Fool For The City

A matter of cities. From Mark's post on a cities meme...

5 Favorite Cities

1. Philadelphia: I absolutely love it here. I fell in love with it within the first gorgeous May summer week I moved down here in 2004.
2. New York City: The first and biggest city I've ever been to and the first city I fell in love with. The City will always call to me, but for now and for who knows how long, I have a new home in Philly.
3. Paris: I was there for all of three days and three nights when I was about fourteen fresh off of my third semester of French classes. I was there with my parents, but still had a wonderful time. It was like a dream sequence there, my first trip out of the continent.
4. Venice: Back to Europe in my seventeenth year and did the tour of the Old Boot and Venice stuck out like no other. An entire city of water. Amazing. None of that garbage stink either!

5 Cities I Would Live In [other than Philly]

1. New York City: If I could afford it, I'd do it.
2. Montreal: All that Franco-Euro snobbiness that I love and hate at the same time and universal healthcare! I'd get to use my seven years of French classes as well.
3. Toronto: I hear it's an ¨ber hip cosmopolitan city up north. I've never been, but I already want to move there. Once again, universal healthcare people! The needle looks cool too.
4. Prague: I went there around sixteen I'd say with my family minus my brother and that city was like a dream sequence as well. So old and so new at the same time. A technologically advanced city with some centuries old charm.
5. Honolulu: Must I actually state reasons?

5 Least Favorite Cities

1. Bahston: As much as I love talking with an overly fake Bahston accent and as much as I love them crazy Kennedys, good god I can't stand that city. Reason 1: The Freedom Trail. I may be ready to give it another try in a couple of years.
2. Baltimore: Oh man is that one nasty city. Ever set foot outside of the four blocks of the Inner Harbor?
3. Athens, Greece and Rome, Italy: What is the deeeeal with all those cats? I like history, but seeing a 3000 year old ionic column every five meters is a bit much for me.
4. Washington, DC: Don't get me wrong, I love to go there to visit my friends and for protests and all, but the city itself, not for me. Everything is about which Senator or Representative you work for on The Hill and that damn Madam's Organ bar, stupid.
5. Cleveland: Good god, Cleveland does not rock. At least not for me.

::tag:: you're it.

Comments

[yoko]

You are dissing Charm City??

My dream is to go to Prague someday.

[albert]

oof, yep. didn't like it at all the couple of times i was there.

[InsultComicDog]

Copenhagen kicks ass

[albert]

I've never been there, but I've heard wonderful things of Denmark. I wish I could go take a trip through Europe right now.

[KT]

I'd like to note that I have only one friend in DC who works on the Hill (therefore "everything" is not about which Sen. or Rep. you work for) and have had no trouble avoiding Madam's Organ (and not due to a lack of going out).

[Tom Kertes]

In North America, I'd put Montreal, Guanajuanto, Seattle, San Francisco and Vancouver as my top five. For the world, I'd add Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Toyko and New York for the top ten.

Baltimore's a rough and poor city, but it's got grit and some great communities. The Harbor is its worst area, might as well be anywhere when there. It's not a favorite city for me, but I'd put it way above DC and not on a least favorite list either. Otherwise, your least favorite cities resonated with me.

The West Coast has a lot of great cities: Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and the whole Bay Area and San Diego. And LA's a city with a lot energy and things going on - but not too much to look at and the driving's terrible.