Best City in America?

NY

 

Where the fuck is Mentone? Never even heard of it.

 

Chicago


Followed by (in no particular order)
Boston
San Diego
St. Paul
Lexington, Ky.
Colorado Springs
New Orleans (PK)
Dallas
Vegas
San Francisco

 

If people are going to vote for New Orleans (PK -- pre-Katrina) then other cities should be identified correspondingly:

Johnstown, Pa (post-flood)
San Francisco (pre-earthquake)
Chicago (post-fire)
Galveston (pre-hurricane)
Havana (pre-Castro)
Branson, Mo. (pre-a-bunch-of-retired-has-beens-opening-dinner-theaters).

 

Hemingway would agree.

 

Northeast corner of Alabama. Great place to visit when the leaves are changing.

 

The winner: Chicago.

Runners Up:
Boston has a special place in my heart, but it's a bit harsh.
NYC is amazing, but you can't be middle-class in Manhattan any more.
SF: see NYC; same problem.
Seattle: Housing market lunacy might lead to shrinking of middle class here, too.

WTF Award:
DC. Yeah you could have great week with the museums and monuments, but as a place to live? Nightmare.

Narcissism Award:
tie: Portland and Austin. Great towns, but populated by people who think that they live in the only habitable place on the planet. Fuck off.

Cheap Housing Award:
Detroit: If you want a historic brownstone at blue-light prices, it's Rock City.

Chock Full o' Assholes Award:
Philadelphia. Tool central.

Sleeper Award:
Tucson.  The climate and the proximity of the border are issues, but people love living there.  It's beautiful and affordable.

Best Days are Gone Award:
LA and New Orleans.  Quite the places back in the day, but it's all over now.

 

Did you write your list 10 years ago?

 

In North America?

Canadian cities

Montreal
Halifax
Kingston
Windsor Ont,
Edmonton
Victoria

Overrated
Toronto
Vancouver
Moose Jaw

 

Philly's a great town. It gets a bad rap.

 

Buck is right. It's also why Philly is on my personal list of best places to get that A$* kicked free of charge. No town does it better, except Oakland.

 

Halifax is my fave party town in Canada, no question. It's fucking great. Charlottetown - indeed all of PEI - is beautiful. In the Ontario division, Kingston is gorgeous in the summer and I could live in Ottawa too. Can't see the attraction in Windsor aside from the strip joints and the oldest hockey rink in the OHL. I'd put Sudbury in there - if you don't mind snow.

One thing I know about Toronto that's overrated: the fucking Leafs.