Where to live?

[Asher]

I'm leaning towards Toronto for the reason of proximity to the SO (in Waterloo), but depending where his workterms are going to be I may accept Seattle...

[-Jrabbit]

With you predisposition toward hating the two world-class cities on the list, I think you're wise to avoid NYC and London. But a free apartment sure offers a great chance to check them out.

So why did you bother with the poll?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Asher
I'm leaning towards Toronto for the reason of proximity to the SO (in Waterloo), but depending where his workterms are going to be I may accept Seattle...

Seattle's a very cool city . Pike Place Market is amazing.

[SlowwHand]

Yeah, with the rain, all of you can pucker up.

[Asher]

I love rain.

[Drake Tungsten]

With you predisposition toward hating the two world-class cities on the list

Every "world-class" city I've ever been to has sucked. New York sucks, London sucks, Tokyo sucks. Too expensive and too many people, especially loathsome social strivers who move to the big city so they can pretend to be cosmopolitan sophisticates instead of the everyday folk from a less desireable part of the country that they really are.

[Dis]

Las Vegas

[Dis]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

With you predisposition toward hating the two world-class cities on the list

Every "world-class" city I've ever been to has sucked. New York sucks, London sucks, Tokyo sucks. Too expensive and too many people, especially loathsome social strivers who move to the big city so they can pretend to be cosmopolitan sophisticates instead of the everyday folk from a less desireable part of the country that they really are.

qft

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Asher

Says the Panic At The Disco fan. You're so elite.

I said they put on a nice show and that was almost 2 years ago. Time to let it go Asher. It's ok; other people can like different music then you and it won't hurt you.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Kontiki


Um, no, but thanks for being utterly wrong again, Cliff.

Population of the greater LA area: 17,776,000

Population of the greater Toronto Area: 5,555,912

Percentage Foreign born LA: 35% or ~ 6.2 million

Percentage Foreign born Toronto: 42.8% or ~ 2.3 million

For its size Toronto is very multicultural but by sheer weight of numbers there are simply more people from more places in LA. Even if foreign born people make up less of the total population there are still 2-3 times more of them then in Toronto not even counting the several million illegals. Any culture or language on Earth can be found there or just about.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Asher

People in UK don't speak and write English better than me. They're all clueless chavs or pompous British homosexuals with a sense of arrogance only matched by the size of their buttocks.

Aaaah, such lovely warm well-informed sentiments. Makes the cockles of my heart glow, really.


As far as a 'sense of arrogance' goes, your assumption that London would welcome another product of provincial inbreeding with dress sense from 'Rural Lesbians 'R' Us' , ranks fairly highly on the Entirely Unwarranted Arrogant Delusions Scale.


By the way Asher, could you familiarize yourself with the use of the definite article ?

We do tend to use that over here in speaking and writing English.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Every "world-class" city I've ever been to has sucked. New York sucks, London sucks, Tokyo sucks. Too expensive and too many people, especially loathsome social strivers who move to the big city so they can pretend to be cosmopolitan sophisticates instead of the everyday folk from a less desireable part of the country that they really are.

Visiting a city isn't the same as knowing it.

Great cities become great cities because people move there and make things happen there. It's understandable that intense civilisation isn't for everyone, but others see labour-mobility and aspirations of a better life as a good thing. Of course, aspirations are not always realised, but Hicksville isn't always so great either.

[Drake Tungsten]

"Hicksville" isn't the best place to be; it's second-tier cities like Chicago or Osaka. They have all the benefits of living in a "world-class" city without the overwhelming cost or crush of *******s trying to get their band a record deal. They also have more character; "world-class" cities like New York and Tokyo don't even seem like a part of the country they're nominally the heart of.

[Zkribbler]

Living in Chicago is a good thing???

[Drake Tungsten]

Chicago