City I dislike: Gary, Indiana from my childhood memories(the smell!)
City I think is overrated: New Orleans, Austin, LA
City I like: Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam
City I love: Chicago, Nice, Vevey (Switzerland)
City I feel most myself in: Chicago
City I still need to visit: Tokyo
City I dream of living in: I’m very happy where we live now
Favorite city of all time: tbd
It’s fun to daydream, but this is giving me wanderlust 
City I dislike: St Louis
City I think is overrated: Amsterdam
City I like: Inverness
City I love: Barcelona
City I feel most myself in: Charlottesville
City I still need to visit: Seattle, Miami, everywhere outside US/Europe
City I dream of living in: Oh geez… Barcelona? Sevilla?
Favorite city of all time: Austin in the 1980s
I didn’t list a city I disliked (because I am a city person) , but I had forgotten about Las Vegas.
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I forgot about Vegas too. That should trump LA on my list too for most disliked city.
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City I dislike: New Delhi (though happy to have seen it), Miami
City I think is overrated: Seattle, Vienna, Vegas
City I like: Edinburgh, London, Budapest, Madrid, Reyjavik, San Francisco, Portland, ME, WDC (though not the weather)
City I love: New York; Lisbon, Rome
City I feel most myself in: New York
City I still need to visit: Chicago! many others outside the US
City I dream of living in: probably done with city living at this point, but maybe Portland, ME or Burlington VT?
Favorite city of all time:
I’m truly surprised to see London listed so often and so favorably. Maybe I’m clueless but I have no desire or interest in going there!
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City I dislike: Las Vegas
City I think is overrated: San Francisco
City I like: Seattle, Boston, Honolulu, San Diego
City I love: Stockholm
City I feel most myself in: Seattle (heck, three decades plus hanging out in its greater area)
City I still need to visit: London, NYC, and Rio
City I dream of living in: Stockholm in the summer, Honolulu or San Diego in the winter (but my little city is mighty fine for the time being! 
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City I dislike: Las Vegas
City I think is overrated: New Orleans (doesn’t help that I’m not much of a jazz fan)
City I like: Munich (food, museums, parks)
City I love: New York (but I love it a lot more not actually living in it) I also loved Hong Kong in 2018 before China ramped up control and Covid, but I would have loved it more if I’d spoken Cantonese.
City I feel (felt) most myself in: Pasadena in the early 1980s, it’s over-gentrified now, but the last time I was there was for a college visit for my son in 2007
City I still need to visit: Barcelona
City I dream of living in: I’m pretty happy where I am, but I wouldn’t mind extended visits to lots of places. Maybe a few months in London? I’ve been there many times (though not recently), but never for more than a few weeks at a time.
Favorite city of all time: Los Angeles in the 1980s (loved the architecture, loved the scenery, loved the museums, loved the food and even secretly loved the car culture.)
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London has great museums, some lovely parks, and lots of interesting architecture. The summer I was there supposedly working on my senior thesis on low-cost housing I played hooky with friends for a week going to the theater every day and sometimes twice a day going to matinees.
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I like how easy it is to get around to the abundant London tourist attractions (museums/historical landmarks/etc). There are also lots of ‘easy to get to’ day trip destinations. The theater offerings are great. Language isn’t an issue.
Fwiw, we tend to fly into either London or Paris for our European vacations from O’Hare. Our familiarity with the cities plays into our enjoyment. We haven’t been bored yet…finding new things to explore each time. That’s because we tend to plan long-ish trips (3-4 weeks) and we like getting acclimated before heading to other, often new to us, European cities. We haven’t been bored at either location yet.
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On my post I added that London was a city that surprised me. I wasn’t interested in going at all, until we were invited to go with friends. Without that invitation, we would never have planned to go there. Absolutely not on my bucket list. But I loved it, and would go back in a heartbeat.
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London is a great city. Walkable, interesting, lots to do, great public transport.I’ve been multiple times and wouldn’t hesitate to go back. On the other hand I should have added Dublin to my list of overrated cities but Galway to the list of cities I like.
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London has a lot going for it for a big city. Great and easy public transportation. It’s clean. Lots of trees and public parks. Very diverse. All kinds of people. Day trips are easily done by train. It’s my favorite city of top 50 most populous that I have been to, which admittedly is not very many. I like it better than NYC, San Francisco, LA, any American city.
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City I dislike:
City I think is overrated: San Fransisco
City I like: London
City I love: Sydney
City I feel most myself in: Washington, DC
City I still need to visit: Nashville
City I dream of living in: Charleston, NC
Favorite city of all time:Sydney
City I dislike: Manchester NH
City I think is overrated: Dallas
City I like: Columbus
City I love: Chicago
City I feel most myself in: Home!
City I still need to visit: Sidney
City I dream of living in: San Diego
Favorite city of all time: Cape Town
City I dislike: San Francisco
City I think is overrated: San Francisco, San Diego, Rome, Nashville, New Orleans
City I like: Chicago, NYC
City I love: Madrid
City I feel most myself in: Madrid, Los Angeles
City I still need to visit: Vancouver, Montreal, London, Istanbul
City I dream of living in: Madrid
Favorite city of all time: Madrid
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City I dislike: Dallas
City I think is overrated: San Francisco (I said what I said)
City I like: San Diego
City I love: NYC
City I feel most myself in: LA
City I still need to visit: Berlin, Mexico City, Tokyo, Vancouver, Montreal
City I dream of living in: NYC, London
Favorite city of all time: NYC
And because I liked some of the other people’s additions:
Best Under-Rated City: Austin
City I need to spend more time in: Stockholm