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Your favourite city ?

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    #122
    mariaf24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭mariaf24


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    It's on my list of places to go. Any advise accomodation wise? Are the gondolas expensive? the only way to get around?

    Oh Venice is just magical :) We were there last Summer. We actually stayed in Lake Garda and Verona and just went to Venice for a day.
    Yes the gondolas are CRAZY expensive but i've since heard that you can haggle down alot.
    We walked around for the day and it perfect.

    The bad: It was August, the heat was hard to cope in and it was absolutely mobbed. I have heard many people complaining of a smell but i didnt get the smell!


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    #123
    Thomas828
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    London's the place for me! Yes, it's blooming expensive compared to a lot ol other cities but this is a place where you've got the best libraries, concert venues, restaurants and parks within easy reach. It's a city where anyone of any age can have fun.


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    #124
    bronte
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    I ❤ London!


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    #125
    [Deleted User]
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    Why is kilkenny there its not even a real city.

    I vote for my home town Galway, which isn't in the poll.


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    #126
    HavingCrack
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    Washington DC or San Diego definately have to be up there.


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    #127
    Mr. Presentable
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    I voted Rome. Had Manhattan been a city of itself then perhaps I'd have had to think about it.

    I wonder how many who voted New York were actually only in Manhattan?


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    #128
    NothingMan
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    bronte wrote: »
    I ❤ London!


    You Batman London?


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    #129
    bronte
    Registered Users Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    NothingMan wrote: »
    You Batman London?

    Yes. Yes I do. :pac:


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    #130
    HavingCrack
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    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    I voted Rome. Had Manhattan been a city of itself then perhaps I'd have had to think about it.

    I wonder how many who voted New York were actually only in Manhattan?

    To be fair I quite like Brooklyn, a lot of cool gigs and shops out there and really ncie brownstone houses, Coney Island isn't the worst, Queens is a bit boring yeah but it's just residential mostly while the Bronx has improved immensely in recent years. Staten Island is the definition of American suburbia so yeah that borough is pretty rubbish.


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    #131
    AckwelFoley
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    NYC - love the place.

    LOL at belfast included in poll easily the worst dump ive visited - and being from athlone im qualified to judge


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    #132
    SoulTrader
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    kerryman12 wrote: »
    I was sure I was going to like San Fran also, but I didnt. Not sure why I think it was the level of homeless people in all of the public parks etc.
    Me too. I had heard so much good things about San Fran but was ultimately disappointed by the numbers of homeless people, many of whom it seems are mentally unwell. It's sad that they are left to roam the streets.

    Conversely, I had heard very few positive reports about LA but ended up loving it when I went earlier this year. The areas out around Beverly Hills and West Hollywood are more like a collection of small towns, with a lovely laid-back appeal.

    If I have to choose though, New York for me. I've been at least twice a year for the past 4 years and I still feel a surge of excitement when the Manhattan skyline comes into view as you make your way over from JFK. I've been there with my wife, my parents, various friends and there's always something for us to do there. Really an astonishing city.


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    #133
    Sandwlch
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    I presume Venice was left of the poll because it would be an unfair fight with everyone voting for it ?


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    #134
    galwayrush
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    :cool:Rome by a long shot.:cool:


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    #135
    deconduo
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    I definitely wouldn't mind living in Manhattan or Rome.

    I don't really like Paris or London that much though.

    In Dublin for now though, and its not so bad.


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    #136
    rossie1977
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    HavingCrack wrote: »
    Bronx has improved immensely in recent years. .

    that wasn't hard it looked like a war zone in the 80s, early 90s

    harlem improved beyond recognition too

    there are really nice places in the new york city catchment area, hoboken is lovely, union city, north bergen and newark not so much


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    #137
    TemptationWaits
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    I love cities so nearly all the ones I've visited are my favourites, but I suppose the ones I liked the most were Edinburgh, Miami, San Francisco, London, and Barcelona.

    If you haven't been to Edinburgh go!! Ahhh it's been a few years now since I've been there, want to go back so much!


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    #138
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    Boston for me, I was only there for a couple of days but I absolutely loved it. If only they lowered the drinking age so I could have enjoyed it more.-.-

    I was in New York that same week and while it was better craic all, I really couldn't imagine living there, whereas I'd fcuking love to live in Boston.


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    #139
    Sergeant
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    Rome for the history, culture and food. Berlin for the nightlife.


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    #140
    HavingCrack
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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    that wasn't hard it looked like a war zone in the 80s, early 90s

    harlem improved beyond recognition too

    there are really nice places in the new york city catchment area, hoboken is lovely, union city, north bergen and newark not so much

    :eek: I had no idea that it was that bad back then, it looks like a scene from during the Bosnian war.

    Yeah Hoboken is a nice spot alright. Newark had its first murder free year since 1964 in 2009 so slight improvement there perhaps :pac:.


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    #141
    RockinRolla
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    Lulz at the 17 who chose Dublin - they most likely haven't been outside their hall door. Sad really.

    Anyway - where's the Sao Paulo option? :mad:

    It's bigger than New York, more multi-cultural than London, more liberal than San Francisco and warmer than Miami.


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    #142
    OPENROAD
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    Easy choice for me, has to be London, still never tire of flying into Heathrow over the city, love everything about London :)


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    #143
    Madam
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    Tough descision but I chose San Francisco above my other favourites(Paris, Boston and Barcelona).


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    #144
    helimachoptor
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    godscop wrote: »
    Madrid is great..gran via though :eek:
    Myself and my mate who lives there were on the metro about 10am. There was a girl on it who was stunning and very dressed up. We got off and were walking down Gran Via and she was just ahead i was thinking jesus wheres she off to, then my friend tells me to look around at all the girls dressed the same. Women looking for punters at 10am :D


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    #145
    Seosaimh77
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    Barcelona was the only city I've ever been to that impressed me. Up til then I just found cities very dull and pretty much the same all over

    Then two of the 3 people I was travelling with got pickpocketted - kinda put a downer on the place, but it was still a great city


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    #146
    Odats
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    Vegas baby.


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    #147
    Winty
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    London town for me, but I did spend a funny 24 hours in Batman, Turkey. A very funny town in a not funny way


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    #148
    kerryman12
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    Odats wrote: »
    Vegas baby.

    i hate that place


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    #149
    veryangryman
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    Can i have 2 votes?

    New York and Paris. Gun to head, New York (but enough about the street crime there!!)


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    #150
    flag123
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭flag123


    Where's Limerick Citaaaaaaay?

    And I can't f*ck off to cork either.....

    Dublin it is so.


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    #151
    flag123
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭flag123


    RockinRolla wrote: »
    Lulz at the 17 who chose Dublin - they most likely haven't been outside their hall door. Sad really.

    Anyway - where's the Sao Paulo option? :mad:

    It's bigger than New York, more multi-cultural than London, more liberal than San Francisco and warmer than Miami.

    Sound's sh*t


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