Where do you live, and would you recommend it?

[Worthingtons]

York is a great City to visit, and let's not forget these days, it's still the Capital of the Countries greatest County.


1) Current home , Derby, East Midlands, England

Pros
Quite a green city, with many large parks. Not too big and hence doesnt suffer from bad crime.

Cons
Prospects slightly limited, Nightlife poor.

2) Old home, Rotherham

What a place!! all around is the devestation of an ex-industrial stronghold. Scrapyards and Shut down industrial plants are more common than Grass in Rotherham.

Pros
Suberb Football team, only team in Div 1 with standing remaining too
Very Very Cheap, for England

Cons
Highest Teenage pregnacy rate in EUROPE ( or maybe that a pro for some ) .
Poor Prospects
Dead town centre
Scrapyards get dull and annoying, after so many years...



Cheers
Matt

[Sandman]

Edinburgh (ed-in-bur-ah)

Info: Population 500000, capital of Scotland.

Pros: Fine architecture all over, built on a series of hills for a 3D street plan. Packed with lots of interesting attractions and plenty of pubs and clubs. Enormous parks dotted across the city, not least the volcanic plug Arthurs Seat. A top-notch university, and several other ones. Home to many famous sons.

Cons: Fine architecture often filthy and punctuated with modernist cubes. Streets rather dirty. Dismal weather. Bursting with tourist tat, at least as bad as York. The festival is overpriced. Birthplace and childhood home of Tony Blair.

[VetLegion]

Pekka

[VetLegion]

Zagreb, Croatia (pop around 800 000)

safe. best looking girls in the world. very good education possibility. ****ty economy - not very good job possibility. not very expensive. bad traffic.

impressions of tourists: 'people dont smile to us on the street', 'no wonder economy is in trouble when caffes are full from morning to night' etc etc.

[Giancarlo]

-Buenos Aires, Argentina- (Where I currently live)

Good: A lot of trees in my part of town... Nice downtown.

Bad: Too big...

Ugly: Rising crime rate has forced the police to put up to 4,000 more policemen out on the streets. Most of which are carrying FMK-3 SMGs (link below). Increasing kidnapping rate. Rising amount of riots. Near economic collapse.

Despicable: Politicans. Some politicans are proposing to put soldiers on the street... or was that just Menem? Maybe that isn't a bad idea... but giving power to the army here on the other hand is not a good idea.

I wouldn't recommend this city... but it is okay...

FMK-3:

http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg54-e.htm

-Salamanca, Spain- (Where most of family in Spain lives)

Good: Named Cultural Captial of Europe for 2002. Excellent marble architecture for new buildings, stunning old buildings. And great cafes, and great cafes, and great cafes... did I mention there were great cafes? Also streets are friendly. And there is a stunning university here.

Bad: ???? If you like modern cities with a bunch of glassy buildings this isn't the city to be in. Try Madrid for that.

[Odin]

Ulen, Minnesota. Pop. 500, 45 miles (85?km) NE of Fargo, North Dakota.

Ulen is as boring as watching paint dry. half of the population is over 55 and 15% of Ulenites live in the local nursing home. We have a brand new K-12 school that is really nice, we have a spiffy computer lab. There are a lot of corn and sugar beet farmers in this area, this being some of the most rich farmland in the world. Ulen is an old railroad town founded by railroad officer Ole Ulen in 1876.

My recomondation, don't come, its boring.

[molly bloom]

Marvellous Melbourne. The world's most liveable city...

Culturally diverse, with large Jewish, Greek, Lebanese and Vietnamese populations and a Chinese Australian mayor. A wealth of superb cuisines, from standard Aussie Pacific fusion to the Flower Drum Chinese restaurant, and Richmond's excellent pho cafes, with Ethiopian and Burmese restaurants too. Did I mention the food?

A splendid collection of art at the National Gallery of Victoria, and a newly opened centre for Australian art at Federation Square. The site of the Beatles' largest audience in the Southern Hemisphere, a venue for international sporting events, and the Midsumma Lesbian and Gay festival. It's where 'The Secret Life of Us' is filmed, and where Australia's most notorious/famous bushranger, Ned Kelly, was hanged.

The regenerated Yarra River is seeing new buildings on its banks, is home to sports such as canoeing and rowing, and early evening barbecues in the neighbouring public parks. There's a healthy theatre scene and excellent musical venues.

Public transport could be better integrated, with priority really being given to trams, and in terms of architecture and conservation, there should be a city wide approach, with more powers divested to local councils.

The weather is mainly fine, with the low temperatures never getting below autumnal levels in Britain, and it hardly ever gets as hot as the Top End, or the interior.

Sea breezes, penguin colonies and an absence of bush fires.

My island home...

[Seneca]

Bristol - well, just tonight I saw a play (Oleanna by David Mamet), wandered to a jazz pub, had some time to kill after that so I popped into a casino, then into a late night bar where I bumped into TV's Jamie Bamber who was fresh from playing Prince Hal in Henry IV (bumped into in the literal sense, not talked to or anything...), all within half a square mile.

But if experience has taught me anything, it's that the more Snapcase hates something, the better it is, so I'm sorely tempted to move to York...

[Frozzy]

Current residence: Waikato, New Zealand

Pros: Near the Coromandel beaches, stunning blue water and lovely sand. Near to Auckland, in the country with stunning forests, and absolutely incredible scenery. Good nightlife in Auckland and Hamilton Near Lake Taupo and Mt. Ruapehu, an active volcano Also near the famous Waitomo Caves, with a huge abyss, the deepest in the world

Cons: Near Ngaruawahia (a shanty town). Near Tirau (The "home" of Corrigated iron. It's tourist information centre is a corrugated iron sheep)

My Old Home: Reading, UK (lived there for 2 years)

Pros: Reading Festival (nice excuse to get drunk. Apparently last year... A guy walked around saying "Come and get your grass!". People bought the grass thinking it was weed, and found out they'd been conned. Then they went to the poice saying they payed for drugs and got grass, and were arrested for attempting to buy drugs ). The home of Reading FC. Reading Abbey, (the grave of Henry II, IIRC). The Reading Lion( the sculptor of which commited suicide when he realised he screwed up the legs)

Cons: Kosovan refugees mixing with Indians and Yugoslavs in a corner of town.

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Marvellous Melbourne. The world's most liveable city...

Skimming over the fact it's Australia's dumbest city, says an IQ test.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by redbull


Skimming over the fact it's Australia's dumbest city, says an IQ test.

Which makes the average i.q. twice that in New Zealand then?

You skimmed over Reading's appalling one way system. I had a taxi driver ask me for directions when I was there. Don't forget Reading Gaol either.

[Seneca]

I once had a bus driver in Bristol stop the bus and ask me if I knew where his bus route was meant to end, as I was walking along the street..

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
No wonder you can't get a job .

Naw, the economy always tanks when the Republicans take office.

[Faboba]

Originally posted by Sandman
Edinburgh (ed-in-bur-ah)

Info: Population 500000, capital of Scotland.

Pros: Fine architecture all over, built on a series of hills for a 3D street plan. Packed with lots of interesting attractions and plenty of pubs and clubs. Enormous parks dotted across the city, not least the volcanic plug Arthurs Seat. A top-notch university, and several other ones. Home to many famous sons.

Cons: Fine architecture often filthy and punctuated with modernist cubes. Streets rather dirty. Dismal weather. Bursting with tourist tat, at least as bad as York. The festival is overpriced. Birthplace and childhood home of Tony Blair.

*Cough* The city-centre. All the homeless beggars and junkies.

[War4ever]

Vancouver BC Canada, i believe the polls for top places in the world would aptly describe this city