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3) Sham Shui Po (HK) - This is crazy although it is definitely believable. We used to stay in Sham Shui Po most of the time when in HK as my wife's relative has an empty apt there. She bought it during the low of the SARS crash for an incredibly low price, as back then not only was all of HK real estate depressed but Sham Shui Po was considered a pretty bad area. It became ok working class for a long time, and I think it still is, but with apparently more of a local hip flavor to it now than just purely blue collar. I've heard for several years now that it's become a cool place. Crazy.
24) Uptown (Chicago) - Ten years ago I lived in Evanston not too far from Uptown. Had some friends who lived there, went to the Green Mill, and also would eat at the "Little Saigon" area around Argyle frequently. It was always an ok area, not bad but a little sketchy at night. Didn't seem uber trendy but had gems and I wouldn't be surprised if it's considered trendy now (though certainly still not in the top rung for Chicago)
26) Wynwood (Miami) - I live about 30 minutes away. Pre-covid we'd stop in Wynwood every month or two for one reason or another. Sure, this makes sense.
29) Bugis (Singapore) - Ha we stayed in Bugis last year when visiting Singapore. Kind of a surprise to me...it's a good location though very close to the CBD, multiple transit stops, great cultural gems. But I mean, that's true for many many parts of Singapore so don't know how this stands out.
30) Gongguan (Taipei) - Hmm, honestly I don't really know Gongguan. I stay in Xinyi when I'm in Taipei which isn't too far away, but I am not even sure if I had even heard of this neighborhood (I may be forgetting). Looks like it is sorta squeezed between Daan and Shida, which I've definitely spent time in, and maybe I passed through Gongguan many times without realizing it was its own space.
36) Taman Paramount (Kuala Lumpur) - I NEED to go check this area out. Looks like my uncle/aunt live less than 10 minutes away. My cousin was visiting his parents last December and posted a ton of photos of really cool, hip restaurants/bars he went to and I wonder if those were here? I've visited my uncle about a dozen times over the decades and I couldn't have imagined a "top 40 coolest neighborhood" being near them lol.
I have a hard time visualizing Ubud as cool. With 100.000 residents, it gets 10,000 foreign visitor arrivals a day, and if each tourist stays five days, one third of the people in the city are tourists, all walking around.
The only neighborhood in Tokyo that made the list is Kabutocho, and all that is there is the Tokyo Stock Exchange. If anything it should have been Shibuya.
30) Gongguan (Taipei) - Hmm, honestly I don't really know Gongguan. I stay in Xinyi when I'm in Taipei which isn't too far away, but I am not even sure if I had even heard of this neighborhood (I may be forgetting). Looks like it is sorta squeezed between Daan and Shida, which I've definitely spent time in, and maybe I passed through Gongguan many times without realizing it was its own space.
Lmao whoever wrote this piece of **** article obviously just randomly picked neighbourhoods in 40 international cities. To think people actually get paid for this lol.
My choice would probably be Onikan. I personally like the dense city-scape of Lagos Island which currently has a population density 25,000 people per square km or 65,000 ppsm, and it's nowhere near developed or built out so i'm sure it will cross the 100,000 threshold by 2040-ish when it is a much taller neighborhood, and much more residential as more and more businesses move to the newer business districts. https://www.google.com/maps/@6.44476...7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@6.44738...7i13312!8i6656
Lagos Island in general is pretty cool-https://www.google.com/maps/@6.4538325,3.389232,2a,75y,236.7h,86.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srJ-IMRksrFYAAAQrBkqTRQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Very dirty though, but that's most of Nigeria. It's the old business district and it borders the new more affluent one of Victoria Island, and the wealthy area of Ikoyi, as well as the super wealthy (As in only multi-millionaire USD live here) of Banana Island.
Their's also some really cool neighborhoods on the Mainland for the more adventurous spirits.
I have seen several of these neighborhoods. in my opinion the list should be retitled, the most hipster neighborhoods where tourists go to because they were told it's super cool to be there by some blogger online.
As a nomad, I can think of several far cooler neighborhoods than these. And I never understood why Barcelona and Berlin must be on every supposedly cool list. Those cities are caricatures of themselves rather than actual cool places to be.
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