<p>no way!!the best place is here,in london!!! its so cool! =)</p>
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Big city (2.5 million+). Very low violent crime rate. Good walking city. Very diverse population.
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<pre><code>* White: 2,886,400 or 86.8%
* Blacks: 129,705 or 3.9%
* Arab: 67,830 or 2.0%
* Asian: 56,655 or 1.7%
* Chinese: 50,115 or 1.5%
* mixed race: 46,900 or 1.4%,
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal</a></p>
<p>Mostly all white (not very diverse by liberal standards), maybe that has something to do with low crime? Come to St. Louis and tell me which is more diverse :p. </p>
<p>St. Louis is the worse city, awful looking, ghettos and horrible crime rates (I think it's ranked number one). West County is aright though, Ladue, Creve Coeur, Town & Country, and Frontenac. These places are probably 98% white though. St. Louis area is pretty segregated.</p>
<p>EDIT: Paris is a nice city in some parts. There are a lot of ghettos from recent Muslims immigrants though. A month a go they went around torching cars everywhere. A lot of recent problems with minorities have occurred in France and Western Europe in general so say my friends from France and Germany.</p>
<p>San Diego sucks - if you're 60 and planning to die in a couple years, go for it.</p>
<p>I like Montreal, and NYC as well, except NYC is too expensive for me if I wanted to live the way I wanted to (otherwise I'd go for it). </p>
<p>Seattle and Portland seem like really great liveable cities as far as America goes.</p>
<p>dearborn no um ann arbor mich is pretty sweet</p>
<p>Boston is the best, hands down</p>
<p>Los Angeles.</p>
<p>yeah, the crime rate is high and there is terrible traffic and fogs and terrible education system and poverty, but that's only in downtown LA, which is pretty ghetto. the price tags on houses are growing because more and more people are moving here, but there are a lot of job opportunities here. </p>
<p>well, i'll admit that the more richer you are, the more you'll like this city. i go to school in this really really affluent suburban city called San Marino ( it was mentioned earlier) and all of the streets are clean. if you've seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith or Rumor Has It, be notified that the houses and streets featured in those movies were filmed in San Marino and places in its vincinity. students(yes, STUDENTS) at my school drives mercedes and porches. my school teaches fairly well. my school's student population is 75%asian/25%white.</p>
<p>anyway, don't always judge los angeles from the smoke and fogs and traffic. that's only on the freeways. the suburbans cities are cool though.</p>
<p>I LOVE Santa Monica. Of course LA gets a bad rap, but like you said, that's mostly downtown LA. My life's purpose is to go back there (we moved up to the Seattle area).</p>
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anyway, don't always judge los angeles from the smoke and fogs and traffic
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<p>Hate to break it to you, but they have a word that combines "smoke" and "fog." It's called smog.</p>
<p>SF Bay Area...good weather yr round...lots of stuff to do..also no smog here unlike the LA Area..less traffic too</p>
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<p>Hmm...I've seen some brown crud in the air in downtown SF. I wouldn't say NO smog, just less smog.</p>
<p>I'll have to agree with T-Peck on St. Louis.The city sucks, but west county, and st. charles county are decent. A lot of wealth in those areas, both st. charles and west county. The only difference is that West County has stuff to do unlike St. Charles. St. Louis is a crapshot though. I don't know why everyone makes a big deal about the loop, I just find it a place with some stores here and there, and a high crime rate. The Hill is alright, food is really good, but it's not a place to hang out like some might think.</p>
<p>I have family out in Town + Country. they've got the whole picket fence American Dream thing going on.</p>
<p>there's an organization that annually ranks 'the world's most livable cities'. and Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia tend to come out on top.</p>
<p>...I believe it</p>
<p>Ha go down the loop until you cross into the city, It's a total war zone.</p>
<p>Notice the socioeconomic divide? Does a middle class exist over there?</p>
<p>Melbourne is quite nice ... not as nice as sydney of course (i have to say that though since i live in sydney).</p>
<p>Ive been to LA and i cant say im a huge fan. There seemed to be too much cement or something. Maybe i was in the wrong part though. </p>
<p>I think Prague is beautiful. I love Nice too. Oh so many places are wonderful. </p>
<p>Whats boston like to live in? I may be moving there but i dont really know much about it. All i know is rent is expensive.</p>
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Mostly all white (not very diverse by liberal standards), maybe that has something to do with low crime? Come to St. Louis and tell me which is more diverse .
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<p>Silly Tpeck, if you take the breakdown by skin color (sort of, seperating Asian and Chinese, what kind of a weird classification is that?), of course you won't see the diversity. You might want to look at the language distribution instead... And this "lack of diversity" does nothing to explain the low crime rate. Toronto has a similar (and lower in general) crime rate and has more foreign-born citizens than any other city in the world except Sydney.</p>
<p>Don't know about Toronto, but I know that Sydney has a lot of problems with Immigrants from the Middle East. Didn't you see the race riots they were having on the beaches over there? They were all over the news a few weeks back.</p>
<p>So they might. I'm just saying diversity by itself is not a factor in crime-rate. You need to take into account the economic, historical and social context. I'm also saying that diversity isn't measured simply by the distribution of skin pigmentation of the population.</p>
<p>I live in Rhode Island, smallest state in America. If you think Connecticut is small, come and marvel at the incredible size of RI compared to CT. It's not even half, maybe 1/3 of CT's size. But it's a cool state and I love it, depending solely which town you live in, that is.</p>
<p>"You need to take into account the economic, historical and social context."</p>
<p>OK, look at the Ozarks of Missouri or the state of West Virginia. They are pretty much one group of people, and are dirt poor with no money, yet they don't go around killing, robbing or raping. </p>
<p>Diversity is a factor.</p>