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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:19 PM
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Cities you've never been to but would like to live in....
I've always had a thing for the following

Belfast, Northern Ireland
Savannah, Georgia
St John's, Newfoundland
Buenos Aires, Argetina
Naples, Italy
Sarajevo former, Yugoslavia....20 years ago (But now would be interesting)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Athens, Greece
Omnsk Russia - It just seems so in the middle of nowhere :shrug:
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:20 PM
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1. RIO!!!!!!!
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:39 PM
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24. Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand...

Just like that river flowing through a dusty land.
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:23 PM
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2. Montreal, London or maybe Vancouver.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:24 PM
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4. Montreal is amazing
I love that town....if you ever get up that way. Be sure to hit Quebec CIty as well.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:23 PM
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3. the usual suspects
Boston, Vancouver, Seattle, Tokyo, Moscow
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:26 PM
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5. St. Petersburg, RU, San Diego, Vancouver, Honolulu and Florence, IT
:)
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:28 PM
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6. ST Petersburgh FLA or Russia?
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:43 PM
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Russia (RU)
:hi:
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fizzana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:28 PM
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7. Cape Town, South Africa is the happening city these days
My plan is to eventually move back to South Africa and live in Cape Town. One of these years.

I've travelled a lot of the world including Rio but there is no city that comes close in terms of beauty and setting. Vancouver, maybe but it's too wet and Rio are the only two places that come close.

It's also become very trendy and hip as well in the past few years.
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Catfish Donating Member (533 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:29 PM
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8. London
but I'd settle for just a visit.
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SiobhanClancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:30 PM
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9. Prague,maybe?
I'd really like to live in Cork or Dublin,even Derry...but I've been to those cities,so I guess they don't count. Amst
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:30 PM
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11. Anyone I knwo who has been to prague
Wants to live there
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:34 PM
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13. Dreamed about Prague several times
I think the place in my dream is Prague anyway. It seems to be from movie footage and pictures. If there is reincarnation, perhaps I used to live there. If not, maybe I was meant to live there or something.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:35 PM
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15. My friend lived there for a year
She craves a return..hey you should read "I served the king of England" it takes place in prague...oddly enough
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saline Donating Member (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:30 PM
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10. OH geez everywhere, anywhere...
Sydney, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, Seattle, San Diego, Rio, Naples, Cairo, Paris.

Really I just want to be in a city... GET ME OUT OF THESE SUBURBS!
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northofdenali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:33 PM
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12. Homer. Ketchican. Maybe Kotzebue or Northway.
Not really cities, but I've heard they're neat places to live - just a little remote...............
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 01:21 AM
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30. Homer is beautiful....
...I've never been to Ketchican but I have heard it rains a lot....something like 240 days a year....an average annual rainfall of 162"....that's 13ft of rain!
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:34 PM
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14. Amsterdam
My husband was recently there and says it would be a good place for us to live.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:35 PM
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22. I love that town
and if I could live in a city that I've alrealdy been to, A'Dam would be the place.

It's the coolest city on Earth
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 06:25 AM
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37. i am in Amsterdam right now visiting until December 12th.
I love it here! One of my two sisters lives here.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:42 PM
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16. Just don't ever go to
Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It is the worse spot in the universe. It is imperative you stay away. Don't even think about venturing there. In fact, you can't get there from where you are.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 04:43 PM
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17. I'll keep that under advisement
:-)
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jonoboy Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:09 PM
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18. avoid MIAMI !
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:12 PM
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19. Sydney, Australia...
London, England
Montreal, Quebec
Auckland, New Zealand
Melbourne, Australia
Darwin, Australia

Oh hell, ANYPLACE in Australia!!!
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CSI Willows Donating Member (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:32 PM
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20. Florence
Florence, Italy would be a nice place to live in :)
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:34 PM
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21. Another swinging dick for RIO!!!!
Now if I can just get around that married thing
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:38 PM
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23. San Francisco

n/t
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hellhathnofury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:40 PM
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25. If only I could...
Cape Town
Geneva
Jerusalem
Istanbul/Constaninople
Copenhagen
Amsterdam

I think that Florence>Naples, been to both.
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:44 PM
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26. SanFransisco, Amsterdam, and Montreal
Edited on Sun Nov-30-03 10:44 PM by Endangered Specie
Three Liberal Cities
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Nlighten1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 10:48 PM
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27. Toronto and Montreal
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 06:37 AM
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38. I'll second that
but I'd like to visit first!

(and I wonder which areas of both have universities, and what kind of, oh, say, bookstores they have around town...)
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Red_Storm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-03 11:05 PM
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28. Can't go wrong with............

Buenos Aires......a wonderful city that has it all.....alot of culture, tons of great and affordable restaurants, cafes and pubs all over, beautiful architecture, a vibrant 24-7 nightlife, alot of nice parks and unique and interesting neighborhoods, shopping galore, plenty of sporting events year round ( soccer, tennis, boxing, basketball, rugby, horse racing,) music lovers paradise ( tango, opera, jazz, classical music and every other form of music performed live thruout the city), book lovers paradise (tons and tons of them), did I mention the food ? first class...and also the people.....friendly, funny and warm.......If I could I would definitely spend alot of time there every year.....
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 12:40 AM
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29. Irkutsk on Lake Baikal in Siberia
Vancouver, CA
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sapporo, Japan
Tallinn, Estonia

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Sufi Marmot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 01:25 AM
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31. Irkutsk isn't quite on Lake Baikal...
It's about a 45-minute hydrofoil ride down the Angara River from Irkutsk proper to Baikal - which is a good thing otherwise Baikal would be less pristine than it is (and it's not so pristine to start with...) Nevertheless, they're both still nice - Irkutsk has cool wooden houses... :-)

-SM
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midnight armadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 01:26 AM
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32. interesting...
Paris
Portland, OR
St John's, Newfoundland
St Petersburg, Russia
Oslo
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 02:49 AM
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35. ANother St John's eh?
Yeah still have yet to get to newfoundland sigh
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dawn Donating Member (876 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 01:43 AM
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33. Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, or Melbourne
But I'd have to visit these places before I committed to living in one of them.

If we can count places we have been to, I'd add Paris, Edinburgh and Ao Nang, Thailand to the list. OK, AO Nang is just a little beach town, but I would certainly live there if I could.
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DEM FAN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 01:44 AM
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34. Mine: Seattle..San Fran..Vancouver BC..Washington DC.. An Place In
NYC..Baltimore..China..Atlanta GA..Durham NC..Little Rock Ark.
:-)
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 02:57 AM
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36. NYC, San Francisco, Phoenix, Chicago
or Bayonne
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