What's Your Favorite US City To Visit? Favorite Foreign City?

[arwalden]

Okay... name 'em all if you've got more than one.

In the US, I like Seattle and San Francisco the best. I also love Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and Munich... oh... just about anywhere in Germany would please me!

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. New York

never been abroad though

[Shoeempress]

15. Honolulu/NYC/Paris

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. US: San Francisco/Washington, DC/San Diego

Foreign: I haven't been to that many countries, but I LOVE London and would like to return to Dublin and Edinburgh.

[Talismom]

3. New York, San Francisco, New Orleans/

Montreal, Florence, Barcelona

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. New Orleans n/t

[jobycom]

5. New Orleans and Orlando/ Paris and Brussels

Brussels is way underrated.

[XNASA]

6. San Francisco & Nice.

Nice is nice.

[jane_pippin]

7. San Francisco

I'm going there pretty soon for a trip and to look into moving there.

[tigereye]

40. we just came back from there

what they say it true, you will leave your heart there. It is stunningly beautiful, busy, cosmopolitan and yet relaxed.

[jane_pippin]

42. isn't it great? I can't wait to get there. You described it just right!

[tigereye]

44. hope you have a great time!

my h wants to move there, but alas, housing prices are pretty off the charts.

:hi:

[jane_pippin]

47. thank you.

I think will have an excellent time.
I really want to move there but I'm too broke to do it right now. I'm thinking of sending out resumes ahead of time and/or applying for a few jobs while I'm there just to see if anything happens. It can't hurt.

How long were you there for?

[tigereye]

49. just 5-6 days

but we packed a lot of stuff in. Our hosts were very gracious about squiring us around up the coast, Silicon Valley, and to some spots on and around the ocean, and when we walked/trolleyed/bused around we saw a lot for the couple days we stayed in a hotel.

Here's my thread about our visit with some of the things we did.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3785456&mesg_id=3788363

[jane_pippin]

51. oh that was your thread.

It's so great to have friends there to take you around. We're lucky that way too. I'll have to check out your thread again.

We got to go to Muir Woods and Muir beach when we were there last.
Muir woods has a "free speech zone" and we all found that hilarious/depressing. At least we know where one is should we need it. And Muir beach...outstanding. It was like looking at God (and I'm not even religious).

[Old_Fart]

Salem and Athens n/t

[Bumblebee]

8. I live in Seattle so it's New York,

London, and Prague.

[Bumblebee]

14. I forgot.... Dublin!

[I Have A Dream]

38. I really loved Ireland, but I didn't much care for Dublin.

What did you like about Dublin? Maybe I need to give it another chance. (I was only there for 2 days.)

[derby378]

9. ginbarn and I have a soft spot for Las Vegas (and all of Clark County, NV)

We got married there on April Fool's Day, 2000. We prefer Downtown over the Strip, although there's lots of good stuff on the Strip - it's just so far to walk from one mega-resort-casino to the next.

Then there's Red Rock Canyon, just west of Vegas, but almost a completely different world. Peaceful and tranquil.

Boulder City is a nice, quiet town just down 93 from Vegas. Hoover Dam is right next door. Old government town built to house those who built the dam, and I think the local "vicepublis" outlawed gambling and prostitution in BC since the 30s. Laws are still on the books today, although an actual casino might be able to secure an exemption from the town fathers.

[Zuni]

10. I like New York and Chicago for US cities

and the only foreign country I have been in is canada, and I liked Vancouver the best there

[DrDan]

11. Savannah and Cairo/Zurich

*

[ovidsen]

12. NYC, Chicago, SF, London, Rome.

And not necessarily in that order.

New York because it has everything.

Chicago because it's the all-American city that has almost everything. Except a World Series winner.

San Francisco for the politics, the people, the wine, the food, the climate, and for all the wonders of nature that are just a short trip away.

London gets a nod for the history, the music, the theater, and for being such a cultural melting-pot. Thankfully, the food is much improved since my first visit 35 years ago.

Rome for being so Italian. Great people, stupendous history, and it's absolutely impossible to have a bad meal. Unless you're dumb enough to go to Pizza Hut.

IMHO, of course.

[BOSSHOG]

13. NEW ORLEANS - All others can wait Edinbugh, Scotland

I've only "visited" New Orleans about a million times and I'm not even half way there. Give me a town with better food, better entertainment, better music and better ambience (and I'll say you are making it up.)

Edinburgh, Scotland; a nifty little town especially if you are a history buff.

[I Have A Dream]

39. Yes, Edinburgh was really special.

I feel the same way about San Francisco that you feel about New Orleans. I've never been to New Orleans, so maybe it's time for me to give it a visit. (I think that I'll wait until it cools down though.)

[BOSSHOG]

58. December is an excellent month

to visit New Orleans if you don't like big crowds and the weather is usually always comfortable to cool at that time. Come New Years, bar the doors cause its Mardi Gras time for at least two months, and then the French Quarter Fest and then the Jazz Fest and this fest and that fest, Southern Decadence in September, and Halloween is always a gigantic party in the quarter. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas is about the only slow and not hot period for the big easy. Come on down!! I've been to San Francisco a few times and loved the place. Alcatraz freaked me out.

[I Have A Dream]

60. Thanks for the information about New Orleans.

December does sound like the time to go. Might be a nice diversion before Christmas, and a nice Christmas present to myself!

I agree about Alcatraz. I did the Alcatraz tour -- there's a lot of bad energy there.

Thanks again.

[StopTheMorans]

16. Boston, Cambridge specifically: the most opinionated zipcode in the world

:D

[Cary]

17. Chicago/Florence

Chicago is home.

Florence has outstanding ice cream.

[Obamarama]

18. SFO & CDG

San Francisco and Paris

[ceile]

19. Durango, CO and Dublin...

but Cork City is great too.

[Texasgal]

20. I love NYC

My favorite foreign city is the Island of Capri.

[stevans_41902]

21. Washington DC/Colorado Springs & Paris / several cities in Germany

There are SO many cities in the US that I am dying to visit (NYC, San Fran, Boston). I love the scenery of Colorado, not necessarity the city of Colorado Springs itself (seems to be a mix of religious nuts and more XXX stores than i have seen in my life...) Love visiting Germany, although my favorite large city in Europe is Paris.

[Squatch]

22. Seattle and Buenos Aires

[Initech]

23. Las Vegas, DC, Denver, and New York City in the US

As for foreign cities, I havent been but plan on visiting Tokyo, Munich, and Barcelona as soon as I can afford to!

[terrya]

24. US: New York Foreign: Toronto

Obviously, Toronto. :-)

[KurtNYC]

25. Saratoga Springs -- Montreal, & Prague

[Caleb]

26. I like NYC

And love Vancouver, Canada.

[MrScorpio]

27. D.C. and Amsterdam

Two of my favorite towns to visit

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. NYC, Kyoto

[ronnykmarshall]

29. New York

Next trip I want to drive to the Cape again. I love P-town. I'd like to see more of Mass.

[ChickMagic]

30. Chicago and Katoomba n/t

[Catchawave]

31. "We Can Kick Your City's Ass" NYC !

Where all the world comes together anyhow.

Wish I could afford to move there, AND keep my husband and lakefront home :dilemma:

[Taverner]

32. US: Berkeley (and I live here! Well...San Ramon at least)

International...well I've been to Hanoi, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Medan, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Mexico City, Havana, Managua, San Jose CR, Quito, Moscow, Kingston, Cairo and Vancouver...

And my fave has to be Vancouver....with the second being Havana.

[tigereye]

41. you've been everywhere, T

to quote sort of, Johnny Cash. :)

[grace0418]

33. U.S: San Francisco, NYC, Portland Ore. Foreign: Paris, Barcelona, Tokyo

Of course, there are so many places I haven't been yet and hope to go. I've been in several European countries but not all. I haven't been to South America, Africa or Australia/NZ yet. And I've only been to Japan and, very briefly, Korea in Asia. So that list may change down the road.

[NewJeffCT]

34. New York City & Shanghai

The current world financial center & the probable future world financial center...

[grace0418]

35. I'm amazed by the number of Chicago votes. Not that I hate my home town

or anything but I guess I'm just bored by it.

[CitrusLib]

54. Bored by Chicago?!

You're not trying hard enough, LOL.

I miss Chi-town so much. So much to do and see. Any time of year. Of course I'm probably just getting sentimental about a much younger, more carefree time of my life, LOL.

[grace0418]

59. Maybe bored was the wrong word.

I think if I could pick up Chicago and plop it down on the west coast or somewhere else that's temperate, I would never want to leave. But for 75% of the year or more, the weather is always too something... hot, cold, humid, gloomy, windy, etc.

And when you just want to get out of the city for a weekend, you have to drive through miles and miles of suburbia and cornfields to get anywhere. I long for ocean, mountains, valleys, vineyards, redwoods... sigh...

[jonnyblitz]

36. SF or NYC in the states, and Amsterdam.

fortunately i lived in SF twice in my life while in the navy and spent a few months total in amsterdam when one of my sisters used to live there. I live a few hours from NYC now so i can visit there all the time .

[I Have A Dream]

37. San Francisco & London.

However, I also really loved Venice & Paris. I'm choosing London because they speak English, so it's easier to just take off in any direction without language being a problem.

[tigereye]

43. SF, Seattle

Chicago,and NYC.

[dajoki]

45. new york, new york

a city so nice they, named it twice. and tampa. no foreign except niagara falls

[China_cat]

46. San Francisco

Leeuwarden, Den Haag and Delft.

[bikebloke]

48. Inverness, Scotland

Khatmandu, Nepal
Amsterdam & Utrecht, Nederlands
Paris - but it's been a while
Sydney, Oz
Christchurch, New Zealand - I should have stayed illegally (Auckland's nice, too.)
Oslo, Norge

[XemaSab]

50. Tucson, Raleigh, and DC

are three cities I really wouldn't mind visiting again.

Haven't been in foreign cities enough to have an opinion.

[noonwitch]

52. New York, Chicago, San Francisco

I've never travelled overseas, and the only canadian cities I've been to are Toronto (which is cool, and a good place to take kids) and Windsor.

I live in the Detroit area and do love my city.

I always wanted to go to Prague, however. I had dreams about Prague for a long time, before I'd ever seen pictures of it. I had a series of dreams a decade or so back, in which I was on a boat on the Detroit River. We went under the Belle Isle bridge and I looked up and Detroit had changed into a european city. I realized a while later, when they had all that flooding in Prague and it was on the news every night, that that was the city from my dreams.

[Lilith Velkor]

53. London & New York

[Tom Kitten]

55. San Fransisco, New Orleans

I live in my favorite city so (Portland) so I can't really visit it. I really liked Seattle when I visited it a few weeks ago.

I liked the Riverwlk area of San Antonio but that's not enough to list it as a favorite.

Only city outside the US I've been to is Vancouver so I suppose it would be my favorite.

[abbeyco]

56. Lake City, CO and San Diego

Lake City is in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River and I don't know if I've seen anything as pretty.

San Diego - simply for the great year-round weather, the charm that is the Hotel Del Coronado, and drinking martinis at the top of the Downtown Hyatt and having an awesome 360 degree view of the city.

[HEyHEY]

57. Boston and Tiblisi

Though I've never been to either