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About two years ago, I had a GBS post where we talked about how cool American cities were, from the obviously cool, to the okay, to the uncool. It was a pretty fun discussion, and we managed to reach some sort of consensus that (for example) Denver > Boston > Minneapolis. Being more sophisticated and worldly now, I would like to move the question to a wider scope: the entire world. What are the coolest cities in the world? What cities are really good, what cities are passable, and what cities are so boring you might as well be back in Indiana? Imagine you go back to whatever midwestern town you crawled out of, to meet your normie friends from high school at Olive Garden, what world city do you want to mention spending the last year in? Cities are also judged against their size. Big cities get a bit of a penalty, because any big world city is going to have some important stuff in it, even if its overall boring. And small cities don't count because they are often designed just to be twee. Reykjavik isn't a city as much as a theme park. Anyway, this thread is where you get to decide whether Rome is better than Madrid is better than Melbourne is better than Tokyo. Edit 1: The ">" were just for examples, you don't actually have to do quite that ranking. Edit 2: While American cities are world cities, if you are using this thread to seriously debate whether Kansas City is more cool than Indianapolis, you are missing the point. glowing-fish fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Nov 8, 2016 |
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tampa bay > all
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Nov 6, 2016 23:45
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milwaukee<nyc<boston<deeznuts
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Nov 6, 2016 23:45
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Chicago > Cleveland > Detroit > Youngstown
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Nov 6, 2016 23:53
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instead of giving them coolness tiers can we give them silly nicknames like malibummer clevelando calrissian boishithole
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Nov 6, 2016 23:54
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I'm not otaku but Tokyo seems seriously cool, like what NYC was in the mid century and what Paris was in the 19th century. I'd go see it in peson if I didn't have to squat All of you listing only american cities are rly dumb
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Nov 7, 2016 00:00
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Gazpacho posted:All of you listing only american cities are rly dumb uh any other city is full of non-americans?
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Nov 7, 2016 00:04
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Gazpacho posted:I'm not otaku but Tokyo seems seriously cool, like what NYC was in the mid century and what Paris was in the 19th century. I'd go see it in peson if I didn't have to squat have you ever been to tampa bay tho?
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Nov 7, 2016 00:04
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EVIL NOONER posted:have you ever been to tampa bay tho?
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Nov 7, 2016 00:06
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Gazpacho posted:Aka the worlds longest traffic jam? idk, we have a helicopter and it doesnt seem so bad from up there when we visit. 
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Nov 7, 2016 00:08
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Greatest Western European city to visit is Berlin, in my opinion.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:11
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I prefer Vienna and Prague to Berlin.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:14
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EVIL NOONER posted:tampa bay > all This is objectively true, you won't find a place of more contrasts or variety
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Nov 7, 2016 00:14
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rome is p cool but italians suck if italy was void of italians, except the ones that cook for you, itd be a top tier country
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Nov 7, 2016 00:14
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There's literally no reason to tour NYC SF Paris or Rome ityool 2016, people who do so have been enchanted by a commercially manufactured historical mirage.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:20
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Gazpacho posted:I'm not otaku but Tokyo seems seriously cool, like what NYC was in the mid century and what Paris was in the 19th century. I'd go see it in peson if I didn't have to squat Sorta blows my mind that the greater metro area of Tokyo has 30 million people in it. that's more than every Scandinavian country combined.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:21
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Gazpacho posted:There's literally no reason to tour NYC SF Paris or Rome ityool 2016, people who do so have been enchanted by a commercially manufactured historical mirage. food and the colosseum its obvious youve never actually left your flyover state tbh
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Nov 7, 2016 00:22
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Washington DC is the best
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Nov 7, 2016 00:26
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Ah poor american me, where shall I find italian food And the colosseum, they don't even hold blood sports there anymore lol what a cheat
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Nov 7, 2016 00:27
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There are only four cool cities and they are, in order of coolness, New York, Bangkok, Tokyo and Berlin.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:28
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madrid is cool so is buenos aires
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Nov 7, 2016 00:29
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Bottom of the list: Des Moines
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Nov 7, 2016 00:31
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A city so nice they named it Jacksonville.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:35
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San Diego has the best Mexican food in the USA and probably also the world (besides Mexico itself) and this undeniable fact paired with it being decent in every other category has to place it somewhere in the top 10 at least.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:42
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Prude posted:San Diego has the best Mexican food in the USA and probably also the world (besides Mexico itself) and this undeniable fact paired with it being decent in every other category has to place it somewhere in the top 10 at least. My state has a chipotle(prob more than 1) so that's clearly not true
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Nov 7, 2016 00:51
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Minneapolis is definitely cooler than Boston. I'd put it on the same level as Denver my favorite city personally is Marseille I also like Madrid a lot
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Nov 7, 2016 00:53
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SpaghetioSexNoises posted:My state has a chipotle(prob more than 1) so that's clearly not true Oh man, a Cafe Rio opened near me, it's leaps and bounds better than Chipotle, even better than Qdoba. Leave it to Utah to start the best burrito chain.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:59
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Gazpacho posted:Ah poor american me, where shall I find italian food Motherfuckin catacombs in Rome.
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Nov 7, 2016 00:59
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Tokyo, Edinburgh, London all pretty cool. New York is okay. Living in Vancouver, will report on coolness later.
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Nov 7, 2016 01:01
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return0 posted:Tokyo, Edinburgh, London all pretty cool. I live in NYC and go to London often and they feel like pretty much the same place Edinburgh is awesome to visit but I would not want to live there
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Nov 7, 2016 01:06
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a bone to pick posted:Bottom of the list: Des Moines Nah, if we're going international this time, it would be Naples. I mean, yes, there are "worse" cities in 3rd world countries, but Naples is a 3rd world city in a supposedly 1st world country.  Yeah, let's just hang our underwear over our piles of garbage. That seems like a good idea.
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Nov 7, 2016 01:09
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bangkok > all though honorable mention to buenos aires that town is nuts
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Nov 7, 2016 01:09
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T.S. Smelliot posted:This is objectively true, you won't find a place of more contrasts or variety Tampa is literally a big piece of poo poo. The only thing you have is Ken's Winghouse but those also exist in other, better cities. Like Largo.
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Nov 7, 2016 01:32
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Washington DC is the best  There's a dozen Chinese restaurants I liked there, whereas in the poo poo holes I've lived in since I've given up and just get loving Panda Express now. Tempted to get another job there again just for the food
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Nov 7, 2016 01:34
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Hong Kong kicks rear end, its like a super dense metropolis stacked on top of a jungle mountain island in China there is a city called Pingyao, it is surrounded by high old stone walls it is a really beautiful place that seems pulled out of time Right now I live in Melbourne and there is a lot of stuff to do here, more stuff than in most cities that aren't mega-metropolises.
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Nov 7, 2016 01:38
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Washington DC is the best It's a ghost town at night
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Tampa is like slightly better than Baltimore. I think we can all agree that Baltimore is the worst city in the history of man kind.
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Nov 7, 2016 01:43
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return0 posted:Tokyo, Edinburgh, London all pretty cool. Edinburgh is a bitch of a commute every day is what it is
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Nov 7, 2016 01:43
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Hector Beerlioz posted:"burrito" "chain" There is nothing but hubris and insolence contained within this post.
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Kuato posted:
Yeah, little Ethiopia has great food as well. DC just got a Michelin guide too! Whooping Crabs posted:It's a ghost town at night Apart from Adams Morgan and U Street this is correct. The Metro shutting down at midnight on weekends now doesn't help. DC is ok, but it's not the best. Everyone only comes to live here for a few years so it has no real culture outside of your work. Smithsonian is great tho.
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