What's your favorite city to visit?
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Boston is at the top. Portland for exactly the Sam reasons you cite. Have not been to Seattle yet. New York is fantastic but tiring eventually. I don’t find it nearly as expensive as people say. Have never been to NO when I had money but the weather is not the best.
SFO if I can stay in Sausalito and take the ferry over and back. Love Texas but not so much the cities. More the Hill Country.
LA? Meh. Been there done that. San Diego is nirvana.
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Never been to LA, and have zero desire to go there.
San Francisco struck me as "just another big city." Once you've seen the sights, it's remarkably similar to any other big city. Do the bay, the trolly, etc. You're done.
The charm of New Orleans and Portland is that there seems to be so much to do - New Orleans is easier because it's so much more compact. Portland's charm is the availability of attractions within a 90 minute drive (the coast and the gorge). If it weren't for that, it would be "just another big city" like SF.
I'd love to spend another 4 days exploring Boston. My 3 night stay in 2015 was far too short. I remember meeting some guy named "John" there. It was fun.
Tell me more about San Diego!
I wonder how people perceive Chicago - I love this town, but I live here, and I'm prejudiced because I know where to go, what to see.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I've pondered for a long time where I'd like to live if I could. Finally realized that ideally I'd live in maybe three places through the year. I'd enjoy switching scenes. Which place when would depend on the weather.
New York in spring through June. New Orleans during the cold months elsewhere, though I'm leery about the insect life. Someplace on a cool beach -- Fort Lauderdale? San Diego because I'm comfortable around a military population.
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Disney World - Happiest place on earth
Kennedy Space Center - The flying machines
Hilo - The weather and the view
Barrow, near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland - The weather, golf, pubs, and the view
Naples, FL
The Keys
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@George-K said in What's your favorite city to visit?:
I wonder how people perceive Chicago
Chicago is an amazing city, with beautiful sights. But what I remember most vividly, to be honest, is how fucking chilling cold and windy it was every time I visited. That's somewhat coincidental, of course, but the nickname "windy city" seems to be well deserved.
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Of the "big three" in Western Europe (Paris, London, Rome), London is my favorite. Each of these towns is full of history, but London has this special vibrancy that the other two lack. But I love all three.
Munich is the city in Germany I like best (as long as one avoids Oktoberfest and Hofbräuhaus). Great cultural program. Clean, organized. Great piano shops
I have a knack for Budapest. Very welcoming city. Affordable, too.
I love Istanbul, too. So much to see. Great food.
I love sitting in a cafe in Vienna, or visiting graveyards there.
In North America, I guess Vancouver might be my favorite town, especially if you include the surroundings into the assessment. The "sea to sky" highway is amazing. Whether you like beach, the sea, the mountains, forests, wild nature, or urban city life - everything is close by in BC.
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- Taipei : modern amenities, convenient transportation, good food, local populace who generally care about other people in day-to-day interactions
- Praha : beautiful old buildings to look at, beautiful women to look at, decent ice cream/gelato, cheap good beer
- Quebec City : beautiful city, like Paris but clean, sufficiently foreign but still familiar enough for Americans, Canadian-nice
- Las Vegas : all fake but you get miniature approximations of many world attractions in one place, you know nobody is going to judge you for anything you do there (except for tipping low), no better escape if you just want to get away for few days
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@Klaus said in What's your favorite city to visit?:
the nickname "windy city" seems to be well deserved.
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Cincinnati is my favorite city to visit. Because visiting means I don’t have to live in that Godforsaken place. From the moment I arrive, I can begin to anticipate leaving!
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You hit my European favorites: Munich, Vienna, and Budapest. Haven't been to Prague, but I have heard many good things about it, too.
In the USA, I love wherever my kiddo is, and I love my corner of Minnesooooota. We have great local food, live theater, live music, outdoor concerts, great outdoor recreation with rivers and streams, biking trails, walking and hiking trails, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, snowmobiling.
Portland has lots of good restaurants, local breweries and distilleries, unique shops, music and performance venues, and Powell's bookseller.
Claremont, CA is fun, too, but much smaller.
Grand Marais, MN is a great location on the North Shore. -
@LuFins-Dad said in What's your favorite city to visit?:
Cincinnati is my favorite city to visit. Because visiting means I don’t have to live in that Godforsaken place. From the moment I arrive, I can begin to anticipate leaving!
May you have to spend three years training your new employees, infidel.
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New York for me is home and the absolute best city in the world. Nothing compares.
Having said that, I would list; of places that I have been and spent considerable time,
Rome
Paris
London
AmsterdamThere are cities i have not been to, which I’m sure I would love, I haven’t been to the Scandinavian capitals except Helsinki and would love to go.
having said that, the only other American city I truly enjoy is San Francisco. Otherwise I find American cities so monolithic and similar, with the same national chains, the same food, the same everything.
I’ve been to so many medical conferences and often enough I awake in an American hotel and I have to remember what city I’m in because they all seem the same to me. -
@Mik said in What's your favorite city to visit?:
@LuFins-Dad said in What's your favorite city to visit?:
Cincinnati is my favorite city to visit. Because visiting means I don’t have to live in that Godforsaken place. From the moment I arrive, I can begin to anticipate leaving!
May you have to spend three years training your new employees, infidel.
Haha
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New York, Chicago, San Francisco are great choices. The big ones in Texas don’t do much for me. New Orleans is a great choice and so is Boston. Seattle is cool.
Internationally, I’d go with Paris first (never gets old), Tokyo is amazing...some of the other cities are great launching points, like Rome. I’ve been to London too many times to look forward to it.
My trip style these days however is to explore smaller and more remote places.
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The Couch - for the atmosphere
The Front Steps
The Closet Where I Keep All the Hiking Stuff I'm Not Using
The Kitchen - for the food
