Best city in USA?

[Seabiscuit]

Quality of life, place to live, place to visit, best restaurants, best shopping, best museums, best music, best art, best festivals, best tourist attractions, etc.

[Seabiscuit]

1. Wow. Three votes already and I FORGOT BOSTON!!!

Shame on me!

[msgadget]

37. I LOVE Boston

but not to drive in.

[Quetzal]

57. I second that

some of the worst driving on this planet.

[GreenPartyVoter]

82. A vote for Beantown here, too

[Cadence]

89. Gotta go with Boston as well.

[slutticus]

2. What, no Boston?

Come on.

I would vote boston if it were there (I'm just in love with that city), but i'll have to go with San Fran.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

21. I picked other, Boston.

[lpbk2713]

26. Yes, Boston

Something for everyone there.

[PartyPooper]

3. London, England!

:bounce:

[tuvor]

4. I've only been to Seattle and Las Vegas.

And you didn't have Las Vegas as a choice. :(

(BTW, I really DID like Seattle.)

[Seabiscuit]

9. Problem: only 10 choices available (1 is other).

So I tried to spread it out geographically and overlooked some obvious choices which should have made the list: namely, Boston and Las Vegas. Sorry.

[Skittles]

5. Chicago

my kind of town

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. I doubt we truly know the best city in the USA...

I'm sure it's a nice little secret.
Duckie

[Seabiscuit]

13. I know. And I'm keeping it a secret. I don't want any more people here.

[St. Etienne]

7. San Diego by far n/t

[Seabiscuit]

12. Unfortunately, DU isn't agreeing with us. SF and NY are winning.

[Tweed]

71. Is this a joke?

San Diego is conservative hell.

[Zynx]

79. It's still a nice place.

[Az]

8. What!? No Detroit!?

Keep laughing funny boy. You gonna get jacked up that way.

[really annoyed]

96. Thank You

Thank you for exploiting stereotypes about Detroit. It's appreciated.

It will never make a "best city" list, but some people actually try to live in this area....

[Donkeyboy75]

100. .

:nopity:

[Turn CO Blue]

10. San Diego or Austin. (Although Boulder is nice, too!) n/t

[Placebo]

11. N Y C

I absolutely love it. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. Not that I could ever live there because I'd have to be a millionaire to live the way I'd want to, and for half of what I would spend there I could get a palace in Chicago.

But boy oh boy is NYC great. *dreamy sigh*

[Bill of Rights]

14. Minneapolis often wins these types of awards.

Of your list, the only thing we don't have are the "best restaurants."

[Seabiscuit]

15. What... no one likes L.A., Atlanta or New Orleans?

Should I have left them off the list?

[Seabiscuit]

18. Someone just rang New Orleans' bell.

[Guaranteed]

16. I vote for SF *and* NYC...

And Vegas is alright, too. :)

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. I've only ever been to Seattle, so I voted for that,

:shrug:



Plus we have some of the best music and bands, and well hell, us north-westerners are just so nice. :D

[progmom]

19. C'mon, what about Ann Arbor?

You know you love us!

[Seabiscuit]

25. Is Ann Arbor a city or a college town?

[Az]

27. Its no town

It does have a college, but it has a lot going for it beyond the college.

[progmom]

34. Oh, it's a city.

You should check us out. A fine liberal outpost.

[Az]

38. We go there once a month

for the monthly animania get togethers.

[dazeconf]

46. Ann Arbor's a nice college town, but it's not NYC/CHI/SF

I've lived in Ann Arbor for 4 years as a student... great college town, but I'm actually starting to get sick of it. There's a lot more to do in any large city. AA would be a good place to raise a family though.

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

80. I grew up in Ann Arbor

It is a great place to raise a family. It's changed a lot in the last 50 years. I think the availability of the various music venues and the great radio stations we have access to are Ann Arbor's best features. I try to stay away from anything related to "Go Blue".

[progmom]

85. My thoughts exactly.

Great music, tons of bookstores, great farmer's market.
If one has to live in the midwest, this is the place to do it.

[Mr_Spock]

20. How could you forget BOSTON!!

I'm a bit annoyed at you :D

[Seabiscuit]

23. See my first reply to my thread - how could I FORGET BOSTON???

Sorry - only 10 possibles in a DU poll and I wasn't thinking straight. If I had 20 possibles I still would have run out of cities which deserve consideration.

[Renew Deal]

22. NYC.

I can't believe San Fran is even close.

[Placebo]

24. My thoughts exactly.

[Seabiscuit]

28. Believe it. As of now, SF 12, NYC 11.

[Seabiscuit]

29. BTW, don't ever call SF "San Fran" or especially "Frisco" to a native

San Franciscan. They call it "The City".

[Placebo]

31. Everyone calls THEIR city "The City"...

:P

[Seabiscuit]

32. Not in the city I live in. (It's the best, so it's a secret)

[Tweed]

72. I can't believe anyone voted for New York City

What a terrible city.

[Renew Deal]

83. You wish

Besides being the capital of the world, it's the safest big city in the country. It's just an amazing place.

[SweetLeftFoot]

103. Capital of the world

For maybe another 20 years - then its Shanghai and the Pearl River delta megalopolis baby.

[WindRavenX]

30. NYC

Capital of the fucking World!

[Placebo]

33. I love how you think WindRaven.

;)

[WindRavenX]

36. Hey you and me should get an apartment in NYC

...a newer and improved Will and Grace!
('Cept I'm not red headed or skinny...)

[Placebo]

39. And I'm not fully gay...

or that physically fit or fashionable. :shrug:

[WindRavenX]

40. Like I said

New and improved! :D

[NCN007]

35. OAKTOWN! and berkeley too

More soul then SF.

[Seabiscuit]

45. Yo, Bezerkely! My alma mater.

[Arugula Latte]

114. Yo Seabuscuit -- me too.

Class of '88.

I luuuvs mah Berkeley.

[stopbush]

41. I live in Vegas, but I lived in NYC for 20 years.

I voted for SF.

Boston? You're kidding, right? The little town that never grew up? I visited Boston twice. The rudest people I've ever had the mispleasure of meeting. In NYC, you could ask anyone for directions and they'd help. In Boston, fuggedaboudit. Snotty snobs. Get real.

[Seabiscuit]

47. Grew up on East Coast. Settled in West Coast.

Much friendlier out here in the Left Coast.

[hyphenate]

106. You obviously haven't met the

right Bostonians! My hometown has a lot going for it and after living in L.A. for 15 years, I couldn't wait to get back to it.

A lot of DUers are from the great state of Massachusetts, and I'm sure if you met them all you would change your mind about us being rude, crude and inhospitable.

[LeftyMom]

42. Big city- San Francisco

Smaller community- Santa Cruz

[RagingInMiami]

43. NYC

The city that never sleeps

[Lenape85]

44. PORTLAND OREGON

[Seabiscuit]

48. What? No Philadelphia votes? It must be CLOSED!

[serryjw]

49. NYC greatest city in the world to VISIT....No quality to life.........

unless you are a RICH....NO F*CKEN rich republican. The dumpster rents for $1200/month!

I love Denver. great quality to life. Even when it is 30, it is sunny and beautiful.

[sir_captain]

94. Nonsense

A) Rent control (and yes, I have it)
B) One's quality of life is ridiculously higher just by living in Manhattan

[Smirking_Chimp]

50. Trenton makes the world takes...

We make toilet paper, pork roll, and condoms. Life's essentials.

[Seabiscuit]

51. I'm beginning to regret including

D.C., Atlanta, N.O. and L.A. on this list. I should have included Las Vegas, Boston, perhaps Detroit, Denver, and a host of other possibilities. Only one vote for L.A. and N.O. and none for Atlanta.

I guess I was trying too hard to be fair geographically.

[Birthmark]

52. The old home town

Albany, NY.

[Tom Kitten]

53. Why I like living in Portland...

It is very nice here but no way do we consider ourselves "the best"...For a medium sized large city it has a very nice small town feel to it and you can get to know people here, occasionally even run into them by accident around town!

[fleabert]

54. secondary vote for Austin, but not the suburbs...n/t

[Leilani]

55. Aloha from Hawaii!

Did you forget Honolulu?

[Seabiscuit]

58. Yes. How could I forget Honolulu???

[flaminbats]

56. Edinburgh, Scotland is nice..in these categories

in the US..Key West, although not a large city, is close to Miami and has a great Sunset festival.

[RagingInMiami]

59. Every single night of the week

[SweetLeftFoot]

104. Edinburgh

Yeah, Edinburgh is nice but seeing as it will pitch dark at 4PM, maybe we could shift a few degrees south? Dublin - now there's a city, or even my long-lost-but-will-one-day-return-to Melbourne.

[Quetzal]

60. I live in Honolulu

but even I know that San Francisco rocks!!!

Just came back from Boston and New York Ciy 2 months ago.

Boston - The driving is the pits! Some of the worst driving on this planet - It is even worse than New York City. The City Bus System is not that great either - Honolulu has a better bus system than Boston. And my taxi driver wasn't too cordial - he was really pissed at me for taking only a 7 dollar cab ride.

New York City - now that is one city I could live in. I practically lived in the St. Mark's bookstore in the East Village when I was there. The City itself is a little overwhelming though. Best public transporation system I have ever ridden. The people are REALLY friendly as well - New Yorkers, you guys should be proud of yourselves.

San Francisco - I call it the mini-NYC not too big, but not too small - just right. You can feel the respect that each San Franciscan has for one another when you walk down the street.

[Leilani]

61. In New York City, did you get to the Strand?

The BEST bookstore in the ENTIRE world.

[Quetzal]

63. No

didn't get there - where is it located?

[Leilani]

65. On Broadway, near 13th, I think.

Right below Union Square.

[NoodleBoy]

62. Other- Boston

I love being in Mass... but especially in Boston. you can just feel the leftism in the air.

[Swamp Rat]

64. New Orleans

Y'all can just stay away too, except for Mardi Gras. Then you're invited to the best free party in the USA.

[sleipnir]

66. NYC BABY!!!

N/T. Bitch!

[maveric]

67. If it werent for all the RW moron sentiment here, I'd vote San Diego.

So I went with NYC since my old hometown of Boston isnt listed.

[Seabiscuit]

95. Well, we've closed the gap by 50% in 4 years...

SD County voted 55% - 45% for Bush in 2000. A 10% gap.

SD County voted 52.5% - 47.5% for Bush in 2004. Now a 5% gap.

The tide is turning. With the exception of Oceanside and North Carlsbad, the North County Coastal area by the ocean is becoming a sea of "blue" west of the "red" desert valleys.

Needless to say, I live in this "blue" area of the County. I have no interest in or use for the "red" areas (Redneckscondido comes to mind).

[imenja]

68. Austin!

[Forkboy]

69. Boston or Chicago (the Boston of the Midwest!)

Philly would be in my list too :)

[Tweed]

73. Boston is the Chicago of the East

[Forkboy]

74. Sorry,we were here first

;-)

[Tweed]

70. You can live in Chicago, you can only exist in New York City

Why is New York City even on this list? It smells bad, it's like an oven in the summer, and it's full of egotistical yuppies. New York City is one of the WORST cities in America.

[Donkeyboy75]

101. Why do you feel it necessary to post this opinion

more than once on this thread?

[Crankie Avalon]

102. Inferiority complex...

...he comes from a place so much in the shadow of NY that its city nickname was actually "The Second City"...until it stopped being even the second city in America once Los Angeles overtook it. :7 ;-)

[Donkeyboy75]

110. I think you're right.

Actually, Chicago is my favorite. But I can see how anyone would favor one over another. I guess I only feel the need to state my opinion once in a thread. Some opinions must just be more important that others, huh?
:shrug:

[Crankie Avalon]

113. Well, people get a little silly on threads like this...

...it's just a matter of opinion with no "right" answer. Threads like this bring out the worst in some people.

Having to resort to tearing other places down to try and elevate your own just makes the person doing it look small and provincial.

If a place really has anything going for it, it's enough to point them out positively to make the place look good.

btw--I like how you said "favorite" rather than "best". These "best" threads are pretty silly, generally, but I had to look at this one, I guess. Asking what your "favorite" of something is makes a lot more sense than asking what is the "best" (like anybody would really know something that can only ever be merely opinion).

[Crankie Avalon]

75. Hah! I thought only freepers hated NY...

...anyway, truth be told, NY is probably the only truly world-class city America has. But, frankly, unlike a few in this thread, I love my home enough to not have an inferiority complex and feel like I need to overcompensate by putting down anyone else's hometown. :eyes:

As for myself, I live right by Museum Mile, on the same street as the Guggenheim, and just a few blocks from the Met. No other city is close on this score, but different people have different things that are important to them. Wherever people live, I hope they enjoy it. :thumbsup:

[terrya]

76. Chicago.

Hands down. This city has it all: theater, wonderful architecture, history, art, music (the CSO is one of the best symphonies in the world), excellent restaurants.

[GCP]

77. San Fran - no contest

I lived 30 miles outside NYC for 14 years and came to really dislike it - big, noisy, dirty and gridlocked a lot of the time. Now the Trade Center's gone, the sky-line isn't that much to look at, either.

[Zynx]

78. Other- Boston

Best. City. Ever.

[Catchawave]

81. NYC definitely with Miami a very close 2nd n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

84. None of the above. Best City: St. Clair Shores, MI

:hi:

[Arkana]

86. Beantown has no equal!

We are the home of the World Series Champs and some of the best Italian food on the East Coast.

[Seabiscuit]

87. Overnight, Atlanta got a vote!

[Seabiscuit]

88. Anyone ready for Round 2 tonight?

[Zomby Woof]

90. none of the above

Cities are a cancer upon humanity. Upon the landscape. They make people crazy. Filthy, crowded, consumerist nightmares of billboards, bad architecture and polluting vehicles. Crime, shit, and did I mention too many fucking people too close together?

Fuck cities.

[Seabiscuit]

91. I gather you don't live in a city. Care to fill us in a bit more?

[Zomby Woof]

92. I was born in one on your list

And lived in another on that list for 15 fucking years. Getting out of the city was the smartest move I made.

Towns under 100,000 are where it's at. Life is too short to live behind an SUV for 3 hours a day, and enduring the mass idiocy of urban strife.

Clean air rules. So do 8 minute commutes.

[Seabiscuit]

97. I lived/worked in 5 on the list. Visited all others but one.

I don't blame you about wanting to live in the country or in a smaller town. I am technically within a large city's limits right now, but it's next to a small coastal town and feels like the country. Clean ocean air. Fast commutes.

[Crankie Avalon]

98. On behalf of civilized society...

...I'd like to thank you in advance for never coming back, and, so long as you're not harming anyone, have fun at the militia meetings. :)

[PittPoliSci]

93. Shitsburgh

er...PITTSBURGH.

Anyone got a better football team? There, I rest my case.

[tigereye]

109. HI Wil!

well, obviously a football team is all you need.

But the housing prices, culture, hills and nice people here is Pittsburgh would be reason as well. Plus wonderful beer stores ( and I don't mean just Iron City, either, yuk.)

[bleedingheart]

117. Pittsburgh! - Steelers, Three Rivers, Pitt, CMU and Cheap Housing

for the most part...

[shesemsmom]

99. DC

without the Repuks

[hyphenate]

105. Another vote for Boston eom

[Fleurs du Mal]

107. NYC

"Quality of life" might be a stretch sometimes in the city but for the rest NYC is Shangri-la.

[Seabiscuit]

108. Looks like the Big Apple wins the Big Cigar!

[frictionlessO]

111. Bufflao half the year, and just about anywhere else the other half

[Seabiscuit]

112. Are there any fish left in Lake Erie?

[frictionlessO]

115. yes and you can actually eat more than one a month now! The watershed

from Buffalo river is still skanked three ways to Tuesday though. I live on top of one of the main tributary creeks and it still algea blooms like crazy when its 72 degress or warmer.

[bearfan454]

116. Austin Tx n/t

[VTdem]

118. Annapolis, Maryland is a cool city