The prettiest/ugliest city in the world (condos, how much)

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by ian6479

Reykjavic

I thought Reykjavik was beautiful.

Originally Posted by Haaziq

I haven't traveled the world like many of the posters here, but I would imagine that the ugliest major city is probably Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Yeah, I'd figure a place like Port-au-Prince would even outdo Detroit in that department. There's always places like Mogadishu and Lagos that would probably make someone pray for Houston or Reno.

[CleJ]

Originally Posted by FlyingDutch

all of Belgium looks bad...
...If you cross the broder with Germany or the Netherlands it's a huge difference.

I'm not too fond of my country myself, but please don't make me laugh.
Considering your nickname, I guess you're Dutch?
The poll doesn't really make sense in my opinion, personally I find the nieghbourhoods where the houses are all the same (and The Netherlands has plenty of those) pretty depressing.
One point where do you notice a huge improvement when crossing borders are the roads, I can't ignore that.

[shreypete]

I really want to go to Belgium someday, and possibly live there. It seems just so beautiful.

[CleJ]

Well it might suit you great, but it just doesn't do for me anymore.
I hate the fact that it's like 1 big city without any broad views that aren't interrupted by buildings or roads.
In fact, it's extremely packed with roads: about 6.5 miles of roads per square mile. Number 1 of the world, but I don't consider it as something we should be proud of.

As for the poll: I think Melbourne must be very pretty. But the prettiest? I don't have a clue. As for the ugliest.

[Bob12]

How about Traverse City Michigan!
Small, clean, on the Lake

[Gerania]

I liked Brussels but I was young...and a tourist, so maybe I was wrong.

Originally Posted by CleJ

I'm not too fond of my country myself, but please don't make me laugh.
Considering your nickname, I guess you're Dutch?
The poll doesn't really make sense in my opinion, personally I find the nieghbourhoods where the houses are all the same (and The Netherlands has plenty of those) pretty depressing.
One point where do you notice a huge improvement when crossing borders are the roads, I can't ignore that.

[somebodymiami]

i heard berlin is ugly, never been there though, any have pics/stories/ that they can inform me of.

[Allan Trafton]

Prettiest:
Paris
Lyon
Strasbourg
Vinius
Just to name a few in Europe. I could name another 10 or so, but these stand out.
Outside of Europe.
New York
Washington

Ugliest
Vladivostok, Russia
Next to North Korea. It's so ugly it almost has a strange beauty about it.
Block after block of run down commie block apartments. If anyone has photos of this town please post them.

[BucFan]

Athens is extremely ugly, imo.

Can't say I've seen enough of the world to say which city is "prettiest" - Berlin has some very nice architecture, both modern and ancient. Very useful public transportation system, inner city traffic isn't that bad.

[Jonotastic]

Pretty:

San Francisco
Hong Kong
Monte Carlo

Ugly:

Tijuana
Johannesburg
Djakarta