What is your favorite city? And why?
94- Lita Sorensen
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For me, it's a toss up between New York and San Francisco. I love the older type cities built for walking, with real neighborhoods, and small open markets. I loathe places like Phoenix which are nothing but ugly highways and big box stores. Yuck. Plastic.
Has to be Sydney. I LOVE Sydney. It is a very good balance between natural beauty and man made beauty!
The beaches north and south of Sydney are awesome. you will not believe this, once when we had gone to one of these places called Jervis Bay, we saw dolphins natural ones in their habitat, swimming like 10 feet away!
An then there is the usual stuff, Opera house, Harbour bridge and Darling Harbour. I cannot capitalize enough my love for Sydney!
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Sydney is lovely to visit - but a bitch to live in - the harbour really stuffs up the transport links LOL I have a real soft spot for London- spent many lunch times finding new odd spots when I worked in the City - just walked out of the office and went randomly down a laneway - found the pub Dickens did a lot of writing in one day!
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sure, my home city; where i raised; whatever, it's the best city in my eyes.
92- LondonGirl
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London first, then in no particular order, St. Petersburg, Krakow, Delhi, Jerusalem, York, Lincoln, Cambridge, Ely, Oxford, Norwich, Prague, Talinn, Varanasi, Udaipur.
I am not a big fan of cities in general, but I would have to say my favorite is Seattle, since my mom's family is from there. We visit often and I've always loved it, though I wouldn't want to live there. Other places I love to visit but wouldn't want to live permanently: San Diego, San Francisco, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), Kazan', and Paris. Some smaller cities I would consider living permanently in are Eugene and Boulder.
London. Definitely! Impossible not to feel a thousand years of history no matter where you look.
97- AEvans
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I have had the chance to visit many cities big and small in the U.S., I would have to say each city has its own beauty and charm, however if I had to choose a city in particular I would have to say Portland OR, and Lexington Ky. Smalltown America it would be Sedona Az and the beach cities in L.A. There is beauty everywhere you just have to look for it.
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I really had a ball in Cancun twice. But man is it ever hot down there. It's hell.
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Okay, it has to be Cape Town, best city in the world by far and London a close second, with Sydney third and then maybe Hong Kong...Shanghai fourth
Lita Sorensen wrote:
What is your favorite city? And why?
my favorite city is Stavanger in Norway because of its atmosphere/climate. A pity I only lived there for a month.
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cindyvine wrote:
Okay, it has to be Cape Town, best city in the world by far and London a close second, with Sydney third and then maybe Hong Kong...Shanghai fourth
braggart.
96- Dame Scribe
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Toronto
doesn't matter where you walk, theres something or someone that's interesting not to mention the variety of ethnic cultures in whatever section of the city one be.Lita Sorensen wrote:
For me, it's a toss up between New York and San Francisco. I love the older type cities built for walking, with real neighborhoods, and small open markets. I loathe places like Phoenix which are nothing but ugly highways and big box stores. Yuck. Plastic.
great visit my hub on the most beautiful cities of the world
<snipped link - do not promote your hubs in the forums>Madrid, Spain is my personal favourite. Culture, activity and good food, what more can you ask for!
San Francisco. It's by far the most scenic city in the U.S., though I have to say the food isn't so good there. If you're in it to eat and absorb some culture, I'd say NYC. For sightseeing, San Francisco.
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My favorite city so far would have to be San Diego California because I like the harbor watching the cruise ships and eating at the seafood restaurants and listening to the live music at the outdoor concerts, not to mention the excellent weather out there.
I love Sydney of Australia.
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kiwi91 wrote:
San Francisco. It's by far the most scenic city in the U.S., though I have to say the food isn't so good there. If you're in it to eat and absorb some culture, I'd say NYC. For sightseeing, San Francisco.
There were some pretty good restaurants in San Francisco, at least when I was there last. Sometimes I do a little off the beaten path....so, Indian food was great in/around the Tenderloin area. There was this cool old 40's 'joint' downtown, and of course the Ferry Building is really nice just to walk around and shop--it looked like there were some upscale restaurants there on the waterfront.
Nothing beats NYC for food just on every corner though, definitely. 
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Although I was raised in a small town, I have at different stages in my life lived in both Edinburgh and London. I have also travelled to several countries in mainland Europe.
It has been my experience that I have yet to find any city which can compare to Edinburgh, for its heritage, its fire, its passion and its incredible sense of being alive.
I actually moved from Edinburgh directly to London and although London is twenty times the size of Edinburgh, I very quickly found that Edinburgh's heart is a hundred times the size of London's.
I have now returned to my origins as a small town dweller
