Recommend me a city in North America.

[Hauldren Collider]

Honolulu seems like a pretty awesome city to live in, although I dunno if it's technically North America. And you might need a car. Can't tell.

[onodera]

Okay, fine, you nitpicking pedants. I don't speak Spanish, Portugese, French or Dutch and I don't want to live on a bloody island or in the bloody jungle. I'll take a look at Boston, though. Or just brush up my German.

[notyoueither]

Regina. It's a dry cold and they have a hopeless football team.

[notyoueither]

Toronto isn't as bad as Canadians make it out to be. Look up tall poppy syndrome. It has the largest immigrant population if that tells you anything.

Vancouver, Seattle or maybe Portland would be very nice for a nice change of climate and very nice environment.

[Egbert]

If I ever decide to emigrate and my German won't be good enough to settle down in Germany or Austria, I'll have to move to the US or Canada (UK sucks).
I should research my options beforehand, so here's what I'm looking for:
a city - I'm a Moscow boy, got to have people around me
with good public transport - I don't enjoy driving, because I'm bad at dynamic equilibrii
and low crime urban neighbourhoods - don't want my kids to get mugged

I've narrowed the list down to NY, San Fran and Vancouver, but perhaps I've missed a city or two? All of these sound a bit too expensive.

PS This is completely unrelated to the latest WikiLeaks cable leak :wiglaf:

If you want cities with low crime consider Australia. Muggings are rare. I am perfectly comfortable walking at any time of day or night where ever I please without the idea of mugging so much as occurring to me. (There are a couple of suburbs that are not particularly safe after dark in the cities in which I have lived). It helps that we don't have slums (apart from a single street in Sydney).

Public transport is generally satisfactory. Usually lousy in the outermost suburbs and good in the inner suburbs. Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane would be good places for a family man. Taking a wild guess, you might prefer Sydney or Melbourne.

[Krill]

Seattle was nice, when I went there. Bit like the UK, weather wise, IIUC. Vancouver, well, Hastings street alone...

[MOBIUS]

If I ever decide to emigrate and my German won't be good enough to settle down in Germany or Austria, I'll have to move to the US or Canada (UK sucks).
I should research my options beforehand, so here's what I'm looking for:
a city - I'm a Moscow boy, got to have people around me
with good public transport - I don't enjoy driving, because I'm bad at dynamic equilibrii
and low crime urban neighbourhoods - don't want my kids to get mugged

I've narrowed the list down to NY, San Fran and Vancouver, but perhaps I've missed a city or two? All of these sound a bit too expensive.

PS This is completely unrelated to the latest WikiLeaks cable leak :wiglaf:

Given your requirements, you should move to the UK, cos you're **** out of luck in the US on public transport and crime. Oh wait, you think it sucks - probably cos you've never been and don't have a clue...

Based on experience:

Boston, Toronto. I quite liked Montreal - but I'm guessing you won't.

Based on stuff I know:

Portland, Vancouver and Seattle.

The good thing about all those cities is they're all freezing wastelands in the winter, just like the ****hole you're currently living in...

[MOBIUS]

If you want cities with low crime consider Australia. Muggings are rare. I am perfectly comfortable walking at any time of day or night where ever I please without the idea of mugging so much as occurring to me. (There are a couple of suburbs that are not particularly safe after dark in the cities in which I have lived). It helps that we don't have slums (apart from a single street in Sydney).

Public transport is generally satisfactory. Usually lousy in the outermost suburbs and good in the inner suburbs. Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane would be good places for a family man. Taking a wild guess, you might prefer Sydney or Melbourne.

There's whole suburbs and areas in Sydney I wouldn't walk in after dark, or at least wouldn't feel safe in. Australia isn't as nice and safe as you'd make it out to be...

Of course, from a safety POV, it's paradise compared to the US...

[MOBIUS]

SF has crap for public transit.

Yeah, and that's one of the best systems in the whole of the US!

[MOBIUS]

Honolulu seems like a pretty awesome city to live in, although I dunno if it's technically North America. And you might need a car. Can't tell.

From my time visiting there, I rather imagine Honolulu would be a pretty **** place to live, TBH.

[C0ckney]

Portuguese, Spanish, same difference really

falo portenhol, hablo españguese.

[MOBIUS]

Except that Portuguese sounds like Spanish being spoken by an Eastern European...

I was getting the hang of it by the end.

[C0ckney]

they're very similar. i can follow conversations in spanish, respond in portuguese and people will understand, as long as everyone talks slowly!

it helps that brasilian portuguese and latin american spanish are more similar than the european languages. i have a tough time understanding people from portugal (open your mouth when you speak dammit!)

[Tuberski]

From my time visiting there, I rather imagine Honolulu would be a pretty **** place to live, TBH.

I second that. Get off the main drag, and Honolulu is a pestilential ****hole.

ACK!

[Barnabas]

I think you should consider Seattle and Vancouver