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I'd say London. Charming, old fashioned city, nothing like fast paced New York. You can go to London and feel like you're in a little quaint old village and the people are positively charming.
I've clearly been to the wrong London!!!
"Quaint village"?????!!!! London, England is a sprawling metropolis with hideous traffic, lots of noise, etc.
I would think any of the Aussie capital cities would be more slow paced than an equivalent counterpart in North America or Europe. Even SYD has a fairly laid back lifestyle.
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I would think any of the Aussie capital cities would be more slow paced than an equivalent counterpart in North America or Europe. Even SYD has a fairly laid back lifestyle.
yea NY is crazy compared to Sydney.
I'm from Vancouver & it's fairly laid back (my boyfriend's from Toronto and when he first got relocated to Vancouver he was always complaining about how sloooow & "inefficient" the west-coasters are because it's toooo laid back for his taste.) , but when I was in Sydney I felt that the city is even slower & MORE chill than Vancouver.
Perth is not a 'big' city and the pace of life is about average for its size.
The OP said they consider a million or more a Big City, so I guess Perth is one of those "Big World Cities". We're at 1.6 million now apparently - surprising eh? But as you say, its pace isn't exactly fast ... except when we get behind the wheel of our cars Then Perthlings turn into feral maniacs. Our speed limits aren't fast enough for most.
I don't entirely trust that site on specifics, but for "metropolitan areas over a million" it might work okay. Perth is listed as having a metropolitan area of over a million and someone mentioned it. Maybe San Jose, Costa Rica. Costa Rica tops the "Happy Planet Index" which is largely about who's happy and relatively low-tech. (That's not exactly how they put it, but it's often the end result) Vientiane in Laos is said to be slow-paced, it's ran by somewhat isolationist Communists yet it's warmer and somewhat less crazy than North Korea, but it's not big enough to fit what you mean.
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Then Perthlings turn into feral maniacs. Our speed limits aren't fast enough for most.
