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Bos-Wash by far. Bos-Wash has the most interesting cities in America and among the world, and NYC is my favourite city in the world. Most of the cities in the PRD are too new and have no character. Hong Kong is the only one that interests me.
Bos-Wash by far. Bos-Wash has the most interesting cities in America and among the world, and NYC is my favourite city in the world. Most of the cities in the PRD are too new and have no character. Hong Kong is the only one that interests me.
I'm with you on BosWash, but think that saying some of these cities are too new and have no character is inaccurate. Guangzhou is pretty amazing and has plenty of history as do Foshan, Jiangman and others. What's ironic is that relatively little of this sometimes thousands of years of history present in some of these cities has been bulldozed more often than the few hundreds of years of history present in BosWash.
Guangzhou is awesome though. Lots of old architecture and monuments from various eras, some of these with entire intact neighborhoods especially from the colonial era. Lots of interesting new construction is there, too. It also has the pretty awesome little africa neighborhood.
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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
I'm with you on BosWash, but think that saying some of these cities are too new and have no character is inaccurate. Guangzhou is pretty amazing and has plenty of history as do Foshan, Jiangman and others. What's ironic is that relatively little of this sometimes thousands of years of history present in some of these cities has been bulldozed more often than the few hundreds of years of history present in BosWash.
Guangzhou is awesome though. Lots of old architecture and monuments from various eras, some of these with entire intact neighborhoods especially from the colonial era. Lots of interesting new construction is there, too. It also has the pretty awesome little africa neighborhood.
That's more what i've been referring to. You can say that such and such a town is an ancient city but if it has little or none of that architecture left it's meaningless to me.
The Shanghai conurbation interests me more. It has Hangzhou, Suzhou, two of the most beautiful cities in China. I wouldn't mind checking out Guangzhou, though.
I'd personally love to visit the Pearl River delta cities and I try to learn as much about them as I can. I'd love to spend a year in Shenzhen or Hong Kong. That said, it's mostly because they're truly foreign to me, if I were from somewhere where both megalopolises were alien to me, like say Iran, I'd choose Bos-Wash because it's objectively the more interesting of the two and offers the greatest diversity of experiences and environments.
Since I have chosen to live in the Washington, D.C. area for most of my life (so far), I think it's evident which of these two megapolises I prefer. If it's not clear, let me just say that I am familiar with all the major BosWash cities and I continue to be fascinated by this region of the United States - especially New York City.
Having said that, I've never been to China, and Hong Kong is definitely one of the cities I'd like to visit some day. So, it's something I look forward to.
BOS-WASH by far. I have been to Guangzhou several times and have been to a couple of the other Pearl River Delta cities. Even though much of the Pearl River urban area is new, it is still run down looking, very much more of a "3rd world" vibe outside of the areas with money due to the fact that they are in China. To me that is not cool at all as a visitor. This corridor along with the rest of China is far, far from being fully developed in what that means on the ground, no matter how big their economy is.
PRD region by far. has the best city in the world, the biggest gaming center, some of the worlds best nightlife, history, skyscrapers, climate is not the best but infinitely better than boswash, etc.
Well, I love Boston, NYC, and DC, because there's something for everyone in each. However, China kind of scares me in the two-minded midset: school, sleep, school, do technology or child labor. I understand that this is a generalization, but the culture rubs me the wrong way. On the other hand, I find the PEOPLE very kind and friendly, whereas New England can be kind of cold.
I've been to Hong Kong once with my friend who accompanied myself & my father there for his business trip but our fun trip. I loved Hong Kong and it's one of my top 5 or 6 favorite cities in the entire world- love everything about it. The one thing that drops it below 4 or 5 other cities for me is that it's insanely expensive- it makes New York & London feel like they offer infinitely more for the money you'll be spending. Housing in Hong Kong is outrageously expensive- outrageously.
I'll rank the cities in the OP in terms of preference to live in- I haven't been to any of the other Pearl River cities but I've read quite enough about them to have an idea whereas I've been to every single Bos-Wash city & for some multiple times as well as the fact that I live in one of them (Washington DC). I would greatly love to visit Macau, Shenzhen (especially), & Guangzhou some day. They are also on my bucket list.
1. New York
2. Hong Kong & Washington DC (Washington to live- Hong Kong to visit)
3. Boston
4. Shenzhen
5. Guangzhou
6. Macau
Those are the only ones that interest me from the collective cities of both lists. That'll be all.
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