If you answer with New York, you’re a basic bitch.
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I haven’t traveled nearly enough, but I’d say it’s either Amsterdam, Netherlands, or Barcelona, Spain.
Amsterdam for the freedom and beauty. Barcelona because it’s beautiful and on the beach.
It’s not even a great beach, kinda rocky for my taste, but it’s just such a beautiful city.
I mean I love my city and kinda think its the gratest but I can recognize that is my biased feeling and I don’t have nearly enough experience to say. Many seem really cool. I think one thing is many cities have all sorts of coold aspects but im not sure one is cool in every aspect.
Sarnia, ON, because why would I leave if its the best place on earth.
I haven’t traveled the world enough to give a definitive answer. I had a blast in Edinburgh, and Luxembourg City is a wonderful place to visit. Most large Canadian cities are delightful. I doubt any of the cities I have visited would be the ‘greatest’ on the planet, however.
I 100% doubt any city in the USA could qualify. They are far more alike than they are different.
As for New Yorkers frequently & loudly yelling their city is the greatest, I’m convinced it’s some kind of pathology similar to Stockholm Syndrome. This comedian explains it better than I can:
Vienna, Austria is a pretty great place.
Which city? Mine.
Why? Because i live there.
Berlin.
Many people hate Berlin. I don’t. It’s got so much variety, there are neighbourhoods surrounded by lakes, neighbourhoods that are basically in the woods, beautiful neighbourhoods like Charlottenburg and very urban neighbourhoods. Want something good to eat? There’ll be something amazing nearby. They have trams running through the forest. There are trains going to Amsterdam and Prague. You can get everywhere by public transport (outside town in Brandenburg too). It’s surrounded by a beautiful state, where you can watch cranes migrate in huge flocks and where you can skate on natural ice in winter.
I live near Freiburg now. Everybody loves Freiburg and the Black Forest. But I miss Berlin.
Shhhh! We keep up that reputation deliberately so not even more people come here and worsen the housing crisis ;)
Berlin is a dirty shithole lol
?? never been?
My favorite city I’ve ever visited.
Its not a dirty shit hole, not more than any other metropole city. But it suffers from what many cities post ww2, especially german cities, supper from: ugly block architecture and car centered infrastructure
ugly block architecture
Affordable social architecture for people, not castles and churches built on slave labor.
West (not east) Berlin paid people to take the mouldings off their historic buildings. Nothing to do with affordable social architecture.
You can build affordable and beautiful. Prove, castle in berlin vs the national museum in stockholm which do you think cost more?
It’s not just to do with WW2, both east and west Berlin loved tearing down and uglifying old buildings (seriously, west Berlin paid people to tear off decorations) for some reason.
Utrecht
Thought you’d say Launceston… 😆
Houten, Netherlands. No cars in the city, you can bike anywhere. The true 15 minute city
For me? Montréal.
It’s incredibly walkable, tons of parks and nature and trees all throughout with a beautiful unique urban design (the brick plexes) and a unique blend of cultures.
Cold.
But also hot (source: I live there).
New York, obviously, and fuck you
This is the most authentic answer
Bed-Stuy
QGTM!
Mostly the G and the JMZ
I’ll ask you kindly to reconsider those remarks
Back off, Boston
HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK
Yeah, yeah. Ya got your hockey and your Harvard. And some nice bridges and schools and hospitals.
Just be glad you’re not Philly. Lol
Atlantis. It’s so exclusive that nobody knows how to find it.
Not without a charged zed-pee-em.
its in another galaxy, thats why.
Came here to say this :)
New Amsterdam
(because it became New York)
Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can’t say. People just liked it better that way.
SO
take me back to Constantinople!
No, you can’t go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
And because fuck Old Amsterdam!
TL;DR: Seoul, Korea. I loved living there.
I’ve not seen many cities on Earth. But, in making my choices, I’ll share what Im considering.
Caveat: I’ve never been to any place on the African continent. This is an admitted blind spot. I’ve also been to only three European cities.
Not New York, Toronto, San Fransisco, Ottawa, Portland, Las Vegas, Washington D.C., Miami, Québec, Atlanta, or Halifax (sorry Nova Scotia, we love you!)
Not London (UK). Not Frankfurt. Not Sydney (Aus). Not Beijing. Not Kathmandu. Not KL, KK, Bangkok, or Singapore. Not Dubai. Not Colombo, Male, Kuwait, Doha, or Muscat (sorry Oman, we love you!)
No La Habana, ni Santiago de Chile, Cali, Arequipa, Cusco, y no á ciudad de Guatemala (disculpame mis hermanos de Guate!)
I think that the greatest cities on Earth have DEEP histories, offer diversity, and have been at the crossroads of the human condition.
Of the cities I’ve spent at least a week in (in no particular order):
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La ciudad de México, México. (Pyramids, gardens, art, and food)
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Istanbul, Türkiye (Hagia Sofia, Bosphorus, history)
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Seoul, Korea (functionality, history, food, mountains, music)
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Cartagena, Colombia (music, seaside, fortress, art)
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Beirut, Lebanon [at least, when (2012) and how (with well-connected locals) I was there. Certainly, it’s faced repeated harms in the past 7 years.]
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Berlin, Germany (architecture, functionality, history, walking tour, art, festivals)
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Montréal, Québec (one Canadian city needed to be on)
Ones I’ve not been to, but might list if I had:
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Tehran, Iran (history)
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Barcelona, Spain (Al-Analous)
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Mumbai, India
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Hong Kong
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Tokyo, Japan
Serious question, how do you afford that much travel, or am I just that poor?
The first bit, living in Seoul, was youth and low cost of living in Seoul. I had debt, but my Thailand, China, and Australia trips were done on the cheap.
The next bit, living in Kuwait, was making oil money, zeroing out my debts, and having no mortgage and no kids. It was pretty sweet. But, still, I lived in the desert.
The next bit, living in Guate, was still no mortgage and no debt. My eldest was around for my last two years there. But, again, low cost of living and flying was a boon.
Since returning to Canada, I have only been to cities to which I can drive. I still pretty new to having a mortgage.
That said, I’m not planning any trips until sometime after 2037. If, yknow, there’s still a world then.
I think that the greatest cities on Earth have DEEP histories, offer diversity, and have been at the crossroads of the human condition.
Not sure how you can say all that, exclude London and then put Montreal on there… place is less then 400 years old!
Montreal was a late addition.
It’s not that old, I’d agree. But, of Canadian cities that I could see as among the greatest in the world, it’s Canada’s nearest option.
Québec is older, over 400 years. But, Montreal is more of a world city.
Calgary is solid too, other than the fact that it’s in Alberta.
Vancouver is beautiful but in my experience it generally smells like garbage.
Good buddy of mine spent 5 years in Calgary and has only good things to saw. The Tarsands really pushed things in that province out of joint.
I’d like to spend some time in Van. I was in Victoria for a few days and Nanaimo for a few more. But Van and Tofino were bridges too far on that trip.
Portland was the West Coast city that was outstanding to me. Victoria was cute. Seattle was excessive.
I like Seoul, but I liked Tokyo just a bit more. I recommend it if you get a chance. But like any city that big, your mileage may vary based on what you actually do and see.
I didn’t live in Tokyo, but I did live near it for a little while. It was beautiful, but I’m a bit glad I wasn’t in the city all the time. Just too much going on for my tempo.
Tokyo isn’t a city though. It’s a prefecture. Yokohama is technically the largest city in Japan.
Thank you for the in-depth answer.
I’d love to go back to Cartagena. I proposed to my wife there and we had an absolutely amazing trip
That was one of my see-before-i-die trips I made as a teenager. Based, entirely, on a profile in Nat Geo. Australia was another.
Iceland, Norwegian fjords, New Zealand mountains, and Haida Gwaii are nearest the top of my list for physical spaces. Rapa Nui would be a neat experience, but not wholly necessary. Hokkaido in Northern Japan would be a cultural experience I’d chase.
And, I’d really like to go on the ground from Djibouti to Cape Town on a circuitous voyage through as many places and nations as I can manage. Then, a flight to Libreville, Gabon and travel on the ground toward Ghana.
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Bielefeld, obviously.
That doesnt exist. We mean a real city
Its real to the actors and agents working for/in Bielefeld.
