What's your favorite city in the world?

1. Venice
2. York
3. San Francisco

The city of eternal Spring.

I leave, and I'm always happy to get back - it's always been that way and I don't know why.

I know the feeling. I lived there as a wee gal.. love getting back to visit family. :)

san francisco
florence

I know what you said in your PM - but I'm a little surprised. I wasn't there long. But it was both the most beautiful and most ugly city I'd ever seen And everything in between.

It's the city of Kali - the destroyer and devourer. And Calcutta is her city. But from that destruction comes birth and hope and beauty. And while both are true, both are real.


It's not any easy city to understand - I need so much more time there.....


Khash.

BUT,

I have an unusual operation and if I were to get any digestive upsets, I would be in "deep shit", to to speak. Even here, many medical personnel know nothing about the procedure I have.

Guess I'll have to satisfy myself with Indian Restaurant visits here. :shrug:

2. London,
3. London.

I still remember the first time I was in London. I was literally paralyzed there were so many things I wanted to see and do at once.

I was with my friend's school group and we were only passing through, going from the airport to a bus that was taking us to Stratford. I actually ditched the group at one point and was planning to spend the time in London but they caught up with me and dragged me back.

Now give me a few thousand dollars so I can afford to skip town and go live there.
Thanks in advance. ;)

Then Washington DC. I love any excuse to head down to DC for a long weekend even if there isn't a protest going on

What a wonderful, walkable city.

ask me again in 20-30 years. :)

Amsterdamn
San Fran
Portland Or
Who-ville

Salzburg

5. Austin, Texas

Wellington NZ
Paris
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Boston
NYC

Haven't seen too much of Europe :(

:)

My favorite outside the U.S., too

(My others are Asheville, NC, Portland, Maine, and Charleston, SC)

my favourite by far.

1. Chicago - born and raised
2. Quito - ancestral homeland
3. Calcutta - where Mrs. Alarcojon was born and raised
4. San Francisco - just a cool city
5. Bangalore - where Mrs. Alarcojon's parents now live, and where we were married.

2. Dublin
3. Edinburgh
4. Washington, DC
5. San Francisco

-Los Angeles-

"she, had to leave
los angeles
all her toys wore out in black and her boys had too
she started to hate every nigger and jew
every mexican that gave her lotta shit
every homosexual and the idle rich
idle rich
she had to get out, get out
get out, get out
get out, get out

she gets confused
flying over the dateline her hands turn red
cause the days change at night
change in an instant
the days change at night
change in an instant

she had to leave
los angeles
she found it hard to say goodbye to her own best friend
she bought a clock on hollywood blvd the day she left
it felt sad, it felt sad
it felt sad
she had to get out, get out
get out, get out
get out, get out

she gets confused
flying over the dateline her hands turn red
cause the days change at night
change in an instant
the days change at night
change in an instant
the days change at night
change in an instant" -- X

Just an awesome city that gets too much of a bad rap.

:shrug:

The second largest city in France with about 1 million people, it is one of the most colorful places on earth, the home of Bouillabaise, of Pastis, and of Fanny and Marius of movie fame. Founded by the Phoenicians and settled by Greeks and Romans (originally known as "Masillia"), the French southern accent is at its most colorful and lilting in this city. It used to be the crossroads of the world at the height of France's colonial empire, with Indochinese, Hindus from France's five colonial city states in India, North Africans, Armenians, and people from all over Europe. It's the city where French Connection II was filmed. The open air fish markets and the noise and boisterous attitude is very memorable. I've heard that Naples has the same type of style. Barcelona, which I have visited, almost comes close.

:sarcasm:

Seattle
San Francicso
Victoria, BC
Las Vegas

1. NY, out of pure fascination
2. Berlin, just because it is such a great fucked up place. ("What could have possessed people to found a city in the middle of all this sand?")
3. Amsterdam, as placeholder for any Dutch city
4. Paris, because it is Paris
...

:toast:

But then comes: VENICE

'bout San Francisco along with the warning from the freepers where I live in RL. I know one thing for certain. Rockingham, North Carolina would never make it to my list unless Fallujah was my only other choice. And that would be a toss up. At least in Fallujah, I could get a gun and defend myself somewhat.

1. Los Angeles - Home town!!!

2. Tokyo, Japan

3. Palermo, Sicily - Family's home turf

4. Phillipsberg, St. Maarten

5. Denver, Colorado

Unfortunately - #2, #3, and #4 I havent visited yet but I really want to!

Vancouver, BC
Chicago, IL
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA

* Never been, but want to go BADLY.

Pretty much in that order.

I don't recommend going there with someone who is no longer in love with you. I especially don't recommend paying for the trip yourself as a surprise. And I don't recommend walking up the Eiffel Tower steps in a hailstorm.

DO GO THERE, THOUGH! Go either alone or with someone you love. It rocks. The French rock.

Great coffee shops, small euro capital, easy to get around, does not take itself too serious. Go there if you get a chance.

I also like Nanjing, China... Orlando, FL... the capital city of Aruba that I'm too lazy to look up right now... Beijing & Hangzhou are up there, too.

I still have not visited any city in Europe, Africa, South America or any Asian city outside of mainland China, though. I'd love to go to Hong Kong some time in the near future, too.

despite how my pathetic Vikings are doing lately. :-(

Portland a close second...great liberal city! :-)

spent the last week of July up there, awesome town. Tied with SF.

Not really a city, but heaven on earth for me. :)

Was a student there in 2000 at McGill University & fell in utter love with the place. They even put up with my pathetic attempts at French!

NYC, London, Venice, Vienna

I'm not well-traveled, but if someone told me I could never travel again, having lived there for eight years would still leave me feeling extremely privileged.

Seoul.

San Diego
Seattle
Chicago
Victoria, B.C.
El Lay
Guanajuato, Mexico

Can't stand any east coast city, or San Francisco (all that beauty negated by the biggest bunch of assholes on the planet).

n/t

Los Angeles is my home and I think it sometimes gets a bad rap. Of couse it has problems like any other city, but it has many, many wonderful things that make me proud to call it home.

As for San Francisco....what can you say?.....(I'm not that well- travelled either) but it's just the most beautiful city with an incredible vibe.

So I'll have to stick to domestic cities...

1. St. Paul
2. San Francisco
3. Minneapolis

Each city has its own flavor and personality.

They may be the "Twin Cities," but they are not alike.

Lifelong Minneapolitan who moved to St. Paul a couple months ago. They really are different in so many ways. St. Paul is much more small town, more laid back, not nearly as obsessed with styles or trendiness, and much more "ethnic" in many ways IMHO. I still love Minneapolis, though, but St. Paul is also a lot of fun!

London - If one is tired of London, one is tired of life.

SF - why I still ache with homesickness: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/09/30/notes093005.DTL

Hong Kong - Beautiful, clean, cosmopolitan, the nicest people you'll ever meet. I only spent a week there.... but it felt like coming home.


Khash.

Just because it's home.

Boston, cos it's home

Tokyo, cos I lived in Japan, and nothing quite compares

Hong Kong, cos it feels so alive and the people are wonderful

NYC, cos it makes you feel so alive

1) Portland, OR
2) Köln
3) Salzburg
4) Prague
5) Fontana, CA


--edit-- The Fontana thing was a joke.. That place is hell on earth. I just don't want someone to think, "I love Portland and Prague, maybe we should have our next vacation in Fontana." Don't, unless you want to learn how to make meth.

:cry:

NYC
San Fran
London

and I really want to go to Amsterdam someday.

oh yeah and Ireland, and Scotland...anywhere will be fine (small old villages would be really great. And castles. Oh, you said 'city" . Oh well, what the heck.)

Damnit. But it's on the way back.

Paris is great. Brussels--highly underrated.

Laredo is NOT on my list.

And I'll never forgive this lazy, stupid, arrogant administration for their incompetence. :nuke:

:cry: :cry: :cry:

1) New Orleans
2) New York City

Just a rural-loving homebody here. :hi:

Naples was the worst shit hole I was ever in. I couldn't get out of there soon enough.

When he was in the Navy, they had to stop in Naples for a few days. He sent me a postcard saying "Naples really sucks". :D That was in 1982.

Compliments of the USN. It was a little before then for me though. I've never seen such a dirty place before or since.

1) NYC
2) London
3) Buenos Aires

that sound you just heard was the thud of everyone's jaws, who live on that island, hitting the ground.


both are amazing cities: Dublin for it's modern feel, belfast, for well, for it's history, for it's will to overcome strife and become a pretty decent city where people can freely walk the streets safely.

1. Providence, RI
2. Detroit
3. Kansas City
4. Virginia Beach (my hometown)

Moved here 1 year ago, hated it at first, the traffic, aggressive people, but the diversity can't be beat, the music scene is spectacular, and it is BEEEE-U-TEEEEFUL.

1. Montreal
2. Chicago
3. Washington DC
4. San Francisco
5. Minneapolis

Honorable mentions:
2. Vancouver, BC
3. Portland, OR

What can I say? We've got our own little corner of paradise up here.

....from your neighbor in Tacoma.

I've actually been here about a year, but I don't get much time to post. I'm usually just a lurker. :yoiks:

I'd live there in a heartbeat.

My grandmother has a house there which we usually visit in the late Spring. Absolutely beautiful city...

Other favorites-

Sydney, Australia
New York City, NY
Cannes, France (Cote d'Azur)
Lucerne, Switzerland (The skiing in Switzerland is amazing :))
Miami, FL

You could almost eat off the sidewalk. Even the Monaco zoo is clean and well scrubbed and the Prince's vast automobile collection on display is the same way. The grandiose and historic Casino is so white and the grounds so perfect, you'd swear it was built ony a few weeks before or that it was part of a movie set. It stunned me. It's an absolutely beautiful place.

But not in any order, they are all my faves.

yes INDEED

Rome and Florence, Italy
Madrid, Spain,
London, Glasgow, GB

and I like a lot more places

new orleans
portland
chicago
florence
london

:hi:

but I guess I could start with these three:

Boston
Toronto
London or Edinburgh

Like no other

Ooooooo! I wanna go, wanna wanna WANNA!!!

It's the BOMB!

bloated with it, I tell you.

and I'm thinking how soon should we get on over there, ya know....I'd like to make it before turdweasel closes the borders (not that they'd be capable of enforcing anything, but stilllll)

More of a village but quite charming, didn't get street signs with road names until last year.

Followed closely by Lexington, KY.

2. Lima, Peru
3. Winnipeg, Manitoba

I haven't really travelled that much. I want to go to Prague, however.

Christchurch, New Zealand
Inverness, Scotland
Paris
Amsterdam
Stockholm
Oslo

Haven't traveled much outside the US, but Venice knocked me out. Was lucky enough to spend a full 5 days there, exploring.

In June, it smells like Jasmine, and the sunset turns the whole city to gold. Made me cry.

Been all over italy. I like Venice and have some really good pix of my trips there. (Been there 3 times.) But, there are places in italy i'd rather live. Milan, Florence, or Reggio, come to mind, right away.

Now, i'd rather live in Venice than Naples, Genova, or Torino. I wouldn't even go back to visit those three sink holes.
The Professor

My list.

1. Portland, OR
2. Paris
3. Santa Cruz, CA

I had chills practically the whole eight days I was there.

Grew up in Seattle, and am very fond of it and Portland (where I currently live).

I would like San Francisco more if it wasn't so relentlessly in love with itself, and demanded that you love it as much as it thinks it deserves.

2. San Francisco, California

If you EVER get a chance to go to Rome...DO IT!

. . . and Pittsburgh. Yes, Pittsburgh. Oh, for a Primanti Brothers sandwich about now and a pierogi!

Stockholm
London
Amsterdam
Nairobi
Monterey CA

runner up: San Diego


If I were a world traveler, this list might be different. But I limited myself to places I've been.