10 simple survey questions for you about cities

[Cirrus]

INSTRUCTIONS: Give ONE (1) city as an answer to each question. Provide additional details as you see fit. Do not get offended by anyone else's answers. Do not turn this into a versus thread. Play the game and don't ruin it for everyone.

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS:
Some of these are stolen from @BougieLA on Twitter.

1. What is your favorite US city?

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

4. What's your favorite international city?

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?

[Cirrus]

My answers:

1. What is your favorite US city?
Washington. I hate to give the homer answer, but I live here because I like it. It's a good combination of urbanism, transit, beauty, and nerd culture. I love NY's urbanism & transit but find it ugly. SF and Boston are the closest competitors for me.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?
New Orleans. I've hit most of the bigger ones already. New Orleans seems legit.

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
Chicago. OK OK, Chicago is great. I'm not saying it's bad. But I expected Chicago to be another Manhattan, and it's not. I had astronomical expectations and Chicago's merely mortal greatness didn't meet them.

4. What's your favorite international city?
Paris. It's nearly perfect. I have a hard time thinking of any way to make it better. It could be more affordable, I guess, but it's already more affordable than where I live now so its problems there don't seem that serious to me.

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?
Barcelona. Obviously there are so, so many. Barcelona tops my list because it seems like it could compete with Paris, strength for strength.

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
Vancouver. It felt a like a better version of Arlington, Virginia to me. Better but not materially foreign. The new towers are great and I can totally see why people flock to it, but I got there and thought "this is the same trick we do at home, with the same strengths and weaknesses." It's not that I think Vancouver is bad. I think it's great. It's just that I was expecting an epiphany and found only an incremental improvement over what I know well already.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?
I think DC's vernacular neighborhood architecture is the best in America.

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?
There aren't enough rowhouse neighborhoods to go around. The urban core is too small for the population of the region, leading to a major supply/demand imbalance. I covet Philadelphia's endless sea of rowhouse neighborhoods.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?
Europe. They're prettier than Asian cities.

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?
Megacity. 10 million or more. I'll have to visit Tokyo some day to decide if it's too big. So far nothing has been.

[Shawn]

1. What is your favorite US city?
Boston, and this just gets moreso as I realize I am unlikely to ever fully return

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?
El Paso - those landscapes are hauntingly beautiful

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
Chicago - even as a skyscraper guy EDIT: Cirrus said it a lot better than me, but I agree with him 100%.

4. What's your favorite international city?
Hong Kong - the ultimate urban experience

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?
Casablanca - looks like the sexiest of the Moroccan cities

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
Singapore - a Disney city filled with people who cannot wait to live somewhere else

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?
I am 35 years old and have never owned a car

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?
Chinese tourists, and I am quite serious about this. 50 of them will just show up at a restaurant near my office and commandeer the whole joint - loudly, rudely, and with an attitude that just screams, "you will accommodate us because we deserve it." They ignore No Smoking signs and get belligerent if you ask them not to smoke. Their little brat kids run around and kick your bag or coat in the floor storage. The guys of all ages hack up lungs and spit on the sidewalk (as a freaking group activity). And they treat store / restaurant staff like shit.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?
Europe, no brainer on this one

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?
15 years in the smack-dab middle of Tokyo makes it hard to go back to anything smaller than 6-7 million people in the immediate area. 10 million+ would be preferable. Metro Boston is frankly too small at this point.

[isaidso]

1. What is your favorite US city? NEW YORK

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? LOS ANGELES

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? N/A

4. What's your favorite international city? TORONTO

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? TOKYO

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? PARIS

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? RAPID ASCENSION

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? LINGERING PROVINCIALISM

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? AMERICA

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in? 25 MILLION

[llamaorama]

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS:
Some of these are stolen from @BougieLA on Twitter.

1. What is your favorite US city?

Portland, as cliche'd as that might be. I know it is overrated and probably nothing like Portlandia. And that is okay, because that is not the real reason why I think it's kinda neat.

Basically, very few cities are consistently "meh good enough" in every category. There are a lot of cities that are really amazing in one area, or are good in a lot of areas except one that acts like a deal breaker.

Portland's real charm to me is it that manages to have its shit together all across the board and has no really significant downside except maybe the escalating cost of living and one or two grubby downtown areas with a lot of homeless people.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?

Honolulu, partly because I would like to go to Hawaii too. If Honolulu was in upstate New York it just would not be the same, would it?

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

Austin. Because at heart it is a smaller city that grew very quickly into a mostly suburban place. It's the urban equivalent of grafting LeBron's upper body onto a pair of legs belonging to an 8 month old baby.

4. What's your favorite international city?

Tokyo. Never been there. But I've always been enamored with Japan. If you grew up in the 90's you watched Japanese anime/cartoons and played Nintendo games and maybe saw Tokusatsu stuff on high-numbered TV stations. Its a kind of pilgrimage I need to make.

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?

Santiago de Chile is such an unknown yet understood to be very nice and modern. I don't know if it's really that fun though, it looks kind of sterile. It would just be cool to get to experience a part of the globe that nobody remembers exists.

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

Ciudad Juarez, MX. Nobody shot at me or offered me a job as a drug mule and I never got to meet El Chapo . Totally did NOT live up to expectations . Maybe that's because I was only 8 years old at the time. We did ride around in taxis with no seatbelts though.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?

Despite having a population of only about 200,000 people and feeling like a small town, there is constant growth, new things happening and it feels very dynamic.

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?

It is small and not really a city to begin with.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?

Europe. There is more real urbanity in Asia but most of Asia is still not fully developed. I am thinking about this subject in terms of what ordinary people who earn an ordinary income for the country they live in experience.

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?

Maybe 2 to 3 million, large enough to be a major city but unlikely to have overtaxed infrastructure and cost of living problems. Few cities larger than this score well liveability rankings and while we can agree those are usually terrible I think we can also agree Zurich is much more lovely than Kinsasha so they can't be completely off the mark, can they?

[Teakwood]

1. What is your favorite US city?
Chicago. Besides being a skyscraper nerd who considers so many of Chicago's tallest to be among the best in the world, I love the neighborhoods outside the loop. I also love mid-western people.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?
There are many, but I'd have to say Los Angeles since it is the last out of the top 6 largest in the US that I have yet to visit. I also love mid-century architecture and style.

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
I love all of them. I guess I'd have to say Jacksonville though. It certainly isn't a city that is hyped, but it definitely punches below its weigh in terms of its position in terms of population.

4. What's your favorite international city?
Mexico City. It seems completely under the radar. There are more museums per capita than anywhere else in the world. There are also ancient ruins scattered throughout the city. And there are volcanos. And an historic city center that rivals Madrid. And some of the best cuisine in the world.

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?
Venice. If only because it feels urgent to visit before it completely becomes a museum, or ends up underwater.

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
I have done very little in terms of international travel, so I'll say Niagara Falls, Canada. Total tourist trap outside of the falls.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?
Philly has some of the best hidden small streets and alleyways in the country.

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?
That the rudeness stereotypes are mostly true.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?
Europe would have to be the winner hands down. The qualities in North and South American cities are measured in how much they feel like a European city.

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?
I've considered living in Stamford, CT and Mexico City. So somewhere between 100,000 and 21,000,000. I love to find the unique qualities that make anywhere great. There are obviously more qualities in larger cities, but often more flaws as well. I suppose now when I consider the possibility of living in a smaller city, it damn well better be close to other much larger ones. So yeah, huge cities are the way to go.

[AFW523]

1. What is your favorite US city? Chicago, IL. Perfect blend of downtown core and spiraling neighborhoods, all tied together with a workable transit system.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? Minneapolis, MN

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Every city in Florida, especially Miami. You are doing it wrong. Seriously. Just stop it.

4. What's your favorite international city? Krakow

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? Seoul

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Berlin, but that was my fault.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? (Pittsburgh) Completely underrated. Powerful research institutions coupled with punch-above-weight amenities and architecture.

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? The people are scarred from past legacy and it cripples the pace of progress and critical thought.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? Europe for city design, Asia for infrastructure.

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?3-5 mil

[niwell]

1. What is your favorite US city?

New Orleans - there are cities with better urban neighbourhoods and more stuff that I also love, but NOLA is certainly the most unique that I have visited.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?


Philadelphia - keep meaning to go but always end up changing it to go somewhere else instead. Someday soon...

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

San Francisco - not to say I didn't enjoy the city a huge amount, but it seemed like it's getting more homogeneous and overly expensive? It's great but has a LOT of hype.

4. What's your favorite international city?

London probably. This is a tough one.

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?

Hong Kong - what Shawn said. It also seems to have extremely interesting art / food / beer scenes which intrigues me a lot.

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

Cape Town - it's beautiful and fun to be sure, but extremely segregated and tricks you to thinking you're in some European paradise when some of the worst informal settlements in the country are just on the other side of table mountain. Not exactly a representation of how most South African's (even middle class ones) live their lives.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?

The different neighbourhoods, food and drink scene and pace of change.

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?


The traffic and rising costs of living.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?


Europe - this one is kind of a no brainer!

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?[/QUOTE]

This really varies on the type of city. In North America I think around 5 million (or larger) is good, but in western Europe there are some smaller cities that offer as much or more than North American counterparts several times the size.

[pdxtex]

1. What is your favorite US city? Chicago

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? Los Angeles

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Portland, Oregon

4. What's your favorite international city? Toronto, Canada

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? Tokyo

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Paris, France

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? amazing topography

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? annoying far left liberal culture.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? Europe.

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?
2 million or less

[Steely Dan]

1. What is your favorite US city?
CHICAGO. born. raised. live. will die. enough said.

non-homer answer: MILWAUKEE - an entire civilization built upon a solid foundation of beer and sausage and cheese. if you don't love milwaukee, then you're just stupid.


2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?
NEW ORLEANS. gotta make that happen someday.


3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
i can't recall a time that i have ever been underwhelmed by anything. high expectations only lead to disappointment, which is why i try to avoid them.


4. What's your favorite international city?
LONDON. but my list of visited international cities is woefully short.


5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?
there are so many, and it changes by the hour, let's just say, oh, i don't know, SHANGHAI.

that answer will be different tomorrow.


6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
i can't recall a time that i have ever been underwhelmed by anything. high expectations only lead to disappointment, which is why i try to avoid them.


7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?
it's where my people are at.


8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?
the wretched racism -> segregation -> disinvestment -> poverty -> violence downward spiral that has gripped vast swaths of this city for decades and decades.


9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?
probably europe.


10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?
as i get older and wiser (though i suppose the latter is up for debate), these kinds of externalities matter less and less to me. i could probably be just as happy in a city of 1 million as i would in a city of 25 million people as long as i had a reasonable amount of comfort and my people with me.

1. What is your favorite US city?

New Orleans

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?

Honolulu

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

Austin

4. What's your favorite international city?

Tie: Hamburg & Rio de Janeiro

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?

Dublin

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?

Toronto... I guess. I've done a fair amount of international travel (Europe, South America, North America, Caribbean) and I don't think I've ever been underwhelmed by cities in any of those places, really. So I'll just say Toronto because it's close to where I grew up and feels quite familiar.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?

Pittsburgh -- it's the only Appalachian metropolis, with a truly beautiful natural and built environment, and inherent mysterious coolness

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?

Pittsburgh -- it's the only Appalachian metropolis and the cloudy weather here kinda sucks sometimes

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?

Probably Europe, but it's tough for me to say because I've never been to Africa or Asia or Australia

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?

???

[sentinel]

Originally Posted by Cirrus

INSTRUCTIONS: Give ONE (1) city as an answer to each question. Provide additional details as you see fit. Do not get offended by anyone else's answers. Do not turn this into a versus thread. Play the game and don't ruin it for everyone.

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS:
Some of these are stolen from @BougieLA on Twitter.

1. What is your favorite US city? Chicago

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? San Francisco

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Washington D.C. - visually, it felt too....uniform and restrictive. In terms of people, it felt incredibly cold and indifferent

4. What's your favorite international city? Glasgow

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? Kyoto

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? London. Insufferable city.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? The variety of neighborhoods, and the greenery (trees, foliage, parkland, landscaping, etc)

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? The huge disparity between the wealthy areas and the blighted areas, in the City and the surrounding metro

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? North America, not due to personal bias, but because there so MUCH POTENTIAL for what cities, especially in the United States can really become in the future

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in? 2-6 million (city proper. 10-15 million for metro)

Great idea for a thread!

[JManc]

1. What is your favorite US city?
New York. I'm from (upstate) New York and always have been drawn there and will be married there in a few weeks.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit?
San Francisco.

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
Don't like these questions as all cities have their charm (and their drawbacks) and I don't buy into the hype. I am more of a fan of northeast cities.

4. What's your favorite international city?
London. Even more so than New York and have been there more than any other city.

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit?
Shanghai, Barcelona, Moscow and/or Sydney

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by?
None. Although I did go to Juarez and did manage to make it out alive so that was disappointing...

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city?
No snow and taco trucks.

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city?
It takes me an hour to get to work...in the HOV lane...and it's hot AF in the summer.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities?
Western Europe and Northeastern USA/ Eastern Canada

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?
Not so much population but density and layout. I could easily call Boston and Providence home as much as New York or London. Tokyo is too much city. Smaller Japanese cities on the other hand...

[austlar1]

1. NYC
2. Portland
3. New Orleans- it is an over rated and dangerous tourist trap, and I lived there for a number of years. This is not a casual observation.
4. London
5. Tokyo
6. Amsterdam- I've visited multiple times and was always glad to leave. It reminds me of SF with a colder climate, smug and insular in many ways.
7. Austin is a politically progressive (liberal) city in a reactionary part of the country.
8. The hype- Austin is not all that special. It is a pleasant enough sunbelt city with a good vibe.
9. Western Europe
10. Boston, SF, and DC are ideal sized cities and metros given the layout of the central cities. NY and LA are a bit much although I love both places very much.

[McBane]

1. What is your favorite US city?
NYC - nothing else like it here and has very few peers in the world. I would live there if I could afford it but it's just so darn expensive.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? San Francisco for sure.

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Austin. Has a nice little core but overall was really suburban (no offense Austinites).

3a. What is a US city you've visited that exceeded your expectations? (sorry I thought this was a good question to ask) Nashville. And you don't have to like country music to have a good time there.

4. What's your favorite international city? Tel Aviv. The non-stop energy/vibe of NYC with beautiful beaches and a lot of hidden quirks.

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? Rome

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? This is a tough question for me. I guess all the hyped up int'l cities I've visited (like London) have met expectations; while other cities I wouldn't classify as receiving a lot of hype (like Bangkok).

6a. What's an international city you've visited that exceeded your expectations? Krakow. Visited it before I joined this forum, so I had no idea it was so nice. Much nicer than Warsaw.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? Philadelphia I think strikes the right balance. We have great urbanity, good shopping, tons of bars and restaurants, interesting neighborhoods, parks, and all the other stuff that a large major city should have; but it's not super expensive and the city is pretty accessible. Living here or visiting here isn't going to cost you an arm and a leg (like say, NYC) or require you to sit in an hour of traffic (like say, NYC).

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? The city government and the brain dead morons who continue to elect them. They're holding us back from greatness.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? Has anyone not said Europe?

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in? I can't give a good answer here and don't want to go off topic or turn this into a city vs city thread. Suffice it to say there are smaller cities that have more character and urbanity than cities that are much larger in population. Bottom line is that population is pretty meaningless to me.

[jg6544]

Originally Posted by cirrus

instructions: give one (1) city as an answer to each question. Provide additional details as you see fit. Do not get offended by anyone else's answers. Do not turn this into a versus thread. Play the game and don't ruin it for everyone.

here are the questions:
some of these are stolen from @bougiela on twitter.

1. What is your favorite us city? San francisco

2. What is a us city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? Minneapolis

3. What is a us city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? New york

4. What's your favorite international city? Rome

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? London

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? None

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? The mountains

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? The traffic

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? Europe

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in? Don't know

other us cities i like: Seattle, philadelphia, boston

other european cities i like: Paris, geneva, copenhagen, vienna

[mousquet]

Originally Posted by Cirrus

4. What's your favorite international city?
Paris. It's nearly perfect. I have a hard time thinking of any way to make it better. It could be more affordable, I guess, but it's already more affordable than where I live now so its problems there don't seem that serious to me.

That sounds like a fair point. Barcelona is a most proper pick to compare to and compete with Central Paris, I believe.

But you must know what you're talking about better than I do anyway, I'll admit.

This is a dangerous thread on here, however.
Isn't it? I'm just about to prove it kind of inappropriate...
On a laughing tone, of course. Nothing offensive.

Edit: you changed your mind. You'd said Barça first.

Originally Posted by isaidso

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? PARIS

Originally Posted by pdxtex

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Paris, France

Huh!? Lol, wait, wut? How comes hometown is mentioned twice to the wrong item?

Can you guys plz bother arguing (like explaining), or is it because your stays were so short that you eventually missed what could have pleased you? Cause Paris is huge, right? You're aware that it's super large and sprawling.

Or you might have seen it packed with locals that wouldn't speak English, thus appeared rude to you. Yet another common asserted possibility.

[JManc]

^ You have to remember, to each their own. You can't please everyone. Back where I grew up in New York State, I knew a lot of people that absolutely despised New York City.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by Cirrus

INSTRUCTIONS: Give ONE (1) city as an answer to each question. Provide additional details as you see fit. Do not get offended by anyone else's answers. Do not turn this into a versus thread. Play the game and don't ruin it for everyone

1. What is your favorite US city? perhaps BOSTON.

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? been to all of the major ones except san diego. so san diego.

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? AUSTIN

4. What's your favorite international city? i'm down with swiss cities. but have always thought that i would really like LYON.

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? BOLOGNA.

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? hasnt happened yet.

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? ST LOUIS - dirt cheap, livable, family close by (like walkable), some decently urban districts by midwestern standards, historic by midwestern standards. the city has more "soul" and a far more potent ambiance than most midwestern cities. i find the more typical brand of "midwesternism" bland. high quality urban suburbs, close in/easy airport.

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? crime in some quarters, few if any direct international flights anymore (maybe london), the vast urbanism that once existed is degraded across large swaths of city, vast degraded industrial districts. the quality urban districts are decentralized like a proto los angeles.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? europe.

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in?

american? 5 million?
european? 1 million?

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[Vlajos]

1. What is your favorite US city? NYC

2. What is a US city that you've not yet visited but would love to visit? Portland, I guess

3. What is a US city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? Most US cities are very underwhelming. DC is probably the worst though.

4. What's your favorite international city? Paris

5. What international city have you not yet visited but would love to visit? Buenos Aires

6. What's an international city you've visited that receives a lot of hype but that you were underwhelmed by? London

7. What do you like most about living in your current home city? Architecture, density, public transit, availability of virtually any food I can imagine, affordable and beautiful housing

8. What do you dislike most about living in your current home city? March, tired of winter by then.

9. Which continent, on average, has what you consider to be the best cities? Europe in a landslide

10. What population size do you consider ideal for the city you would like to live in? Density more important than total number of people. But I'll go with at least 2,000,000 people.