NYC VS London. Which is the best place to live ?

bb1234567 · 12-02-2012 08:23PM #1

So which would you prefer to live in and or visit and why? Which would you consider to be the capital of the world? I'd probably say NYC is capital of the world, but I'd personally prefer to live in London.So taking in all aspects of the city, cost of living , culture,history,crime rates/safety, facilities / amenities/ recreation ,cleanliness, transport, people, food , tourism, beauty and charm,weather, nightlife and pubs/bars, healthcare ,jobs , entertainment, shopping/services, economy ,green space /environment, city layout, history,music / theatre / arts, education ,amount of holidays you get,wages and salaries, law enforcement ,art galleries and museums ,infrastructure ,traffic,property prices,architecture,cafes and restaurants, scenery, flora and wildlife, dealing with severe weather(snow and ice, storms , hurricanes flooding, heatwaves etc),pollution,waist disposal, government,job opportunities,universities and schools etc?

lividduck · 12-02-2012 08:41PM

Tehran

My name is URL · 12-02-2012 08:42PM

I'd sooner have my eyes scooped out with a melon baller than live in London

af_thefragile · 12-02-2012 08:43PM

I like London. Lots of things to do there...

TiGeR KiNgS · 12-02-2012 08:45PM

innit Bruv

Eric Cartman · 12-02-2012 08:51PM

id rather shoot myself in the balls than live in new york , hipsters, hassidic jews, brooklyn and all the other dodgy areas, huge traffic problems, its still the US, hugely expensive rent. theres no real advantage

Logical Fallacy · 12-02-2012 08:51PM

I've spent a good bit of time in both and I like aspects of both, that said i'd probably go with New York as i just seemed to have more fun there and it felt a bit more "right" than London.

44leto · 12-02-2012 08:53PM

I like them both, N-York has an edge in excitement BUT and its a huge but, it has a terrible climate, it goes from to warm, too, to cold and poxy humid, it is nicest in spring.

London really has everything and the tube connects it all and the people are great, I could easilly live there again,

Turtyturd · 12-02-2012 08:56PM

New York for me....I think you could spend a lifetime there and never run out of things to do.

Big Nasty · 12-02-2012 08:56PM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

id rather shoot myself in the balls than live in new york , hipsters, hassidic jews, brooklyn and all the other dodgy areas, huge traffic problems, its still the US, hugely expensive rent. theres no real advantage

The Dodge Ram Hemi you would tool around in would more than make up for it!

bb1234567 · 12-02-2012 08:57PM

44leto wrote: »

I like them both, N-York has an edge in excitement BUT and its a huge but, it has a terrible climate, it goes from to warm, too, to cold and poxy humid, it is nicest in spring.

London really has everything and the tube connects it all and the people are great, I could easilly live there again,

hmm I'd prefer new yotk climate to irish/british climate. Atleast in NY they have distinguished seasons heat in summer,cold and snow in winter rather than our constatn mild/wet and grey:(

Teddy455 · 12-02-2012 08:57PM

Pyongyang

Eric Cartman · 12-02-2012 08:58PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

The Dodge Ram Hemi you would tool around in would more than make up for it!

damn , you are right,

bnt · 12-02-2012 08:58PM

I lived in London for eight years, and it was grand. You do need to have money to enjoy it, though: it's no place to be poor. I've been to New York, and could happily live there too - but it would also depend on the money situation.

Both are big cities, and you probably wouldn't live in the city. More likely, you'd live in a suburb, and there's a lot of variation in lifestyle between them. I lived in both West London (Earl's Court) and North London (Muswell Hill), and they could have been different cities entirely. In New York you have the Five Boroughs, each with their own multiple personalities. I think I like the idea of living on Staten Island and taking the ferry in to Manhattan regularly.

later12 · 12-02-2012 09:04PM

New York is the cooler city, but London is the better place to live.

A short flight away from anywhere in Europe, a train ride away from its polar opposite in the remote Scottish Highlands, and full of the same diversity that characterises New York, but with a more interesting cultural scene, and arguably a better nightlife too.

I like New York for short periods, but some aspects of the American way of life just jar with me. And even though New York is like its own mini Republic , it is only a small cultural island, rather cut off from the world with only the US and Canada nearby,and I think it is the worse for it.

Batsy · 12-02-2012 09:05PM

HISTORY

London: 1,968 years of it, stretching back to when it was founded by the Romans in 43AD.
NY: 387 years of it, stretching back to when it was founded by the Dutch in 1624.

London 1-0 NY

FOOD

London has more Michelin star restaurants than any other city in the world, more than New York and more even than Paris.

London 1-0 NY

TOURISM

London is second only to Paris in terms of the annual number of tourists visiting the city, with 14.8 million tourists each year. New York has just 9.5 million tourists each year.

London 1-0 NYC

EDUCATION

University of College London UCL and Imperial College London are ranked at 4th and 5th in the world whereas Columbia University (the best one in NY) is ranked at 11th.

London 1-0 NY

FINANCE

London is the world's financial capital, overtaking NY. According to the WEF (World Economic Forum) London in the United Kingdom has now replaced Wall Street as the centre of the financial world, despite concerns over confidence in both American and European markets due to the recession.

London 1-0 NY

LIFE EXPECTANCY

The life expectancy in London is 84.4 years for men and 89 years for women. In NY, it is 79.5 years for men and 82 years for women.

London 1-0 NY

FINAL SCORE: London 6-0 NY

WINNER: LONDON

Liam Byrne · 12-02-2012 09:16PM

Neither

Claustrophobic urban rat race with too many people in the one place.

Dr. Manhattan · 12-02-2012 09:45PM

If your circumstances were the same in both, I can't see a lot to choose between them. I'd live in London again in a heartbeat, but that's a personal connection.

Superbus · 12-02-2012 09:47PM

Choose the most mediocre aspects of both and live in Dublin.

pabloh999 · 12-02-2012 09:55PM

NYC.
Walking around the city is like nothing else, the taxis, the buildings, the people - all weirdly familar(from countless movies and tv shows) but always new and exciting at the same time.
The Manhattan skyline NEVER gets old.
Every single time you see that iconic sea of skyscrapers your heart will skip a beat.

Plus the boozers have 4am closing times every night of the week

AngryBollix · 12-02-2012 10:03PM

London and New York are fine cities but I'd say living in them is a nightmare for any number of reasons.

Having friends or acquaintances there would be a significant factor and would help in a big way

Dubit10 · 12-02-2012 10:07PM

I lived and worked in NY for several years and tbh never got what all the fuss was about. Can't speak for london as i've never been.

AngryBollix · 12-02-2012 10:09PM

Batsy wrote: »

HISTORY

London: 1,968 years of it, stretching back to when it was founded by the Romans in 43AD.
NY: 387 years of it, stretching back to when it was founded by the Dutch in 1624.

London 1-0 NY

FOOD

London has more Michelin star restaurants than any other city in the world, more than New York and more even than Paris.

London 1-0 NY

TOURISM

London is second only to Paris in terms of the annual number of tourists visiting the city, with 14.8 million tourists each year. New York has just 9.5 million tourists each year.

London 1-0 NYC

EDUCATION

University of College London UCL and Imperial College London are ranked at 4th and 5th in the world whereas Columbia University (the best one in NY) is ranked at 11th.

London 1-0 NY

FINANCE

London is the world's financial capital, overtaking NY. According to the WEF (World Economic Forum) London in the United Kingdom has now replaced Wall Street as the centre of the financial world, despite concerns over confidence in both American and European markets due to the recession.

London 1-0 NY

LIFE EXPECTANCY

The life expectancy in London is 84.4 years for men and 89 years for women. In NY, it is 79.5 years for men and 82 years for women.

London 1-0 NY

FINAL SCORE: London 6-0 NY

WINNER: LONDON

I doubt michelin star restaurants are a determining factor for most people when deciding a likely destination for emigration and neither are any of the others unless you are a female culinary connoiseur and finance student on tour who expects to live past 90

Sindri · 12-02-2012 10:12PM

Batsy wrote: »

HISTORY

London: 1,968 years of it, stretching back to when it was founded by the Romans in 43AD.
NY: 387 years of it, stretching back to when it was founded by the Dutch in 1624.

London 1-0 NY

FOOD

London has more Michelin star restaurants than any other city in the world, more than New York and more even than Paris.

London 1-0 NY

TOURISM

London is second only to Paris in terms of the annual number of tourists visiting the city, with 14.8 million tourists each year. New York has just 9.5 million tourists each year.

London 1-0 NYC

EDUCATION

University of College London UCL and Imperial College London are ranked at 4th and 5th in the world whereas Columbia University (the best one in NY) is ranked at 11th.

London 1-0 NY

FINANCE

London is the world's financial capital, overtaking NY. According to the WEF (World Economic Forum) London in the United Kingdom has now replaced Wall Street as the centre of the financial world, despite concerns over confidence in both American and European markets due to the recession.

London 1-0 NY

LIFE EXPECTANCY

The life expectancy in London is 84.4 years for men and 89 years for women. In NY, it is 79.5 years for men and 82 years for women.

London 1-0 NY

FINAL SCORE: London 6-0 NY

WINNER: LONDON

Yeah but Bolton's ****e.

May not have actually been to Bolton.

Absolutely neither. I'll never leave my backward country or small quaint country side with fresh air and the craic. I'm always depressed in foreign countries.

AngryBollix · 12-02-2012 10:15PM

Sindri wrote: »

Yeah but Bolton's ****e.

May not have actually been to Bolton.

Absolutely neither. I'll never leave my backward country or small quaint country side with fresh air and the craic. I'm always depressed in foreign countries.

Bolton is actually shyte

Stinicker · 12-02-2012 10:15PM

Homs in Syria, that place is literally a blast to live in

Sindri · 12-02-2012 10:17PM

AngryBollix wrote: »

Bolton is actually shyte

Vernon Kay's from Bolton...:pac:

pragmatic1 · 12-02-2012 10:19PM

Neither I like living in an area with a sense of community and being friends with my neighbours.

Yahew · 12-02-2012 10:21PM

Actually both cities suck if you are poor or median income. To visit, for me, NYC is beautiful. London is not.

I work in London occasionally, it does very little for me. I hear about it's mystical nightlife but there are few actual examples given, and I am more a stay in the pub guy myself. Pubs are sh*ite in the centre, over crowded and over-noisy. I have found a few nice ones around Fulham.

The fact that 14 M tourists visit is hardly a boon to people who want to get to work and have to barge past people staring about themselves - there are two classes of walkers in London, fast residents, and sloooow tourists.

And working in London means for most a 10-11 hour day, with a lot of commuting.

kumate_champ07 · 12-02-2012 10:23PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

The Dodge Ram Hemi you would tool around in would more than make up for it!

I think theres 1 in Ireland, theres a UK company that imports larger engine american cars/trucks then are normally available

Big Nasty · 12-02-2012 10:25PM

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Neither I like living in an area with a sense of community and being friends with my neighbours.

TBH I think true New Yorkers have a great sense of community.

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