Your Favorite Cities

[pennycarrol]

My favourite cities are: Sydney, New York, Provincetown-North Truro (Massachussets), Broome (Australia), Qu?©bec, Montr?©al, Nice, Sainte-Anne (French West Indies) plus heaps......... I travelled a lot and I love everywhere I go lol lol!!!

 

[Twitch]

Anyone that truly enjoys or follows history of the Old West should go to Deadwood S.D. when the weather gets nice in Spring. http://www.deadwood.org/

Beside the old western buildings the resdiential buildins and houses are quaint and older as well. You don't see 1876 saloons and look up the hill and see condos. The era area is nicely contained so you can really soak it up.

 

[M Tatterscratch]

PARIS! Also Paris, Paris, Paris, Paris, and let's not forget about Paris.

M. Moustache is right - Salzburg is charming. Waking up and looking out of your front door at a castle isn't a bad way to start a day. Different "Golden Age", of course, but there's life beyond the early 20th century (did I just say that?).

Rio de Janeiro was gorgeous and the climate suits me, but it's too dicey, especially if you like to wear a suit - Good way to get snatched. Went to a Funk Ball and to a Tenda de Umbanda (local form of "voodoo" ritual) while I was there, wa-aaaaa-y off the beaten path. Terrific. Everyone thought I was Cuban.

And Ms. LizzieMaine, EVERYONE needs Paris, whether they realise it or not!

T.

 

[RIOT]

NEW YORK, NY, NYC

and Stockholm, Amsterdam & Gdansk

 

[=Clipper=]

I live in Vancouver BC. Here, they hate old buildings, and tear them down, it's sad. The whole joint has a bad case of "Condoitis". So needless to say, I travel a lot. So I was wondering: what are your favorite golden era/art deco cities?

My favorite places are:

San Francisco (love the trolley cars)
Seattle
Spokane (wow...)
Los Angeles
Ottawa (mainly Victorian, but lots of other beautiful neighbourhoods)
Montreal

I haven't been to New York yet, though It's on my to-do list.

Chas, not to steal your Thread, but how about posting some pictures of cities in the time of their prime!? I've got Many I could share..

 

[=Clipper=]

anyone? no?

 

[Ada Veen]

I concur! photos!

 

[BORNTOOLATE]

I once had a seven-hour layover in Hong Kong and made the best of it. I was on my way to meet my honey in Bali, who was already there from a business trip to Japan. It was my first time out of the states. From the airport with my two bags over my shoulder and wearing my cowboy boots (I think I was the tallest one in the city,maybe the country), I hopped a bus down to Queen's harbor where the ferry boats land. It was an amazing drive. One block, you would see an avenue of slummy apartment buildings with laundry strung all between them, and the next block would be a 5-star british hotel with a couple of Rolls Royces parked in the Porte-Cochere. Every kind of Architecture is on hand. Saw an elderly woman in a park doing her Tai Chi (sp.?). It was a really fascinating place...............Been to New York. I loved seeing the architecture and the culture. I distinctly remember the marble main lobby stairs in the Rockefeller building, where they were dished out from billion or so people traveling across them........ San Antonio and the river walk was beautiful........Los Angeles, Louisville, Charlotte, Charleston, Asheville, Atlanta, Palm Beach, Nashville, Wilmington(NC), Williamsburg, and my favorite city, Savannah,GA. Talk about culture and living in the past. I would love to see historic Miami, San Francisco, and many more I'm sure. The strangest city I've seen in the states in Johnson City, Missouri. It's right in the middle of the state and out of the way of everything. The capital building seems to rise out of giant stretches of flat farm land. I don't think it was a good destination for the not-so-easily-entertained person.

 

[BellyTank]

I find it fascinating how many cities are reported to be "just like Europe".

That would be impossible.
Maybe it's "Exactly dissimilar to America".

Cluj Napoca, Paris, Bruxelles, Stockholm.

B
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[marquise]

New York, Manhattan my hometown; Park Slope, Brooklyn my current town.
Also: Berlin, Berlin, Berlin. Next living destination after NY. London as well, & New Orleans, Florence, Prague, & Ghent, Flanders. All places I would live happily for more than four years, my usual nomadic limit. And if all of LA looked like the Hollywood Hills, I'd live there too.

 

[Bebop]

That would be impossible.
Maybe it's "Exactly dissimilar to America".

Cluj Napoca, Paris, Bruxelles, Stockholm.

B
T

What?? [huh]

 

[HadleyH]

PARIS! Also Paris, Paris, Paris, Paris, and let's not forget about Paris.

T.

...........and......Paris.... :eusa_clap

 

[de Stokesay]

The Big Mango - Bangkok, Thailand first of all, then probably Hong Kong.

 

[Dr Doran]

1. Paris
2. Manhattan
3. Krakow -- surprised it's not on others' lists. Hell of a city. I know it pretty well, and there are still many things I have not done there. Just astounding town.
4. Rome

Maybe Rome would go higher.

Next rung:
1. London (especially the British Museum)
2. Vancouver (BC not WA)
3. Venice (Italy not CA)
4. San Francisco (lived there for 10 years; love it still but it's no longer mysterious to me)
5. Riga, Latvia -- this city is why I realized I like Art Nouveau much better than Art Deco: it is full of Art Nouveau architecture and it is simply breathtaking
6. Budapest
7. New Orleans (haven't been there since 1989, though)
8. Torun, Poland (Home of Copernicus -- just a really neat town)

Salzburg bored me to death. No offense, Mustache and others.
Haven't been to Montreal; want to. My mother is from there. I love cold and hate heat (no offense, Diamondback).

 

[Marlowe P.]

Cities

Buffalo, NY has beautiful old buildings and "Millionaires Row"
Then NYC... It is the best and worst that humanity has to offer.

In Portland, Or now... great vintage stores so far!