Good urbanism here: https://spiromounds.com/img/cahokia.jpg – see the individual neighbourhoods, public spaces, etc.
New Yaak greatest city in da world baby love da mets love da bodegas ehh I'm walkin heah get my $1 pizza from a shop down da street
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I think this is sarcasm but Id like to submit an unironic NYC baby
So much history, so much culture. Is it in a downturn? Yeah, wealth is choking out my beautiful bitch but so is everywhere else. Ive never felt home anywhere else.
Yeah this is mostly unironic. NYC is deeply flawed but there's too much good to pass it up. My favorite city that I've been to is NYC.
Haven’t been able to travel much outside of the United States. But I love Chicago. Green spaces, public transit, strong unions, a blue collar vibe, local dive bars, beautiful lakefront, a passionate sports city. Checks all the boxes for me.
Amsterdam. Tremendously walkable, green spaces everywhere, canals are cozy, and isn't nearly as scarily white as some cities on the continent can be. It's got all the buzz of a big city without a lot of the drawbacks. That said, I'd love to visit Paris as the last few years have seen it make serious strides towards walkability, and it maintains a multi-ethnic vibe with bomb food.
EDIT: Also weirdly Sarajevo. Very cozy place, although I'm not sure I'd live there.
Implying that I was ever able to travel to another city. So my favorite city is Buenos Aires, because I basically never left this cursed piece of shit.
I love fallas, totally worth all the children throwing fire crackers at your head for a couple weeks. Objectively the whole thing should be sensory overload hell for my autistic ass but it was such a good time that somehow it wasn't
All aboard! Next stop, Pound Town!
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Berlin. So much to see. Awesome beer. Amazing subway system. Cheap food. Turkish food. Amazing subway system. Turkish food.
Plus it has a socialist history* and is very affordable for Europe thanks to rent control. Frankfurt is the finance center of Germany but Berlin is the arts center.
I've never been but I'd like to.
*and a bit of cringe history tbf :side-eye-1:
Definitely. Seattle is a beautiful city. Austin has so much to do, like 2 stepping, chicken shit bingo, queso.
Stockholm and Dublin had a lot going for them, just based off the little time I've spent there (one week in each)
Never been, am dirty American, so can't really compare.
Well, my favorite place I saw in Ireland was Dingle as far as towns go, but that doesn't seem like it would fit as an answer for favorite "city" since I definitely wouldn't call it that. Dublin was fantastic for history, loved seeing all the historic sites, and I liked the food a lot. It might be coloring my opinion that that was the first place we stayed in Ireland, and spend the rest of our time there travelling around, so we didn't stay more than a day or two in one place after leaving Dublin.
Oh fair, Dublin definitley has a lot of cool historical places. Also Dingle is pretty much the best rural Irish experience there is.
I live in Ireland and I'd say the nicest city is Galway (although by most other countries standards it would be a town). Really nice coastline, good night life, the people are good, it still has a well-preserved style (19th century? idk but its nice) and theres a really nice Christmas fair on this time of year. Dublin is also nice, but there are some really depressing places. Cork is fine but uninspiring, Belfast still feels extremely divided.
My favourite city that I've actually been to is Edinburgh, I've been a few times and it's beautiful. Also Aberdeen is really nice and clean and Glasgow seems like a lot of fun, but I was only there for a day. Other than that, I loved Madrid and would love to go back to Spain, and I was in Rome for a couple days and it was pretty cool.
Now for least favourite cities... sorry @kristina but Prague sucks. Maybe I was in a really bad area but all my group got sick except me and not many of us liked the food, and I didn't get to see much of the city centre
Ah fuck, Galway was really fun too. Only spent 1 day there though.
how dare
tbf i havent visited prague that much. i just fly in and taxi out. i always liked the mountain villages in the north the most. very cozy :comfy:
also not liking czech food? :guts-rage: czech food is only beer! the bavarians are casuals we oktoberfest every day
Well I was like 14 or something at the time so beer wouldn't have been my go to. I liked those twirly pastry things I guess
Tbf I think half the people I knew were drinking when I was 14. Not me though because I never got invited to the cool people parties
Mostly just because I studied abroad there, but I loved Fukuoka, Japan. A small costal city with mountains in the background, a nice simple subway from one side to the other, nice big sidewalks and very bike-able, and there were plenty of nerdy little shops and bookstores to hunt for deals and rare finds. The climate is warm and tropical, with occasional monsoons that can come down pretty hard, but that just adds character imo. Speaking of character, there's a nice big park with the ruins of an ancient castle, with lots of cherry trees around. I think there's other places in Japan that are pretty similar, but a lot of people (including a lot of Japanese people) seem to focus on Tokyo which imo is too big and noisy and expensive. As far as big cities in Japan, I think Kyoto is a bit more chill and it's also very beautiful, but I was only there for a bit. Ofc the problem with the smaller/mid-sized cities is finding other Westerners/English speakers. Ofc we have a :japan-cool: emoji for a reason but as far as urban design goes I'm pretty envious.
Of places I've been, which is a pretty damn random set:
Milan for walkability and human-friendly architecture, Tokyo for transit and amazing amount of shit to do.
I also really like Auckland and Seattle, which are the same city.
Limiting it just to places I've been to... San Francisco is honestly an achingly beautiful city with unparalleled views compared to pretty much any major international city and decent (for the US) public transportation. You can choose to be bothered by the money and the extreme libness of it... or you can just choose to walk around and appreciate what it has to offer. You'll have a good time if you do the later.
