If you ha to choose a different ciry to live in anywhere on earth, which one will it be and why?

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I'd say NY:
endless choices of gigs and movies, some friends, and a welcome cosmopolite atmosphere.

(seconded: Melbourne/Vancouver - great cities, but waaay too far from my where i live now..)

― emekars (emekars), Monday, 29 May 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

oops...misspelling..sorry

― emekars (emekars), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

my perennial three are nyc, austin, and san francisco

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Vancouver BC. seemed to be clean & beautiful the one time I visited. added bonus: legal weed (not a criteria for moving but still...)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

I wd really like to become a independently wealthy and then move to the far north and become a recluse.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Melbourne would be a solid choice for me - the most cosmopolitan Austrailian city I visited, but still with that sense of optimism and space which you just don't get in the UK. I adored Budapest as well, but don't really fancy learning Hungarian. For a completely wacky choice I'd go for Hanoi, but I don't think I could live there for more than a year or so.

xpost - is this the polar bears and Lois Lanes thing again, Huk?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Tough call between London and Amsterdam. London is cosmopolitan, more culture simply by dint of being large. But pricey. Amsterdam - I just get good vibes from the Netherlands. Bike culture, conveniently located in Europe, also relatively cosmopolitan. Canals! (St. Petersburg would almost certainly rank up if it weren't so cold and dark all the time.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

If I was adopted by Bill Gates and money wasn't an issue: NYC
otherwise: Portland or Austin

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

LA a few years into the future, when the public transportation is better and there's less global warming cuz everyone's using biodiesel

― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Tokyo, Berlin, NYC

― Baaderonixx rides the neon lights (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

actually, I think I'd pick SF over NYC for the weather

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

As a fun variation, maybe we could specify that you have to live in the VERY WORST part of the city. Suddenly Rio doesn't sound so good, eh?

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Monday, 29 May 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

you mean the best-worst part of a city?
i guess mumbai is not a chice (the worst place in mumbai, which is worse for itself, is called "the cage" - where prostituts and criminals living together in filth, and the taxi driver is driving fast, with the windows closed - so no one will rob you inside)

― emekars (emekars), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

you mean the best-worst part of a city?
i guess mumbai is not a choice (the worst place in mumbai, which is worse for itself, is called "the cage" - where prostituts and criminals living together in filth, and the taxi driver is driving fast, with the windows closed - so no one will rob you inside)

― emekars (emekars), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

chicago
dublin
london
paris

― gear (gear), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

No where else in the US. I'd love to live in Tokyo, Berlin, London, etc.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

roma

― and what (ooo), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

seattle, vancouver, calgary, chicago, austin. wouldn't mind spending a year or two in london or paris or barcelona or melbourne or christchurch or etc. but would never want to live there for longer than that.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Vancouver, though I felt very content in Denver. Do smaller towns count as cities? Moab, Utah was nice :)

― Crimea River (Mark C), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Barcelona - good weather, beautiful architecture, culture, a nice beach, great restaurants, bars and clubs, cool people. Nothing beats Barcelona.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Alternates: NY, London, Seattle, Dublin

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I was being flip about legal weed in Vancouver cause I've been to Amsterdam and probably wouldn't want to live there and I lived in Ann Arbor during the daze of semi-legal weed and definitely wouldn't want to go back there...somewhere in the vicinity of Santa Barbara might be nice if by some mirace I get my hands on "fuck-you" money.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

mirace = miracle though mirage works too

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

the only place that might excite me more than NYC qua place would be LA - for its sun, its laidbackness, its mildness, its vastness, its rocknrollness, its access to the outdoors. but I'm not sure how well/for how long I'd adjust to a West Coast/non-pedestrian life. SF might be a good middle-ground, but I have yet to experience the reality. if i had to leave NYC and choose somewhere else, I'd probably go to DC for its manageable cosmopolitanism, greenery, semi-parisian layout, touch of Southernness, and the company town culture.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

mentalist!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

i moved there(Portland).

still, Vancouver BC if shit got bad here, and maybe Sydney/Melbourne/London if shit got REALLY bad

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Vancouver seems great, but i'm not sure i could live even that far outside the US.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 29 May 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd move in Halifax in a heartbeat if I (or anyone else) could get a decent paying job out there. London, Engerland (the one here sucks bum) would interesting I hope.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 29 May 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Halifax in Yorkshire could be a compromise?

― Crimea River (Mark C), Monday, 29 May 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Only if they have a bar named The Marquee.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I have been unreasonably happy in both Alice Springs and Athens, although I've always fancied living and working in Bangkok. I'm not brave enough to move out there on my own though.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Then after Bangkok you can move on to C. Calcutta? Cannes?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I actually quite like Calcutta too :)

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

NYC, Montreal, Paris

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

if i had to move from nyc, i'd live in either LA, Chicago, or Berlin. Maybe Melbourne, but its really small

― phil at antexits house (antexit), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

My friend moved to Halifax. She likes it there. I liked it there too, when I visited. And you have easy access to some fantastic outdoors-iness.

It would be Christchurch for me. I felt really, really at home there when we went. Loads of second-hand book dealers, loads of coffee shops, nice pubs, nice cinemas, and I loved the market up around the university on the weekend. Also the fantastic running joke of "hurry up! We'll miss the tram!" And the proximity to the amazing blah de blah. And it's only 12 hours from California and less than that from Australia. Yep, Christchurch.

Alternates: NY, London, Seattle, Dublin

This is very sweet, but William, Dublin is a kip.

Oh oh, I love Paris too. I really do love Paris. But only if I can live in the very middle of it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

though if i were white, i'd try tokyo or seoul. but not HK or singapore

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

I much prefer Dublin to Paris!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

In that case you should definitely not let me go through with my fiendish plan to raze Dublin to the ground.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

probably london or chicago.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

New York would be top, but I'd be hapily move back to Italy, Barcelona would be good, I reckon I could pick up the language pretty quickly.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

canoga park
reseda
panorama city
northridge
london

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

London (friends, things to do, I just like it - possibly because I've never lived there),
Barcelona (beautiful, warm, fun)
Inverness (family)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Sydney or San Francisco, in a heartbeat. Going to SF in August actually. I'm so excited I migt barf.

― caek (caek), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Muenster, Germany where I was born.

And I want to die in the small bedroom of 26 Wilhelm Raabe Hof, Osnabrueck, which was my first home.

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Bristol

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Montreal. Esp if I could take my boi with me - he could get a mad job at ubisoft or somewhere.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, MTL would be a good one too. I'd eat myself to death in five years.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Mmm poutine.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

I would want to live in Ithaca if I could get a job at Cornell or in New York City if I could get a job at Columbia. San Francisco would be nice because I know people in the area but it might be too close to where I grew up. I would want to live in Paris most for the city itself, but I don't know if I could find a job there. Somehow I feel that Paris would be less foreign than London.

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

1. Tokyo
2. Montreal
3. NYC
4. Fukuoka

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Any urban area in the UK, population 250,000+ (with the exception of Milton Keynes, Hull, and Belfast)

Dublin

Cork looks interesting and compact

Eastern Europe, Scandinavia (all)

A city in France that's not Paris

Montréal

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Adelaide, S.A. - because I lived there for 6 months when I was 13 and I'd love to be there again as an adult.

Second place: Buenos Aires
Third: Anywhere in Finland

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't have any great desire to move away from NYC any time soon, but I think the top choices for me would be Portland (Oregon), Los Angeles, and Montreal. Maybe London.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

not london.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

for me, los angeles.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Toronto, for obvious reasons.

But if she decides to settle here in London, then London will become a new and different city for me and that will be more than good enough :-)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

NYC probably top,
more realistically - London or Exeter

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:54 (twenty years ago)

tokyo: my parents live there
ny and london are 2 & 3

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

It would have to change with the seasons. Prague and Nice in summer, Hong Kong in autumn, Rio de Janeiro in Spring, and somewhere nice and mild in winter, wherever that may be.

― salexander (salexander), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Exactly! Why be limited to one city? I'd like to have a nice place in Manhattan for the spring and fall, a place in London for summer, a place in, oh, I don't know, Vieques, Puerto Rico for the winter (which is an island, not a city), and the income/career to be able to flit around at whim!
I also love Seattle - i lived there for many years, so maybe a place there as well, just for fun.
And New Orleans, for the winter, when I'm not in Vieques.
And maybe Havana?
Oh, and Prague.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I realize I didn't answer the question. My imagination got a hold of me...sorry!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

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