link for my town :D

My Paris of course. My homecity, i never plan to move. It's the most beautiful city in the world.
But my top 5 is:
1.Paris
2.Brussels
3.Moscow
4.Leige
5.Zagreb

It's in Nevada County (go figure). Placer County is right there too. I'm not sure about the others, but then again, I've only really been between Tahoe and Reno all these years.

Oh, I see... I looked at zoliepup's link, and there was a map. My friend, back in 2001, picked me up in Reno and took me to her place (she lived in Quincy) and I think we must have driven through Truckee. I remembered the name. I think on the way home we went a different way, through Portola. Sorry for the hijack, I just found the area really neat!

Oh, I see... I looked at zoliepup's link, and there was a map. My friend, back in 2001, picked me up in Reno and took me to her place (she lived in Quincy) and I think we must have driven through Truckee. I remembered the name. I think on the way home we went a different way, through Portola. Sorry for the hijack, I just found the area really neat!

No probs at all for the "hijack". :D

It IS a really neat area. Just a wee bit too "remote" for permanent living for me.