Best City in the World

[Dúnedain]

Originally posted by jerseydevil
I agree 100%. Nothing beats New Jersey pizza. My cousins didn't realize how good the pizza i here until I took them to the Midwest - including Chicago to Uno's. I hate Uno's in Chicago. I like the chain Uno's places - but the service sucks at Uno's in Chicago. But while I'm in NJ I will only eat NJ pizza.

[EDIT] Of course nothing beats my homemade pizza from scratch made on a pizza stone.

*Ahem* New York pizza! One of the best places is Sal's Pizzeria on Mott St. right next to Chinatown, YUMMY!


*Edit* On the corner of Mott and Broome if I remember correctly...

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Are they really city-cities or just those areas of a city also called cities? We have lots of cities in Melbourne too, like the City of Kingston (where I live, but that's not a suburb, it's a group of suburbs). And that's not even an electorate (ours is Hotham), it's a 'city'.

We have a suburb called Richmond too! Nice having cities/towns with the same names.

They are actual factual cities, with mayors and city councils etc. (We have a few 'fake' cities too I'm sure.)

gimli7410, the fireworks are the only thing you like about Vancouver?
What about the Punjabi market, Bard on the Beach, abundant all-you-can-eat late night sushi restaurants, great bus system, fun people, beautiful parks, Commercial drive, Science world, the Capilano suspension bridge, Whistler, Cypress bowl, inclimate weather, beautiful forests, close proximity to the sea and more?

[crickhollow]

I've never been to the suspension bridge...they take the freshmen there every year during orientation, but I was being reclusive and didn't go.

Robson street, Gastown, Chinatown...

ooo, I've never been to the punjabi market, but yay for Bard on the Beach! Or Pacific Theater. Did you see the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe last month?

[cassiopeia]

Woo, go Melbourne! Not that I actually live there, but pretty close. I think Canberra, the capital of Australia, is the best city I've been to. Everything there is so clean, and there are beautiful trees and plants everywhere. Probably for all the politicians, but it's still great.

[Brian]

GO VANCOUVER(if its the one in b.c canada!!)

[GrayMouser]

Originally posted by jerseydevil
I don't think it's biased - I just think that it is human nature to want tor live where one feels at home - this entails having similar political systems, laws, government, etc. Australia and Canada are much more like Britain than the US is.

[EDIT]What I meant by "it's British" - I was just saying that they must mean British expatriates when they say "expatriates".

Well, the Economist is the most "international" of the newsweeklies; I remember reading in their Christmas issue that something like 40-50% of their circulation is actually in the U.S. compared to about 25% in Britain and 30% in Rest of World- can't remember the exact numbers, but their American readership is far higher than their British.


But they do have a strongly British (19th Century liberal) sensibility.

On ratings like these they're supposedly ranking 'objective' factors like crime, costs etc. , but they do seem to have some subjective ones like risk from terrorism.

Can't say about Vienna, but I know what the climate in Vancouver is like- and anybody that rates the weather in Melbourne above other Aussie cities...

"Hey, it's raining again- give them a perfect score"
Yep, they're definitely English

[gollum9630]

Originally posted by linaewen
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Originally posted by Nurvingiel
I don't think the suburbs are included, Surrey, Richmond, Maple Ridge, Abbotsford, Langley, and New Westminister are all cities in their own right. Though, it's all referred to as Greater Vancouver.
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Are they really city-cities or just those areas of a city also called cities? We have lots of cities in Melbourne too, like the City of Kingston (where I live, but that's not a suburb, it's a group of suburbs). And that's not even an electorate (ours is Hotham), it's a 'city'.

We have a suburb called Richmond too! Nice having cities/towns with the same names

yah, they are all cities, although maple ridge is the best of them all (gee, where does gollum live ) I wouldnt call richmond a suberb, its pretty big and thats were the airport is. There have been talks about making it all one city, or cities, which would bump vancouver up to number 1 for sure

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by Brian
GO VANCOUVER(if its the one in b.c canada!!)

Are there other Vancouvers I don't know about?

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by cassiopeia
Woo, go Melbourne! Not that I actually live there, but pretty close. I think Canberra, the capital of Australia, is the best city I've been to. Everything there is so clean, and there are beautiful trees and plants everywhere. Probably for all the politicians, but it's still great.

Canberra's boring. Sure it's clean and has trees and everything's white, but once you've driven around and around Parliament House and all those streets, there ain't much left to do.

Cass, you live so close to Melbourne your city IS part of Melbourne.

[Millane]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Best cities to live in, not necessarily to visit, probably largely because it's not that expensive to live here. The other cities mentioned are nice enough, I guess. Adelaide has the reputation for being a city of churches and Perth is so far away, it's far smaller than Melbourne. Brisbane is beautiful though! You must go to Brisbane if you visit Australia! Anyone been there? Surfers Paradise...*drool*

Surfers Paradise is disgusting it would probably be one of the worst cities ive ever been to, i was there sometime mid last year but lukily we stayed in Brisbane which is a nice city... Canberra was good but my heart goes to Tassie, it is such a beautiful place, if it was for States Tassie would have to be up there...

[Linaewen]

Never been to Tassie myself, but I'm pretty close to it, eh? *Wanders out to back of house to fetch a boat, to use in crossing the Bass Strait*.

Brisbane is beautiful, and the nightlife is fantastic too. Full of hotels! Right next to the beach!
What's wrong with Surfers'? It's not that bad.

[Millane]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Never been to Tassie myself, but I'm pretty close to it, eh? *Wanders out to back of house to fetch a boat, to use in crossing the Bass Strait*.

Brisbane is beautiful, and the nightlife is fantastic too. Full of hotels! Right next to the beach!
What's wrong with Surfers'? It's not that bad.

Surfers is sickening. its all too tacky for my liking, i like a nice city like Brisbane with lots of trees and nice shops etc, Surfers has the worst people too, all those queer hicks

[GrayMouser]

Originally posted by Nurvingiel
Are there other Vancouvers I don't know about?

Vancouver, Washington (state), USA, on the Columbia River, also a very nice small city (pop. about 150,000, compared to Vancouver, Canada's two million)

[GrayMouser]

Originally posted by gollum9630
yah, they are all cities, although maple ridge is the best of them all (gee, where does gollum live ) I wouldnt call richmond a suberb, its pretty big and thats were the airport is. There have been talks about making it all one city, or cities, which would bump vancouver up to number 1 for sure

I'd have to disagree; I'd classify them all as suburbs

P.S. Coquitlam Rules! or it did when I lived there- you're right that these days Maple Ridge is much nicer- last time I was back all the bush in Coquitlam had been totally swallowed by housing.

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by GrayMouser
I'd have to disagree; I'd classify them all as suburbs

P.S. Coquitlam Rules! or it did when I lived there- you're right that these days Maple Ridge is much nicer- last time I was back all the bush in Coquitlam had been totally swallowed by housing.

i was just ion coquitlam yesterday and all it is is housing, coquitlam mall,hendersons place and silver city. there are like no fields clsoe to anyone unless it is a soccer field

nurvingiel:i never really have done much in vancouver but whenever im there its so busy. i might go to bard on the beach in grade 12 i think

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by GrayMouser
Vancouver, Washington (state), USA, on the Columbia River, also a very nice small city (pop. about 150,000, compared to Vancouver, Canada's two million)

What a nice size for a city. Actually, the city of Vancouver is about 1 million people. 2 million is for Greater Vancouver, which includes all those other cities I named. (They all border each other, kind of like all the cities of Toronto before they amalgamated.)

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by GrayMouser
Well, the Economist is the most "international" of the newsweeklies; I remember reading in their Christmas issue that something like 40-50% of their circulation is actually in the U.S. compared to about 25% in Britain and 30% in Rest of World- can't remember the exact numbers, but their American readership is far higher than their British.

That doesn't matter when they are talking about expatriates though. They're talking about British people living abroad - that is all.

Dunedain - New JERSEY pizza. The pizza is found throughout New Jersey, but only really in eastern Pennsylvania and Western New York State.

Anyway - Sansone Brother's in South Brunswick is the best pizza. Dominic's in Piscataway is really good too. I haven't had a lot of good pizza in New York actually.

[HOBBIT]

eh, I don't know of any amazing pizza in NJ.

Some good pizza, but certainly nothing better than any other state.

A lot of good pizza in NY - John's pizza is very good.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by GrayMouser
Vancouver, Washington (state), USA, on the Columbia River, also a very nice small city (pop. about 150,000, compared to Vancouver, Canada's two million)

i worked there on a consultant job for Bonneville Power Administration. It was pretty nice - but I like the eastcoast better.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Okay, what kind of pizza are we talking here? Thin and crispy? Cheesey?

New Jersey area pizza is thin crust, cheesy and it's made in pizza ovens - so the crust should be crusty on the bottom. The pizza places in Plainsboro don't have their oven turned up enough so the pizza doesn't get crusty.

Sansone Brother's - they made good crusty pizza, with the cheese dripping off and then they make their own sauce with crushed tomatoes. It's very good.

Jersey Shore pizza is good too. Nothing like eating pizza on the boardwalk with the salt breeze coming off the ocean.