<p>Can I get a burger in Mumbai?
MMM..Holy animal</p>
<p>Santa Monica/Marina Del Rey/Venice in LA. My favorite place on Earth.</p>
<p>NYC, no question. </p>
<p>It blows all other US cities out of the water in terms of restaurants, museums, nightlife and the arts. You also have the potential to be more mega-successful here than pretty much anywhere else (though, of course, that remains a long shot). Add to that the distinctive neighborhoods that often make the HUGE city feel like a collection of quaint small towns and the breathtaking sense of energy, diversity and sheer power provided by its unparalleled skyline and there is not a more dynamic place to live in the country. Oh, and people are thin here since everyone walks all over the place. Along with Boston and maybe DC and Chicago, NY is the only city where one can easily survive without a car--a great plus in my mind.</p>
<p>In terms of foreign cities. Paris is gorgeous, I absolutely adored it on my visit. But I'm sorry, the people who live there are terrible, if not to one another, then definitely to anyone who is not a native of the city. And how 'bout that anti-semitism? I definitely prefer London, if only because the Brits are more tolerable than Parisians. Still, I just didn't feel the same excitement walking the streets there that I do in NYC. Rome is also a great place, but a bit too rooted in very ancient history to qualify as a great modern capital IMHO.</p>
<p>BTW, here is a Money Magazine ranking of the 100 best places to live in the country. I guess if you're not a city person, you can move out to Larchmont (#11), the nearest suburb of NYC. Although it looks like it'll cost a pretty penny to do so...</p>
<p>Wellesley, MA is a very nice town to live in IMO.</p>
<p>Austin is flippin amazing...</p>
<p>Best places to LIVE hands down:
Greenwich, CT
Scottsdale, AZ
Paradise Valley, AZ
Ann Arbor, MI</p>
<p>Best CITIES in general:
Paris
London
NYC
SF</p>
<p>Best cities for a VACATION HOUSE:
St. Tropez, France
Alicante, Spain
Bodrum, Turkey
Trancoso, Brazil
Albufeira, Portugal
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos
Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic
Kefalonia, Greece
Puerto Banus, Spain
Harbour Island, The Bahamas
Corsica, France</p>
<p>Ugh, I <em>hated</em> Arizona when I visited. I just don't think I could ever get used to the desert and strip-mall culture I found out there. Plus, all the homes look exactly the same. Strangely sterile...</p>
<p>Although I will say there were some pretty sunsets...</p>
<p>cswim06: True there are a lot of places in AZ like that but Paradise Valley and the wealthier parts of Scottsdale are amazing places to live...you have great weather (almost year round except july/august which are hot), in PV and Scottsdale you don't have that many strip malls there are many outdoor malls, upscale dining, great nightlife, etc. You also have a golf course every 5 minutes, the homes in these two cities are amazing you live in a 5000-40000 sq ft home and pay 1/3 of what you'd pay for that house anywhere else in the US (10x more in NYC/LA/SF)... Why do you think practically every athlete in the US & a bunch of celebrities lives here? It was cool the other day I was at the gym and I was on a treadmill between Michael Jordan & Charles Barkeley and a few people down where Carmen Electra & Jenna Jameson :)</p>
<p>St. Louis is great because you get the attractions of a city, yet the population is a lot smaller then say NYC or Chicago.</p>
<p>But you don't really get attractions of the same stature as those in New York or Chicago.</p>
<p>Kinglin, you need to get out more! LOL St Louis is a decent city, just like Cleveland or Pittsburgh, but it is no Chicago or NYC. I mean, if I were to name the top 10 cities in the US, St Louis would not make my list. Of cities with populations over 300,000, I would put Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, DC, NYC, Philladelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and a couple others ahead of St Louis.</p>
<p>Philly! The city's amazing; you've got the nightlife and the clubs, plus the historic district with its historical sites, and countless restaurants, and entertainment and shopping venues.</p>
<p>My Top 5:</p>
<p>1) New York</p>
<p>2) Chicago</p>
<p>3) San Francisco</p>
<p>4) Boston</p>
<p>5) LA</p>
<p>Such US centricism cswim. LOL</p>
<p>My top 10 major cities are:</p>
<h1>1 Paris</h1>
<p>Barcelona
Berlin
Chicago
Florence
London
Montreal
San Francisco
Vancouver</p>
<p>My bad, I meant to rank US cities. If taking foriegn cities into account, I'd rank London, Paris and Rome (in that order) behind New York and in front of Chicago.</p>
<p>Chicago is the best city to live in.</p>
<p>Alexandre, are population isn't over 300,000. I heard we were at 299,000 based on a STLtoday report. But I am not sure of that, for I've heard we are around 330,000 from other sources. But honestly what more do you need? We've got ton's of clubs, Forest Park(bigger then Central Park), the Muny, the Fox, St. Louis Art Museum, three very well respected locally and nationally sports teams, and lots of river front attractions.</p>
<p>Washington, DC metro area esp. suburbs in Fairfax County, VA and Montgomery County, MD</p>
<p>Other nice places:</p>
<p>NYC
Bay Area
Seattle
Sydney
London
Paris
Dubai
Lahore
Hong Kong
Rome</p>