Which City has the best nightlife? (for rent, buy, living)

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by Vichel

I'd rather the "dull" I experience in North American nightlife venues, thanks. Perth is finally get small venues to have a drink or two, with some nice food like tapas and without the blasting music. Long overdue, and it's been quite the battle for the business people of these places to get licenses. So much easier to open a loud swill joint and keep the license despite the mayhem.

Dull doesn't mean a bunch of stodgy old farts sitting around playing canasta while drinking sherry and listening to Liberace. It just means people who don't want to be packed into a beer barn, shouting at the top of your lungs to have a conversation, trying to avoid having drinks spilled all over you, or accidentally bumping into some braindead drunk (male or female) who then takes issue with that. Not my idea of a good time. Never was, never will be.

What I meant, is the way strangers interact especially in quieter parts of the bar. I would probably appreciate a little more inhibition, regarding openness to strangers. Sometimes trying to get people to talk here is like pulling teeth. I'd like to go to an establishment where people can expect chattiness, or at least some kind of reaction from most of the patrons. This would require a level of boldness or fearlessness that is "un-natural," at least in southern Ontario.

*I do not appreciate overly loud music, and needing to scream to hear people.
I could probably enjoy joining people to play Canasta, so long as they had plenty to say.

[Vichel]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

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*I do not appreciate overly loud music, and needing to scream to hear people.
I could probably enjoy joining people to play Canasta, so long as they had plenty to say.

[ColdCanadian]

^^ So we're similar in this respect, though I might act a little more "eccentric?"

[Vichel]

Eccentric is good. At least it's not dull or boring.

[Trimac20]

^ The thing about people being inhibited...if you're out here there are usually blokes up for a friendly chat, but like North America or anywhere else probably fewer women. I guess maybe somewhat more likely than Canada but I'm not sure not having been there.

Perth is probably good compared to Melbourne, Sydney or Adelaide though, in my experience.

[boiseguy]

I dunno.. I think the gold coast has a pretty good night life...

[jacq63]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

What I meant, is the way strangers interact especially in quieter parts of the bar. I would probably appreciate a little more inhibition, regarding openness to strangers. Sometimes trying to get people to talk here is like pulling teeth. I'd like to go to an establishment where people can expect chattiness, or at least some kind of reaction from most of the patrons. This would require a level of boldness or fearlessness that is "un-natural," at least in southern Ontario.

*I do not appreciate overly loud music, and needing to scream to hear people.
I could probably enjoy joining people to play Canasta, so long as they had plenty to say.

You been to New Orleans CC?? You just try shutting them up! Not the town if you're the least bit inhibited, people just love to know about other people. In a nice way, not (or, as well as) a drunken sleazy way. I find even country town pub patrons much more reserved, they have to get to "know" you before they'll have a decent conversation. But that's okay for me, it's their place and my hair is scary.

[jacq63]

Originally Posted by Vichel

Eccentric is good. At least it's not dull or boring.

Um, how are we defining 'eccentric' here again? I knew a guy in Adel who was initially thought of as 'eccentric' (by everyone except me..I KNEW he was trouble, oh yes I did!). We ended up banning him from our venue. Theres 'eccentric' then there's 'oh hell theres that looney again, hide, HIDE!!!'.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by jacq63

You been to New Orleans CC?? You just try shutting them up! Not the town if you're the least bit inhibited, people just love to know about other people. In a nice way, not (or, as well as) a drunken sleazy way.

I find even country town pub patrons much more reserved, they have to get to "know" you before they'll have a decent conversation. But that's okay for me, it's their place and my hair is scary.

No, but I'd love to go...
I love zydeco, crawdads, po'boy sandwiches, moss-bearded trees, gators, French Quarter architecture and of course, heat & humidity.

I can easily imagine they'd be that chatty,
as I found in the Carolinas/Tennessee, some strangers tend to speak just because people are there; they often don't need a reason to talk to you...
And Nawlins is probably the most eccentric city in the South!

But is the exact opposite of the Toronto Area where you can sense interactions with strangers have to be "planned"
and degrees of risk "calculated", then "plugged into a formula" to have a pleasant conversation among fellow androids.
(you could assume it's like this 90+% of the time in the Toronto Area; too much caution, way too much caution. )


"Country town pub patrons"...
You're talking about Australia, not Lousiana, right?

[nature's message]

I would assume Sydney does, since it's the cultural and economic hub of Australia.