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Gotta laugh at the xenophobes dissing Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, etc. I'd like to hear how exciting London, Paris, Rome, etc., were when they were 150-200 years old.
Hmm. Los Angeles and Las Vegas are just as old but considered far more interesting by most people.
But is Canberra a major first world city... I know it is the capital of Australia but aside from that I don't think it would even profess to being a major first world city. Its the same with Canada- Ottawa is our capital and has political clout but aside from that it isn't a city any Canadian would regard as major.
True, you're right. Hell, most of the world thinks Sydney is the capital of Australia, not Canberra. I should have said, Canberra's the most boring major city I've been to (domestically).
Me the list of the cities I been to would be Adelaide, Newcastle, Geelong, Johor Bahru and Christchurch. Yet I visited Christchurch not so long ago and it was mostly destroyed by a Earthquake so that why it on the list.
How can an earthquake ravaged be boring? I'd describe it as tragic not boring!
Well I went there a year after the Earthquake. I stayed there longer than I intended and after the first day there I struggled what to do as there is a lack of places to go that have been repaired or not damaged.
I don't know what it is about New York City, but ever since the rotting carcasses of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were returned to the deepest bowels of Gehenna from whence they were spawned, it just doesn't feel the same. And this is bearing in mind that I'm one of the few people that actually like how Manhattan has been gentrified.....
I lived in Manhattan for forty years. Since its mass gentrification it has all the appearance and allure of an airport departure "lounge."
It is wretchedly plastic, but, truthfully, it does suit the era..
I think it's depressing to go to the world's most famous city and find nothing interesting or unique enough whilst there to even justify your trip. It may seem hypocritical of me to be complaining about this when I'm part of the problem, but the trip wasn't my idea. I really hope this isn't the future of the world's urban landscape, or the future is going to have very dull and homogeneous cities.
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