<p>i live in LA and hate it. Like the other dude said, dirty, smoggy, gangs, bad school system, and wayyyy to superficial</p>
<p>I'd like to live in Malibu someday... Sure my house will burn down and then fall into the Ocean (or at least be flooded when there are heavy rains) but it's such a nice area!</p>
<p>my favorite three places - Seattle, San Diego, Vancouver
beautiful weather and great places to be, it's a shame they're so expensive</p>
<p>I am incredibly NOT suprised that no one mentioned Phoenix, this place bites it!</p>
<p>LA and SF are both good places to live. I prefer the South bay in LA and east bay up in SF. </p>
<p>And UCLAri. I used to play baseball in hs. Baseball is a team sport. Sure the statistics are individual, but winning and losing has more to do with team chemistry when there are similarly matched teams. I have played enough to know that a team with good chemistry can beat a better team on paper... I have coached and played enough to know that team chemistry is not an easy thing to come by, but when you have it, lots of good things start happening.</p>
<p>Of all the places I have been to, I would want to retire in Monterey CA.</p>
<p>What's there to do in a metropolis that you can't do in a medium sized town?</p>
<p>For instance, anyone who thinks Kansas City is more fun than Lawrence just because it's bigger is obviously mistaken.</p>
<p>I'm not saying suburbs are cool, because they're really not. But I don't know if I could live in the same town as a million other people. A town should be small enough that there's only one of everything--one McDonald's, one Wal Mart, and then a bunch of local shops.</p>
<p>"dirty, smoggy, gangs, bad school system, and wayyyy to superficial"</p>
<p>only in the "bad parts"</p>
<p>believe me, in parts of beverly hills, san marino, brentwood, etc you'd think that you'd stumbled into an expensive italian town where everybody drives mercedes or porsche</p>
<p>edit: and the girls are hot!</p>
<p>NYC tops everything. There's so many cool neighborhoods with different feels. I love love love it. </p>
<p>I also enjoy college in DC. Transportation is a pain with a car, but really accessible without one. The Metro goes pretty much everywhere you need to be. I love the government buildings with classical architecture. Not only does DC have beautiful monuments and parks, it has beautiful government headquarters with large columns and friezes. I've never seen so much marble in my life. </p>
<p>There's a pretty good bit of restaurants in DC. The area over near the mall gets pretty dead after night-fall but there's lots to do places NW of the White house. There's Foggy Bottom, Downtown eateries, Georgetown, and Dupont Circle. Georgetown is the place to be on weekends. </p>
<p>I really enjoy Buenos Aires, Argentina, San Francisco, California, Boston, MA, and Savannah, Georgia.</p>
<p>Nothing beats Paris. In fact, nothing comes close.</p>
<p>I've never been to Paris but I would love to go. I've taken a large amount of French. People I know who have been to Paris have liked it, but I've never heard that it is the best. Interesting. My favorite places so far are San Francisco and NYC(NYC native here so a little biased).</p>
<p>I agree, Paris has to be one of the best cities I've ever been to, I would love to live there if there wasn't the language barrier, I need to learn me some French.</p>
<p>In terms of US cities, I cannot see how New Orleans could ever possibly be beat. It's definately the most unique city in the US, it has almost a European feel to it, and the people in the city are so strangely interesting as well. It's like you're in a whole different world, especially if you stray away from the tourist world (I have a lot of family down there, I almost know that town better than I know Philly, and I'm only about 35 minutes away from that!) Oh, and the food? Absolutely amazing. I always come back thinking how bland and boring Philly food is after being in NOLA. Such fantastic food. The Crawfish, the Po-Boys, the Gumbo, it just can't be beat.</p>
<p>I dont see why everyone thinks Paris so great. I've been there three times and it definitely pales in comparison to London and Rome. Also I'm of French descent myself and have family who live in Nice. The Riviera is a much better place to live in my opinion. </p>
<p>DC is a fantastic city too. In addition to the world class museums and government landmarks, the city has an amazing nightlife and restaurants. It is always packed with interns and a young professional crowd who like to have fun. Georgetown is definitely the place be with the best bars, restaurants and upscale stores. If you eat at the right places, you are almosted guarenteed to spot a celebrity (although W doesnt go out much).</p>
<p>tokyo > paris</p>
<p>Ugh, no way. Shrek, have you lived in Tokyo? I mean, after seven weeks in the middle of Tokyo, I was pretty glad to go someplace less...Tokyo. I'd much rather live in a city like Kyoto or Nagoya or Osaka than Tokyo. All the nightlife and mass transit, none of the Edoko and ornery sarariman...</p>
<p>even though i've never been to or lived in tokyo, i'll probably agree with uclari. tokyo seems like a nice place to visit, but i wouldn't want to live there. :)</p>
<p>New York is top.</p>
<p>Shrek, we each have our opinion. Tokyo is one of the World's great cities and certainly makes a solid case for being #1. To me, of the World's great cities (between 7,000,000-15,000,000 people), Tokyo is 4th, behind Paris, London and NYC in that order.</p>
<p>New York is definetlyI lived there for 11 years. UGH</p>
<p>the weather is disgusting.</p>
<p>Winter=cold rain
Spring=we don't really have one because the ocean heats up slower than the land so we have a short but pleasant spring of about .....5 days
Summer=one front after another. Every three days it is the same cycle,
rain, hot muggy, hot less muggy, rain ....
throughout the summer there I could not even SIT in an non ac room without having my shirt stick to my back, gross feeling
Fall=nicest part of the year until the cold rains start.</p>
<p>i know everyone will tear me to pieces but here i go:
Its definitely mumbai, i know most of the ppl imagine mumbai/india to be a place of hunger, poverty but thats not it! i think its the best city purely bcoz of its ppl who are soo friendly and welcomin!
and except for the hot summers, weather is damn good</p>
<p>actually if I were to go with an indian city it would be hyderabad</p>
<p>yea, hyderabad is a lot more organised and tech-savvy but mumbai as they say is a melting point of cultures. so many diff ppl converge here.!</p>