Curious about your favorite city...

Savannah is great...I also like Nashville, TN

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Well, we aren't partying type, but we do like carriage rides, spring nights by the river, eating at one of the restaurants on the river, Bar B Q (Marks feedstore anyone?), dogwoods in bloom, Louisville slugger museum, MATS Truck show, etc.

I've been to almost every large city west of the Mississippi, (including Canadian cities) and to many of the large cities out west, and I just don't like big cities.

I am not partial to "cities" at all, but I can appreciate some of the things about them. You can get a lot of those things (theater, good food, museums, seasonal decorating, etc) at the smaller cities with a lot better group of people (imo).

Cherokee is nice, but I wouldn't call it a city. Savannah is pretty but too many bugs/swampy/humidity for my taste.

Another city that I like (since I don't live there anymore) is Akron, Ohio... again for the same reasons as listed above. Of course I went to college there so I am a bit biased in that sense.

My favorite city in Canada (that I have been too) is Montreal. I love the way the cit is up on a hill and surrounded by plains... very much an old world feeling to it.

Favorite city in Mexico is Tepic. Surrounded by the mountains, beautiful weather, and hour from the west coast, and so diverse (for a mexican city) where the Huichol's come from their villages, the mexicans (they like to differentiate themselves from the indians and call them selves spanish if they have less indian blood in their lines), ex-pats from everywhere. Local cafes/cook carts on the corners of all the barrios and even super walmart and sams club if you need them. All of that and you can drive 15 hours (it's only 100 miles, but the mountain roads are horrible and even impassable at times) and go to indian villages that have looked the same for the last 1000 years and meet people who have never seen white people, only heard of them.

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There is sooo many but I like Ashville,N.C.

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Are you kidding? People in Paris are so nasty they could give rude lessons to New Yorkers!

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I don't know what your experience has been, but that certainly has not been my experience, nor the experience of my friends who have also been there.

My sister lives in Savannah in the historic district.So when all of Ya'll are looking at the big houses hers might be one of them.I visit twice a year and come home to my "Quaint" small town.But since it is in the state I live in I can't use it.Grew up in Atlanta so I really don't like cities.
My favorite city would be "San Antonio" if I had to choose a city.My favorite town is "Dubois" Wyoming

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1. Hana, on the island of Maui, Hawaii
2. San Francisco
3. Eureka Springs, Arkansas

I'm not crazy about big cities. Been to most of them, lived in some of them and I hated it. I prefer small, country towns or cities. Someone mentioned Cherokee, and I like that area. I like the mountrains. Gatlinberg and Pigeon Forge are also on my list. You can keep Chicago. I grew up in Rockford and saw more of Chicago than I cared for. San Antonio is ok. Don't care much for California. Lived in Hawaii for awhile and although it's ok, I'm not a big beach person. I liked the Orlando area because I do like the theme parks, but hate the snowbird season. I like the history of Boston, but again, too crowded for my taste. In Germany I liked Kaiserslautern, but it may have been just because of experiencing a new culture.

My favorite place (and I've been lots of places in the U.S. but not outside the country so my picks are limited) is Harpers Ferry, WV. I wish I could live there.

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Tybee Island outside Savannah. We rent a condo every couple of years. I just love the ocean and how laid back it is.

Im not one for cities either but ...San Fransisco is definately high on my list as is Dublin Ireland. I do however think the best place is Vancouver island (yep the whole thing) and I moved 1000's of miles to be here. I live about 20kms outdide of Victoria BC.
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I haven't found that to be true, either. Mostly I've been there when we've lived abroad and have taken a train in to visit. Getting around the train station always has been difficult for me. Dd was little at the time and often in a stroller. I always had people helping me with the stroller. And when their flurry of French was too fast for me, they always slowed down for me to understand or, in fact, most spoke English well enough we could converse in that. The indifference I think Americans see is that they simply mind their own business and don't interfere unless it's absolutely obvious someone needs a helping hand.

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Laurel Montana, both my wife and I are from that area and all our family still live there. When we go home we don't go into town that often. I don't care where I go into town or not and when I do it's just a quick trip to get what I need and get out.

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Not Paris AR you can't find a rude persion in that area.

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I want to go there this spring. So we're in the planning stages. The train costs us $175. round trip for the four of us, room is $65. a night and the three day passes for Metro rail is $27. each. We lived there shortly and I love the place. Can't afford to live there. but I want to see the Hope diamond more time before I go. They just found evidence that the Hope was a diamond called the Blue Diamond once owned by King Louie of France at the time of the revolution it was stolen and sent underground. The Hope was a larger diamond but to cover it's being stolen, it was cut down and refinshed a different way.
I've a tiny pair of earrings,my kids bought me from the Muesum that I wear only a really special times. This Thanksgiving and CHristmas I will be wearing them. They are copies{fakes}of the Hope. They took they're money they saved and bought me those earrings. my kids are so special to me.
So in a way, DC is someplace that's magical to me. All the people,sights,sounds and the general sense of all that's powerful.


On the same sense, I find any forest or mountain place is magical but in a different way. A forest or mountain place your closer to God.

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San Antonio is my pick. Going to the Riverwalk on a warm summer feels like I died and gone to heaven.

I love Estes Park, Co. and Centennial, Wy in the summer. Been to Amsterdam a couple of times; it's fun too.

I do like to visit Chicago and Toronto......so much to do but I like smaller towns. In Michigan we have a lot of nice little towns right on the great lakes that are really nice in the summer. I enjoyed Boulder, Co. years ago but don't know what it is like now. Same with Yellow Springs, Ohio. I like little "artsy" type towns to visit.