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Of the cities I've been to (and in no particular order): NYC, Buenos Aires, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong.
A city I visited recently that surprised me was Milan. Its Navigli district (developed around canals) was one of the busiest nightlife districts I've seen anywhere. Other honorable mentions: Amsterdam, Lisbon, Seville, Valencia, Melbourne, Montreal, Liverpool (though you can quibble on the "world class" part for some of them).
In my personal experience:
Paris, Barcelona (the best IMO), Chicago, Atlanta
Places I want to experience:
New York, LA, New Orleans, Prague, Budapest, Seoul, Bangkok, Sydney, Rio, Buenos Aires
I'm a little shocked that Amsterdam is getting so many votes. While Amsterdam is a lot of fun, it is a very chill place. Much more of a bar and smoke lounge city versus a nightlife/clubbing one. Rotterdam is the place for that.
In terms of sheer volume of people, I mean uniform not just in one area.
Lagos, Nigeria- The densest city I have ever been too, it is like if all of New York was as dense as Bronx, including the rest of Long Island, Westchester-Poughkeepsie, SW Connecticut and Northern Jersey were all 30k per square mile.
Paris, France- Really dense in the center and surrounding burbs, Only slightly less dense than Lagos overall, but this is my opinion. Very few low density areas.
New York, New York (Second because besides the 3 or 4 Urban counties in Jersey, ea good portion of NYC Metro outside of the 5 boroughs is as lively as where I live now, (Katy Texas).
Istanbul, Turkey- Pretty dense throughout just I didn't see any exceptionally, dense areas like in NYC or Lagos, although their is probably some areas like that.
London, England- Like Istanbul, dense throughout but not many super dense areas like NYC/Lagos/Paris. Also many of the dense areas have as much street density as London.
Geneva, Switzerland- Ridiculously small compared to these cities but has really impressive density in the city for such a small place, really impressive density, it has at least 25k per square mile in the core and then it has less than 1 million in the metro, which is amazing to be so small and dense.
Besides these cities I don't think I have gone to anywhere that had a lot of people, everywhere I went.
Honorable mentions
Barcelona, Spain
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (up there with New York but their is nothing World Class about this city)
Montpelier, France-
It is small but incredibly dense, for such a small place that is a standalone city.
All Canadian cities with the exception of Montreal are pretty pathetic when it comes to nightlife IMO. I think it has to do with the culture and density of the cities. The best nightlife I ever experienced was in Hong Kong believe it or not. Lan Kwai Fong was incredible and it seemed like it had an order of magnitude greater energy than anything I've ever experienced in Canada.
All Canadian cities with the exception of Montreal are pretty pathetic when it comes to nightlife IMO. I think it has to do with the culture and density of the cities. The best nightlife I ever experienced was in Hong Kong believe it or not. Lan Kwai Fong was incredible and it seemed like it had an order of magnitude greater energy than anything I've ever experienced in Canada.
Highlighted area absolutely true. And it'll probably not ever change, unfortunately. My countrymen/women are too wedded to achieving perfect 'safety' over everything. That's boring.
From my personal experience,
Mykonos, Athens (plaka area), Barcelona, Madrid!!, Paris, Montreal, and Miami beach isn't bad.
I love cities with that unique pulsating energy; in fact, in my view it's a sine qua non for visiting a city.
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