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Your favourite city ?

  • 05-01-2011 1:20pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭


    For me it has to be new york. Whats yours ?

    The poll is from cities i have visited. Sorry if you favourite is not on the list..

    Your favourite city ? 337 votes

    New york
    0% 0 votes
    boston
    15% 53 votes
    san francisco
    3% 12 votes
    london
    5% 18 votes
    dublin
    9% 31 votes
    berlin
    7% 25 votes
    paris
    9% 32 votes
    barcelona
    5% 19 votes
    madrid
    6% 22 votes
    milan
    2% 7 votes
    sydney
    0% 1 vote
    shanghai
    2% 9 votes
    hong kong
    0% 1 vote
    los angeles
    1% 4 votes
    zurich
    0% 3 votes
    amsterdam
    0% 2 votes
    las vegas
    8% 29 votes
    vancouver
    3% 12 votes
    manchester
    1% 5 votes
    rome
    1% 5 votes
    stockholm
    5% 18 votes
    singapore
    1% 6 votes
    belfast
    0% 1 vote
    killkenny
    2% 7 votes
    power city
    4% 15 votes


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭Notorious97


    Dublin......if they make Tallaght its own city then that will be it :pac:

    I love New York though, don’t think anywhere really matches it as it is just great atmosphere, whole different type of people to meet each time you go, spot the Irish a mile off with their suitcases heading to Port Authority for the outlets, just a great place to have a holiday.

    I like Belfast too, Paris is good but too expensive, and Perth when i was there was good craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭George83


    Dublin & Rome. Would love to go to new york.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Rome or Melbourne. Laughable that you'd include Belfast in there and I've lived there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭Notorious97


    George83 wrote: »
    Dublin & Rome. Would love to go to new york.

    Sh*t i forgot Rome, only been once but it was great, city is still old looking which i liked, great history, im a bit of a history nerd so places like Rome are great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Sh*t i forgot Rome, only been once but it was great, city is still old looking which i liked, great history, im a bit of a history nerd so places like Rome are great.

    Don't forget awesome cheap food.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    prague?!?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Vienna or Budapest but neither are on there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Pisa and Washington


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Nice, southern France.
    Beautiful city. Just bloody wonderful.
    The whole place is a work of art alone, old and new.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    I like Edinburgh,hopefully I will like New York,going this year.

    I think Dublin is not to bad.

    Milan I would love to go to,see the football and just take in the sites.

    Endiburgh so far is my favourite city,such a nice atmosphere,lovely places to eat,plenty to see and everyone is so nice there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    It has to be New York but I'd bet Sydney get's a lot because of the people that went there and romanticize the hell out of it because Australia is life experience blah I say, Blah!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    I said Paris myself, great city. Stunning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Brisbane for me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Dublin!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    FatherLen wrote: »
    prague?!?

    OOPS...:o i love prague.........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Am I the only one who just doesn't like cities? When I travel I always end up in small/medium-size towns with people asking "how the hell did you end up here?!"-- In the UK it was Bury, in Ireland it was Mullingar, here it's Flensburg.

    Cities are so big and ugly and noisy and expensive and dirty and busy and congested. They're great for a day or two to go somewhere specific, but it would do my head in trying to live in one! Plus, I don't think you get as much of a taste of the culture while living/staying in a big city.

    What's the appeal in them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Also San Diego should be up there instead of LA..LA is a kip


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    Toulouse, Madrid and Vancouver.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    liah wrote: »
    Am I the only one who just doesn't like cities? When I travel I always end up in small/medium-size towns with people asking "how the hell did you end up here?!"-- In the UK it was Bury, in Ireland it was Mullingar, here it's Flensburg.

    Cities are so big and ugly and noisy and expensive and dirty and busy and congested. They're great for a day or two to go somewhere specific, but it would do my head in trying to live in one! Plus, I don't think you get as much of a taste for the culture living in a big city.

    What's the appeal in them?

    You can be lost in the pack. That's what I like about them...I also like the appeal of good gigs, museums, more choice etc.

    Not sure I'd settle in one though...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    liah wrote: »
    Am I the only one who just doesn't like cities? When I travel I always end up in small/medium-size towns with people asking "how the hell did you end up here?!"-- In the UK it was Bury, in Ireland it was Mullingar, here it's Flensburg.

    Cities are so big and ugly and noisy and expensive and dirty and busy and congested. They're great for a day or two to go somewhere specific, but it would do my head in trying to live in one! Plus, I don't think you get as much of a taste for the culture living in a big city.

    What's the appeal in them?

    I like to spend a weekend in a city,and just walk about taking in everything. Helps if the city is steep in history and fine architecture mind you.

    For longer stays smaller towns are best,you mix easier and its cheaper.

    Mullingar I never liked though,sorry :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Not too well travelled; I've been to Dublin, London, Paris and Munich. They're all nice (well actually I thought Munich was boring, but I was 13 and so didn't exactly sample the nightlife or anything!)

    Would love to go to New York, Amsterdam and Copenhagen at some point.

    My favourite city though is Bandar Seri Begawan. Just because it has a cool name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Cavan!!!!











    haha, just kidding, i chose Dublin! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Wollongong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    I will say I have only ever loved one city, and that is Edinburgh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Dublin??? FFS I've seen it all now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Cloud city


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Mullingar I never liked though,sorry :o

    I'm going to take you out to Mullingar.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭karma_


    Everyone knows that Derry is the greatest city in the world, I assume that was a given and this is actually about everyones second favourite!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    From the list it is Rome for me, although I've only been to 12 of the options and all within Europe.

    One of my favourite places ever though is Hvar in Croatia, I was only there for a day but it's breath taking. Would go back to Croatia again in a second.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    I'm going to take you out to Mullingar.

    I have been out to Mullingar,seen my fair share of local "horses" too ;)

    Good craic out but I couldnt live there!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    London as there is lots to see and do i like the fast pace.Keflavik/Reykjavik are real nice too very chilled atmosphere!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    No option to vote Cork or Limerick? Although I'd still vote for Las Vegas - talk about a playground!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭endabob1


    Cape Town, but only because I live here and it's 35 ish today so in half an hour I'll be off home for a swim in the pool :D

    From a non-biased view Melbourne & Edinburgh, spent a year living in Melbourne and it's a great city, lots of great places to eat, nice bars, ok beaches but a very relaxed vibe about the place. Similar vibe with Edinburgh although I've never had the pleasure of living there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    No option to vote Cork or Limerick? Although I'd still vote for Las Vegas - talk about a playground!

    The options are a bit biased as they are cities i have visited..;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    No option to vote Cork or Limerick? Although I'd still vote for Las Vegas - talk about a playground!
    really?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    No option to vote Cork or Limerick?

    Or Galway, or Waterford...

    Yeah, I was thinking that, especially since Kilkenny is on the list... :rolleyes:

    I voted for Rome out of that list, though it was a close one with Madrid (the best place I've ever lived in).

    Although the best city I've visited is Lviv in Ukraine - stunning architecture everywhere, beautiful shops and cafés (with very little in the way of chain-type places), and it's as cheap as chips. A really relaxed and civilised place, but with a great buzz.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    These polls are pointless as the majority of posters won't have been in half of them.

    Amsterdam, from the list.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    New York!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    of that list probably san francisco although there are 5 or 6 places i haven't been on that list


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    New York. Apart from being the greatest city on the planet, it's also the only city in your list that has a capital letter in it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭yupyup7up


    FatherLen wrote: »
    really?

    I'd pick limerick out of cities in Ireland.
    Limerick people for the most part have a great sense of humour and don't get offended by much!

    I hate Dublin with a passion, too fast paced and too many ignorant people up there.

    Liverpool is a good shout! Great city and great people!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Seriously speaking, I'ld chose London.

    I haven't really been around much but out of the places I've been to, London was the nicest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Lagos Portugal, Lovely city,not to big and very near beautiful beaches & countryside :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    yupyup7up wrote: »
    most part have a great sense of humour and don't get offended by much!

    In the style of Chandler Bing:

    "Ha ha ha ha ha ha"

    [Turns to friend]

    "What? He has a knife!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Rotterdam
    PoB.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Amsterdam is a fantastic city, def my favourite. (nothing got to do with the drugs and sex either, it'd be even nicer without)

    Stunning looking, the waterways really add to it, great people.
    I want to live there someday.

    Edinburgh is another favourite of mine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,200 ✭✭✭kensutz


    Kilkenny? Thread fails on all fronts because of that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 djliamo


    Definately Tokyo for me :) Amazing place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    kensutz wrote: »
    Kilkenny? Thread fails on all fronts because of that!

    :rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    New York, closely followed by Dublin


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