Favorite City
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Topic: Favorite City
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Favorite City
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 20:07
| What is your favorite city? |
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 20:17
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Cincinnati, OH, "The Queen of the West" dubbed by Winston Churchill as , "the most beautiful of Americas inland cities." ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 22:03
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Utrecht, because i miss it. Bern, because i know its beautifull. Samarkand, because i want to go there. -------------  Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: Roughneck
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 23:29
New York! ------------- |
Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 03-Oct-2004 at 16:38
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hy would that be your favorite city in the world? lol, midwest.
I vote Samarkand despite never have been there, and for cities I have been to, Seoul is the best. ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Degredado
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 09:20
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Lisbon ------------- Vou votar nas putas. Estou farto de votar nos filhos delas |
Posted By: Kalevipoeg
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 11:44
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Prnu. The city of the right size, which is 43000 people and great in any other perspective aswell. Tartu gets the second place. ------------- There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge... |
Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 15:32
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Because it is my hometown, because it's waters flow in my blood, it's air flows through my lungs and the city itself shines in my memories. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Kubrat
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 17:41
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Vienna, Budapesht. It's funny how the Austro-Hungarian Empire let so many places develop culturally and aesthetically. ------------- Hell is empty and all the devils are here. -William Shakespeare |
Posted By: phoenix_bladen
Date Posted: 05-Oct-2004 at 13:03
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Beijing - forbidden city shanghai - dynamic and unique blend of east and west. tokyo - high tech toronto - muti cultural
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Posted By: ArmenianSurvival
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 14:23
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From the cities ive been to: Dublin - been there a few times, nice scenery, cool people and good beer. Yerevan - Armenian capital, one of the richest histories. Great vodka. From what ive seen in pictures and want to visit: In no particular order, Paris, Rome, Athens, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Beirut, Cairo, Isfahan, Tabriz, Shiraz, Tehran, Jerusalem, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Prague. Much more but those are the main ones. ------------- Mass Murderers Agree: Gun Control Works! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Resistance Քիչ ենք բայց Հայ ենք։ |
Posted By: Colchis
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 18:01
Bern is indeed beautiful, especially if you are fond of small towns. It's very well organised, has charming old buildings and fountains and of course the mother bear and her cubs. Although I must say everytime I was there I had felt sorry for the bear family, they live in a rather small and shabby cave/pool in the middle of the city. Not sure if they're let out. My favorites go as; Geneve, because I miss it and have great memories of it. Istanbul, for the same reasons even though actually living in Istanbul sucks most of the time (traffic and crowds) Bercelona, because it feels like it's out of a story book with all that Art Nouveau Vienna, melancholic and pretty Florence, breathtaking and New York, because I live here and it's pretty damn cool even though I hate, hate, hate its winter when it goes down to -30C and the windchill strikes! |
Posted By: Kubrat
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 18:54
Isn't that a bit much? Compared to Europe, New York is around where Switzerland and Austria are in longitute right? It seems a bit much... ------------- Hell is empty and all the devils are here. -William Shakespeare |
Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 19:04
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Its where Rome is, lattitude wise. But it gets the full continental treatment, with no warm mediteranean or gulf stream to spare it the worst. I never got to see the bears in Bern in the end, oh well, an excuse to go there again  ------------- Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: Cornellia
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 19:10
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My favorite is Paris. So beautiful and they've managed to embrace the present and future and never lose the past. New York, Rome, London and San Francisco are up at the top of my list too. ------------- Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas |
Posted By: Colchis
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 19:26
It is a bit much, if you ask me. The thing is, as Cywr says, there is no Gulf Stream or Mediterranean to warm things up and yet it is right by the Atlantic Ocean. What's more, in Manhattan, because of the way the city was built you get the worse corridor effect from the Hudson River to East River once the windstorms start and it's the windchill that does you in rather than the cold. New York is cold and humid, you really feel it to your bones. Last year the -30C days were more than 10 days at least. I saw the temperature below 0 in Fahrenheit, it was unbearable. For three days my school was out because of the cold, because the windchill was lethal to people with weak lungs (asthmatics etc.) New York gets colder than Reykjavik, not on average but in minimum temperature. I'm hoping it won't be as cold this year but the way it's going it's not promising. |
Posted By: Kubrat
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 20:38
Wow.. never knew that about New York... One reason not to go there in the winter .
Ah.. and you know I meant to say latitude, right? 
Yes, it's a magnificent city. The only thing I don't like is that solitary tower in one section of the city, I forget what it is called. I heard they were going to knock it down, is that true? (Hope you guys know what I'm talking about) ------------- Hell is empty and all the devils are here. -William Shakespeare |
Posted By: Colchis
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 21:05
Smart move. It's beautiful in the spring though! |
Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 21:05
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Paris si so dirty and smelly, everyone smokes and theres more filth than a New Jersey city, but historically, yes a very fabulous city anyway. I dont like very clean cities anyway, they have less personality. ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 21:13
Of course, slip of the finger ------------- Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 22:52
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(Although for Cywr he'd have to slip two.) ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
That sounds so politely obscenePosted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2004 at 04:54
Is that the reason you moved to Iceland? ------------- |
Posted By: Colchis
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2004 at 08:40
Got me. |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2004 at 10:29
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Isfahan!
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Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2004 at 11:25
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yes it look slike one of the most beautiful cities but how do you pronounce Isfahan? Thats like a real toungue twister ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2004 at 11:42
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Cape Town, South Africa Los Angeles, California, USA
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Posted By: ArmenianSurvival
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2004 at 14:26
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Ya, thats one of the ones i want to really go to. Ive read there was an Armenian artisan class there as well, so on top of all the cool Iranian buildings there are some old Armenian buildings too. From Iran i also want to visit Tabriz, Shiraz and Tehran. I might add more if i see more pictures of other cities, but these ones i have to visit for sure if i am able to go. Should make for a really cool trip, if i can ever convince one of my friends to go, lol. ------------- Mass Murderers Agree: Gun Control Works! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Resistance Քիչ ենք բայց Հայ ենք։ |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 08-Oct-2004 at 06:22
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Es Fa Han, like Spanish!
But I don't recommend that you go there in this situation of Iran!
After Tehran, Isfahan has the second largest Armenian population in Iran, it is inetersting to know that three Players of Iran's junior basketball team (Davit Momjian, Oshin Sahakian and Arn Davoodi), http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_3876.shtml - who won Iran's first ever Asian basketball cup some days ago , are Isfahani Armenians. as you said, there are some old Armenian buildings in this city including 13 churches which have been registered as Iran's national monuments. Vank Cathedral in Isfahan: -------------
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Posted By: Evildoer
Date Posted: 08-Oct-2004 at 19:01
| Air Strip 1, Oceania. |
Posted By: boody4
Date Posted: 10-Oct-2004 at 21:18
| Krakow for its historical and unchanged in centuries(as it didn't get destroyed inWW2) beauty! Kocham Krakow! *starts singing polish national anthem* lolol |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10-Oct-2004 at 22:23
| Chicago, Illinois and Springfield, Missouri. |
Posted By: Roughneck
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2004 at 20:54
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Those were also record breakers, the coldest since they began keeping track. And we do get the Gulf Stream effect in New York. 'sides, better than the Lake Effect in Chicago. ------------- |
Posted By: white dragon
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2004 at 21:16
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Ft. collins Colorado
(perhaps partially due to the fact i live there) ------------- Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. -Francis Cardinal Spellman |
Posted By: Abyssmal Fiend
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2004 at 22:09
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Torgau.
Writing on Monument to commemerate WWII meeting of US and Russian forces.
View of a few random buildings on the Western side of the Markt.
That's where they actually serve Bear as a delicacy. O.o
The only Toy store in Torgau.
One of our four bears... Can't find a picture of the Castle. ------------- 
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2004 at 11:13
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Tokyo, Athens, city of Rhodes |
Posted By: Mosquito
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2004 at 16:40
| Poznan, Rome and Dublin |
Posted By: Dawn
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2004 at 16:48
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San Fransisco, Quebec City and my newest favorite Tokyo. ------------- |
Posted By: Jalisco Lancer
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2004 at 17:17
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Posted By: Paul
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2004 at 19:15
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Bangkok It's roads run 30 metres above the ground, it's trains 60. Sometimes you can't see the sky. TV screens blare out from the bus stops and digital screen billboards blast commercials from the side of skyscrapers. Smog blurs the horizon, noodle sellers litter the streets, and crowds of crowds flow down down the street while the traffic sits in gridlock. One minute you're standing in the most (post)modern city in the world, around the corner you're in the 19th century. Ever thought you wandered onto the streets of Blade Runner?
------------- Light blue touch paper and stand well back http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk - http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk - http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk |
Posted By: Shifty Russian
Date Posted: 15-Oct-2004 at 00:24
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Moscow, Sydney, Singapore - I still have a lot of places to visit - I'd Imagine once i go there, Tokyom Hong Kong and New York would be added to my list. I'm expecting great thigns from other countries and cities for once i get to them, but from what i know about many different countries and cities - it doesn't seem to me they can out do - the cities listed above.. I understand and know that many different Cities have great history, arcitecturem people and other misc. things. How ever, the cities I mentioned - top the list for me. ------------- I'm Shifty Russian, Suka |
Posted By: SJI Lasallian
Date Posted: 16-Oct-2004 at 06:20
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These are great cities... Shanghai, Liverpool, Las Vegas and of course...Singapore. ------------- "I adore in all things the will of God in my regard" -- Saint John Baptist De la Salle (final words) |
Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 16-Oct-2004 at 08:36
I don't have a favourite town. I guess I have still to find the place where I want to settle.
Hate to reply to such an old post but posts about cold weather are something a Swede just can't let go . Seeing that the cold record of NYC is -18C, I believe you messed up the F->C conversion a bit, zero F correspont to roughly -15 C, not -30. Free from school? We would have been free the whole winter if we also had such temp limits. -25C/-15F was the limit of having PE outdoors iirc, no limit on school as such 
But it's true Reykjavik is a pretty warm place. |
Posted By: Dawn
Date Posted: 16-Oct-2004 at 13:34
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Same here - -35C with sometimes close schools up to grade 12 if they have trouble starting the school busses and a dump of 3' or more of snow overnight will close them for the morning or sometimes all day while they clear the roads. but thats it. I think the kids had 2 snow days last winter and no cold days. ------------- |