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What city would you rate as the best and why?  This would be a hard one for me, as I've been to so many.  About 15 years ago, I went through Topeka, Kansas, and it was really pretty and clean.  Encinitas, California is cool, lovely beaches.  Copehagen is fantastic, and so is Stockholm.  So many choices!  But if I had to choose one, I would say Stockholm, for all the reasons I put into my article about it!  Stockholm rocks!

Boston, every turn of he corner is like stepping into a new part of the world.  Chinatown has all the good food, Northside has the Italian food, everywhere has Indian and mexican food, you can find vietnimese, thai, japanese, etc., everywhere and yummy.  The architecture is awsome and the festivals and little mini town all around are great to go to!  I love Boston, it is so diverse and yea it has crappy winter weather but at least you know you can always take a bus or a train and there really is no reason to own a car unless you live in the 'country' or out in the suburbs! And boy do they know how to party on St. Patricks day and the 4th of July!  Dont get me started on their craze of sports its mind blowing!

I've lived in : Sao Paulo, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Paris, France; Annecy, France; Miami; Boston, New York; Los Angeles... and San Francisco takes the cake.

Culture, culture, culture. Opportunities for jobs abound. California lifestyle. An accessible city. Beautiful coastline and nature within an easy drive.

I've only lived in San Diego, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, and I like all of them pretty well.  San Francisco is definitely my favorite except for how expensive it is.  My boyfriend is a SF native, and refuses to even THINK about moving, so I guess I'm stuck here as long as I like him! (boo hoo, poor me )

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Hey there - See some familar faces!! As a newbie - less than 2  years in CA - I must say thereare parts of the East Coast I really miss - but yes Encinitas is a nice, laid back town.. actually I really enjoy Santa Barbara- San Fran for the culture - Manhattan for the culture and I am falling in love with the whole of San Diego - nice people - pretty landscape = and actually some cool stuff as well if you get into Hillcrest  and the city center. !

I've lived all over the place and each has had it's ups and downs. 

Vegas during  the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, etc.,) era was fun.  Now?  Not so much.  Disney on steroids gone wild.  Venice, Italy - beautiful. Mysterious and close to so many other interesting places.  Vancouver, BC -  mountains,  English Bay, clean, the best out of the tap drinking water in the world.  Toronto, ON - clean and interesting. Tucson, AZ - hot but WILD WILD WEST and close to Bisbee and Tombstone - so much apart of the US experience.  Redondo Beach, CA - nothing beats living at the beach and it's close to one of the most interesting modern day cultures and history - Hollywood (museums, film industry, even the cemetaries are interesting). 

Places that can drop off the face of the Earth as far as I'm concerned.......well not to offend but after having lived in Atlanta, Marietta and Mableton, GA - for several years, now to even have to transfer at Hartsfield I break out in hives.  Backwards - still stuck in the days of the Civil War......amazing.  Phoenix, AZ - boring a cultural wasteland. 

And what happens?  I always come back home to San Francisco or The Bay Area....5th generation Californian......there's no place like it.  Close to the Wine Country, beaches, mountains, desert........you name it CA has it.  Sadly it also has too many people who have discovered how wonderful it is as well but that happens. 

The best city to live on Earth is Santa Barbara, CA.

I moved around alot growing up but I always loved Nanaimo, BC (it's on Vancouver Island) Canada.

It's the second largest city on the island.  Every where you go, you always get the ocean view.  The island is beautiful and most of the people are friendly. 

1. New York City babyyyy ! I've only "lived" there for two weeks, but it was love at first sight. I went there when I was 18 and have been obsessed with it ever since. I've decided that's where I want to live. Why? Atmosphere of a dynamic city, there was always something to do, something different. You can feel the city oozing with creative energy and that's reaaally important to me. I love the architecture there too (but I'm european, so I guess it must be the "oh-here's-something-different" effect on me).

2. London, UK !! I also fell in love with the capital of foggy Albion, but it was a much slower process. There again, it's a city that is so creative, where you can discover little galleries presenting deviant art as well as visit great museums for free. After living there a few months, I just didn't want to leave. It's such a lively town!

3. Paris, France. Third, not first, I guess it's because I'm a little bit "used to it". Yet after having lived there my whole life, I am still amazed by the city's beauty. I think Paris honestly deserves a place as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The drawback is that it seems to be a "gigantic open-air museum": beautiful, full of history, full of anecdotal little corners, but... somehow... dead. Or at least, not as vivid as NYC or London can be. I am mostly talking about the creative side, arts, performing arts and cinema, music ... it could be great. it's "just" good. I feel like people could make greater efforts, to "move" more.

Then: there are many other cities that I visited loved, and found beautiful. Venice, marvellous. Fes, Marrakech, (Morocco) extraordinary. Barceloooona (Spain) SO great and fun, and disturbing in some ways :). Bruges, the "northern Venice" is lovely too. Istanbul and its Bazaar looks like a Hollywood décor for "arabian nights" exotic and "sensual" ! But I didn't stay long enough in any of these cities to compare them to the effect the first three have on me.

Well there are many MANY other cities I haven't lived in yet. And I intend to have a solid base to be able compare correctly ! :)

(I feel I talk too much! And I apologize for any grammar or spelling mistakes I might have made... i'm still learning !)