If you answer with New York, you’re a basic bitch.

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    From my experience trying to move there in the past decade, it would have been Denver

    The “Green Rush” brought an interesting vibe of a small city growing bigger, but then the pandemic busted up that momentum and your’s truly got priced out of an already overpriced studio

    I remember walking around 16th Street after the lockdown was lifted and realized that the magic wasn’t coming back. The absolute state of the homeless population certainly wasn’t helping

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    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:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnxtvSMw49M

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    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.

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        One of the cleanest and best kept cities I’ve been to. I was surprised, that’s for sure. I was expecting this grungy hole, but no, she’s a very well kept place.

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        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

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          ugly block architecture

          Affordable social architecture for people, not castles and churches built on slave labor.

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            West (not east) Berlin paid people to take the mouldings off their historic buildings. Nothing to do with affordable social architecture.

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            You can build affordable and beautiful. Prove, castle in berlin vs the national museum in stockholm which do you think cost more?

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          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.

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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.

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    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.