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sonicl 01.30.2008 10:58 AM

London
New York
Paris
Munich

toxic johnny 01.30.2008 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicl
London
New York
Paris
Munich


Are you talking about pop music?

sonicl 01.30.2008 11:05 AM

I thought everybody was?

A Thousand Threads 01.30.2008 11:10 AM

Munich? really?
I don't like Munich but maybe i'm a little prejudiced, i had my first car crash in Munich.
nah,
all in all Munich is pretty ugly, a "wannabe Vienna".



here's my list

London
Vienna (i'll probably move there next year)
Prague
Istanbul
New York
Lisbon
Berlin
San Francisco
Paris

Dead-Air 01.30.2008 11:17 AM

It's funny how the European board members decry our fantasies about their "fair" cities. I feel the same way about San Francisco! Anyone who thinks they want to live in the real city, doesn't know how overpopulated it is, how insane the cost of living is, and how miserable it is driving in the hilly area. Plus it's in California, which puts you under the control of the most insane state government in the U.S.

sonicl 01.30.2008 11:22 AM

I wouldn't honestly want to live in any city. I'd much rather live in a large town or in a country village within easy travelling distance of a decent city.

Rob Instigator 01.30.2008 11:41 AM

Kyoto
Barcelona
Amsterdam
Vancouver

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.30.2008 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SYRFox
There's no way you want to live in Marseille! I used to live there for 15 years and guy it's SHIIIIIIT. Blah. There's great landscapes, of course, but culturally it's near zero: no gig, no local scene (there's only one good band I can think of, Binaire), no discstores. And people are really stupid generally. No, really, you shouldn't live there. Lille is far better, in France


It is the only place in France I've been to. I thought it was nice and quiet. But I'll take your word for it.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.30.2008 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Thousand Threads
Munich? really?
I don't like Munich but maybe i'm a little prejudiced, i had my first car crash in Munich.
nah,
all in all Munich is pretty ugly, a "wannabe Vienna".



here's my list

London
Vienna (i'll probably move there next year)
Prague
Istanbul
New York
Lisbon
Berlin
San Francisco
Paris


From what I've heard, southern Germans are friendlier.

HaydenAsche 01.30.2008 12:20 PM

Seville
Madrid
New York

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.30.2008 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dead-Air
It's funny how the European board members decry our fantasies about their "fair" cities. I feel the same way about San Francisco! Anyone who thinks they want to live in the real city, doesn't know how overpopulated it is, how insane the cost of living is, and how miserable it is driving in the hilly area. Plus it's in California, which puts you under the control of the most insane state government in the U.S.


Yeah. I hate Frisco too. But I pretty much hate California. And Washington State.

_slavo_ 01.30.2008 12:26 PM

Tokyo
Kyoto
Osaka
Yokohama
Fukuoka
Nagoya
Sapporo
Kobe
Kawasaki
Saitama
Kitakyushu
Sendai
Ichihara
Takayama

sarramkrop 01.30.2008 12:26 PM

Beijing
Tokyo
Moscow
Prague
Florence
Manchester
Barcelona
New York
Shangai
Lisbon
Krakow

Possibly more.

gmku 01.30.2008 12:29 PM

I don't actually know all the cities on my list but they just seem like cool places to live.

hat and bread 01.30.2008 12:30 PM

San Fransisco re: Dead Air - yeah, but food, art, food, art, food, cool summer, food, music, food, cool summer, food, no summer, food. Who needs a car in SF anyways? I have feet. Plus the hills are lovely.

Osaka/Kobe (been there, done that, gladly do it again)

Sapporo (not too far)

London

Berlin

NYC (temporarily living in New York City for to finish an ESL teaching course for me job. There's much going on, fo sure, but it's not unlike living in a shopping mall. There's nary a neighborhood in Manhattan that isn't well along in the gentrification process. Even where I'm staying in Harlem. Maybe I'd like to live somewhere in Brooklyn)

Austin (been there, done that, maybe I'll go back post-nuclear winter)

Reykjavik (I think I have completely unreal expectations of this city, but what the nut, I'd give it a try)


Seattle (fuck a bunch of sunlight)

Vancouver (ditto)

Chicago (Lived there as a child. It still feels like home somewhat).

Darjeeling (Hooray for Himalayas!)

Thimphu-Bhutan (ditto)

ChocolateJesus 01.30.2008 01:13 PM

oklahoma city x 15.

batreleaser 01.30.2008 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
a side note: unfuckinbelievable the type of shittholes that get picked as "top 10 cities" by mainstream magazines:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2007/

they say:
1. Middleton, WI
6. Papillion, NE
2. Hanover, NH
7. Milton, MA
3. Louisville, CO
8. Chaska, MN
4. Lake Mary, FL
9. Nether Providence, PA
5. Claremont, CA
10. Suwanee, GA


pardon me, who's ever even heard of those shitholes? but really...



i live very close to milton. they must include thyings like school systems, low crime rate, etc... because milton has excellent of those types of things. those are like the best cities to raise families, not like the hip artsy cities,

!@#$%! 01.30.2008 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by batreleaser
i live very close to milton. they must include thyings like school systems, low crime rate, etc... because milton has excellent of those types of things. those are like the best cities to raise families, not like the hip artsy cities,


yah. great place to watch tv and die slowly.

A Thousand Threads 01.30.2008 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
yah. great place to watch tv and die slowly.

Since we all have the internet
there is no need to go outside anyway.

!@#$%! 01.30.2008 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Thousand Threads
Since we all have the internet
there is no need to go outside anyway.


ha ha.

i live in this tiny town in new mexico hence this is my link to civilization.

luckily next month im moving to albuquerque, which is a mid-sized city (700K people), and while it's not my dream city nor the cultural capital of the universe, it's pleasant and interesting enough that it should keep me off the internet in good measure-- i'm currently too attached to it because, well, my house right now is like a space capsule in the void, and how else would i know what's up on earth?


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