Your Top Five Favorite Cities (visited/Lived-in):

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1. NYC
2. Paris
3. London
4. Berlin
5. Barcelona

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

1. London
2. DC
3. Baltimore
4. Knoxville
5. NYC

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The LA basin (easiest way to put it)
Seattle
London
Dunedin
Melbourne

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruges
London
NY
Tokyo
San Francisco

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Halifax (NS)
Rome
London
Cape Town
Bangkok

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Inverness
Glasgow
Barcelona
Seville
London

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't rank them, so in no order:

copenhagen
nyc
amsterdam
london
glasgow

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

1. West London
2. Canterbury
3. Pisa
4. Brugges
5. Edinburgh

I've not been to that many places, not so proud of this anymore.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

but you've been to pisa. that's excellent.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

heh, but that was when I was 8. I went up the tower though, dunno if you can do that anymore, and bought loads of Smurfs. Italy was Smurf mad in 1984. Actually, the first thing I saw when I went to Belguim was a display of Smurfs in a shop window at Brussels airport, and that was 1994.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Edinburgh
Portland, OR
NYC
Basel, Switzerland
San Francisco

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Douglas is the only person so far not to include london. Can we conclude that London is the greatest city on Earth?

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

1. London
2. Hong Kong
3. Chicago
4. NYC
5. Glasgow

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

We can conclude that I haven't been to that many other cities for any length of time, if nothing else.

Wait, I forgot Paris (where's that thread about film titles as imperatives?). You can kick London out of my list now if you like. I'm not that fond of it really, but I have had some good times there.

x-post

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

no order:

nyc
philadelphia
london
berlin
stockholm

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Vienna
Barcelona
Berlin
Copenhagen
NYC

notable absence: Chicago, where I'm from

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Toronto
New York City
San Francisco
Tokyo
Boston

runner up: Saskatoon

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

god I'm so ill travelled.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I'd like to put Montreal in there somewhere too.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

New York
Jerusalem
Las Vegas
Rome
Barcelona

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we conclude that London is the greatest city on Earth?

i've noticed that a lot of people have a sentimental attachment to london, moreso than to most cities. this doesn't correlate with greatness.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

in order:

Oneonta, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Knoxville, TN
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Athens, Georgia

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

knoxville!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i wish i was there now - 3 weeks to go!

do you live there?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, wtf! Are you going to school here?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

no order

San Francisco
Honk Kong
New York
Barcelona
Portland, OR

― don carville weiner, Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

no - just moving there. we got a house on kantebury drive! we'll be there sept 1!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

glasgow

brno

florence

barcelona

NYC

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Vancouver
Manchester
Amsterdam
Florence
NYC

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That's soon! Kantebury Drive -- kind of Northeast Knoxville, right? I sued to live kind of close to there. Now I live very much in South Knoxville.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh, used not sued.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah - NE. I'll email you when Wifey, doggie and I get into town, if you want. Maybe you can school us on more good Knoxville spots in exchange for a beer or two on us?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Love to, that'd be great. You shall be duly forced to see my various bands and things play as well.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitely! :)

yeah we're totally into it. We hear there's a college station in Knoxville? Apparently we charted there, so that's a good sign. is Disc Exchange any good?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Budapest
2. Bratislava
3. Helsinki
4. Prague
5. Brussels

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

paris
edinburgh
toronto
glasgow
new york cares

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Paris
Berlin
Rome
Barcelona
Bangkok

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Bologna
London
NYC
Vancouver
Venice

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

1. San Francisco
2. NY
3. London
4. Montreal
5. Philadelphia

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Haven't been to many places:

1. Montreal
2. Portland
3. Vancouver
4. Jerusalem
5. San Fransisco

I'm going to NY soon, so maybe this list will change.

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 8 August 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

can't possibly rank these

Toronto
Montreal
Berlin
Geneva
SF

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to wait until after I go to Buenos Aires to post my answers here.

― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Melbourne
Perth
Canberra
London

.. thats only four because I dont know if towns/villages count here, and I wouldnt have put London in at all as I wasnt really that impressed with the place, but Ive not been anywhere else except Australia.

Sydney sucks horses balls, though.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

NYC
Kobe/Osaka
Montreal
Leningrad
Geneva

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost (I also note no one else listed it. Ha! So much for it being the internationally loved city)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

New York
Paris
Portland (OR)
St. Petersburg
San Francisco

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

London [so many fond memories....]
SATX [love my hometown]
Seattle [LOVE this place]
Vancouver, BC [awe-inspiring eye candy]
San Francisco [total family ties here]

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Weird...halo... mine's 3/5 similar:

London [so many fond memories....]
PROVIDENCE [love my hometown]
Seattle [LOVE this place]
Boston [no reason]
San Francisco [total family ties here]

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

*laughs* That's a bit spooky.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

London
Edinburgh
Toronto
New York
Bologna

in no order

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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In no order, because that would make my head hurt:

London
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Havana
Kiel

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

this was really hard for me. i keep thinking in terms of where i'd live, which makes my list look like this:

london (wouldn't be here otherwise)
new york (one of the few places i could live in the states if i moved back)

but then there's places that i love because of nostalgia, but don't want to go back, like:
ann arbor (so many amazing memories, though i don't think i could go back)
chicago (love the city, but it was just a touch too midwestern for me)

and some of the cities i've visited that i'm not sure i could live in but really loved. that list is longer, so i'll try to cut it down and say it's a tie between:
portland/vancouver/toronto/stockholm/hong kong

i suck at picking favorites!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

bergen was a close sixth on my list Tag.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

1. NYC
2. Seville
3. London
4. Seattle
5. Berlin

― dave amos, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Denver
7. Moab
8. Galway
9. Trier
10. Glasgow

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

In random order:
Portland, ME
Chicago
Beijing
Paris
Sydney

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I would've put Seville but I think the tourist season would kill me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

London
San Francisco/NYC/LA
Lisbon
Paris
Budapest

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Rome
Sydney
Oxford
Hong Kong
London

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

1. New York
2. San Francisco
3. Chicago
4. Seattle
5. Austin

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Coalinga
Brussels
San Ysidro
Uxbridge
Yokohama

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i was told recently that i'm an honorary uxbridge girl.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You do know what that MEANS???

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax's list makes me look like a hillbilly.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

if you have never been to the horned toad festival in coalinga, you have never lived.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost - no, that would've been if you listed:

1. Pigeon Forge/Oak Ridge
2. Tuscaloosa
3. Monkey's Eyebrow
4. Big Bone Lick
5. Hazzard County, GA. (fictional)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Pigeon Forge SLASH Oak Ridge?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Calumet
2. Copper Harbor
3. Pelkie
4. Painesdale
5. Lake Linden

― Bnad, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that "Oak Ridge" of "Boys" fame?

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

and of BIG GIGANTOR NUCLEAR FACILITY fame, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Pigeon Forge is, like, putt-putt courses and Elvis impersonators. Oak Ridge is, like, a giant nuclear facility and rich Catholic families. I don't geddit.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Paris
NYC
Los Angeles
Shanghai
Venice

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

they're like, close to each other.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, they're not. My handle on TN geography = non-existent.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

in order:
NYC (Manhattan)
Houston (Cypress, Montgomery County)
San Luis Obispo, California and thereabouts (Caveman Room)
Kathmandu and thereabouts (Police Training Academy)
Besse/ Lac Pavin, France

― duke that, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

New Orleans
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Sydney
Denver

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

wow. you were the first one to list New Orleans.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Utrecht
2. Berlin
3. Seattle
4. NYC
5. Philadelphia

I've never been to the UK, otherwise London would probably be on my list.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

montréal
toronto
london
sydney
vancouver

(honourable mention goes to manchester & taipei)
(sorry trayce - maybe someday i'll get to visit melbourne and it can replace sydney. or even london¡)

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to love new orleans but last time i was there was a disappointment

― duke tipp, Monday, 9 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Last time I was in New Orleans, I got robbed at gunpoint. My sister and I were on ecstacy wandering in a bad neighborhood, so we were sort of asking for it.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

1. London, by a distance
2. NYC, the only other city I could imagine living, as it seems the most similar to London that I've experienced, in the ways that matter to me.
3. Istanbul, the best city I've ever holidayed in.
4. Paris, maybe somewhere I could live if the language wasn't an extra drawback, and somewhere I'd certainly have a flat if I were rich.
5. Barcelona, for the buildings mostly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

utrecht's nice and all...but...

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

1. NYC
2. Melbourne
3. Berlin
4. Tokyo
5. Beirut

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Chicago
San Francisco
Gary
Durango
Flagstaff

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Santiago de Chile
Beirut
New Orleans
Brooklyn
Los Angeles

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary, Indiana? Is that a city? I thought it was just a smoking crater.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like cities. Gary epitomizes a lot of what I don't like about them, therefore it is one of my favorites.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

G.I. gets a bad rap.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet it does. I've heard that it's, like, the armpit of the world. It couldn't be *that* bad.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenan you should check it out sometime. You like taking photos, right?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

All American cities depress me in the same way.

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I imagine Dieter from Sprockets posting that.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It's actually a quote form Harvey Pekar's wife in American Splendor

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

schaumburg, il
shamrock, tx
coral gables, fl
east st. louis, il
el centro, ca

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

El Centro smells absolutely heavenly.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha.

addendum: harris ranch, ca

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

gilroy, ca
gilroy, ca
gilroy, ca
gilroy, ca
gilroy, ca

― dean? (deangulberry), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

You must really like garlic.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

edinburgh
seattle
nyc
utrecht
athens

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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