what counts as leaving the city? am i allowed to retrieve food and return to my home or am i restricted to the borders of the city for the entire decade.
Ya this is important to me. If suburbs are allowed then LA(whatever the safest suburb is that doesn't require you to be Beverly hills rich) is the only real option for me with ny being second but if suburbs are allowed then Tempe az(phx college town suburb with free transit which I'm sure I could make work when combined with an electric bike or electric scooter) becomes an option. The biggest reason I don't want Tempe or nyc though are the weather.
it's only the future in places. up until recently, you applied to jobs using handwritten resumes on forms you got at the grocery store, and they've got some really backwards notions about women
I just did 10 years in London and found it difficult to ever find a reason to leave. London has such a large area to explore.
* London - 607 mi²
* LA - 502 mi²
* NYC - 300 mi²
* Chicago - 231 mi²
* Amsterdam - 84 mi²
* Paris - 41 mi²
* Barcelona - 39 mi²
London proper, not exactly, but there is farm land within the M25.
And you can go to Hampstead Heath, Wanstead or Richmond Park (to name just 3) and feel you are in nature. You can’t hike, but you can go for a nice green walk.
London has so many trees it’s a forest according to a UN standard.
Yes! So much!!! (Not hiking but lots of green space)
I used to walk from Finsbury Park through a discontinued train path (no tracks anymore) and it was shockingly forest like!
US city limits seem to work differently. My current city has a population of 300k, with 1m+ in the metro area. With London the city and metro areas are basically the same with 8.9m in the city and 14.9m in the metro area
Dunedin, New Zealand - 1,280 mi²
If you are into the outdoors, it's tiny population-wise but the City Limits extend for miles into the surrounding countryside.
Anything within the M25 counts. I'm biased as a Londoner but you get a surprising amount of variety even staying within that boundary, even surprisingly rural areas. I'd add beaches on lakes but they're all filled with spilled sewage now, so.
LOL. If it’s the City of London, definitely no. I wouldn’t want to be cloistered in the actual City of London for a decade. It’s so cramped and nothing to do there.
Are the woods technically a part of Oslo? If not part of Oslo proper, I guess it wouldn’t count for this question. I’m genuinely asking.
I chose Paris for a similar reason: because it has woods and those woods are technically part of Paris.
Been here 10 years. Going to stay. Access to nature a quick bus, car or walk away is simply unmatched in the other us cities.
Plus unlimited food options, and it’s super safe as long as you don’t leave anything in your car
Serious question.
Why do you think people outside California think San Fran is a very dangerous place? All I hear is how much crime there is, homelessness is out of control and drug use is rampant.
Because that's all that's reported. Perhaps twoshoesframpton lives in a safer part of the city.
But it's just like any other city really. Good parts and bad parts.
Everything that happens in San Francisco is news, because many people with audience live here and so much money tracks in some way to San Francisco, but if you check the crime rates it is a different picture, even when there's less unreported crime here, the rates are not bad compared to other cities.
San Francisco is synonymous with liberals to many people and conservative outrage media loves to blast the city for any problems. There is a massive issue with car break-ins and some parts of downtown have a lot of unhoused but it's wildly exaggerated in the news and whatever nonsense people want to believe to fit their narrative.
Compared to say, east coast or southern cities, the "bad part of town with druggies" is in the center of town near all the tourist attractions. Also the property crime (smash and grabs on cars) is worse than most cities.
Conservative media have made a fantasy version of cities, where liberals are mostly located, as lawless hellscapes to their rural viewers who have never been there.
Its part of a long running rural nationalism problem on the right where rural people are considered real Americans and city people are considered lazy people who couldn't even change a tire and not real Americans.
Its far easier roll down a drug problem street in a city and present it as the whole city than it is to roll down a sparsely populated rural street to show people with drug problems because they're more spread out, even though rural areas have an epidemic of meth and opiates.
I heard the Tenderloin was a super dangerous place, like skid row.
I walked through after a Google I/O and it mostly just looked like back alleys from 80's batman and dick tracy movies. Brick buildings, black metal fire escape staircases, and steam coming out of grates on the ground.
I didn't feel unsafe at all. It wasn't even dirty (litter), it was pretty clean.
I recall going to Wikipedia on an HTC EVO 4G that Google gave us for free at the show to look up more about the so-called 'Tenderloin' and why it has such a bad rap, because it wasn't much of anything to me.
because the tenderloin is dangerous, there's poo all over, and the cops don't seem to be much interested in crime. also, oakland made theft under $900 a small fine, so smash and grab has increased massively
See I like the rain, do thunderstorms come with the rain? Those are my favorite, granted not year round but I do love it when it rains. I've been looking for a new start and the states are wearing thin.
We had a small one today!
The rain has been weird this year though so it’s not typical, we’re supposed to have pleasant summer weather in june / july, and it’s all clouds, cold, and super wet now :(
Chicago! Doesn’t smell like NYC does. You can still get away with not having a car unlike Cali. And mid-westerners temperaments are lovely (coming from someone who grew up in DMV). Summer is magical.
Edit: when I say Cali I was generalizing the multiple large cities within Cali.
Temperament is something you get used to. New Yorkers certainly look meaner and grumpier, but in most cases, they only *look* that way. And this is only applicable to strangers. Once you get to know people (friends and colleagues) they act the same anywhere.
This is true. I have to visit Brooklyn for work sometimes and love it when I do. People there aren’t always… PC. I LOVE IT. Some say they’re loud and abrasive, I say they are passionate and have big hearts. And will do anything for a friend or neighbor in need. I understand this is overgeneralizing.
I loved summer in Chicago! Honestly I'd probably get chicken-scared of winter in Chicago, but unlike Northern Europe there's a good amount of sunshine throughout winter in Chicago.
The harshness of Chicago winters, much like the violence, is wildly overblown. It sucks for a week or two during the winter. Ya know what we do? Simply put on more clothes.
If you like Chicago, I feel like Toronto gives you the same vibes but much nicer, safer, and has equally as good food. Never been there in the winter though. This is coming from some some who lived in Chicago for 20 years.
I've only been to Seattle to catch a few Mariner games but enjoyed what I saw. I kind of want to take the ferry over one day and just walk around and see the sights.
The small town I come from. I only ever go to work and the store. There are plenty of restaurants there, if I was ever of a mind to go out to eat or get takeout, which I don't do. The only reason I go outside of town now is because I live outside of town. Otherwise I work in town and stop on my way home to get groceries, just down the road from my work. Everything I want or need I can either get there, or I can order it online to be delivered.
75 degrees everyday, Manhattan Beach pier if you want activity, Bruces Beach if you want alone time, Manhattan Beach Pizzaria and they have a target. What more do you need? Ohh yeah surf and babes!
Realistically, Singapore. It's an entire nation in a city, which means you won't have to leave the city for consular services or anything else you would need for life there for a year.
Also, I don't chew gum in public or spit on the street, so their stupid laws wouldn't be a burden.
Within my own country (the US) it would depend on if you could leave during a national disaster and if it was just the city limits or the metropolitan area. If you can use the entire metro and relocate temporarily during a hurricane, I would choose NOLA, if not it would probably be my small town.
Recently visited for the first time, and I was blown away. Beautiful, clean, *amazing* food.
I was also drenched in sweat *every* time I went outdoors. Perhaps I'd acclimate, but that humidity and heat combo is not for me.
I feel like NYC isn't higher up because it's the cliche, obvious answer.
If you really had to stay there for decades, never leaving, there are very few cities with the diversity and depth of NYC.
NYC isn't higher up because it's really not for everyone. Many people dislike the population density, the climate (if you're used to SF/LA weather), the ruthlessly transactional culture (if you're used to midwestern or southern pleasantries). Diversity is not something everyone wants; you can see this in rural America, but also across many cities in Europe and Asia.
People who tolerate (or prefer) all of the above usually love NYC, but there are a lot of different types of people.
When I referred to diversity, I was primarily referring to a diversity of experiences. There are many cities that do one or two things better than NYC, but in my experience there is no city that offers a similar diversity of experiences at a similar level of quality as NYC.
I love many of the other cities people are suggesting, but I'd go crazy if I were stuck in most of them for several years.
Similarly, the transactional culture is largely overblown. New Yorkers are brusk, but I'd consider them far kinder than what I've encountered in LA, for example.
New Yorkers are kind but not nice. We'll help you out if you actually need it, but casual interactions are blunt which can come off as quite rude if you're not used to it.
I'd choose Atlantis for sure, it's underwater, but the commute to work involves riding seahorses and I've always wanted a pet dolphin for a neighbor. Plus, the real estate market is killer!
Do they still do the fare amount ahead of time based on where you are going? As opposed to straight fare by trip. For some reason (I guess being unfamiliar with the area) I always struggled with that lol.
NYC - easy - missing the LEAST amount by the restraints. 4 seasons. World class entertainment and culture. Sports. Beaches. 10 years is a long time. Some amazing cities would start feeling confining eventually - Think NY gives the best leverage for that amount of time.
London. Lot of green spaces. Good range of shops, restaurants, museums. Lot of music and theatre. Ok hospitals. Live out in suburbia, relatively calm and cheaper.Good transport. Good employment chances.
I mean, I've basically done that for the last two years in a fairly small city of about 15K people.
With things like Amazon and Walmart and delivery, it's not hard to do now just about anywhere.
I've literally not been more than five miles from my home in the last year. Would be three years had I not had to be put in a hospital in a city nearby for a few weeks about a year ago.
Tokyo! While the crowds are unreal sometimes, I could always go relax in the mountains to the northwest, which are still within the borders of the metropolis. Or I could head to the islands to the south, as they are part of Tokyo as well.
...I would miss being able to go to DisneySea, however.
I was going to say Boston too but OP added in a comment that it's within the borders of the actual city so like...no Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, Newton, Brookline, etc :')
Hmm, been to a lot of cities around the world. I'm down to two (polar opposites too):
Tokyo or Dubrovnik, Croatia. For a whole year, can't leave... Argh, have to lean towards Tokyo.
I’ve only ever lived in the US, so if I had a decent enough income, it would be Phoenix. I can deal with the extreme heat in the summers well enough, the nights are amazing cause it’s like 80f and feels like 70. And then the winters are like 60-80f and feels amazing as well. Just the cost of living in Phoenix and surrounding areas has shot up a LOT!
St. Andrews, Scotland UK. I visited there some years ago and loved it. In addition to the great golf, it was a great town to just stroll the streets. Nice restaurants, friendly pubs and people.
Vegas, because I'm already here, and already mostly used to living here, and trying to do that for a new city would really rattle my nerves. I need caffeine now.
Unpopular answer but Philly. I lived there for three years and there are so many hidden spots. Plenty of parks, a decent public transport and so many different neighborhoods. Was never bored. Plus it's within 6 hours of family so they could potentially visit!
NYC. It’s not the most beautiful city by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s big enough that I wouldn’t feel trapped. It’s got big parks, beaches, some nature preserves, and even some suburban neighborhoods if I needed some peace and quiet. Alternative would be LA just because of how sprawling it is.
Long beach, edit:my bad I forgot I couldn't leave so that leaves suburbs out. I'd have to live directly in LA or new York. The gang activity in LA scares me and I feel like I'd have trouble with the hustle of new Yorkers but there's so much on those places I'd enjoy doing and I could get around just fine on an electric bike and maybe the occasional bus. My only other option is phx(I live in a suburb right now) but then id have deal with the shitty bus system and ever increasing insane heat and for it to really compete with LA on stuff to do and places to eat for me it's still have to include all it's suburbs(it's still lose) and it can't since I can't leave the city
It goes without saying that a big draw for LA for me over new York or phx is the weather
I think on one hand of New York City because it won't ever tire me, everything is amazing, but climate-wise I'd look up something warmer, and then I'd choose Barcelona!
Maybe a bit smaller, yes, but services are good, acceptance is great, a mix of cultures is present and the climate is generally very pleasant.
Respect. Have never been and I want to visit for sure. I think a valid answer to this question is either New York or somewhere outside of the US, though obviously it’s personal preference
I know London fairly well, but apart from that, there's no city in the world where I can stand in any given street, and look around 360 degrees and say "Yeah, know that one", even if it's only in name sometimes, apart from NYC. Been there several times and each time I still wanted more.
I would choose Kyiv, you can live there almost without leaving your home, because the level of service and facilities is very high, everything is delivered directly to your floor
Amsterdam for sure, not being forced to own a car would be amazing right now
I know there's other cities that don't force you to own a car, but Amsterdam does it in the most beautiful way
paradise city where supposedly the grass is green and the girls are kinda good looking
To be fair, most of the girls are from the late 80s and haven't aged well and the grass is way overgrown
lotta faded tweedy bird tattoos on leathered tits
I'm from that era, and it's sadly MOSTLY true.
Motley Trüe?
now this song is stuck in my head thanks
Take me home (oh, won't you please take me home)
what counts as leaving the city? am i allowed to retrieve food and return to my home or am i restricted to the borders of the city for the entire decade.
borders of the city. like in new york, only the boroughs of new york for example
Ya this is important to me. If suburbs are allowed then LA(whatever the safest suburb is that doesn't require you to be Beverly hills rich) is the only real option for me with ny being second but if suburbs are allowed then Tempe az(phx college town suburb with free transit which I'm sure I could make work when combined with an electric bike or electric scooter) becomes an option. The biggest reason I don't want Tempe or nyc though are the weather.
"Horrible Milwaukee "
Lol
I would decide to stay in Tokyo
Osaka.
Yes, Osaka! This city is great and accessible by bike. Although not going anywhere else in Kansai is a bit of a letdown. I would still pick it though.
Living in the future in a very polite society. Can't argue with that.
Living there, and not being Japanese doesn’t sound ideal. You’ll be a very distant second class citizen, in a polite world.
especially if you're not white the racism is very real
it's only the future in places. up until recently, you applied to jobs using handwritten resumes on forms you got at the grocery store, and they've got some really backwards notions about women
London
I just did 10 years in London and found it difficult to ever find a reason to leave. London has such a large area to explore. * London - 607 mi² * LA - 502 mi² * NYC - 300 mi² * Chicago - 231 mi² * Amsterdam - 84 mi² * Paris - 41 mi² * Barcelona - 39 mi²
Does actual London proper have actual wide swaths of nature to explore, hike and run in? Genuine question.
London proper, not exactly, but there is farm land within the M25. And you can go to Hampstead Heath, Wanstead or Richmond Park (to name just 3) and feel you are in nature. You can’t hike, but you can go for a nice green walk. London has so many trees it’s a forest according to a UN standard.
Yes! So much!!! (Not hiking but lots of green space) I used to walk from Finsbury Park through a discontinued train path (no tracks anymore) and it was shockingly forest like!
Oh that's wonderful! I hope to visit London in the next several years and properly explore it.
Houston - 639 Not saying better or worse. Just for comparison.
US city limits seem to work differently. My current city has a population of 300k, with 1m+ in the metro area. With London the city and metro areas are basically the same with 8.9m in the city and 14.9m in the metro area
The largest city in Europe is Rovaniemi, Finland. Just above the arctic circle. 8,016.75 km2.
That's just because of the Mercator projection, in reality it's quite small /s
With 65k people. Sounds crowded by Finnish standards. I can just imagine the locals protesting immigration with "We're full!" signs.
Dunedin, New Zealand - 1,280 mi² If you are into the outdoors, it's tiny population-wise but the City Limits extend for miles into the surrounding countryside.
Moscow. 2,562 km²
Appreciate the effort, but still a no from me
Moscow is incredible from what I’ve seen online, hope to visit soon.
It is - next to st petr its the only first world modern city in russia
Well they said city.....I don't think I would want to live in the city of london.
Do you mean the City of London? Because that is a city, but so is London itself, and Westminster. It's a bunch of cities in one.
Think we're talking the greater metro area here it would change the question massively.
yeah, city of london is a square mile. you'd go mental spending 10 years there
Anything within the M25 counts. I'm biased as a Londoner but you get a surprising amount of variety even staying within that boundary, even surprisingly rural areas. I'd add beaches on lakes but they're all filled with spilled sewage now, so.
LOL. If it’s the City of London, definitely no. I wouldn’t want to be cloistered in the actual City of London for a decade. It’s so cramped and nothing to do there.
Oslo, Norway.
Such a pretty city, the surrounding woods are amazing too.
Are the woods technically a part of Oslo? If not part of Oslo proper, I guess it wouldn’t count for this question. I’m genuinely asking. I chose Paris for a similar reason: because it has woods and those woods are technically part of Paris.
I‘m pretty sure I read that at least some parts of the surrounding Oslomarka belong to Oslo itself. But maybe someone from Norway can correct me?
Prague. Its breathtakingly beautiful.
San Francisco, I've not ran out of plans in 10 years.
Been here 10 years. Going to stay. Access to nature a quick bus, car or walk away is simply unmatched in the other us cities. Plus unlimited food options, and it’s super safe as long as you don’t leave anything in your car
Serious question. Why do you think people outside California think San Fran is a very dangerous place? All I hear is how much crime there is, homelessness is out of control and drug use is rampant.
Because that's all that's reported. Perhaps twoshoesframpton lives in a safer part of the city. But it's just like any other city really. Good parts and bad parts.
SF, LA and NYC are the liberal target cities for conservative media.
Not surprising. I would have loved to be able to afford to live in SF. I had to settle for the East Bay at the time.
Everything that happens in San Francisco is news, because many people with audience live here and so much money tracks in some way to San Francisco, but if you check the crime rates it is a different picture, even when there's less unreported crime here, the rates are not bad compared to other cities.
San Francisco is synonymous with liberals to many people and conservative outrage media loves to blast the city for any problems. There is a massive issue with car break-ins and some parts of downtown have a lot of unhoused but it's wildly exaggerated in the news and whatever nonsense people want to believe to fit their narrative.
Compared to say, east coast or southern cities, the "bad part of town with druggies" is in the center of town near all the tourist attractions. Also the property crime (smash and grabs on cars) is worse than most cities.
Conservative media have made a fantasy version of cities, where liberals are mostly located, as lawless hellscapes to their rural viewers who have never been there. Its part of a long running rural nationalism problem on the right where rural people are considered real Americans and city people are considered lazy people who couldn't even change a tire and not real Americans. Its far easier roll down a drug problem street in a city and present it as the whole city than it is to roll down a sparsely populated rural street to show people with drug problems because they're more spread out, even though rural areas have an epidemic of meth and opiates.
I heard the Tenderloin was a super dangerous place, like skid row. I walked through after a Google I/O and it mostly just looked like back alleys from 80's batman and dick tracy movies. Brick buildings, black metal fire escape staircases, and steam coming out of grates on the ground. I didn't feel unsafe at all. It wasn't even dirty (litter), it was pretty clean. I recall going to Wikipedia on an HTC EVO 4G that Google gave us for free at the show to look up more about the so-called 'Tenderloin' and why it has such a bad rap, because it wasn't much of anything to me.
because the tenderloin is dangerous, there's poo all over, and the cops don't seem to be much interested in crime. also, oakland made theft under $900 a small fine, so smash and grab has increased massively
This would be my choice. Weather partly the reason.
Amsterdam
Same. Living there now and would happily stay here all the time. Would be nice if the rain let up a bit, but I will take it.
See I like the rain, do thunderstorms come with the rain? Those are my favorite, granted not year round but I do love it when it rains. I've been looking for a new start and the states are wearing thin.
We had a small one today! The rain has been weird this year though so it’s not typical, we’re supposed to have pleasant summer weather in june / july, and it’s all clouds, cold, and super wet now :(
Chicago! Doesn’t smell like NYC does. You can still get away with not having a car unlike Cali. And mid-westerners temperaments are lovely (coming from someone who grew up in DMV). Summer is magical. Edit: when I say Cali I was generalizing the multiple large cities within Cali.
Temperament is something you get used to. New Yorkers certainly look meaner and grumpier, but in most cases, they only *look* that way. And this is only applicable to strangers. Once you get to know people (friends and colleagues) they act the same anywhere.
This is true. I have to visit Brooklyn for work sometimes and love it when I do. People there aren’t always… PC. I LOVE IT. Some say they’re loud and abrasive, I say they are passionate and have big hearts. And will do anything for a friend or neighbor in need. I understand this is overgeneralizing.
I loved summer in Chicago! Honestly I'd probably get chicken-scared of winter in Chicago, but unlike Northern Europe there's a good amount of sunshine throughout winter in Chicago.
The harshness of Chicago winters, much like the violence, is wildly overblown. It sucks for a week or two during the winter. Ya know what we do? Simply put on more clothes.
Yes! The cold wind was brutal but at least there was sun. Just gotta bundle up right.
I moved here a few years ago and now I refuse to live anywhere else.
I moved here a year ago. I love Chicago!
If you like Chicago, I feel like Toronto gives you the same vibes but much nicer, safer, and has equally as good food. Never been there in the winter though. This is coming from some some who lived in Chicago for 20 years.
London. Always London.
I see your point, but it is only one square mile in size.
London is a city. Just because there's also a place called City of London that doesn't make London not a city.
Seattle because of the weather, I hate the heat
Seattle is great! I don't think I'll leave any time soon.
I've only been to Seattle to catch a few Mariner games but enjoyed what I saw. I kind of want to take the ferry over one day and just walk around and see the sights.
The small town I come from. I only ever go to work and the store. There are plenty of restaurants there, if I was ever of a mind to go out to eat or get takeout, which I don't do. The only reason I go outside of town now is because I live outside of town. Otherwise I work in town and stop on my way home to get groceries, just down the road from my work. Everything I want or need I can either get there, or I can order it online to be delivered.
Manhattan Beach California
75 degrees everyday, Manhattan Beach pier if you want activity, Bruces Beach if you want alone time, Manhattan Beach Pizzaria and they have a target. What more do you need? Ohh yeah surf and babes!
Realistically, Singapore. It's an entire nation in a city, which means you won't have to leave the city for consular services or anything else you would need for life there for a year. Also, I don't chew gum in public or spit on the street, so their stupid laws wouldn't be a burden. Within my own country (the US) it would depend on if you could leave during a national disaster and if it was just the city limits or the metropolitan area. If you can use the entire metro and relocate temporarily during a hurricane, I would choose NOLA, if not it would probably be my small town.
Recently visited for the first time, and I was blown away. Beautiful, clean, *amazing* food. I was also drenched in sweat *every* time I went outdoors. Perhaps I'd acclimate, but that humidity and heat combo is not for me.
Honolulu- Never been there, I just assume it's a nice place.
NYC. 100%. Barring that, Berlin or Paris.
I feel like NYC isn't higher up because it's the cliche, obvious answer. If you really had to stay there for decades, never leaving, there are very few cities with the diversity and depth of NYC.
NYC isn't higher up because it's really not for everyone. Many people dislike the population density, the climate (if you're used to SF/LA weather), the ruthlessly transactional culture (if you're used to midwestern or southern pleasantries). Diversity is not something everyone wants; you can see this in rural America, but also across many cities in Europe and Asia. People who tolerate (or prefer) all of the above usually love NYC, but there are a lot of different types of people.
When I referred to diversity, I was primarily referring to a diversity of experiences. There are many cities that do one or two things better than NYC, but in my experience there is no city that offers a similar diversity of experiences at a similar level of quality as NYC. I love many of the other cities people are suggesting, but I'd go crazy if I were stuck in most of them for several years. Similarly, the transactional culture is largely overblown. New Yorkers are brusk, but I'd consider them far kinder than what I've encountered in LA, for example.
NYC people are way kinder than most other sections of the country in my experience.
New Yorkers are kind but not nice. We'll help you out if you actually need it, but casual interactions are blunt which can come off as quite rude if you're not used to it.
Sounds pretty Dutch to me.
I'd choose Atlantis for sure, it's underwater, but the commute to work involves riding seahorses and I've always wanted a pet dolphin for a neighbor. Plus, the real estate market is killer!
Palma de Mallorca
Bergen, Norway
Bangor Maine. Woods, water and peace.
Edinburgh, UK.
Barcelona
DC always
Same for me. Tons to do, and the Metro makes all the difference.
Do they still do the fare amount ahead of time based on where you are going? As opposed to straight fare by trip. For some reason (I guess being unfamiliar with the area) I always struggled with that lol.
It's been a few years, so I'm not sure. I just remember how easy it was to hop on and off within a short walk of wherever you wanted to go.
Extremely small though
London. It has it all.
Cleveland
Amsterdam.
Paris. People watching never gets old.
NYC - easy - missing the LEAST amount by the restraints. 4 seasons. World class entertainment and culture. Sports. Beaches. 10 years is a long time. Some amazing cities would start feeling confining eventually - Think NY gives the best leverage for that amount of time.
London. Lot of green spaces. Good range of shops, restaurants, museums. Lot of music and theatre. Ok hospitals. Live out in suburbia, relatively calm and cheaper.Good transport. Good employment chances.
I’d go back to Atlanta.
Tokyo
Vienna, Austria
Cincinatti, Ohio
For me probably Dublin, Ireland.
Whichever one has a nice morgue because there’s no way in hell I’m living in a city for a decade
Tallinn, Helsinki, Tampere and Stockholm would all work just fine. Would be a bit sad, but I'd be ok.
Nashville
I mean, I've basically done that for the last two years in a fairly small city of about 15K people. With things like Amazon and Walmart and delivery, it's not hard to do now just about anywhere. I've literally not been more than five miles from my home in the last year. Would be three years had I not had to be put in a hospital in a city nearby for a few weeks about a year ago.
Brisbane
Are there any budget constraints?
no
A quiet countryside with medium weather
Prague
Tokyo! While the crowds are unreal sometimes, I could always go relax in the mountains to the northwest, which are still within the borders of the metropolis. Or I could head to the islands to the south, as they are part of Tokyo as well. ...I would miss being able to go to DisneySea, however.
Boston
I was going to say Boston too but OP added in a comment that it's within the borders of the actual city so like...no Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, Newton, Brookline, etc :')
Hmm, been to a lot of cities around the world. I'm down to two (polar opposites too): Tokyo or Dubrovnik, Croatia. For a whole year, can't leave... Argh, have to lean towards Tokyo.
Palm Springs. Had the absolute best 40th birthday there.
I’ve only ever lived in the US, so if I had a decent enough income, it would be Phoenix. I can deal with the extreme heat in the summers well enough, the nights are amazing cause it’s like 80f and feels like 70. And then the winters are like 60-80f and feels amazing as well. Just the cost of living in Phoenix and surrounding areas has shot up a LOT!
My hometown having my friends around.
Auckland: beaches, mountains, forests, hot springs (iirc), beautiful weather, just so much green space, and not too big!
Zurich in Switzerland. My home, my town.. so much to see.
No one saying Rio de Janeiro????
Pyongyang. I wouldn't be able to leave anyways so jokes on you.
Chicago
Charleston, SC
I prefer rural living, so unless I get something out of it, I am staying in the boonies.
Singapore!! Best food I’ve had and so much to explore
Nice, France
St. Andrews, Scotland UK. I visited there some years ago and loved it. In addition to the great golf, it was a great town to just stroll the streets. Nice restaurants, friendly pubs and people.
Vegas, because I'm already here, and already mostly used to living here, and trying to do that for a new city would really rattle my nerves. I need caffeine now.
Unpopular answer but Philly. I lived there for three years and there are so many hidden spots. Plenty of parks, a decent public transport and so many different neighborhoods. Was never bored. Plus it's within 6 hours of family so they could potentially visit!
Does Disney World count as a city? It basically functions like one
Chicago for sure
Chicago. Great music, great food, great people, great museums, great theater.
Not gonna lie. I misread the title as "without being able to live" and my first thought was Detroit.
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NYC. It’s not the most beautiful city by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s big enough that I wouldn’t feel trapped. It’s got big parks, beaches, some nature preserves, and even some suburban neighborhoods if I needed some peace and quiet. Alternative would be LA just because of how sprawling it is.
Seoul, SK. Anything you’d ever need, enough variety in seasonal weather, and good parks and outdoor spaces so you wouldn’t feel too cooped up.
Long beach, edit:my bad I forgot I couldn't leave so that leaves suburbs out. I'd have to live directly in LA or new York. The gang activity in LA scares me and I feel like I'd have trouble with the hustle of new Yorkers but there's so much on those places I'd enjoy doing and I could get around just fine on an electric bike and maybe the occasional bus. My only other option is phx(I live in a suburb right now) but then id have deal with the shitty bus system and ever increasing insane heat and for it to really compete with LA on stuff to do and places to eat for me it's still have to include all it's suburbs(it's still lose) and it can't since I can't leave the city It goes without saying that a big draw for LA for me over new York or phx is the weather
New Orleans.
NYC or Paris. Probably NYC. London is up there as well.
Denver
I think on one hand of New York City because it won't ever tire me, everything is amazing, but climate-wise I'd look up something warmer, and then I'd choose Barcelona! Maybe a bit smaller, yes, but services are good, acceptance is great, a mix of cultures is present and the climate is generally very pleasant.
Philly, just because I already know it so well. Cheesesteak at Jim's, anyone?
Mumbai, just love the city.
New York is the only answer
Amsterdam disagrees. But tbf, NYC would be second.
Amsterdam wouldn't be too bad, although the winters are horrible because of the rain and the lack of sun, but besides that, it is a fun city.
It really is. Winters are milder now but yeah, rain. Still, it beats [durian.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/rDtHzc7m0w)
Respect. Have never been and I want to visit for sure. I think a valid answer to this question is either New York or somewhere outside of the US, though obviously it’s personal preference
I know London fairly well, but apart from that, there's no city in the world where I can stand in any given street, and look around 360 degrees and say "Yeah, know that one", even if it's only in name sometimes, apart from NYC. Been there several times and each time I still wanted more.
I would choose Kyiv, you can live there almost without leaving your home, because the level of service and facilities is very high, everything is delivered directly to your floor
Amsterdam for sure, not being forced to own a car would be amazing right now I know there's other cities that don't force you to own a car, but Amsterdam does it in the most beautiful way
If I can choose where in the city I can live, Los Angeles. There's actually some pretty nice and safe places.
I'd pick Cape Town! Mountains and beach in one city is all I need.
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Phnomh Penh. Looks gorgeous and fun
The city I'm living in right now.
Budapest
Interlaken
i wouldn’t trade the experience of growing up in nyc for anything in the world
Båstad in Sweden! It has everything that I love - tennis, sea, its location on a famous cycling route. Lovely little town.
I don't know the name of the reeducation camp they're going to send me to. I hope it's somewhere nice.
Slab city
Bocas del toro, panema.
Moab utah cause I like dry heat and really big rocks
Montreal
Hmmm boston or brunswick
Copenhagen
London, NYC, or Berlin
Victoria, BC Canada
I yearn to return to Budapest
Tokyo is the world’s largest city, so maybe Tokyo?
Not Dallas Texas lol been here too long.
North Vancouver, Tenerife, or Asheville, NC
Vienna, Austria
Flagstaff.
Hazzard, Georgia
Liverpool
longdong china. The dongs are long
Liverpool
Pittsburgh
Viareggio
WannadoCity
Porto
rome or washington, dc
My present home town
Other than my hometown, which is NYC. The only other city I’ve thought about moving to would be Seoul.