12-07-2002 20:18									#31
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My favorite is probably Paris, but that wasn't the question. For greatest I had to pick London and New York. As far as the stuff that makes a city "great" - influential culture, influential economy, influential history - these two definitely stand above the rest on a current measure. You might pick somewhere like Athens if you were going for most total aggregate "greatness" from a historical perspective. But I don't think that is what "great" means.

But I'd rather live in Paris (or Vancouver, close second).

	12-07-2002 22:16									#32
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As someone who lives in Paris, I can't say I'd like to live there all my life (I'm sure I'll do though). When you're a tourist in Paris, you appreciate the "city" feel, and you'd like to be lazy there.
But Paris is the French city where people are the most stressed and fast. If you look at people in subway stations, you'll be surprised to see how fast they walk. Also, you have an overpopulated subway or permanent traffic jams at rush hour (maybe that's the same everywhere, I don't know).

There is however on thing in Paris which is excellent : Saint-Germain and Le Marais quarters. There you have the city feel even for people who live there, and you have an extremely interesting evening and night life (cinemas, bistros full of young people, restaurant, gay bistros in Le Marais etc.)
If you're in Paris forget about Champs Elysées and other tourist-milking crap, and go there !

	12-07-2002 22:19									#33
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Hey, where's Vienna in that poll?

	12-07-2002 22:24									#34
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True, I only have a tourist's perspective of Paris, but I've always found Paris' pace quite relaxing. Of course, I work in midtown Manhattan so by comparison ...

	12-07-2002 22:26									#35
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My personal favs are:

1. Vancouver (Canada)
2. Den Haag/Scheveningen (Holland)
3. Venice (Italy)
4. Florence (Italy)
5. Montreal (Canada)

	12-07-2002 23:20									#36
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Uhmmm

I wonder why so many people votes for Paris!

I've been there four times, and four times I went away in disgust.
It's dirty, too big, most of it's art come straight from Italy (one for all Monna Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci, or the Triumph Arch)
And is not a liveable city.

And also I can not understand why there are not some truly city-gems like:

Urbino (Italy): If you go there, go into the ducal palace.... I spent there 2 hours simply admiring the door!!! Never see a palace so beautyful in my life (so far)!

Florence (Italy): Come on! A city with so much art in it, homecity of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Dante and so on....

Prague (Czech Rep.): One of the most "atmosphere" city in the whole world. Everything is beutyful there, and Czechs are etween the nicest people too.

Anyway:
Voted for Athens, Rome, Venice and NY

Saluti

	12-07-2002 23:22									#37
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My favourites:
1. Cologne (can't help, born there, love the place)
2. Venice (Aaah those lunches at Mamma, the nights at Oswaldo)
3. Prague

Most overrated of those I've seen:
Brussels (nice buildings but the least cared-for city I've seen in Europe)
Paris (I hate everything gigantomaniac and the fact that a great part of the paintings in the Louvre is stolen).

	12-07-2002 23:25									#38
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I voted for NY, though I would have chosen San Francisco in a heartbeat had it been on the list.

	12-07-2002 23:27									#39
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Those on the list.. i'd have to go with NY.

	12-07-2002 23:47									#40
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London, Montreal, NewYork, Rome, Toronto. Not in that order.

Honourable mention to Vancouver.

	12-07-2002 23:53									#41
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Flint, Michigan REPRESENT!!!!

	13-07-2002 00:11									#42
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Flint Generals Rule!

oh wait I think they folded in the early 80s...

	13-07-2002 00:16									#43
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Washington is a nice place from a tourist's perspective, as it has lots of nice, white monuments to dazzle you (and to think you can buy Washington D.C. colouring books.)

	13-07-2002 00:16									#44
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Hmm, no Buenos Aires or Rio de Janero on the list, either...

	13-07-2002 00:18									#45
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I voted for London, Paris, NY, and Venice. Prague should have been on there.

Oh, and Atlanta isn't half bad either .

	13-07-2002 00:42									#46
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World's Greatest cities?

Vancouver.
New York
Paris

It's a mixed evaluation based on life standards, and beauty.

	13-07-2002 00:42									#47
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I've only been to LA, New York, and Chicago from the list, so I'll go with New York.

	13-07-2002 00:45									#48
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The greatest city is the one where your friends and loved ones are I wouldn't live anywhere else.

RAH
And I place a very biased vote for Chicago.

	13-07-2002 00:47									#49
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Sydney and Havana are tied...

	13-07-2002 01:19									#50
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My vote: NY, Venice, London
Should also be included: Florence, Vienna

	13-07-2002 01:23									#51
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Venice is extremely cool - but only for a couple of days and then you realize the place is like a fossil in amber - it looks amazing but the life is gone. In its day though, it must have been incredible.

	13-07-2002 02:03									#52
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Looks like New York is topping the list so far, with Paris and London in a statistical tie for 2nd place. Figures.

	13-07-2002 02:42									#53
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Sorry for not including Vancouver in the poll people. Never even crossed my mind. Where is Vancouver anyway?

	13-07-2002 02:59									#54
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Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and San Fran are all in Northern California. Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, and Mexico City are all in Southern California.

	13-07-2002 03:00									#55
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New york, But on second thought. The people in Chicago are way nicer. London is alot cleaner then most North American cities. And Montreal, (atleast the parts ive seen) are a dump

I voted for all of them, because I can. Except baghdad, why would that be on the list? I thought we bombed most of the big buildings (they had a few of them)

	13-07-2002 03:01									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Sten Sture . . .Mexico City are all in Southern California.

Correction: Mexico City is in Mexico.

	13-07-2002 03:07									#57
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Correction: Mexico is in Southern California.

	13-07-2002 03:49									#58
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quote: Originally posted by Sten Sture Correction: Mexico is in Southern California.

Do you even know your geography dude? Mexico is a totally different country than the United States!

	13-07-2002 03:52									#59
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Mexico City, Baghdad, and Havana?

How about La Paz, Khartoum, and Addis Ababa? Kinshasa? Ulan-Batar?

In all sincerity, where's Seoul, Korea? It's got some very beautiful temples and landmarks.

	13-07-2002 03:55									#60
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You're getting snared in his web, Cloud9. Note his location.