Should I stay or should I go?

[Supr49er]

First, you will absolutely have to have a car.

The Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Museum are worth seeing.
Venice Beach has an eclectic mix of characters.
The Tar Pits Museum is worth a visit also.
Sunset Boulevard from UCLA to the ocean is a great drive.
As is PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) from Newport Beach to Malibu.

[Mon River Monarch]

Meh - go to Purgatory instead. I hear it's always warm and toasty down there.

Is that a beach? or are you referring to limbo. Tampa in the middle of July is my idea of fiery hell

[Arrian]

Any reasons not to go other than the $250?

-Arrian

[MrFun]

Is that a beach? or are you referring to limbo. Tampa in the middle of July is my idea of fiery hell

Anywhere far enough south in United States is purgatory during the summer, that's for sure.

Just ask Sloww.

[Ben Kenobi]

Hmm, I've been twice.

Personally, I'd go. It's 250 bucks well spent.

[Jon Miller]

For comparison purposes, it would be worth it to me to visit (assuming I'd never been, which is true for some of these):

NYC, Boston, DC, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Nashville, Philly, Kansas City, Detroit, Honolulu, a number of smaller cities with interesting histories/native culture.

If I didn't know anybody in the following cities then it probably wouldn't be worth it:

Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, anything in Ohio, Seattle, Atlanta, Phoenix, Omaha, Pittsburg

SF is the only city that could be considered in the PNW that you listed, and it isn't really PNW.

I would recommend Portalnd/Vidctoria/Seattle as good cities to visit (true PNW cities).

JM

[KrazyHorse]

Any reasons not to go other than the $250?

-Arrian

The 150$ that I'd definitely spend on car rental + gas, the 150+$ I'd spend doing anything fun at all, the 4-5 days added to my toils as an academic serf.

[Jon Miller]

You have papers to read?

Read the papers on the beach drinking Mojitos.

JM

[Kuciwalker]

For comparison purposes, it would be worth it to me to visit (assuming I'd never been, which is true for some of these):

NYC, Boston, DC, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Nashville, Philly, Kansas City, Detroit, Honolulu, a number of smaller cities with interesting histories/native culture.

If I didn't know anybody in the following cities then it probably wouldn't be worth it:

Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, anything in Ohio, Seattle, Atlanta, Phoenix, Omaha, Pittsburg

I find it hilarious that you didn't put any Canadian cities on either list.

[Ben Kenobi]

Portland/Victoria/Seattle

He could visit me.

[MrFun]

KH has become thoroughly Americanized.

[KrazyHorse]

Kuci

Why? I deliberately restricted myself to American cities. Canadians know US cities. Americans don't know Canadian cities. The gap with Euros is too high for any meaningful information exchange.

[Kuciwalker]

OK, fair enough. My interpretation was that you're so thoroughly Americanized that you didn't even think of non-US cities.

[KrazyHorse]

The real problem with listing Canadian cities was that, in my mind, it might skew the perspective of Americans (my assumption is that they would add some small amount to interesting/different/novelty of any city not in the US, as I would for any city in Europe, though to a smaller extent).

I had Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Ottawa and Calgary listed prior to deletion, by the way. And not all of them in the "would visit" category.

[KrazyHorse]

Kuci: suggest career path for me which will take me to Australia for 5-10 years starting 5-10 years from today. Want to hit for the anglosphere cycle. UK shouldn't be a problem. AUS is like a triple.